Category Archives: criticisms of feminism

diamonds don't enslave women, women enslave women

Part of why I decided to blog again is because I had a back­log of stuff I wanted to write about. Here’s the first of that stuff. Let’s call this the begin­ning of a “Fem­i­nism Fri­day” series. An Engage­ment Ring Is a Deposit on a Wife This piece was writ­ten in response to a recent New

Stupak might reduce abortion insurance coverage, but not accessibility

From Fem­i­nist­ing: A new study from the George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity School of Pub­lic Health and Health Ser­vices reports that “the Stupak/Pitts Amend­ment will have an industry-wide effect, elim­i­nat­ing cov­er­age of med­ically indi­cated abor­tions over time for all women, not only those whose cov­er­age is derived through a health insur­ance exchange.” Brian at TPMDC writes: In

unintended consequences: Stupak Amendment & miscarriages edition

One of the most inter­est­ing things I have read about the Stu­pak Amend­ment is this: Will the Stu­pak Amend­ment Affect Insur­ance Cov­er­age for Mis­car­riages? I Think So Sadly, the author expe­ri­enced a mis­car­riage recently. In her case, as some­times hap­pens, the fetus had yet to be expelled. She was put in the dif­fi­cult posi­tion of either wait­ing

thoughts on NOW and the Stupak Amendment

Dis­claimer: I haven’t been fol­low­ing the health care stuff too closely, because it is exhaust­ing, but this par­tic­u­lar aspect inter­ests me. The National Orga­ni­za­tion for Women is very upset because the Stu­pak Amend­ment passed and is part of the health care bill that passed the house the other day. Accord­ing to the NYT, the Amend­ment “would

state control of abortion: funding, or failing to provide?

I am gen­uinely con­fused by this recent Fem­i­niste post, Michele Bach­mann: rad­i­cal pro-choice fem­i­nist? The author offers two pieces of infor­ma­tion that she seems to believe are con­tra­dic­tory. 1. A quote by Michele Bach­mann: “That’s why peo­ple need to con­tinue to go to the town halls, con­tinue to melt the phone lines of their lib­eral

feminism, abortion and universal health care

So, I’ve been warm­ing up on this blog for a while now, so I fig­ure it’s time to start link­ing to other blogs that I read. Today’s sub­ject is a post over at Fem­i­niste, “one of the old­est fem­i­nist blogs designed by and run by women from the ground up.” Just as back­ground, let me