A new ad campaign that suggests milk may help alleviate the symptoms of PMS has some feminists acting like it’s that time of the month. My first post for Pajamas Media covers their hysterical accusations of sexism and “sexploitation.” I can only excerpt 100 words, so here’s a quick taste of how one feminist reacted to the ads. The feminist reaction devolved into true absurdity with the milk boycott proposed by a Feministing blogger. She suggests five PMS-soothing calcium sources “that don’t involve milk.” Topping her list of ideas: “Eat other kinds of dairy products, like yogurt and cheese (mozzarella is particularly high in calcium).” Way to strike a blow against Big Milk by consuming products made from … milk. [...]
Originally published at Frontpage Magazine ___________ “My name is Anthony Weiner and I stand for women!” That’s not just a tailor-made caption for the indiscreet photo sent from the New York congressman’s Twitter account. Weiner proudly delivered that line twice during a rah-rah sisterhood speech to adoring fans at Planned Parenthood’s Stand Up for Women’s Health Rally in February. The only thing missing from his feminist cheerleading was a set of speculum-handled pom-poms. But Weiner’s feminist rhetoric is far more tumid than the underwear-clad package he “ can’t say with certitude ” isn’t his — and just as susceptible to shrinkage. [...]
Originally published at NewsReal’s That’s What She Said _____________ Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Ben Stein. Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. Like the distinguished public servant Dominique Strauss-Kahn, I am a friend to all women, even the ones who didn’t fully appreciate my American Spectator column on the scurrilous charges filed against the former IMF chief. I’d like to extend an olive branch to those misguided members of the fairer sex by sharing some advice on the proper way to go about getting raped if you expect public intellectuals to take your charges seriously. Ladies, my humble thoughts: 1.) Ensure that your rapist has a criminal history [...]
Originally published at NewsReal ____________ The size of her breasts, the shape of her backside, and of course, her name. These are some of the details Le Monde , the French “journal de référence,” and its subsidiary Le Post published about the woman who says IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn groped her genitals and forced her to perform oral sex on him in a room at the Sofitel near Times Square. France-Soir described the cut of her hotel maid uniform and how good she looks for a woman in her thirties, while France’s RMC radio reported that Strauss-Kahn’s attorneys were surprised by how “unattractive” she is. And a bevy of friends and supporters rallied to the defense of Strauss-Kahn, a leading figure in the French Socialist Party, hoping to discredit his accuser lest she derail their plans for him to oust Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential elections. [...]
Originally published at NewsReal’s That’s What She Said ______ Four Afghan women have achieved something that would have been unimaginable a decade ago: they are training alongside male recruits to become pilots in the Afghan Air Force. Amidst headlines about poverty, illiteracy, and breathtaking levels of violence against women, their accomplishments are beyond heartening . Second Lt. Sourya Saleh hopes to serve as a role model for other Afghan women after completing her aviation training in the United States. “We are very happy to be going to open these doors for the other women to come and join the military, to show them you can do this and make our country proud,” she said. [...]
Originally published at NewsReal . ___ In 1989, the offices of my neighborhood newspaper were firebombed by a terrorist . Molotov cocktails ignited a blaze that gutted the first floor of the building, incinerated furniture, and left computers and telephones all but vaporized. A short time later, a man called 911 and said, in an accent the FBI later identified as Pakistani, “Can you please listen to my message very carefully. [...]
Originally published at NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed ! Runnin’ Scared notes that Arianna’s April Fools’ Day jab at the New York Times is awfully similar to a post that appeared at The Monkey Cage … on March 20. In a fairly lame attempt to razz the Times for its new paywall, she announced: Today marks a significant transition for The Huffington Post Media Group, as we introduce digital subscriptions for employees of The New York Times . Yeah, yeah. [...]
Originally published at NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed ! There was actually a different “f” word that sprang to mind when I read about this at Verum Serum : A $600,000 frog sculpture that lights up, gurgles “sounds of nature” and carries a 10-foot fairy girl on its back could soon be greeting Defense Department employees who plan to start working at the $700 million Mark Center in Alexandria, Va. this fall. That is unless a new controversy over the price tag of the public art doesn’t torpedo the idea. [...]
Originally posted at NewsReal’s That’s What She Said Every time news coverage of actress Anne Hathaway spikes, so does Berkshire Hathaway stock. At least, that’s the fantasy Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman promoted on his New York Times blog this weekend . Why? The claim is that it’s the fault of robotrading algorithms, which now account for most of the market, and which sometimes rely among other things on trends in news coverage. That’s the kind of dumb mistake human traders wouldn’t make. [...]
