
Andrew Tate And Cartoon Masculinity
Andrew Tate and others like him project a parody-level version of being a Real Man – and cannot be ignored. Continue reading Andrew Tate And Cartoon Masculinity
Andrew Tate and others like him project a parody-level version of being a Real Man – and cannot be ignored. Continue reading Andrew Tate And Cartoon Masculinity
Deliver us from reporters who think high level meetings between women are hen parties. Continue reading Even Down Under, Sexists Gonna Sexist
Dan Snyder’s NFL film noir. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Dan Snyder
Another right wing extremist group learns what happens when you take bodily autonomy from women. Continue reading A Change Is Coming To Iran
If it is a day ending in “y”, then it must be time for me to write about Republican stupidity regarding abortion. Continue reading And The Hits Just Keep On Coming
How many times do women have to say it? Continue reading We Told You So, Redux
Some thoughts on the sheer arrogance of sexist willful ignorance. Continue reading We Told You So
Pete Rose strikes out again, babe. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Pete Rose
John Jacob: The Hater’s Hater. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: John Jacob
It wasn’t always like this here, but Trumpism is a strong poison with a long half life. Continue reading They Just Hate Women
Introducing the man mountain of malakatude, Matt Birk. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Matt Birk
After years of BIGGEST CROWD EVER PERIOD and fake Sharpie hurricane paths I hoped the Mad Hatter’s tea party would wind down. No such luck. Continue reading Beware The Jabberwock
Do not go gentle into that good night. Continue reading Rage Against The Dying Of The Light
Stop giving the Republicans the benefit of the doubt – they care about nothing but domination. Continue reading It’s The Will To Power, Stupid
Well, whatever, nevermind. Continue reading Nothing Matters
How the media misfires in its coverage of Sam the Sham Alito and the Federalist Society Pharaohs. Continue reading Supremely Myopic: The Media & SCOTUS
This photo is from the 1992 March For Women’s Lives which drew half a million protestors, making it one of the largest protests ever in DC at that time. I was there. And 30 years later, I’m still having to fight for my rights. Continue reading We’re Not Going Back
Alito’s draft opinion in the Dobbs case is the judicial equivalent of the horse’s head scene in The Godfather. Continue reading Sam The Sham Alito & The Federalist Society Pharaohs Can Go Bork Themselves
Vent, for sure. But then get to work. A radical white supremacist faction is running the GOP. This fight is our collective responsibility. Continue reading Triumph Of The Swill
Justice Alito’s sneering and sarcastic draft opinion overruling Roe and Casey leaks. Continue reading The Leak Heard Round The World
Tucker Carlson: American Goebbels. Continue reading The NYT’s Tucker Trilogy: Trumpism Without Trump
Tales of a GOP groper. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Charles Herbster
Cory Booker got up and said he had Ketanji Brown Jackson’s back. He also put into words what his political party stands for. Mike Braun did the same for his party. You can decide who did it better. Continue reading Cory Booker Is A Mensch
What struck me at the end of the day, having watched or listened to most of the Republican committee members, was how openly angry they all were.
Continue reading Eleven Angry Republicans
The view from New Orleans on the Deshaun Watson freak show. Continue reading The Deshaun Disgrace
Back in 2020, Joe Biden said he’d put a Black woman on the Supreme Court if he won the election. Last week he got the chance to make good on his pledge. The non-politicized (can you see my eyes rolling?) Supreme Court had been the subject of previous political pledges. Ronald Reagan vowed to put a woman on the Supreme Court. Donald Trump did the same thing, and conservatives were just fine with it and both women were confirmed with zero complaining from the right. By uttering the word “Black”, Biden transgressed the first rule of White Supremacy Club: “The … Continue reading The “White” Is Always Silent
The malakatude, it burns. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Garrett Soldano
You’re a Roaring Twenties flapper. You like your jazz hot and your hootch cold. One morning after you had a few too many the night before you wake up and find yourself in bed with a man whose name you don’t remember. Thankful you woke up before him so you’re able to sneak out of his hotel room. Two months later you realize you haven’t had your period in, well, two months. You also have a burning sensation when you urinate. Sure enough you are pregnant. And you have syphilis. Both are courtesy of the man who is long gone. You can be treated for the syphilis but not while you’re pregnant, but if you wait to have the baby it’s likely to be too late to treat the syphilis. You need an abortion. With no safe place to go you turn to the local neighborhood woman who knows how to handle these things. She handles it so well you end up with a staph infection that ultimately makes the syphilis moot because you’re dead.
You’re a 16 year old girl in 1944. You’re a good girl, get good grades, honor your mother and father. You’ve always looked up to your big brother as your protector, but he’s off fighting Nazis now. One night you babysit for a neighbor down the street. After the couple come home, because your brother isn’t there to do it the husband walks you back home. On the walk home he violently begins to maul you. He’s an authority figure, you don’t know what to do. Finally he ferociously forces your legs apart and in just seconds your virginity is gone. His parting words to you are that if you tell anyone he’ll deny it and you’ll be branded a whore. Two months later you realize you haven’t had your period in two months. You’re too ashamed to tell your parents. You believe what he said. A girlfriend tells you there is a woman in the next town who can take care of it for you. She takes care of it so well you end up with septic shock syndrome and die on the bench outside the hospital where she dumped you.
You’re a 35 year old suburban matron in 1958. You have a husband with a well paying job, two kids under the age of ten, a neat split level three bedroom house with a girl who comes in twice a week to clean, a full social calendar, friends galore, and you even use (shhh!) birth control because sometimes the husband gets a bit randy after that post dinner martini. One night the condom fails. Two months later you realize you haven’t had a period in two months. You go to your family doctor and when he congratulates you on being pregnant you burst into tears. Your life is where you want it to be. You don’t want another child. Your husband’s job is good, but not great and another mouth means having to downgrade your lifestyle, maybe even move out of your three bedroom split level house. The doctor takes you into his private office where he hands you a slip of paper with a name and address on it. “He’s a doctor, well, sort of. He lost his license a few years ago. Now he takes care of things like this. But he’s really safe.” You get your best girlfriend to drive you to the address which is on the shadier side of town. His “office” is the backroom of a skanky looking storefront. He’s gentle and soothing and when you awaken he tells you everything is taken care of and that the bleeding is normal. But the bleeding doesn’t stop, even after your husband rushes you to the hospital in the middle of the night. The surgeon tells your widower that he was too late, there had been too much blood loss.
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Vice President Kamala Harris has been in the news quite a lot lately. On one hand, that’s not a surprise: she’s the VP, she’s the first female VP, she’s the first Black VP, and she’s the first Asian VP. And if you’re a regular reader, you know that that’s not where I’m going with this. Over the last few months there has been a bunch of articles published that take cheap shots at Harris. Over the weekend the Washington Post ran a story about how Harris is so mean that everyone is leaving and it’s terrible and we should be … Continue reading The He-Man Woman Haters Club
Our fearless leader discussed the oral argument at the Supreme Court about the Mississippi abortion law earlier, but I am not going to tackle any of the legal stuff. I’m not going to tackle it because I am so fucking … Continue reading The Bastards Are Grinding Me Down