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Strong Mothers, Weak Wives. Post-Palin Feminism. Angle on abortion, incest, lemons, and lemonade. More States Require a Waiting Period to Have an Abortion Than to Own a Gun. The Fringe Factor: Women Don’t Want Equal Pay Laws. Americans tell themselves that anything is possible when it comes to self-improvement, obscuring the truth that the privileged benefit from parental investment, strategic behavior, and simple capture of the institutions, like corporate boards, that hand out the money.

The Fringe Factor: Women Don’t Want Equal Pay Laws

This country needs some good class treason. Our meritocracy is doing more harm than good, and its members—and everyone else—need to start questioning it. I am a product of that meritocracy. Born and raised in West Virginia, way out in the country, I tested and wrote my way into elite schools, and now I teach at one. I’m surrounded by very smart people who work very hard, and get rewarded. It’s a meritocratic age. So I pulled up hard last week reading economist Thomas Piketty’s ground-breaking study of inequality, Capital in the 21st Century. We need a foundation of political equality and social guarantees: education, personal security, health care for those who need it, and the expectation of a fair retirement.

GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny” “How do you make abortion funny?”

GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny”

That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters (who are are moving even further and further away from the Christian-right on marriage and other issues). Marsha Blackburn GOP Rep: Women 'Don't Want' Equal Pay Laws. Sarah Palin says "Feminism Is Over" (and Gloria Steinem is "very passé") Is Sarah Palin a feminist. Barbara Kay: The day Sarah Palin kneecapped feminism.

REUTERS/John GressThe Palin brood The feminist revolution began as a necessary reform movement, but unfortunately evolved into a marxism-imbued, revolutionary one.

Barbara Kay: The day Sarah Palin kneecapped feminism

Second-wave feminism’s focus soon shifted from women’s equal rights (which are limited to those defined by law) to women’s interests (which are limitless), as perceived through a victim’s lens. For decades, the people that instruct our children; mould our lawyers, social workers, psychologists and health professionals; train our judiciary; control (and misinform) the domestic-violence industry; shape the views of journalists; and counsel politicians: All have been marinating from early youth in feminist correctness.

Welcome Instapundit readers,We’ve noticed a lot of traffic coming to this story from your site. Opinion: The fake feminism of Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin sure is dropping the f-bomb a lot lately.

Opinion: The fake feminism of Sarah Palin

In a widely noted speech this month to the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion-rights group, Palin invoked the words "feminism" and "feminist" no less than a dozen times. She called for a "pro-woman sisterhood" and addressed the "sisters" in the audience. 5 Ways Of Looking At "Sarah Palin Feminism" Police: Woman runs over husband for not casting Romney vote. An Arizona woman critically injured her husband by running over him with an SUV during an argument about the presidential election, police said.

Police: Woman runs over husband for not casting Romney vote

Holly Solomon, 28, was upset about President Barack Obama's re-election and began arguing with her husband last Saturday when she found out that he didn't vote, authorities said. Daniel Solomon, 36, told investigators that his wife believed her family was going to face hardship as a result of Obama's election to a second term. During the argument, Daniel Solomon got out of the family Jeep and gave his wife a dirty look, according to a police report obtained by Phoenix television station KPHO.

Sonia Nassery Cole: I Don't Want to Be Equal to a Man. FASCISM AND THE DENIGRATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. This Woman Who Hates Women Just Made My Day. I don’t mean to brag, but when it comes to slang, I can crack abbreviations and decipher code names quicker than it takes you to log on to Urban Dictionary and realize that you’re old and pathetic.

This Woman Who Hates Women Just Made My Day

Ditto for having seen Jawbreaker enough times to know what constitutes some seriously fucked-up shit. Please trust me when I say, from my position of smug know-it-all PGB queen, the world isn’t ready for Claire Khaw. An example of some things that have earned Khaw a bad name: the time she announced in a roundabout way on a BBC radio show in 2011 that she would rather murder a brain-damaged child than force UK taxpayers to support its parents; the assertion that religion is only useful for subjugating the lower social groups of women and children; oh, and a campaign to rid Britain of “SSMs.”

Are you gutted that you can’t work out that abbreviation? Patriarchy Works. Before feminism, men got along just fine.

Patriarchy Works

Some men succeeded, others failed. Collectively, men built and re-built social structures that they preferred, structures that worked best for men and served their proximate interests. Whatever your feelings are about the “rights” of women in society, one thing is undeniable: patriarchy works. Nigella Lawson photos: See shocking pictures of Charles Saatchi repeatedly squeezing TV chef's throat. Glamorous TV cook left distraught after ­multimillionaire other half turns violent during vicious row, the Sunday People can reveal View gallery Jean-Paul Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi outside Scott's restaurant Her eyes are transfixed as she struggles to prise away the powerful hand squeezing around her throat.

Nigella Lawson photos: See shocking pictures of Charles Saatchi repeatedly squeezing TV chef's throat

The Dark Bible: Women's Inferior Status. The Dark Bible Women's Inferior Status Back To Table Of Contents Blue words represent Bible quotes.

