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"You Can Pry My Guns From My Cold, Dead Hands . . ."

“. . . but that’ll be hard, because they’re attached,” deadpans Sarah Haskins. While Haskins not actually the same person as Olympic triathelete Sarah Haskins, she is nonetheless a superhero for our age. Haskin’s show Target Women on Current TV is an answer to ObviousMan. Here’s a lady who can dissect our news media’s obsession [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bolivia and Women as Vessels of Cultural Authenticity

Tonight, my flight leaves for Bolivia at 8:30. I´m excited for the visit because my money will go farther there, and because it will be the first country that I´ve ever been to which has a thriving indigenous culture. It´s a culture that I don´t know much about, so I´ve been trying to do some [...]