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Attention, Ladies! A Man is Here to Hel...

Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Thoughts on 12 11th, 2009 | 65 Comments
Yesterday a man was invited to share his perspective at Jezebel on why women should not complain about women getting hit, for no reason, by men.  The title he chose was, “Why is Snooki More Precious Than I Am?“  You can sort of imagine how it evolved from there. I don’t want to rehash...
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The She-Devil Speaks...

Posted by BeckySharper in Morning Snark, Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 12 2nd, 2009 | 19 Comments
Photo via Daily Mail. Yesterday, the Daily Mail–which loves to showcase women bashing feminism–devotes some space to a recent outing by Fay Weldon at a literary event in Richmond, England. Weldon made her mark with bitingly satirical novels like The Life and Loves of a She Devil and Worst...
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Row, Row, Row Whose Boat?...

Posted by PhDork in Thoughts on 10 26th, 2009 | 6 Comments
I was deeply disappointed by an op-ed by Joanne Lipman in this morning’s Times.   And not only because I learned women–well, at least Lipman and her peers–were already feeling “post-feminist” in the early 1980s.  (Really?) I’m inclined to agree with her general...
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Shut up, Gawker...

Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Thoughts on 10 19th, 2009 | 34 Comments
I’ve been too philosophical lately.  In life, I am sort of philosophical, but I also have, as you have sometimes seen, anger issues.  Serious, foulmouthed anger issues.  So let’s get some anger on the table.  Today, I am angry about people lacking fundamental reading/viewing comprehension...
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Response from the Feminist Majority Foun...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 10 2nd, 2009 | 7 Comments
Posted this afternoon on the Feminist Majority Foundation’s blog  in response to the shitstorm over Peg Yorkin’s pro-Polanski statement in the L. A. Times (comments on the FMF’s blog are enabled–I hope you’ll use them). Statement by Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority...
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An Open Letter to Peg Yorkin of the Femi...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 10 1st, 2009 | 41 Comments
Some of the industry’s most prominent women said they believe Polanski, who faces a sentence as low as probation and as high as 16 months in prison for pleading guilty to having sex with a minor, should be freed. “My personal thoughts are let the guy go,” said Peg Yorkin, founder of...
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Articles on women’s unhappiness ma...

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 09 22nd, 2009 | 30 Comments
It's all downhill from here, kid. Via Just Taken Pics @ Flickr. My love affair with Maureen Dowd was a brief one. It began and ended with this column. Alas, she’s back to her old tricks – namely, undermining other women. In her latest op-ed, she argues that feminism has made women...
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Sportswomanlike Conduct...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 14th, 2009 | 11 Comments
Three-time Olympian, world champion, role model and all-around hockey badass Angela Ruggiero. This past week I received two articles on women and sports from Harpyness readers, one from  MamaSharper, who spotted “Too Dainty to Hit?“  in the Globe and Mail while we were on vacation in Canada,...
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I (Still) Blame Porn...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 08 30th, 2009 | 11 Comments
Harpyness readers, however, DO IT RITE. At brunch yesterday, my fellow Harpies asked if I would be writing a responsa to the 80+ comments generated by my “I Blame Porn” post at Bitch Magazine. They know me too well. What has two thumbs and likes to have her say? THIS BITCH. Here it is. Thank...
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On Women, Alcohol, and Anti-Feminism...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 24th, 2009 | 70 Comments
For weeks now, I’ve been fuming over the misogynist media pile-on that took place after a horrific car crash on New York’s Taconic Parkway, in which Diane Schuler killed herself, her daughter, her three nieces and three men in another vehicle. An autopsy showed that she had drunk 10 shots...
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Have You Liberated Your Masculine Energy...

Posted by sarah.of.a.lesser.god in Thoughts on 08 10th, 2009 | 35 Comments
Pilgrim Soul pointed me to an absolutely headdesk-worthy piece on Momlogic about how feminism has hurt women’s love lives and that feminism wasn’t about feminine things but about releasing “masculine energy.” Both of those assertions elicited the same response from me: huh? ...
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High Heels Now Officially NSFW...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 10th, 2009 | 41 Comments
Wear at your own risk! Via shoesexpert @ Flickr. Y’all know that I fucking hate high heels. And apparently, I’m not alone–since I wrote my rant about heels back in January, it’s been one of our top-rated posts, still getting a couple hundred hits a week and generating plenty of...
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