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DOMA Update: Woman's Deportation On Hold

Posted on March 28, 2011
Because of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prevents the federal government from recognizing all marriages that are not between one man and one woman, US Citizenship and Immigration Services will not recognize same-sex marriages for green card purposes...

Anti-Feminist Quote of the Day: On "Woman"

Posted on March 25, 2011
Celebrating Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker's new anti-feminist tome The Flipside of Feminism, Rebecca Hagelin opines in The Washington Times: "The American woman wants to be married; to care for her own children, instead of sending them to day care; and prefers to work part time rather than the long hours of C-suite executives...

Leaves!

Posted on March 24, 2011
Today I'm going to take a break from political blogging (and on a Thursday of all days!) and post what I think is one of the most endearing coming-out revelations portrayed on television. From Grey's Anatomy, we have Erica Hahn, MD, newly-realized Alpha Lesbian...

"Mere Unwillingness"

Posted on March 23, 2011
[TW: Graphic descriptions of sexual assault from a court case; violence]A while back, I noted how the media often points out the gender of female judges and prosecutors in sex crimes cases. By noting the gender, the media implies that it is a relevant factor in the case...

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Man Food, Again

Posted on March 22, 2011
Are you kidding me with this book? It's called: Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys Product Description (I shit you not. Also, emphasis in original.): "Civilize the wild beasts in your life, one meal at a time." From Publisher's Weekly: "Television host and Martha Stewart Living's Executive Food Director, Quinn forays into the tricky world of feeding men with this colorful volume, awash in Stewart's clean, classy and crowd-pleasing aesthetic...

Schwyzer: On Men Opting Out Of Competition

Posted on March 21, 2011
In February, Rachel Hale became the first girl to win a Vermont state championship in wrestling. 6,000 girls wrestle across the country, most of them competing against boys. Hale's win came after a boy in Iowa refused to wrestle his female competitor in the state tournament, saying: "I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy and Megan and their accomplishments...

Fun Fact of the Day

Posted on March 18, 2011
Technically, it is illegal to be anonymously and intentionally annoying on internet. The Communications Decency Act, which states in relevant part that anyone who communicates across state lines and who: "makes a telephone call or utilizes a telecommunications device, whether or not conversation or communication ensues, without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person at the called number or who receives the communications...

Sally Kern Takes Christian Persecution Complex Up a Notch

Posted on March 17, 2011
[TW: Gratuitous reference to violence] This book is apparently going to be a real thing in the real world. In case you don't feel like clicking over, it's called The Stoning of Sally Kern: The liberal attack on Christian conservatism- and why we must take a standGah, I know, right? In it, we're to learn how Kern's receipt of criticism for saying homosexuality is "deadly" and "the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam" is indistinguishable from a brutal form of execution by torture...

Mere Tolerance

Posted on March 16, 2011
Over at Religion Dispatches, Cody J. Sanders, a Baptist minister and PhD student in Pastoral Theology and Counseling, explores the issue of tolerance. What I appreciate about this piece is that he questions the notion that tolerance (as opposed to affirmation) is a benign alternative, compared to Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church, for Christians to deal with homosexuality and gay people...

Good Men Project Presents MRAs. Part II

Posted on March 15, 2011
[See also, Part I, and commenting guidelines at the end of this post]Because of interactions like those that I referred to yesterday, and the resounding silence of MRAs who might disagree with some of the more vocal, aggresive adherents of the movement, the GMP exploration of the MRA movement left me with the impression that the movement displays a lack of discipline, rage, entitlement to act out that rage, misogyny, misandry, and sloppiness, at least when they are given a non-MRA forum to present their case...

Good Men Project Presents MRAs. Part I

Posted on March 14, 2011
[TW: Misogyny; Threats; Hate speech; See also- commenting guidelines at end of piece]The somewhat pro-feminist Good Men Project (GMP) recently ran a series of articles about the Men's Rights Activist/Advocate (MRA) movement, featuring articles written from varying points of view...

Marriage Debate Fail

Posted on March 11, 2011
Some more low-hanging fruit (and I don't like to even send traffic toward this "marriage defense" blog so for reals think twice about clicking), but let's address one of my fave insular comments that those who only pay attention to "their side" of the so-called homosexualist culture wars...

Today's FYI

Posted on March 10, 2011
"My daddy left home when I was three And he didn't leave much to ma and me Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid But the meanest thing that he ever did Was before he left, he went and named me Sue...

Egypt: Leaving Women Behind

Posted on March 10, 2011
I'm not an expert in gender politics in Egypt, but this is disappointing:"Throughout the uprising, women were at the forefront of the street protests. However, they have largely kept quiet about their gender rights in a country where they have faced rampant discrimination and received little legal protection against widespread violence and sexual abuse...

Anti-Feminist Quote of the Day

Posted on March 09, 2011
Via the Washington Times, some guy took the time out his day to write a letter to the editor, mansplaining*: "It would appear that today?s feminists are greatly bothered by the looks of conservative women, who just so happen to be pro-life. It?s as if they look at Sarah Palin and her 'Mama Grizzlies' as betraying their distorted version of feminism...

