...Is "wearing whatever you want" a feminist act or an anti-feminist act nowadays?

It's a sinister patriarchal ploy (is there such a thing as a non-sinister patriarchal ploy, btw??) to push women out of the publishing world!

"How in the world do you keep this job? Are you Joan's niece?"

My suspicion is that TCF got hired as a result of Joan losing a daft wager one tipsy evening. The only question I have is what the wager could've been about.

Probably something dealing with how many billiard balls can be stuffed into one's mouth.

...it might have a "chilling effect" on false rape accusations. Nobody here wants to see that.

Oh whine whine WHIIIIINE-- stop all the whining, MALE. Ugh, it just makes me sick to hear you WHIIIIIIIINE all day!

Now if you'll pardon me, I'll go onto another forum and complain about how I tremble in fear of being groped on subways. That kind of thing is never whining, just for your information.

It looks like you boys just don't understand equality!

Another MALE who just doesn't get it!

All male organizations are sinister and should be shut-down or forcibly-integrated because it's immoral to exclude people on the basis of sex.

All female organizations are friggin' awesome, baby-- exclusion on the basis of sex is a moral necessity because women-- delicate and easily pushed-around victims that we are-- need to be protected from teh patriarkee.

Only come back here once you finally understand that feminist logic strictly goes one-way, loser!

She recently penned a rather poignant bit about P*ssy Power, echoing the sentiments here at Broadsheet.

http://globalgrind.com/content/869372/PSSY-POWER-IS-POWER/

C'mon TCF, why didn't you spot this gem before?

A weak and possibly false allegation with minimal evidence is enough for BS to proclaim guilt. Provided that the accused has a penis and the accuser has a vagina. The logic goes no farther than looking at the crotch.

Meanwhile, BS-- and Salon generally-- ignore or make excuses for women who maim or kill children.

In other words, a woman who gets blind drunk and high and kills a bunch of children in a car accident receives less condemnation than a man who is accused without evidence of wrondoing.

It would be a truly comical spectacle if it weren't accompanied by such a puke-inducing level of sanctimonious posturing.

I imagine Broadsheeters would be happy to be shot in the head, so long as a female was pulling the trigger.

...if you have a hostile view of men and maleness-- something which is not uncommon at Salon-- then I suppose those are the best answers you could come up with: men are authoritarian assholes, men are big babies who need to grow-up, masculinity is a contaminant that you (thank God) have evolved beyond...

But if you regard masculinity as a disease, do you think thgat kind of stance might push some men into alignment with conservativism? Just a thought.

If I may-- feminists are extremely aware of women's ability to get pregnant (something that men do not have), going so far as to advocate rights related to said ability to get pregnant.

And yet when it comes to their outrage over the sluts/studs "double-standard" that the ultimate double-standard-- pregnancy itself-- is forgotten, even though it's obviously the reason.

Thought exercise: maybe, due to pregnancy-- especially in the pre-birth-control era-- it's not in a woman's best interest to have sex with 10 different men per week? Could this, rather than an insidious male plot to deny women sexual pleasure (hah), be the root of the perjorative "slut"?

When you get to this point, the "double standard" actually has a far better explanation than what feminists claim.

It's as if Isaac Newton, minutes after writing about the force which pulls apples to the ground, were to postulate that deeply-buried roots in the dirt are what prevent the apple tree from flying-off into space.

For it is The Patriarchy which excuses Broadsheeters from commenting upon other women's sexuality but go ballistic with nipple-hardening OUTRAGE if a man were to do the same.

Why? Men pack more punch than us weak lil' girlies.

But we're not weak! Oh no, we're just very very oppressed, which lets us retain certain characteristics of weak, lil' girlies while being very, very indignant out our oppression. GRRR!

"If a man is behind it, though, it's more likely to be taken as a serious indictment of a woman's character, it packs a bigger punch."

It's more likely to be taken as such by the likes of you, you mean.

TCF, the logic here at BS-- an apt acronym if there ever was one-- doesn't go far beyond looking at the crotch, does it?

"Will it take a DEATH before SOMEBODY ACTS??"

Why do you hate women, iconklee? You're clearly a raging misogynist.

When will you-- and society-- stop blaming women for the stupid stuff that they do and instead praise them for the stupid stuff that they do?

True, Octomon had this much-ballyhooed thing called "CHOICE" that Broadsheet often talks about but seeing as how she's a woman we need to blame someone else. Blame society. The doctor. The Patriarchy. The nearest man in the room.

Their toxic influence is what knocked this pristine maiden off her pedestal and float-down the river of non-agency.

If you're ever in my neck o' of the woods, ya drink for free all night.

Yes: SARAH PALIN.

Because, by failing to be a staunch pro-choicer, she has become something closer to a man and therefore no longer enjoys the Broadsheet Bleeding-Heart treatment to which Octomom is entitled.

But if Octomon were to say that she thinks abortion brings-up moral problems, BS would turn on a dime. Presto- the good mother becomes a moronic baby-factory.

You mean to say that TCF has written about abortion again?

Knock me over with a feather! That is SO not utterly predictable and obsessive.