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The funny (but not so funny) thing about this is that Rush Limbaugh has literally said something along the same vein: "If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable?"

With Olympia Snowe's surprise vote this week during the passing of the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform legislation, conservative pundits are taking any sexist shots they can at a woman with power who, like, uses it. Media Matters has a good round up, which are pretty ridiculous:

Savage dubs Snowe "Jezebel." After airing a clip of Snowe discussing her vote, Savage played a portion of the song "Jezebel" by Frankie Laine that included the lyrics, "If ever the devil was born without a pair of horns, it was you. Jezebel, it was you." Savage added, "Jezebel is Olympia Snowe. Of course she has thrown over with the turncoats who have stabbed America in the back, dragging us into a socialized medical system against the will of the majority of the American people." [Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation, 10/13/09]

Limbaugh: The "voice of the new castrati, those who have lost all manhood, gonads, guts, and courage" applaud Snowe for health care reform support. Anticipating that Snowe was "going to vote yes" on the Finance Committee's health care reform bill, Limbaugh attacked Snowe by praising the "bipartisanship" of the bill using "the voice of the new castrati." Limbaugh described the "new castrati" as "those who have lost all manhood, gonads, guts, and courage throughout our culture and our political system." Limbaugh has previously described the "new castrati" as supporters of Hillary Clinton. [Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, 10/13/09]

Not to mention Jim Quinn dedicated the Garbage song, "Stupid Girl" to Snowe and Limbaugh referred to Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins by saying, "'Women, damn it.'"

And I doubt this is the end of it. Misogynists, damn it.

Adam Serwer at Tapped lets us know that Rush Limbaugh will be a judge for the Miss America Contest. "[I]t seems to me that when looking for the judge of a beauty contest sexism may be more of a feature than a bug...Someone who laments the 'chickification' of American culture probably enjoys a ritual that puts women -- how would the RNC put it -- 'in their place,'" Serwer writes.

The Daily Mail considers the health implications of the evolving female body size.

Dan Brown, "transgendering" is not a word. You suck.

Rush Limbaugh acts like the crazy nut he is and says we should return to racially segregated buses.

To add to the list of really screwed up things about our current health care system, a previous c-section can be considered a pre-existing condition.

The National Women's Law Center has more on the health care reform bill released by Senator Baucus yesterday.

A leaked iPhone commercial spoof that shows you how to stalk your ex.

It looks like Senator Kennedy's death might just be a rallying cry to pass health care reform.

A jury in West Virginia found a man guilty of raping a number of sex workers. The things said about sex workers by the defense were horrific, and I'm thankful they agreed that non-consensual sex is rape, regardless of your profession.

Microsoft is caught in a huge race FAIL, when they were found to have photoshopped an image on their website--to change the race of the man in question.

Angered about what is happening to Caster Semenya? Sign National Sexuality Resource Center's petition asking officials to stay out her pants. Courtesy of community blogger h.buck.

This Saturday marks the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Melissa Harris-Lacewell and James Perry have some thoughts on what they call our "Katrina Nation."

Check out this great cartoon, All Things Being Equal from Indexed.

Metro Weekly, the local DC LGBTQ newspaper, screws up royally in their headline's reference to a trans woman.

Rush Limbaugh is worried about keeping his penis.

Welcome to our newest series! During the third season of Mad Men Feministing writers will offer some of our thoughts on feminist moments, scenes, and themes in the new episodes in order to start a discussion about these topics in our community. *WARNING: Lots of spoilers follow.

The opening dream-like sequence

I was struck in the opening moments of the episode by the intense sexism that defines Dick Whitman's back-story and the degree to which Don Draper seems to be aware of this. Here is a man who is a proud misogynist, yet the past he rejects is shaped by the treatment of women as objects for sexual pleasure and reproduction, patterns Don has repeated. --Jos

Previous flashbacks for Don have often revolved around his father and a sort of hyper-masculine cruelty and neglect. These flashbacks were really centered around the women of his past, childbirth, bodies, and, as Jos said, sexism. I wonder if this is setting the tone for a shift in some of this season's "births." --Courtney

Betty says of Sally, "She's taken to your tools like a little lesbian."

