It’s Never Just a Joke
To dismiss is the point of such remarks. It’s a way of saying that women are less valuable and less interesting and less intelligent and less complicated than men. It’s a way of saying that women are less.
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Newspeak Doublthink 2018
Fox News host Laura Ingraham is all about the First Amendment these days. It’s kind of refreshing to see her shift her attentions from the Second Amendment, which was all she could talk about a couple of weeks ago when she lashed out at survivors of a mass shooting. Ingraham lobbed a vicious and irrelevant …
These Are Not Our Glory Days
When I wrote a blog post last week about comedians and athletes exercising their First Amendment rights, I had no idea that kneeling sports stars were poised to become the hottest topic of conversation in America. Thanks to our ranter-in-chief, it seems nearly everyone spent the weekend debating whether #TakeAKnee was an act of patriotism or …