by Kathy Scarbrough Not a day goes by lately when loving parents can’t be heard spouting some hackneyed sex stereotype (“my son likes pink; my daughter prefers trucks to dolls”) as evidence that their child is the opposite sex “inside”…
Author: Editors
It’s What You’re PAID, Not What You EARN!
by Carol Hanisch As long as jobs pay poverty wages, the people who work those jobs will be poor. As the argument grinds on about the minimum wage and • whether $12 is too much (as most Republicans and many…
#More Than Mean
By Kathy Scarbrough This short video, #More Than Mean, has 3 million hits. What a wonderful way to expose the sexist harassment all women face online! The men on camera have agreed, unaware of what is to come, to read…
Post-Feminist
Girls and Sex
By Kathy Scarbrough “Usually the opposite of a negative is positive, but when you are talking about girls and sex the opposite of slut is prude, both of which are negative” said a young woman being interviewed by Peggy Orenstein…
Single Payer Health
Once in a while we run across an article that simply tells it like it is in language we all can understand. We’re providing a link to such an article by Vincent Navarro that lays out the case for a…
Short Takes • March 4, 2016: Abortion
by Carol Hanisch Anti-Abortionist Legislator Grateful His Grandmother Was Raped? The ongoing attack on abortion rights continues to bring forth revealing anti-woman sentiments from male-supremacist legislators. This week’s doozy came from Texas State Representative Jason Isaac, co-author of the Texas…
Video: Unequal Opportunity Race
SHORT TAKES: February 20, 2016 by Kathy Scarbrough This link http://eepurl.com/bQmOdf takes you to a statement from the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) discussing how their four- minute video called the “Unequal Opportunity Race” has been censored by a…
Julie Bindel on Identity Politics
SHORT TAKES: February 13, 2016 By Kathy Scarbrough From a BATTLE OF IDEAS panel “The Personal Is Political: Is Identity Politics Eating Itself?” Julie Bindel sums up quite well, and with humor, what The Personal is Political means and how…
Ros Baxandall on Day Care
SHORT TAKES: February 5, 2016 Introducing a new MEETING GROUND feature We often have links or brief comments that we want to share with our readers that do not really fit an article format. We will try to post at…