Oh no he didn’t!

Oh yes he did: Obama To College Women: “You Can Be Stylish And Powerful” President Obama gives advice on women advancing in the workplace in his commencement address at the women-only Barnard College in New York City. Obama tells women not to get caught up with the obsession over beauty and fashion and instead be [...]

ZOMG! It’s a girl!

From the Department of You Can’t Make This Shit Up: Arizona high school forfeits championship game rather than face girl opponent A state championship high school baseball game is over before tonight’s first pitch, after one Arizona team forfeited rather than play an opponent with a girl in the lineup. Our Lady of Sorrows refused [...]

Hire Women – They’re Cheaper

Hostile Workplace Female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show. According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000). Calculating the median salary [...]

President Fanny-Pat schmoozes the sweeties

Obama, Comedian-in-Chief, Woos Women Supporters While the Obama administration sought to convince women today that it is fighting for gender equality, it was hard to miss some of the awkward laughs President Obama’s one-liners brought from the mostly-female crowd gathered at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy. “I was going to head [...]

Bill Maher is a cockroach

The pushback must be working because the cockroaches are scrambling for cover: When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don’t like? In the last year, we’ve been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitivity of Nike shoes, the Fighting Sioux, Hank Williams Jr., Cee [...]

When did progressives turn ugly?

Remember the old Hollywood westerns? The ones where the good guys were handsome and wore white hats, and the bad guys were ugly and wore black? Those were the days when truth, justice and the American way all went together. At least we thought they did. As I got older I began to realize that [...]

It doesn’t matter

It doesn’t matter that Sandra Fluke is a Democrat. It doesn’t matter that Bristol and Sarah Palin are Republicans. And it doesn’t matter which parties Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher belong to either. It doesn’t matter who has the larger audience, which one has been doing the longest or who is the funniest. It is [...]

TBogg is a misogynist pig

So yesterday Bristol Palin put up a post at her new blog calling out President Obama for using a double standard and for taking money from professional misogynist Bill Maher: But here’s why I’m a little surprised my phone hasn’t rung. Your $1,000,000 donor Bill Maher has said reprehensible things about my family. He’s made [...]

The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend

So you’re out hiking in the woods and you find yourself being stalked by wolves. You try to flee but you find yourself cornered. You are alone and unarmed. As they close in suddenly a grizzly bear charges in and chases off the wolves. Is the bear your friend? Only in a cartoon. In real [...]

Never underestimate a bunch of pissed-off wimmens

David Axelrod bails on Bill Maher David Axelrod will not be appearing as a guest on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” despite reports last week that he was scheduled to do the show in the next few weeks. “He’s not scheduled to go on at this time,” said Ben LaBolt, the press secretary for President [...]

Sanity Shortage

Doonesbury strip on Texas abortion law dropped by some US newspapers Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau has defended his cartoon strip about abortion, which several US newspapers are refusing to run, saying he felt compelled to respond to the way Republicans across America are undermining women’s healthcare rights. The strip, published on Monday and scheduled to [...]

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

Bill introduced to regulate men’s reproductive health Before getting a prescription for Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs, men would have to see a sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency, if state Sen. Nina Turner has her way. The Cleveland Democrat introduced [...]

Here’s a place for horizontal leadership

UltraViolet, Women’s Rights Group, Upgrades Movement Via Social Media Progressive campaigners and online activists Nita Chaudhary and Shaunna Thomas had an idea for a new kind of women’s rights group: one that uses cutting-edge online advertising techniques to engage more people in the fight to end sexism in politics, media and pop culture. They were [...]

Pushback – It works!

Vulgar Comedian Louis C.K. Bounced From Media Dinner Louis C.K. has been ousted as the headline act in the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner hosted in DC. The liberal comedian came under fire from Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, who blasted him for his history of offensive comments about Sarah Palin and [...]

I’m sure it was an accident

Jezebel: Sandra Fluke ‘Slut’ Comments Mysteriously Vanish from Rush Limbaugh’s Online Transcripts Super genius Rush Limbaugh is handling the fallout from Slutgate in exactly the sort of mature, thoughtful, constructive way you’d expect a plagiarizing teen to handle being caught cheating on his homework — by erasing the evidence in a ham fisted manner and [...]

Wingnuttia rises in defense of Rush Limbaugh’s right to call women “sluts”

The right wing has lost its collective mind: Announcing The Carbonite Accountability Project On Saturday, March 3, 2012, Carbonite announced that it was dropping its advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show even after Limbaugh had apologized to Sandra Fluke for certain comments made regarding Ms. Fluke. When the controversy originally broke, Carbonite took a principled [...]

Ronald Reagan Was a Man Whore

According to what I’ve been reading the past few days any woman who has sex outside of marriage is a promiscuous slut. So what’s that make Reagan? He remains our only divorced president, but even worse when he was 38 years old he deflowered an innocent virgin who was less than half his age. And [...]

A week late and a few members short

Democrats hear from woman snubbed by GOP lawmakers Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke was given her chance to talk to Congress Thursday, even though lawmakers were on a break and just a few Democratic allies were there to cheer her on. But what a difference a week makes. Last Thursday the Republican-controlled House Oversight [...]

Where do they find these people?

SFGate: Liz Trotta says women in the military shouldn’t complain they are ‘raped too much’ Listen to the video above and you will hear Fox News commentator Liz Trotta say that women in the military are complaining that they have been “raped too much.” How much is too much? I would say once is too [...]

Don’t read this post unless you want to be pissed off

It started last week with objections to Chris Brown appearing on the Grammy Awards show Sunday night: I’m Not Okay with Chris Brown Performing at the Grammys and I’m Not Sure Why You Are I’m sick and tired of people acting like it’s no big deal that Chris Brown will be performing at the Grammys. [...]