The Dark Bible: Women's Inferior Status

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Iran Chamber Society: Iranian Society: Patriarchy and parental control in Iran

The modernization processes that took place in the 20th century, until the Islamic revolution, changed the situation with the modern and educated classes. Fascism, Fundamentalism and Patriarchy. Exactly one year after the carnage in Gujarat began, the country is still reeling from the horror of the events. Narendra Modi’s expected victory in the assembly elections has further strengthened the position of the Hindutva fascist forces not only in Gujarat but also in the country as a whole.

Reviewing the strategy of Hindutva forces and the lessons from Gujarat become even more relevant now. Here we are concerned with the impact of the Hindutva fascist forces on women and on the women’s movement. The Body as a Site of Contest: Sherene Seikaly on the Gendered Exercise of Power and Resistance. How is the body produced as a site of repression and resistence?

Sherene Seikaly, Co-Editor at Jadaliyya, as well as Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at the American University of Cairo, tackles this question by exploring the ways in which the Egyptian state's production of the body as a terrorized and passive political subject inspired people to take their lives into their own hands and revolt. The state's theatrics of domination reveal a deep and sinister hatred of the Egyptian people as a collective body and as individual bodies. Both men and women are subject to various types of brutality, the “mundane,” scripted as political, and the “sexual,” scripted as gendered. QUIVERFULL. In Quiverfull Movement, Birth Control Is Shunned. Quiverfull. Home... Hands Full, HEARTS Full, Quiver Full! A Quiver Full. Romney Quiver Full Advice Wasn't Just Out Of Touch — It's Ideological. Last week, articles abounded when Mitt Romney advised Southern Virginia University graduates to "Get married, have a quiver full of kids if you can.

" Making babies for Jesus: BBC highlights the lunacy of the Quiverfull evangelical movement. THIS evening, the BBC World Service will broadcast The Womb as a Weapon, an examination of the spread in the UK of a dotty and dangerous trend that insists that good Christians mums should produce babies as fast as their bodies will allow. Christians in the Quiverfull movement believe in giving up all forms of contraception and accepting as many children as God gives, both as a sign of obedience to God and in a bid to ensure the future of the faith.

Quiverfull ideology also advocates a return to “traditional” roles in the home, where women are wife and mother first of all. Mitt Romney's Advice to College Grads: Start Having Babies As Soon As Possible. "Get married, have a quiver full of kids if you can. " That's the commencement advice Mitt Romney delivered this past weekend to 110 new graduates of Southern Virginia University, a largely Mormon school near Lynchburg, Virginia, where many students volunteered with Romney's failed presidential campaign. QuiverFull .com. No Longer Quivering — September 30, 2018. The Quiverfull: The evangelical Christians opposed to contraception. 17 May 2013 Last updated at 11:13 GMT. What Is Quiverfull? Women's Ministry: Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss. Inside the Duggar Family's Conservative Ideology - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. The Bizarre Christian "Quiverfull" Movement Pushing Women to Procreate for "God's Army"

August 29, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. TSA agent allegedly tells teenage girl to “cover herself” The NSA may be reigning champs among the Creepy and Invasive Government Agencies, but let it not be said that our stalwart Transportation Security Administration workers aren’t doing their part to make us shudder, one gross person, one repulsive comment at the time. Promise Keepers Men's Ministry. What's Wrong with the Promise Keepers Movement? Whatever happened to the Promise Keepers, an article by John Bartkowski. Information on the Promise Keepers. Myths And Facts About The Promise Keepers. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 393-410. 'Promise Keepers' Mind Control Techniques. Viewpoint: Promise Keepers Pose A Real Threat.

Pseudo-Science or Religious Agenda? Todd Akin's Right-wing Science. Mary Toft. The Effects of Religious Fundamentalism and Religiosity on Preference for Traditional Family Norms - Grasmick - 2007 - Sociological Inquiry. Why Can't We Love Them Both? (John C. Willke, MD & Barbara H. Willke, RN) Editor's Note: Please visit our home page for a full listing of abortion facts. Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search. Christian Life Resources. Todd Akin, 'Legitimate Rape,' and Gospel Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault... It's Not Shocking That Republican Senate Nominee Thinks Women Can't Get Pregnant From 'Legitimate Rape'

Report: Akin was arrested multiple times outside abortion clinics. Todd Akin On Abortion: 'Legitimate Rape' Victims Have 'Ways To Try To Shut That Whole Thing Down' Republicans' Rationalizations for Rape. The Republican Rape Advisory Chart. Mitt Romney's Heartless Advice to a Woman Whose Pregnancy Might Have Killed Her.

The Conviction of Tim Dreste - Page 1 - News - St. Louis - Riverfront Times. Anti-Abortion Movement Marches On After Two Decades of Arson, Bombs and Murder. 31 States Allow Rapists Custody and Visitation Rights - Esther Zuckerman. Anti-Abortion Bombings Related. Did Todd Akin get his misinformation on rape and pregnancy from Physicians for Life? Physicians For Life - Abstinence, Abortion, Birth Control - Assault Rape Pregnancies Are Rare. Times Daily - Google News Archive Search. Link between rape and pregnancy. Sex, Mom, and God: A Book Review. When men made God a man: Religion, the patriarchy and the culture of misogyny. The Rise of the Poor, Weak, and Wicked: Poor Care, Punishment, Religion, and Patriarchy in Leipzig, 1700-1730.

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