Tag Archives: Feminism

Compare and contrast, freedom version

Posted on 03/09/2011 by Meryl Yourish

In Egypt, women marching for equal rights were harassed, sexually assaulted, and beaten. Thousands of men surrounded hundreds of women and drove them from Tahrir Square on International Women’s Day. The AP headline for this story? Egyptian women’s rights protest … Continue reading →

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Muslim ERA Watch: Muslim Brotherhood edition

Posted on 02/21/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Long-time reader DG wrote the following: There’s a really cute story in the Washington Post: Egypt women stand for equality in the square Though the reporter was reporting from the demonstration on Friday, there was no mention of Sheikh Qaradawi’s … Continue reading →

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Sunday long weekend briefs

Posted on 11/28/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Yeah, that outreach is really working: Iran is now practically declaring that Lebanon is its client state: They’re not even trying to hide it anymore, so the big question is: Will Iran go to war with Israel if there is … Continue reading →

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Muslim ERA watch

Posted on 07/29/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Students at an Islamic university in India are demanding that their female teachers wear the all-covering burqa—the sack with the wire mesh for the eyes. The teacher, who is also Muslim, refuses to wear one. Sirin Middya, who described herself … Continue reading →

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Muslim ERA watch: Hamastan bans hairdressers

Posted on 03/05/2010 by Meryl Yourish

In 2007, the New York Times happily published a lying op-ed by Ahmed Yousef that said, among other things: “Palestinians want, on their terms, the same thing Western societies want: self-determination, modernity, access to markets and their own economic power, … Continue reading →

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Muslim ERA Watch, Egypt version

Posted on 09/17/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Ladies of Egypt, rejoice! You can wear pants—BUT—they can’t be tight. Or see-through. Or stretch pants. Egypt’s top Islamic authority defended women’s rights to wear trousers in public following a high profile court case in neighboring Sudan were women were … Continue reading →

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Saudi ERA Watch, AP whitewash edition

Posted on 06/24/2009 by Meryl Yourish

How cool is this? Wow, a member of the Saudi royal family says he sure does hope that someday, little girls in Saudi Arabia can grow up to play sports! (But not with men. Never with men.) Appealing to a … Continue reading →

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Iran ERA Watch

Posted on 11/12/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Iranian feminism, Islamic-style: Women can be as free as they want—as long as there are no men around. A woman clad in a red T-shirt plays an Iranian drum in a Tehran park as her teenage daughter dances nearby, her … Continue reading →

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Saudi ERA watch

Posted on 10/29/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Saudi Arabia is breaking ground for the world’s largest women’s college. Here’s the funniest part of the article: The declared aim of the Women’s University is to promote women’s education in the kingdom, improve the situation of Saudi women and … Continue reading →

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Agreeing with Paglia on Palin

Posted on 10/08/2008 by Meryl Yourish

I found something that both Camille Paglia and I agree on: Sarah Palin, and the way she’s been wronged by the mainstream feminists (those would be the radfems). Via Hot Air. The next phase of feminism must circle back and … Continue reading →

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Women and the Sarah Palin vote

Posted on 09/09/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Let me try once again to explain to the doubters out there why I don’t care that Palin’s views on abortion are different than mine. Or that she’s a “Christianist,” as Asshole Andrew Sullivan keeps calling her. Or that she … Continue reading →

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EU to ban sex in advertising?

Posted on 09/07/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Oh, this is rich. The nations that don’t blink an eye at sex and nudity in films are thinking about banning “sexist” commercials. MEPs want TV regulators in the EU to set guidelines which would see the end of anything … Continue reading →

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Note to Jeffrey Bell: Premarital sex predates the 1960s

Posted on 09/07/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Spare me from conservative analysis of feminism. Because when you let most conservatives yammer away on the topic, you get a great, heaping, stupid load of sexist bullshit purporting to be an analysis of feminism. Note to Weekly Standard: You’re … Continue reading →

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The Sarah Palin baby rumor

Posted on 09/01/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Oh, please. Any idiot can get a blog on DKos. And this ridiculous accusation is proof that many idiots do. Oh, wait. That was Andrew Sullivan’s link. Here’s the Daily Kos moron’s blog. These unerring detectives have Photographic! Evidence! that … Continue reading →

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What women think: Sexism is sexism

Posted on 08/31/2008 by Meryl Yourish

This is the sentiment, exactly, on what many women feel about Obama not choosing Hillary for VP: “If 18 million votes is not enough, what does it take in the Democratic Party to get a woman on the ticket?” Time … Continue reading →

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Why women Dems will vote for Palin

Posted on 08/30/2008 by Meryl Yourish

I received an email today from a disaffected Hillary fan who plans to vote for McCain come November. I am a died-in-the-wool Democrat, but when Obama turned his ass to Hillary and called her “sweetie,” I didn’t know what to … Continue reading →

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Women and Sarah Palin

Posted on 08/29/2008 by Meryl Yourish

A word to the men who read this blog: While I don’t claim to speak for all women, I can claim to give you a woman’s point of view on what John McCain choosing Sarah Palin for his vice presidential … Continue reading →

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Shilling for the Saudis

Posted on 08/21/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Reuters has a puff piece that pretends to be reporting about the “liberalization” of Saudi Arabian cities. Let’s take a look. The Saudi government has a project to develop at least four “economic cities” where many expect the religious establishment … Continue reading →

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Sexist story of the day

Posted on 08/13/2008 by Meryl Yourish

From the headline until nearly the last paragraph, this condescending, sexist piece of drek willl go down in my Feminist Hall of Shame. And it’s from AP. It figures. What a ride: Woman, 82, inducted into Hall of Fame Wow. … Continue reading →

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