Modest and Misogynist

In her serialized advice column, "Miss Manners" peddles her antiquated advice on matters of money, marriage, and restaurant etiquette. In today's set, a letter-writer wondered whether she was "too conservative in [her] fashion tastes when [she saw] women [her] own age dressed in the revealing styles that younger women have adopted." She explains that the particular fashion that bothers her is the lack of bras "hindering many women."

Miss Manners, who speaks in the third person as a part of her Victorian shtick, writes back: "[s]he assures you that the bad taste you observe has nothing whatsoever to do with claiming an equal right to run around with no underwear."

First off, honey, bra-burning feminists are a myth that exists only in your bonnet-clad head. That being said, feminism and bra-wearing are mutually-exclusive. There are just as many bra-clad, angsty, shaved-head radicals as there are turtle-necked, bra-less God-fearing women. Women's liberation is as "fully dressed" as it is naked. And, unlike some, it has enough confidence in it's appearance and attire to speak in the first person.

"Mights" and "Coulds" Fill a New Indiana Bill

Indiana lawmakers are proposing a bill that require doctors to tell women considering abortions that "Life begins at conception, and a fetus could feel pain during an abortion."

"This decision is a life decision, and many people who have abortions never forget they had an abortion...So I think we ought to help them as much as we can before as opposed to afterward."

"Help" them? Help them do what? Convert to your patriarchal, religious views? While I support giving any patient an exhaustive amount of information about any medical procedure, I prefer my pamphlets to have a little less propaganda.

News Flash: 14% of Female Facebook Voters Buy into Patriarchal Myths, 34% of Men Help Propagate Them

The Question (from Facebook "Debate Groups", where users can vote in polls about the presidential nominees and the election:

Can a woman president be as effective as a man?

The Answer:

December 6th

Today is the bitter 18th anniversary of "the Montreal massacre", when Marc Lépine open-fired at a class of female engineering students at the École Polytechnique in Montreal. Lépine killed 14 of the students as he yelled out "I hate feminists!" among other spurts of anti-women banter.

December 6th is now Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, but that doesn't mean only Canadians can reflect. Today is as good of a day as any to reflect on the misogynistic violence that occurs in our everyday lives, and what we can do to stop it.