Originally posted at NewsReal’s That’s What She Said I always thought there was something a little off about Ina Garten. The woman substitutes basil for cilantro in her chili recipe. What kind of animal does such a thing? This kind : The “Barefoot Contessa” star allegedly turned down a request from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The foundation reportedly tried to contact the celebrity chef twice on behalf of a six-year-old boy suffering from leukemia who wanted to cook with her. [...]
Originally posted at NewsReal’s That’s What She Said Geraldine Ferraro, former NY congresswoman and the first woman on a major party presidential ticket, succumbed to blood cancer this morning. Greta Van Susteren writes : Whether you are a Dem or a Repub, you have to admit, an extraordinary woman has died. She was the first and it meant so so so so much. Fred Phelps and his Westboro cultists immediately began to celebrate the 1984 VP nominee’s death. Fred Phelps’ daughter Margie tweeted : She taught nation proud sin [...]
Originally published on March 13, 2011 at NewsReal ——— In 1989, a jogger was beaten, raped, and left for dead in New York City’s Central Park. When she arrived at the courthouse to testify, a swarm of protesters led by Al Sharpton greeted her with shouts of “whore!” and “drug addict!” She was just a rape victim, an acceptable casualty of Sharpton’s beloved race warfare. “It’s typical of the left to make a convicted rapist a hero,” Susan Brownmiller told an interviewer in 1975. The feminist author was referring to the Left’s embrace of Eldridge Cleaver, the 1960s Black Panther radical who called his rape of white women “an insurrectionary act.” And so it is decades later in Cleveland, Texas. An 11-year-old girl suffered a brutal gang rape that began in the bedroom and bathroom of a house and ended in a filthy abandoned trailer strewn with garbage and debris. Police say the assailants forced the child to remove her clothes under threat of violence and raped her while filming the prolonged attack with a camera phone. [...]
Originally published on December 10, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal Like any socially conscious steward of Mother Earth, I have minimum standards when it comes to sex. I want my hookers sustainable, my porn carbon neutral, and my sex toys handcrafted from renewable resources. I don’t care if you’re heterosexual or homosexual as long as you’re eco -sexual. Tell me that’s not hawt ! Admit it, you’re totally turned on right now. [...]
Originally published on November 7, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal by Jenn Q. Public & Lori Ziganto ——— It came as quite a shock to the leader of one women’s organization when Joy Behar, ostensibly a comedian, called Sharron Angle a “bitch” on the “The View” last month. Sonja Eddings Brown, president of The Kitchen Cabinet, told The Daily Caller , “ We thought Joy Behar was a classier act than this .” To which we responded, “Ha ha ha ha ha!” followed by, “HA HA HA HA HA!” When our laughter-induced wheezing subsided — and we’re not gonna lie, there may have been some giggle-snorting — the idea for this post was born. Before the obligatory lefty panty bunching begins in response to this post’s title, you should know that it’s not the first time we’ve been called mean girls and name-callers , and it won’t be the last. [...]
Originally published on November 1, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal ——— If you rely on the Reich-wing, Tea-tard propaganda machine for your information, you probably missed the news about the sexually suggestive gift Sarah Palin received from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio last week: pink panties! But no worries, the unimpeachable left-wing blogosphere will bring you up to speed on all the relevant facts. Er, “facts.” Under the headline “ Sarah Palin Gets Pink Panties From Creepy Arizona Sheriff ,” The Frisky ’s Jessica Wakeman shared the details of Sheriff Arpaio’s lecherous overture: Great moments in “ewwww”: at a Tea Party rally in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, infamous anti-immigration Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio handed Sarah Palin a pair of pink panties. Yes, panties! Other left-wing bloggers piled on, delivering the incisive commentary we’ve come to expect: Reporting on “ the panty package ,” a TPM blogger joked, “No word on how Todd Palin reacted to the news.” “You know your attraction to women’s underwear is a little out of control when you do things like this,” admitted explained apparent panty fetish expert Charles Johnson . Ed Brayton, a self-identified “journalist” at ScienceBlogs wrote , “Strange women flying about from Alaska receiving pink panties is no basis for a system of government.” “This is SO messed up…please tell me this is a joke,” said Pam Spaulding . Name It Change It, a project of the Women’s Media Center that tracks sexist incidents in the media, called Arpaio “ really damn sexist ,” adding that the Sheriff’s “use of a national female politician to delploy [ sic ] sexism as a publicity stunt is deplorable.” John Cole at Balloon Juice described the sheriff’s gift as “just creepy and weird” (right after posting the creepy and weird panty pic above) [...]
