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I’ll dismiss anything particularly pointless. But I also enjoy the taste of troll meat, so there’s that. ;)

Many of my arch-conservative friends keep complaining about the “liberal” media falsely attacking Carson, while simultaneously complaining about how that same supposedly liberal media always giving Clinton a free pass. Reality. What a concept.

(Troll, dude. Check the comment history. Please dismiss his inevitable replies to you instead of letting him take over this comment section, too.)

This story involves three massively shitty things:

Yup. That’s me in the red bandana. When I sneeze, glitter comes out.

Holy shit. That was my fat ass grabbing shoes with my friend. Pic on the right, red bandanna. We were on a special mission for the Krewe of Muses, that fellow NOLA residents would fully comprehend.

...does this little guy randomly say “klaatu... barata ... *coughcoughcough*”?

The Shoe Rampage Women are most likely are in Muses and were buying shoes to glitter in time for Mardi Gras.

The crazy shoe ladies were probably collecting them to be painted for the Muses parade. Arguably one of the best throws during Mardi Gras. Google “Muses shoe”

“Then there is the inequality of the policy. The wealthy have always been able to have as many children as they wanted. They simply had to pay a fine to have extra children.”

Seriously. One of the ways Klan members were exposed as the clowns they are was by confronting and challenging them in public forums.

Nicely said. Many of us don’t remember as clearly the incredible and very pervasive sexism that some of these women experienced (not that we don’t experience it now—we do, but it was much, much worse then). But, their fear of male domination has clouded their understanding that EVERYONE is harmed by patriarchy, not…

1. Greer is not a feminist, she’s a counterculturalist,

It’s an interesting topic, and I honestly do understand some old guard feminists, who fought so hard against the constrictive boxes society trapped women in, being freaked out by someone seemingly blithely waltzing up and saying “The feminine hormones/structures in my brain want me to wear pink ruffles!”*

Her mistake is disallowing for the transgender experience of being female. Yes, Bruce Jenner enjoyed a life of white male privilege for many decades. So, yes, Greer is 100% correct that he has no frame of reference to what it means to be female for most women.

This analogy is entirely too simplistic. It would be like having a Grand Dragon of the KKK that was at one point the loudest and most articulate opponent of slavery come to speak, and if you think that is a debate not worth having, I think you are wrong. Why can we not dismantle her arguments in the public square? Are…

The Female Eunuch was a good book for its time, and I’ve always enjoyed Germaine Greer’s love of pushing buttons being outrageous. But, you know, she wasn’t really one of the top-tier thinkers of the second wave, and thankfully we’ve moved long beyond most of that era anyway.

Two thoughts: