“Single-Sex Education”: I do not think this phrase means what you think it means

Remember how, a year ago, I wrote this big long rant about teachers in my state using “single-sex” or “sex-segregated” education when they really meant “gender-based” education?  If so, great, I’m back on it.  If not, here’s that post.
Basically, my main contention was that single-sex education and gender-based education are NOT THE SAME THING.  Just because [...]

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Kyle Payne sentenced to six months in county jail!

Yay!  Yay!  Yay!!!
Stating that a major violation of trust had occurred, District Court Judge Don Courtney sentenced Iowa blogger and self-proclaimed male feminist Kyle Payne to serve time in the Buena Vista County Jail for invasion of privacy.
Payne received 360 days, with 180 days suspended on each of two counts of invasion of privacy, a [...]

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Tidbits

I am the number 2 misandrist on the ‘nets!
My favorite radfem forum — the IBTP Forum, where the MySpace blogger copied that passage from — has been shut down, and some of us are in the process of deciding what to do next.  It happened while I was doing the nasty. Hahaha, weird.
I’m going to [...]

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Anti-American Anti-Choicers

Nine Deuce, at Rage Against the Man-chine, called anti-choice activists anti-Americans today. And I’m inclined to agree with her.
In my beloved home state, Colorado, as I’ve reported here before, 20-year-old Kristi Burton and her pals at Colorado for Equal Rights have gathered over 130,000 signatures, ensuring that their proposal to define personhood as beginning [...]

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The very definition of patriarchy

The 24-year-old woman whose gang-rape was posted to YouTube for 600 views before it was taken down has been arrested on suspicion of “underage sex.”
The F-Word has more here, and they link to a slightly more detailed article here.
Most of the articles about this seem focused on excusing YouTube from criticism by explaining their reasons [...]

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