Originally published on August 14, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal ——— Last week The American Prospect revealed an unsettling workplace trend. This discovery is completely unanticipated, so prepare to be shocked. When female coworkers are out of earshot, men sometimes talk about them . Just awful, right? And guys aren’t just discussing the work habits of their female colleagues — occasionally they mention their looks! This is the new “sexual harassment” : not the groping, fondling, and obscene comments of yesteryear, but “what’s said about [women] when their backs are turned.” According to the Prospect ’s Ann Friedman, “behind-their-back comments are also intimidation and bullying of a sexual nature.” And this indirect harassment is even worse than dealing with run-of-the-mill lewdness from male coworkers [...]
Originally published on August 8, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal ——— Imagine: you’re paying $30,000 a year to send your kid to college and she calls to tell you her class schedule. “Monday and Wednesday mornings I’m taking ‘The Phallus’ and Tuesday and Thursday I have ‘Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music.’” “You’re taking the what ?” These course titles aren’t a joke. Women’s studies has long been a field in which scholarship takes a backseat to leftist activism and radical feminist politics. Although the discipline has “evolved” to encompass gender and sexuality studies, campus programs remain ideologically sterile laboratories designed to indoctrinate students into the ins and outs of the live-action role playing game they call feminism . Typically gender studies departments are nothing more than vocational training programs for progressive activists [...]
Originally published on September 26, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal by Jenn Q. Public & Lori Ziganto ——— 1. Jessica Valenti’s Femisogynist Spirit: Rooting for and Rejoicing at Abortion for Convenience While leftist “feminists” sneer condescendingly at the idea of post-abortion syndrome, it does exist . And if they actually cared about women , they’d admit that fact. But, see, they can’t. [...]
Originally published on September 17, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal _____________ The inane self-congratulatory feel-goodery of pop feminism is captured perfectly in an old Onion headline: “ Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does .” To the feminist Left, the obvious corollary is that everything that doesn’t empower a woman is oppressive, chauvinistic, and of course, sexist. And that’s exactly the ideological vampire being embraced by Christine O’Donnell supporters this week. Jeri Thompson leads the pack of those seduced by the politics of manufactured victimhood with her excoriation of Karl Rove, Sen. John Cornyn, and Delaware’s “blue-blooded patriarchies.” It’s not the timing of Rove’s criticisms she finds troubling; it isn’t that Cornyn and the NRSC arrived late to GOP Unity Hour lip syncing the words to “Kumbaya.” It’s that they offered their strategic assessment of a female candidate’s political baggage and electability: Funny, I don’t recall hearing similar talk from the likes of Mssrs. [...]
Originally published on July 29, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal _____________ Little girls in Cameroon are being betrayed by their own mothers. Using piping hot stones, women “iron” their pubescent daughters’ breasts to destroy any visible sign of budding womanhood. Some of the victims of this torture are as young as nine. The scars are horrific. Women say it is love that drives them to brutalize their daughters this way, that they just want to protect young girls from being raped or becoming pregnant at an early age [...]
Originally published on July 24, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal _____________ Nikki Haley whupped a whole lotta good ol’ boy ass in the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary, trouncing her establishment opponents at the polls and leaving behind a battered pile of the state’s nastiest corruptocrats and sleazebags. And boy are they pissed. Now, just a month after Haley’s victory, one Republican cartoonist has emerged from his gutter to dredge up the same vile race-baiting and sexism that failed to derail her primary campaign. In a cartoon published Tuesday (pictured above), Robert Ariail portrays the Indian-American gubernatorial candidate as a bikini-clad pageant queen in the first panel and a niqab-clad Muslim in the second. [...]
Originally published on July 19, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal _____________ “That’s not Sarah Palin. It’s a man, baby!” Is there a new Austin Powers film hitting the theaters? No, that’s just the catty sentiment in Eleanor Clift’s oh so magnanimous Newsweek column welcoming conservative women into the “feminist” fold. And Sarah Palin isn’t just any man: she’s anti-Semitic Holocaust revisionist Pat Buchanan. In drag [...]
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