Our house is open to our friends. That of course, includes my children’s friends. Up until about today, my daughter’s life has been devoid of much of the girl drama we’ve discussed here at Femamom. I’ve liked to imagine that is because we have been welcoming to our children’s friends. Of course, that’s a ridiculous corollary and [...]
September 6, 2012
Slate’s Amanda Marcotte wrapped up some of the Sandra Fluke–you know, the most famous slut in America–hatred that was spewed all over Twitter last night after her speech. “Femme tool.” Wishing Ted Kennedy would take her “for a drive.” The maligning of this woman is because… why, again? Because she spoke at a hearing on [...]
September 5, 2012
Oh, hello President Clinton and Vice President Obama. We’ve been waiting. (Image: Christian Science Monitor/Charles Dharapak/AP)
August 28, 2012
Reuter’s reporter Steven Brill makes an excellent point in his column today: How would a woman “prove” rape to qualify for Romney’s abortion exception? We’ve heard from Todd Akin about what is deemed “legitimate” rape. Now we’ve heard from GOP senate candidate Tom Smith, who seemed to liken his daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy as something “similar” [...]
August 17, 2012
Today at 3 p.m., political punk group Pussy Riot will hear their verdict in the case against them in Russian. The three members — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina– performed a “punk prayer” in an Orthodox church protesting Vladimir Putin. Let’s just say that Russian leaders still don’t like it when you talk [...]
August 6, 2012
Ask someone on the street, any old person will do. What does a feminist look like? Here’s my guess about what someone might say. 1. Hairy armpits 2. Aggressive 3. Liberal 4. Hates men In fact, so many women identify with this wacky version of feminism, that they’re unsure that they actually are a modern [...]
July 31, 2012
My son, the same kid who a year ago preferred action movies to political discourse has become a one person fountain of political facts. The problem? There isn’t really a problem it’s just that he’s really enthusiastic and doesn’t talk about much else. He’s filled with righteous rage at the “billionaires with money tucked in [...]
July 15, 2012
Here’s how it happens with rape culture. The rape jokes get told and everyone laughs because it’s innocent. No one (normal at least) really wants to rape you or watch you get raped. And then the politicians ignorantly dismiss the need for rape prevention and counseling because it’s not a “crisis.” That rape doesn’t affect [...]
June 21, 2012
Just in time to stop Mitt Romney as he launches his “Why we shouldn’t fund birth control” argument on the campaign trail, a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics sweeps in like a God-damned super hero. While we already knew the dropping teen pregnancy rates were due to contraception, according to the [...]
June 14, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012: NPR has Sandusky’s trial analysis on every a.m. talk show. According to an expert on men in prison, there is a huge number of men clogging the penal system who have histories of sexual abuse. All those men, untreated for sexual abuse. All those men with huge violent wounds. And while I [...]
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