From the beginning the show signals this season will deal with shifting gender roles as well as homosexuality. Betty's joking did not downplay the fact that she sees Sally's use of a hammer as aberrant behavior. --Jos

I actually wondered about Betty's comment, was it anachronistic? I got the impression from previous seasons that homosexuality is perceived as a perversion, not really as lifestyle/sexuality. (Remember when the Russian guy at Sterling Cooper guy who comes out is called a pervert by folks around the office?) And therefore it would be weird for Betty to reference it so casually. But maybe I'm wrong. I need some schooling from a gay-rights historian! --Ann

I was sort of thrown off by Betty's joke as well. There was certainly an edge to it, but even the fact that she would joke about it made it seem less pathological than I had thought it might sit in her mind at this time, in this place. --Courtney

I totally felt like it seemed anachronistic too. But maybe, like Jos said, it's more of an indicator of what this season will be bringing to the table in addressing gender roles and homosexuality. Perhaps they're looking to show changes in attitudes and some progression as the show moves forward through time - between Betty's comment, Sal finally getting a little booty and Don not outing Sal. (Though not that much time has actually gone by in the show...) --Vanessa

Via Media Matters, I wasn't shocked to find that Rush Limbaugh was happy to mock the White House appointment of Adviser on Violence Against Women Lynn Rosenthal, but felt it necessary to point out his thoughts on what one who occupies the appointment would advise: "Put some ice on it."

It's a domestic violence adviser. What the hell kind of advice are you gonna get? About the only kind of advice - I mean we're talking about democrats here, right? We're talking about the party of Bill Clinton. So I assume If you're going to have a domestic policy adviser, the advice you're gonna get - put some ice on it. Your lip's a little bleeding and swollen - put some ice on it, as you leave the swanky motel room.

Domestic violence, domestic policy, same shit. Read the whole transcript after the jump; his complete inability to make sense shines through.

Note: A reader pointed out that this comment was meant to be a reference to Bill Clinton's allegation of rape against Juanita Broderick, in which in her story, she said Clinton told her to put ice on her swollen lip after the alleged attack.

Dave Letterman made a bad joke. Here is him talking about it.

Whoops, bad joke and a PR fail as he will lose to the angry antis that are ready to cry sexism on their ideal future of feminism, her majesty Ms. Palin. Yes, I think it is funny that people who clearly do not support full human rights for women, decry sexist jokes. That said, his jokes were in bad taste at best. Megan at Jezebel writes,

David Letterman's "jokes" about Palin's daughters -- which, as Rachel Sklar pointed out today, Barack Obama suggested people stop doing last September -- struck me last week as pathetic and gross. Just because he said it was supposedly about Bristol -- you know, 'cause she's obviously "slutty" or something -- doesn't make it ok. Just because you don't like Sarah Palin or think she's using it to score political points with her base doesn't excuse the jokes in retrospect. On this point, Anna and I vociferously disagree -- I think it's pretty easy to defend Sarah Palin because I don't want those jokes told about the Obama girls; because I've commented repeatedly on how shitty it was when Rush Limbaugh and John McCain made them about Chelsea Clinton; and because I come from a family and a background where you just don't stand for people insulting your family or your friends. Maybe she's playing it up -- she is, after all, a politician and every politician is going to try for a homer on an easy pitch like Letterman handed her -- and maybe she's pissed (the fact that Todd Palin said anything after months of basically being told to keep his trap shut is, to me, telling) that Letterman went there, sexually with her daughters. Either way, I still think it's gross and indefensible.

I have no problem saying that Sarah Palin is a jerk because of her politics, yet I don't think it is OK to make sexist jokes about her or her daughters. Amanda Hess does a good job deconstructing the following debate between Huffington Post's Katharine Zaleski and the Washington Times' Amanda Carpenter discussing Letterman's joke.

Letterman apologized last night and while I think Letterman's jokes were in poor taste, let's not forget that Palin's actual stance that has been legislated and made into policy is far worse. Does this make joking about her or her daughters OK? Definitely not. But watching those two women duke it out, I think it is so interesting listening to conservative women use feminist talking points. It is smart and calculated and plays so well into the often rudimentary understanding Americans have about the fight for women's rights.

I was shocked to find out that Wanda Sykes was asked to give a speech at the White House Correspondent's Dinner this past weekend, but was excited nonetheless. She was hilarious, as was Barack Obama himself. The WHCD has a long tradition of giving really edgy speeches that dig into the president, his administration and whatever else strikes the fancy of the comedians that are asked to speak. Let's remember last year's speech from Stephen Colbert.

In the second part of Wanda's speech (first part here), she dug into our least favorite conservative pundit of all time, Rush Limbaugh. She says,

"Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails, so you're saying, 'I hope America fails', you're, like, 'I dont care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq'. He just wants the country to fail. To me, that's treason.

"He's not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight."

"Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs."

Naturally, conservatives are up in arms about her joke. Which is ironic considering she is a comedienne and so her job is to say things that are edgy and controversial. We hold Rush Limbaugh accountable for his actions because he is considered legitimate conservative thought and is very important to the GOP. I mean we might think he is an entertainer, but he definitely does not. But Wanda? Wanda makes us laugh, unless she is intentionally trying not to and making a statement. Conservative pundits say whatever they want about liberals, calling us socialists, US haters, mocking us. I guess it is no wonder that wing-nuts are up in arms because while their pundits sound like they are making jokes they are actually being serious.

Take this video for example via Natthedem when Tucker Carlson freely admits that he was comparing Osama bin Laden to Howard Dean. He was being serious.

