(I’ve wondered about the beard-growth.)
And thanks, DickG., for the link.
I’ve said it so often I’m making myself mad: We need more women in government, and Yale’s Women’s Campaign School is a great place to start.
Ebony Murphy-Root (that’s her with the big grin there in Bushnell Park) wants to go. I have not met Ebony, but I’ve cheerfully stolen [...]
Mona Eltahawy [pictured at right] writes, at Foreign Policy, about “Distant View of a Minaret:”
In a crisp three-and-a-half pages, Rifaat lays out a trifecta of sex, death, and religion, a bulldozer that crushes denial and defensiveness to get at the pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East. [...]
Check out this both thorough and good post at The Wild Hunt by Jason Pitzi-Waters, who explores the recent crackdown on American nuns by the Vatican. Pitzi-Waters quotes from a book co-written by by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, who says:
“I am, in fact, convinced [...]
To read the column, go here.
To read about Alice Paul, go here.
To read about the Equal Rights Amendment, go here. To read about recent efforts to extend the amendment’s deadline, go here or here.
To read more about the threats to women’s [...]
Or how lawmakers are seeking to remake America in Texas’s image.
And thanks, DickG., for the link.
Are you coming to the Bushnell Park rally at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 28? They’ve got some pretty impressive backers: UniteWomenCT Rally – Endorsements
See you there!
From the Washington Post, right here.
I did not see journalists there…
Mary Eberstadt at Wall Street Journal says there isn’t one, and that the “sexual revolution” wasn’t good for women. I put “sexual revolution” in quotes because I’m not convinced I know what the author is talking about, and I’m not convinced she knows, either. It’s like saying “free love.” What precisely does [...]
Says El Rushbo, a misogynist is “a man who hates women almost as much as women hate women.”
We can all sleep better now.
And thanks, Leftover, for the link.
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