One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a class and mothering parallel here: Middle-class women are afra...

Documents discovered in the Vatican Secret Archives prove that Pope Pius XII helped to save thousands of Jews during the Second World War and firmly opposed anti-Semitism before he became pope, it emerged this week. The 300 pages of documentation, posted online last week, suggest that Pius saved 80,...

This is hilarious, if you can forget for a moment that this man was President of the United States and that tens of millions of Americans probably still agree with him. But we're supposed to believe opposition to gay marriage has nothing to do with homophobia. Uh-huh. Via Andrew Sullivan. Here's a p...

Director : John Sturges Release Date : 23 October 1960 (USA) Genre : Western, Adventure, Drama Cast : Yul Brynner as Chris Adams, Eli Wallach as Calvera, Steve McQueen as Vin, Charles Bronson as Bernardo O’Reilly, Robert Vaughn as Lee, Brad Dexter as Harry Luck, James Coburn as Britt, Horst Bu...

Via commenter Fem at Ideologically Impure comes this rape story out of New Zealand. It’s hardly original, but it is an exemplar of the genre. Warm up your Rape Apologist Bingo cards (I think credit should go to Shakesville for this, but I can’t find the original). This one’s heavy ...

This video is a couple years old, but it makes a worthy point for those of us who sometimes get weary of hearing how foolish and vile we are when we are accused of these things by people who don’t even know us. Click here to view the embedded video....

Eric Holder made a statement recently that has got the right wingers up in arms. "Though the nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder said. "Though race-related i...

We’ve done the other Bingos, and this one’s long overdue. With a nod to all the misogynist trolls out there who’ve provided the material for this card, I present: Antibreastfeeding Bingo! It’s focussed on public breastfeeding conversations, not “mommy wars” type c...

It seems the bigoted Senator thinks that gays are a bigger threat than terrorists: Sen. Chris Buttars: “Homosexuality will always be a sexual perversion. And you say that around here now and everybody goes nuts. But I don’t care.” [...] “They’re mean. They want to talk ...

Chris Rock gives you the basic rules for not getting your ass kicked by the police. Click here to view the embedded video....