“I’m not saying that Fox News panders to tribally myopic reactionary people, but... ”

The sad part is that a lot of women in patriarchal social environments get a lot more social advantage out of expressing anti-feminist sentiments than they do for expressing feminist sentiments, and expressing feminist sentiments may actually cause them to suffer censure. A women employed in front of a camera on a…

Their attempt to impose a dress code is a token fig leaf. “We want people to think we are doing something about this, but we don’t want to actually have to do anything that requires change on our part.”

It is like the ancient motto of House Jezebel, “MRAs are coming.”

I feel like we ought to send the National Guard into these states to escort all the women out of there as the refugees of a brutal regressive regime determined to strip them of their human rights.

According to ancient Romanians, there is only one explanation for being so flush with blood:

Actually, the Biblical prohibition is not against lying in general, so much as bearing false witness, which is a more particular and damaging sort of lie. It basically means “Don’t make nasty shit up about other people to make them suffer under judgement.”

The people sharing these videos seem to be saying, “See how outrageous this is!?” then proceeding to get more outraged when others respond with a “Meh.”

Their arguments do not have to hold water, they just have to rationalize a position the people they are appealing to already passionately hold.

Those have proven very popular with all ages, even teenagers. Go figure.

Menage a 3 illustrates that well:

There are a couple of (speculative on my part) reasons for this. Primarily, because a lot of the producers of that kind of porn assume their target demographic is skeezy guys. The kind of guy who suffers from that horrible combination of entitlement and self-esteem issues that lead to him feeling left out of the gains…

Unfortunately yes, but not on the basis of the persuasiveness (or lack thereof) of their arguments. There are a lot of people who were already chomping at the bit to get into a furor of backlash against abortion providers in general and Planned Parenthood in particular. These snake oil salesmen do not have to be…

The same reason they tell people to choose Jesus: either accept the authority of our wisdom or burn in hell.

Well, everything IS bigger in Texas, which unfortunately sometimes includes the crazy.

It would be like a government that calls itself the “People’s Democratic Republic of Equality and Freedom”. The name alone is just too blanket in its positive assertions that you instantly suspect it is up to no good.

He also has staffers do softball pre-interviews with potential guests as rehearsal, then pass Bill the crib notes. They use this to screen out guests who might challenge Bill too much, and also to give him time to prep to try and tear their arguments down without opportunity for rebuttal.

Ever since the 80s, it has been common practice of anti-feminists to appropriate feminist language in order to undermine it. Reducing women’s agency is couched under the auspices of protecting them, equality is assumed as a given so they can ignore the ways in which reality does not match the aspiration, and the…

There is one of those image macros that went around, a chart comparing how each department in game development saw all departments, including themselves, illustrated with little pictures. The QA department’s self-image was that of the Justice League.

I have been reading Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Falundi (I know, I know, over two decades late to that particular party) and one of the observations that seems to have been born out by history is that this kind of bullshit is cyclical. It happens in response to any feminist gains, or…