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“Feminists are having a hard time being elected because they essentially are unlikable. Feminist is a bad word and everything they stand for is bad. Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don’t all look like Bella Abzug.” – Phyllis Schlafly, speaking to cadets at The …

The below column was just tweeted out by Eagle Forum founder Phylis Schlafly. It was authored by Shirley Spellerberg of TexasGOPVote, who is backing Herman Cain. If a man even looked at a feminist in an admiring manner, or called her ‘sweetheart, baby or honey’, the gals would cry ‘Sexual Harassment’ (although I did not see many man-hating feminists that …

“[The] awful legacy of feminism has been the demasculinization of men. For all of higher civilization’s recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. That notion — indeed the notion of masculinity itself — is regarded by feminism as the worst of sins: patriarchy. If you wonder why so many men choose not to …

The Handmaid’s Tale is coming to life.

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Camille Paglia defends her famous (and now 20 years old) New York Times op-ed piece announcing Madonna as the future of feminism. (Via Julie Bolcer at Advocate)

Eagle Forum executive harridan Phyliss Schlafly says that Scott Brown beat Martha Coakley because she’s a physically “unappealing” feminist. The Handmaidens seated at Schlafly’s feet cackled in appreciation. Schafly goes on to say that the reason so many women are in politics is because they been unshackled by the the drudgery of housework by dishwashers and dryers.

Jeremy Hooper at Good As You digs up the best stuff. In this 80’s clip from the horrible Morton Downey Show, dig who’s waiting at the microphone to attack feminist lawyer Gloria Allred. Maggie doesn’t speak in this clip, which is too bad because we’d love to hear how she sounded when she only hated her own gender.

My favorite YouTube atheist gets it right.

From the NYT comes an interesting story about the fading patchwork of lesbian separatist communities across the country. The communities, most in rural areas from Oregon to Florida, have as few as two members; Alapine is one of the largest. Many have steadily lost residents over the decades as members have moved on or died. As the impulse to withdraw …

If you are a romantic lady, single baby, or sophisticated mama – take heart. Anti-feminist Den Hollander’s federal lawsuit against ladies nights has been thrown out of court. A Manhattan federal judge showed anti-feminist lawyer Roy Hollander the door Monday in his challenge to “Ladies Night” discounts at nightclubs. Judge Miriam Cedarbaum said private clubs like the Copacabana, Lotus and …

Remember those uptight lesbian separatists who told me that a man could never be a feminist? Here’s what the Feminist Majority Foundation says. Thanks to Mike at Manhattan Chowder for the tip.

In the Nation, Barbara Ehrenreich writes about the cult of Disney’s Princesses: Disney likes to think of the Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. Typically, they spend much of their time in captivity or a coma, waking up only when a Prince comes along and kisses them. The most striking exception is Mulan, …

I had a brief but fascinating exchange on a feminist blog yesterday. Not to get too into the nuts and bolts of the conversation, the takeaway message I received from a couple of the commenters was that men cannot ever be considered feminists, regardless of their positions on women’s rights. The author of the blog was generally kind to me …