The radical notion that women are people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0jSSLleGiY The woman in this video is Mona Eltahawy. She is vandalizing an ad. The woman who runs up to the poster with a camera and assaults her is Pamela Hall. [I placed the ad Eltahawy was vandalizing here but have removed it because frankly I don't feel like looking at it. I'm sure you …
Continue reading Pamela Hall Should be Arrested for Assault (And Why She Wasn’t)
When I was 4 years old I was being babysat by a lady who I am sure was a very well meaning adult. Sometime in the afternoon, however, I decided I wanted ice cream, and thus began one of the most infuriating exchanges of my 4 years of life. “There is ice cream in my …
Upon a Christian feminist expressing to me her discomfort with the idea of the Virgin Mary delivering a child without having consented to conceive or carry him, I decided to reread the corresponding verses in the Qur’an that describe the conception of Prophet Jesus, son of Mary, since there has already been an instance—the sacrifice …
Continue reading The Conception of Prophet Jesus, Son of Mary
Kahula bint Azwar, who belongs in the warriors series, is nothing short of legendary. Most notably the ardent heroine charged to the rescue of her abducted brother, who was also a soldier and had been taken prisoner by the Byzantine Roman army during the Siege of Damascus in the Battle of Saniyat al Uqab, 634. …
Continue reading Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Kahula bint Azwar
So apparently Bic has come out with new pens especially for women! At last! Now with pens made especially for me in soft pastel colors to indicate my gender, I don't ever have to worry about being mistaken for male and--God forbid--taken seriously! After all, colors like blue and black were far too strong for …
Continue reading The Best Thing You Will Read Today (via Jill Filipovic)
This post is brought to you by a couple of commenters on the last post (their comments have not been accepted) advocating forced sterilization for those neurologically atypical. Are you kidding me? You do not have the right to anyone’s body. Ever. Ever. That right is their own and it is inalienable. It is inseparable. …
This post is brought to you by some schmuck who took it upon himself during an abortion debate, in which he was distressed that I would legalize late-term abortions, to inform me that there is no such thing as inalienable rights, and that rights are “whatever humans decide they are” and therefore I cannot assert …
Continue reading Abortion is a right. At any and all times. (or, American Principles 101)
the fatal feminist 