Lives in a Shoe

Camille Paglia -- Empowerment Feminist

Just started her new book. "Free Women Free Men".  

Happy to hear from her again.

Toronto Sun:

Her ideas didn’t sit well with other feminist icons like Gloria Steinem. Numerous turf wars ensued over the years but Paglia stood her ground, never getting swayed by the trends.

Another thing that still riles the feminist establishment is that the Bernie Sanders-supporting lesbian never bought into victimhood.

Paglia’s always been an empowerment feminist, actually wanting women to succeed instead of finding meaning through wallowing in victimhood.

“The demarcation of certain groups for special protection, later extended to gender and sexual orientation, split them from the general populace by defining them as permanent victims, burdened by an inescapable past,” she writes.

Woman Builds Home By Watching YouTube Tutorials

Though she had no previous experience in construction or architecture, Brookins found a series of YouTube tutorials on building a home and got to work.

Over the course of nine months, Brookins worked tirelessly with the help of her four children to build a new home for themselves.

 

American Sharia

A doctor explains:

Around the world, more than 200 million infants and girls are mutilated by female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Most are cut between infancy and age 15, but women up to age 49 have been thus mutilated. The World Health Organization defines four categories of (FGM/C): 1. clitirodectomy alone; 2. excision (of a considerably wide variation of female genital tissue); 3. infibulation—literally a form of “sealing” (excising the entire clitoris and labia and stitching together the edges of the vulva to prevent sexual intercourse).

The fourth category is for those FGM/C victims who are mutilated beyond even the above classifications.

Women Is Losers

On This ‘Day Without a Woman,’ Don’t Leave Women Oppressed by Sharia Law Behind

Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  Nice calm article -- read the whole thing. 

Too many feminists in the West are reluctant to condemn cultural practices that clearly harm women.

The problems being protested against Wednesday—inequality,   vulnerability to discrimination, sexual harassment, and job insecurity—are all too real for many disadvantaged women, but the legal protections for them are in place here in the United States. Women who are unfairly treated at work or discriminated against can stand up, speak out, protest in the streets, and take legal action...

Too many feminists in the West are reluctant to condemn cultural practices that clearly harm women—female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage, marital rape, and honor violence, particularly in non-Western societies. Women’s rights are universal, and such practices cannot be accepted.

 

 

Nordstrom Dropping Ivanka's Line

I'm not buying the official explanation, but what do I know?  

The change followed a weeks-long boycott campaign, organized by an anti-Trump activist group called “Grab Your Wallet.” The group demanded the department-store giant cease doing business with the president or his family.

In a statement, the Nordstrom representative said that Ivanka Trump products were being dropped because of poor sales. Its statement did not mention the group’s boycott effort.

Law professor (recently retired) Ann Althouse sees it this way:

The woman must be destroyed.

A woman with a business is subject to special rules. Political rules. And if she does not hew to them, she must be destroyed. By a gang of women. You know how women help women? They don't. They expect women to hit a higher standard. Backwards in high heels. And if she looks pretty dancing backwards in those high heels, we'll actively trip her and laugh when she falls.

But in case you've forgotten:

IN THE COMMENTS: Greg said: "I just checked, Ivanka's stuff is available on Amazon, free delivery for most items via prime. Maybe Althouse could show her some love." Good idea!

Here are: Ivanka Trump Baby Emma Ballerina Flat, the Ivanka Trump Women's Tamine3 Pointed Toe Flat, and an Ivanka Trump Women's Elbow Sleeve Fit and Flare Sweater Dress, and an Ivanka Trump Women's Sweater with Jewels.

I'm Too Sexy for My Shirt

A recently published study in the Journal of Public Economics concludes that the attractiveness of a candidate does correlate with their politics. They find that politicians on the right are more good looking in Europe, the United States and Australia.

The science is settled.  
Conservatives really are better looking, research says.

You don't want to be a science denier, do you?

Where Is the Outrage?

 

Women, if you’re selling something new on eBay, you’ll make more money if you get a male friend to sell it, according to a new study.

The findings, published Friday in the Journal Science Advances, revealed that on average, women make about 80 cents for every dollar a man does when selling the identical new product. The gender gap is much less acute on used goods, with women making 97 cents for every dollar on the same product sold by a man.

The More Things Change, the More They Stay The Same

Gloria Steinem, interviewed by Bill Maher, indicates young women support Bernie so they can meet boys.  "The boys are with Bernie."

  

 

Sauce for the Goose?

“Every American that is physically qualified should register for the draft,” said Neller, who had requested but was denied exclusions of women in some Marine combat jobs.

and -- Bill introduced requiring women to register.