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Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace

The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It’s an [...]

'It's Not Rape if She Blinks Twice for Yes' and Other Phallacies of Rape Culture

The New York Times recently reported that yet another rapist is being let off of the hook – as the majority are. Nearly 95% of men standing trial for rape in the United States and the United Kingdom are cleared of all charges, which is a shocking number considering the social, personal and political consequences [...]

Whassup, Bitches?: Female Chauvinism's Place is in the Garbage.

This poll discussed over at Slate in the article “Man Up!” found that “Despite the recent frenzy of media attention over the issue of race in America, a new poll by CBS (PDF) suggests that gender may cause more problems for contemporary presidential contenders. Thirty-nine percent of those polled think that a woman candidate would [...]

I Ain't No Hollaback Girl . . . & God is Brazilian.

Ok, I know that Gwen Stefani is not everyone’s role model, but she is mine right now, because I ain’t no hollaback girl. Right now,  I’m in Rio de Janeiro, conducting thesis research, and there’s so much to see, do, and understand beyond the issue of the postcards with pictures of girls’ butts on them. Same [...]

Our Masculine Systems: Women's Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution

Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]

When The Personal Was Revolutionary, 0r He's Not My Precedent

Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Liturature. You’re saying, duh, this is not news. And so is she. According to Pheobe Connelly the American Prospect, after being informed that she had won the prize, Lessing shrugged and said, “”Oh Christ. It’s been going on now for 30 years; one can’t get more excited than [...]