Who hasn't enjoyed a good meme? Probably people with really fulfilling lives, but the rest of us, well, we can enjoy a pleasant giggle with a just clever-enough Scumbag Steve, Success Kid, or Philosoraptor.
Just as matching genitalia is not enough to get a lady feminist to support a female candidate, it turns out that so too is matching religion not enough to convince a Mormon feminist to vote for Mitt Romney. Not only is the small, but active community of American Mormon feminists not going to vote for him, they're…
Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of hooliganism Friday for performing a political protest song against Vladimir Putin on the altar of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral. After the verdict was read, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina…
Madonna — in the middle of a world tour — has just arrived in Moscow, where she did, indeed, make some statements regarding the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, as some hoped she would.
A Moscow judge has ordered three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot—who were arrested in March 2012 after staging a political protest against Vladimir Putin— to remain in custody for the next six months. In a pre-trial hearing on Friday, prosecutors said they needed more time to prepare their case and…
Unintentional hilarity machine Phyllis Schlafly issued a dire warning to cadets at the Citadel yesterday, explaining to students that they should never, ever, under any circumstances, even in case of emergency or possible decapitation, date a feminist. What makes them even more dangerous is that nowadays, you can't…
Today in hateration news: people really, really don't trust atheists. In a new study, the only group participants found as untrustworthy as nonbelievers were rapists.
On last night's episode of Sister Wives, the Browns visited Tufts University, where they'd been invited to be part of a discussion about their religion and lifestyle. When asked if they were nervous or scared. Christine said she was "imagining an audience full of feminists." OH NO OH MY GOD ANYTHING BUT THAT. She…
What we know of the story of Vivian Maier's life and work, and of how 30,000 of her negatives came to be acquired at a Chicago estate auction by a 26-year-old real estate agent and amateur historian, is breathtaking.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London in connection with Swedish rape allegations, and guess who's to blame? Feminists, of course!
Lately, the definition of the word "feminist" has become somewhat vague.
Kavita Ramdas: "Unlike almost every other social movement, [it's] not a struggle against a distinct oppressor...It's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions...This is the ultimate gift of feminism, that the personal is in fact the political." [Ted]
Hissa Hilal, a Saudi housewife and a contestant in an American-Idol-style poetry competition, read an incendiary 15-verse poem that criticized clerics who issue ever-more-restrictive fatwas, and referred to clerics as monsters "wearing death as a robe, cinched with a belt."
• Even beauty queens are feeling the pinch of the recession: CBS reports that many pageant contestants have been forced to wear their dresses more than once or, worst case scenario, sell their costumes. •
"Being a role model is complicated cuz it involves thinking of oneself like a character in a novel and can be really dehumanizing...If I am a role model, I want to be one who is unafraid to make mistakes." [Rebel Grrrl Italiana]
Opium! Lurid pulp fiction! Rags to riches and a schoolgirl crush on Thoreau! According to a new film, Louisa May Alcott's life was a lot more interesting — and a lot more depressing — than Little Women.
"I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?" said the Dalai Lama to an audience in Memphis yesterday. "We all come from the same mother. That creates the basis for compassion." [FeministLawProfessors]
Marilyn French, the activist writer who declared, "my goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of Western civilization, to make it a feminist world," has died at 79. [NYT]
Debra Dickerson can't leave well enough alone. After painting all young feminists as lazy, uncommitted, pole-dancing, hard-drinking exhibitionist sex-bloggers, she says they can't be trusted... but she loves them.
For a group of people who think their particular, religiously-inspired worldview should be foisted on others, conservative bloggers Kathryn Jean Lopez and Ace of Spades have some strong opinions on who shouldn't get hitched.
