Ladies! There is a lot of fuss about whether and why you are going to stay home in key congressional races in a few weeks — and whose fault it is.

"Saw Barbara Boxer briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says, 'God what is that hair?' So yesterday." That would be her Senate opponent Carly Fiorina, caught on a hot mic. Catfight!

Linda Hirshman, who is more adept at re-writing history than she is at letting anything go, has written yet another column about feminism, domestic abuse and Rihanna, without the benefit of reading any of the new research on abuse.

Former Jezebel editor Moe Tkacik has written a rebuttal of sorts to Linda Hirshman's Double X piece from the other week - she also takes on Lizz Winstead, and, to a degree, others. You can check it out here... and here. [XX, Tumblr]

Well, this is some bullshit! (Of course, so is my hyperbolic headline.)

Feminists seem to love bickering about feminism. And as more women join the conversation, it gets nastier…and better! It's exciting that so many care enough about it. But it's time Judge Judy kept some order.

First, perhaps final, thoughts: This is purely anecdotal, but historically, when pearl-clutching, middle-aged white ladies complain that the integrity of young women is under attack, it means the Rolling Stones are coming to town. [XX]

Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings has a response to Linda Hirshman's Slate piece in which she says feminists need to start "calling victims on taking responsibility for their own well-being." Hilzoy thinks that's crap, too.

Last summer, Moe wrote a rebuttal to a Linda Hirshman OpEd that came down to "I just think that, when one is being judgmental, one should be right." This is advice that Ms. Hirshman maybe should have taken before writing her latest OpEd about how Barack Obama's proposed stimulus plan is discriminating against women.

• The Republican National Committee has finally released its speaker line-up for the convention, which McCain spokesman Rick Davis says is designed "to showcase the 'diversity' of the Republican Party." [HuffPo]
• Which is why the line-up is 75% male and 86% white. "Diversity." [Washington Post]
• John McCain's doesn't…

"To be sure," writes Sandra Tsing Loh in the summer issue of the Atlantic, "attacking feminist criticism as being the extended whine of a privileged, educated upper class is as old as … well, as bell hooks's 1984 critique of [Betty] Friedan's Feminine Mystique." Loh is discussing two recent books about women and the…

How can you say it's easier to be a man than to be a woman? What data do you have to support such a position? That's the type of mail you get when you write something for a news outlet other than Jezebel, and I thought fondly of it today when I read the latest from Wall Street, where Lehman Brothers chief financial…

I wrote a rebuttal to a Linda Hirshman op-ed column for the Washington Post's website and I am, uh, pimping it on this blog because it seems to be driving donations to our beer money fund to help the women's rights activists get out of Basra and also because I wrote two things that have nothing to do with this blog…

In the aftermath of the Spitzer scandal, many feminists chastized Silda for opting out of her high-powered corporate law job to tend the hearth, but perhaps the blame should be placed on a system that often discriminates against pregnant women and mothers in the first place. According to an article in today's Wall…