The case against.  "Cally's death is an example of a worrisome trend: The main female characters are all dying, dead, or not human. Ellen, Sharon, D'Anna, and Tory Foster—all strong female characters, have all turned out to be Cylons, and Starbuck was recently revealed as a half...

George Bush was not exactly a philosopher-king. But one thing he reportedly did honestly struggle with was the executive order dealing with stem cell research. Not so Barack Obama . Today he was “excited� to sign the executive order which will reverse Bush's order and “vigorously� put the fe...

Well, you have to forgive me because I was busy making cinnamon buns and transplanting my petunias into bigger pots! I am a woman, I celebrate that fact every single day, not just one day a year! We females have it made. We contribute so much by being moms, wives, volunteers and career women, all wr...

[Post contains spoilers for Dollhouse episode 4, unrelated to the serial plot. THERE ARE SPOILERS IN COMMENTS.] Hey Joss Whedon, Mr Feminist Icon dude, can I have a word in your shell-like? There are fields of endeavour in which the vast majority of the experts are women. Those women possess knowled...

Rain and Thunder has kindly made this interview available for us to share with you. You may also download it as a PDF (33KB). Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of...

Influential nun calls for 'non-violent resistance' against Vatican apostolic visitation   Mar. 4, 2009 (CWNews.com) - An influential American nun has called for "non-violent resistance" against a Vatican investigation of women's religious orders. In an email message to co...

"But I know that if I were Rihanna, and I saw both the active and passive support for Chris Brown, I’d probably have a hard time leaving him, too.  I’d fear---for a really good, solid reason---that leaving him and taking on the “victimâ€� label would mean that my phone calls would s...

While actual environmentalists look at the drought for an opportunity to increase conservation efforts, graywater recycling, drought-tolerant homes, etc., others are using the drought as an opportunity to push un-eco projects : Those who would like to build new reservoirs and canals and to weaken en...

If Obama is appointing Governor Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of Health and Human Services , why not her political patron Tiller the Killer for Surgeon General? Governor Sebelius is one of those “personally against� pro-choicers. Sebelius wrote when vetoing a pro-life measure in 2006: "My Cath...

grrr. while reading around, trying to understand the contours of the feminist blowout in bloglandia brownfemipower mentioned, i happened across a couple of posts and comments talking about some earlier blowout as to why sean bell was or was not a feminist issue. i didn’t read every post and co...