Whose Rights?

Posted on March 08, 2011
[TW: Gender policing]Timothy Kincaid at gay blog Box Turtle Bulletin doesn't appreciate how some in the LGBT community are going about trying to win "his" gay rights. Of a protest for marriage equality involving drag queens and led by Queer Rising in Manhattan, he writes: "...

"Mark Cuban, Charlie Sheen In Talks"

Posted on March 07, 2011
Of course they are: "'You've got somebody that everybody has a whole lot of interest in who's doing some interesting things, to say the least, and we always look for interesting programming by featuring interesting people doing interesting things,' Cuban said before the Mavericks' game against the Memphis Grizzlies...

Robert Knight Gets So Serious About DOMA

Posted on March 07, 2011
[TW: Homophobia]Reacting to the US Department of Justice's recent decision to stop defending DOMA, Robert Knight, who boasts of having helped write a first draft of the law, "takes off his gloves." I guess he needed to take them off so he could peck out a little temper tantrum with as minimal typos as possible...

Slippery Slopes Made Of Straw and Wet Noodles and... Innuendo.. and Yeah!

Posted on March 04, 2011
It's sloppy posts like this that make me question whether Maggie Gallagher's sincere whenever she says she's just a nice a gal who doesn't hate gay people or anything, she just doesn't think they "have the right to redefine marriage for all of us."In a post at her National Organization for [Heterosexual] Marriage blog, faster than a disgruntled flight attendant can pop open brewski and slip down the evacuation slide, she asks: "After SSM: What Next? In San Fran, banning circumcision...

A Conversation With Vyckie Garrison, Part II

Posted on March 03, 2011
[Today's post is a continuation of my conversation with Vyckie Garrison, a former follower of the fundamentalist Quiverfull Movement. Part I can be read here.]TW: This post recounts religious manipulation/abuse and domestic violence. Fannie: As someone who has rejected Christianity (and other organized religions) for their male-centric and male supremacist views (among other things), your discussion in another interview about how patriarchal religions enshrine "the supreme importance of males" really resonated with me...

Of Mirrors and Men

Posted on March 02, 2011
So, there was that Kay Hymnowitz "Where Have All the Good Men Gone?" article, its most notable success being that it has somehow managed to piss of both misogynists and feminists all over internet. In the article, she argues that now that "pre-adult" ladies are "the first sex," "pre-adult" men have no motivation to grow up...

A Conversation With Vyckie Garrison, Part I

Posted on March 01, 2011
[Vyckie Garrison is a former follower of the fundamentalist Quiverfull Movement, where women shun all forms of birth control and remain obedient to "God" and men. For some background on this movement and of Garrison herself, you can read this Salon article and her website, No Longer Quivering...

But... Girls?.... Playing Baseball?

Posted on February 28, 2011
Justine Siegel has become the first woman to pitch batting practice in a Major League Baseball spring training camp. Siegel, 36, has coached baseball at both the professional and collegiate level. Although it is common for men to coach women's sports teams, it is still rare for women to coach men's teams...

On DOMA and Review

Posted on February 25, 2011
As you might have heard, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the law that denies same-sex couples all of the federal benefits, rights, and privileges of marriage, even if they're legally married in, say, Iowa...

And They Say Feminists Hate Men

Posted on February 24, 2011
An adoption charity in the UK is encouraging same-sex couples and single people to consider adoption, as "[d]ata from the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) shows that only 25% of children with hopes of being adopted ever find a family...

E Pluribus Christian

Posted on February 23, 2011
OMFG, is Bryan Fischer of the conservative Christian group American Family Association serious

Best Anti-Gay Comment Ever!

Posted on February 22, 2011
I suppose it's low-hanging fruit. Whatever, don't judge. It's rotten, there's lots of it, and if you don't pick it, it stinks shit up.This one's from some guy named Mark, commenting on some same-sex marriage article:"Here is the definition of marriage 'equality' for those who can't or just plain don't want to comprehend its' meaning...

"Silvio Berlusconi trial to be presided over three women judges"

Posted on February 21, 2011
Or, you know, just three judges. Which is also how the headline about Italy PM Silvio Berlusconi's trial for abuse of office and paying for an underage prostitute could have read. I guess we are to infer something about the gender of the judges, something we are rarely, if ever, urged to infer when men preside over the trials of sex crimes...

Bisexuality in TV/Film

Posted on February 18, 2011
In response to speculation that one of the male characters on his show will "turn out to be bisexual," Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy has clarified: ''Blaine is NOT bi. He is gay, and will always be gay. I think it's very important to young kids that they know this character is one of them...

"Near Tigers In the Zoo" and Other Narratives

Posted on February 17, 2011
[TW: Sexual assault, harassment]From msnbc, 14 current and former members of the US military are suing the Pentagon for allegedly ignoring sexual harassment and rape claims: "The lawsuit alleges that the Pentagon has failed to crack down on the sexist culture of the military services or implemented policies that would insure aggressive investigations of those accused and bar retaliation against service members who file complaints...

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