Category Archives: Patriarchy

Michelle Duggar in Denial

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Michelle Duggar in Denial”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI keep saying that peak oil denial is the new climate change denial, but climate change denial was really just the new overpopulation denial. Authoritarian patriarchy refuses to accept physical limitations of Earth and … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Right Wing Rape Rationalizations

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Morning Awful: Right Wing Rape Rationalizations”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe more Republicans deny they are the party that hates women, the more they keep hating women. The latest is from Idaho, where the state’s new abortion ultrasound bill passed the senate: … Continue reading →

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Jeff Sessions Against My Mom

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Jeff Sessions Against My Mom”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIf Republican legislators have their way, Arizona women will no longer be able to use birth control without their employers’ permission. I wish I was making this up. House Bill 2625 mirrors the … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Santorum INGSOC Slogans

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Morning Awful: Santorum INGSOC Slogans”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Presidential contestant Rick Santorum yesterday at a rally in Ohio: “Freedom isn’t to do whatever you want to do, it’s to do what you ought to do.” Get that? Most of us … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Grandiose Old Patriarchy

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Morning Awful: Grandiose Old Patriarchy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The Republican Party has decided to double-down on its burgeoning war with women. Darrell Issa (R-Crazyland) held a hearing on “President Obama’s” contraception mandate (it was theirs before it was his) yesterday, … Continue reading →

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Back to the Future by Way of the French Revolution

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Back to the Future by Way of the French Revolution”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’ve remarked many times on the historical revisionism of right-wing theology and the implicit desire for a great rolling-backwards to re-fight every battle that reactionary conservatives have ever … Continue reading →

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Chris Matthews Is Out of Sync with the Rhythm Method

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “Chris Matthews Is Out of Sync with the Rhythm Method”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailChris Matthews and E J Dionne, who class themselves as liberal Catholics, sat down yesterday to discuss the new contraceptive ruling which has the Catholic Church’s knickers all … Continue reading →

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Gods of our Fathers

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Gods of our Fathers”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailGwynne Dyer’s excellent 1994 documentary series The Human Race: A Species at the Crossroads continues.

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Escaping From History

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Escaping From History”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailGwynne Dyer’s excellent 1994 documentary series The Human Race: A Species at the Crossroads continues.

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The Bomb Under the World

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “The Bomb Under the World”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailGwynne Dyer’s surprising documentary on patriarchy, militarism, and feminism starts this excellent 1994 documentary series, The Human Race: A Species at the Crossroads.

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Morning Awful: Santorum Wants Your Birth Control

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Morning Awful: Santorum Wants Your Birth Control”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailShortly before coming in a very close second in Iowa, arch-culture warrior Rick Santorum put his ignorance of Constitutional law on display for all to see. My favorite bit is at … Continue reading →

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