by Didact | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Normally I rather enjoy Cracked.com’s highly irreverent and thoroughly offbeat commentary on issues large and small. Recently, however, they published a list that purported to show how hard life is for women in the military, and I have to say that I got more...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
A while back, a College-Educated Feminist and I were listening to a random selection of tracks (playing from a set of CDs she selected). A track by John Mayer came on. I think I made an offhand comment about Taylor Swift at some point during that song- something do to...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Yet for some reason, some bird named Beyonce Knowles is thoroughly puzzled as to why this vexing situation should exist: The Grammy-award winner signed the essay using her hyphenated married name, Beyonce Knowles-Carter. ‘Humanity requires both men and...
by Didact | Jan 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
In 1998, Neil Peart, the greatest goddamn drummer of all ti- er, I mean, the drummer and lyricist of RUSH, lost his daughter in a freak accident as she was driving to college. Shortly after that, he lost his wife to cancer, though he maintained that she died from a...
by Didact | Jan 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Did you ever read Asterix comics as a kid? I did. I still do. There is one particular favourite of mine called Asterix and the Secret Weapon. It is one of the funniest and most brilliantly insightful jabs at feminism that you will ever see- and chances are that you...
by Didact | Jan 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
A woman by the name of Alli Reed who apparently had a bit too much time on her hands recently decided to run a little thought experiment by testing the limits of betatude among male users of online dating services to the very limit- and beyond: As a child of the...
by Didact | Jan 1, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Charlie Bushmeister had some highly amusing commentary from his recent trip to India: I have been to 50 countries now, and I can say without reservation that India is the absolute worst place for women I have even been. I can think of no place less suitable for a...
by Didact | Jan 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Of all of the countries in the world, I didn’t expect the land of Moses to support something that goes directly against one of the oldest ideas in the Bible: In 2014, the government of Israel will pay to abort babies for any woman aged 20 to 33 regardless...
by Didact | Dec 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
I just got back this morning from a trip to the old country to visit my extended family. It was, without question, the single most painful journey I’ve ever undertaken, for a number of reasons. At a certain point in your life, people important to you from your...
by Didact | Dec 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
[Note: This isn’t the sort of book I normally review, but it IS Halfbreed’s work, of which I think quite highly, and this book was actually worth reading. Nonetheless I would say that this isn’t the sort of thing you want popping up on your PC at...
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