Women AND Children?

I often hear the argument – and especially every time someone mentions children on Feministe – that children’s rights are important to feminism because children’s rights are womens rights; because excluding children means excluding women. I have had an itch about that argument for a while, and I have been unable to put my finger [...]

Anti-choice ‘feminist’ knows what you ought to think and feel

At least she says so. Faithfully Agnostic has recently posted two posts on how she makes her anti-choice stance match up with her proclaimed feminism. Of course, she calls it pro-life. I engaged for a while – mostly out of boredom – until I noticed something I had apparently not truly digested in my first [...]

Attention: Women are all the same

Once again due to my use of the Readomattic, I have come across genuine stupidity on the net. (Yes, really) Sometimes I really must wonder where it all comes from. This time it is from a man, A. Guy Maligned, who according to his presentation of himself has been with his significant other for 54 [...]

Feminism: Explained for Ladybrains

I use the tag surfer and the Readomattic with great pleasure. Sometimes it brings me to awesome blogs the existence of which I didn’t know of. For instance it caused the recent addition of Feminist Whore to my blogroll. However, it also sometimes brings me to blogposts about feminism, written by people who have no [...]

No Thanks, America

I’m all for receiving exports from you in terms of science, inventions, good books, music and actors. That’s cool. But there’s one thing I would’ve appreciated you’d have kept for yourselves: 40 Days For Life This despicable anti-abortion propaganda group has now begun their first serious campaign. On the road leading to Holbæk hospital they [...]

Islamophobia in the name of Freedom

There’s a Danish group called Women for Freedom. Sounds like a good thing, but alas, they are as bigoted as they are active. Their chairwoman wrote (and I’ll translate from the Danish): I have previously written about a hotel where one of the cleaning assistants were scarf-imprisoned. Yes, that is what she calls it: Scarf-imprisoned. [...]

News: Spam is not spam

Sometimes I get spam comments – I suppose we all do. The filter catches it and I can delete spammity comments at my leisure. Sometimes, though, one of them catches my eye. That happened just now, this spam comment was just precious. The wording? Yooo.. I kno it has nothing to do with what you [...]

Temper, harpiness and gender

I had one of those “hmmm…” moments the other day when talking to my mother. She and my dad work at the same place as teachers, and recently they’ve had some problems with their new boss, and so mails have been exchanged, and diplomacy skills have been exercised. When my mum told me about how [...]

Feminism Fail

In case you were in doubt as to how to ‘do’ feminism Dena Leichnitz is here to teach you. She has a post up about how ‘real’ feminists would do things, and I don’t know where to start. To be honest, it frightens me a bit. One thing is believing what she does, we’re all [...]

Consent, Agency and Free Will

A little more than a year ago I wrote about consent. Those were some of my early thoughts on the issue, and I never really broached the more difficult situations. In the post I dealt only with the ridiculous notion that even sleeping, unconscious and dead women should have said no, otherwise their consent to [...]