Swamp Misogyny

Girls beat up Iran cleric over dress code By Ben Brumfield and Shirzad Bozorgmehr Tehran, Iran (CNN) — They may be a far cry from their Western counterparts fighting for the acceptance to breast-feed — or go topless — in public, but two girls clobbered a cleric recently in a small town in Iran when [...]

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Blamer in Chief Obama Obama Email to Supporters: If I Lose, It’s Your Fault by Ben Shapiro 26 Aug 2012 Today, President Obama sent out a campaign email essentially blaming his supporters if he loses. See, he’s supposedly being outspent. And because he’s supposedly being outspent, he’s losing. And he can’t spend more money unless [...]

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What’s missing from this picture? Egypt’s first “democratic” election. The Muslim Brotherhood Party candidate is the winner. No matter which party won, women are still the losers. By the way: Islam Sucks. “Until you do right by women, everything you even think about is gonna fail” — with apologies to Celie, The Color Purple, Alice [...]

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Michigan Wimminz Lawmakers Brown & Byrum silenced for saying “vagina” and attempting to regulate vasectomies. June 15, 2012 by Uppity Woman Do you remember when Florida State Rep Scott Randolph (D-Uterus) said the obscene word “Uterus” in front of all of Florida’s God and Vagina-Fearing Republicans, and all hell broke lose when the leadership declared that [...]

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Cross-posted from UppityWoman08.wordpress.com with permission. Dirty Words on Clean Skin: The Real War on Women Posted on March 27, 2012 by Anita Finlay (“Ani”) In 2008, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged an epic battle for the presidential nomination that captured the imagination and hopes of millions, but the joy of watching a qualified woman [...]

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Was reading this morning in the NYT a preview of the new movie about Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep. Looks like Ms Streep will have to find room on her Oscar shelf for one more statue if the buzz about her performance is true. But what struck me most about the interview with Streep and [...]

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Oh lordy, lordy, lordy, that Sarah Palin is one funny woman: “Obama dubbed it a “Winning The Future” speech, but the title’s acronym seemed more accurate than much of the content.” – Sarah Palin 1/26/11 You would think that with vulgar juveniles writing his cliched speeches, SOMEONE would have noticed the WTF acronym. I absolutely [...]

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Violet Socks really hits it home here: “It’s funny, isn’t it? Men run the world, own almost everything in it, hold almost every position of power, and yet these two women [Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton] —each the first in her party to become a serious contender for presidential office—are somehow responsible for everything bad. [...]

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Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination WASHINGTON — The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In a newly published interview in the legal magazine California Lawyer, Scalia said [...]

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