Obama has included the Medicaid family-planning provision (which, you'll recall, was stripped from the stimulus package) in his proposed budget. Good news all around!

The attacks on women in Bangalore have not stopped.

The new Health and Human Services head is... Kathleen Sebelius, formerly governor of Kansas. (More on Sebelius here and here.)

Emergen-C perpetuates the advertising trope of using a person of color to represent "flavor."

On Beyonce's "Single Ladies" and the church.

The Valentine's Day episode of This American Life featured a moving segment on transgender children. After reading several articles (of varying quality) on the lives of trans kids, there was something about listening to them directly that was really powerful.

Two women have become judges in Islamic courts in the West Bank.

Oh, the irony: Cosmo wonders why women are so quick to bare their boobs.

In Seattle, a 15-year-old girl was beaten by police while in detention. (Trigger warning.)

A new film is a fictionalized version of femicide in Juarez.

Will the stimulus package deliver much-needed economic help to Native Americans?

The Onion hilariously turns the young-Asian-woman fetish on its head.

Bitch has the goods on a new reality show, set at a British finishing school for girls.

The military honors the first all-African-American, all-female unit to serve overseas in World War II.

Rush Limbaugh tries to move up the misogyny ladder as a Nice Guy TM.

Belgin Celik, a transwoman, is running for office in Turkey.

Renee on homelessness, ownership, and dignity.

The mayor of Los Alamitos, CA actually made a "watermelons at the White House" joke. He has now said he's going to resign.

Is fascination with the exotic Other the same as the racism and the colonial conquest of yore?

Hilarious Antibreastfeeding Bingo.

At a town hall meeting last week, Henrietta Hughes bravely stood up in front of the room full of people to ask the president for help for those like herself who are unemployed and forced to live in their car. She said:

"I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and I to live in. The housing authority has two years' waiting lists, and we need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help."

Via Feministe, we find that her question resulted in an assault by conservative pundits, and it's truly enough to make one sick. Michelle Malkin was the biggest bully, snarkily saying:

If she had more time, she probably would have remembered to ask Obama to fill up her gas tank, too... Well, pardon my unbending belief in fairness and personal responsibility, but why should my tax dollars go to feed the housing entitlement beast?

Um, I don't know about you, but this "housing entitlement beast" i.e. homelessness is a pretty damn good cause to care about and put our money toward. Of course Rush Limbaugh jumped in as well, falsely saying that she "ask[ed] for a car," with others contending that she's "using the system." It's stories like this that exposes just how truly disgusting the likes of Malkin and Limbaugh are.

Womanist Musings has more.

I am glad that Obama said something about Rush Limbaugh. I know it is usually "classier" to ignore someone as ridiculous as Limbaugh, but as myself and others have reminded readers before, Limbaugh has a pretty serious following and while I am sure a percentage of his listenership is for shits and giggles, I think it is telling that he has so much support. I do believe that he is considered right-wing thought leadership, which I think further highlights the need for the right-wing to reassess what types of thought they support. But I digress, these two gems really take the cake.

The first is that he hopes that Obama fails and secondly, he made the sexist statement that if you want pregnancy rates to go to down to post a picture of Pelosi in your bedroom. His "bully in the schoolyard" speak is not political punditry, it is frat-boy-esque humor and shows that he has no arguments left that actually counter logic. Someone needs to let him know it is the era of the nerd! We prefer evidence and science to prove the things that wing-nuts bullshit and evangelize.

House Minority leader Boehner is at it again, only this time him, along with his conservative colleagues, are suggesting that since the stimulus bill has a section about state coverage of family planning, this somehow translates to, "hundreds of millions on contraceptives." The actual text published originally at Think Progress reads,

State Option to Cover Family Planning Services. Under current law, the Secretary has the authority under section 1115 of the Social Security Act to grant waivers to states to allow them to cover family planning services and supplies to low-income women who are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid. The bill would give states the option to provide such coverage without obtaining a waiver. States could continue to use the existing waiver authority if they preferred.

As Pelosi explained, covering family planning services will actually reduce costs in the state since it will increase the effectiveness with which states can address the needs of their residents, along with bypassing excess administration. It appears that one of the main differences in what is considered effective cost cutting between the right and the left is that the right believes that just denying those that "haven't worked hard enough to deserve it" will save the economy, where as it is seems liberals recognize the governments responsibility in providing for its people in the most efficient way possible.

Pelosi's comments were grossly misinterpreted as suggesting that, "birth control will help the economy" and Rush Limbaugh even had the audacity to suggest that if we want to keep pregnancy rates down to, "post a picture of Pelosi in every motel room in America," but more on that later. Apparently, the GOP is hanging on to every last argument they can, no matter how banal and imprecise. It is clear that state spending on family planning services not only save the state money and time, but have greater long-term benefits for the health of our people.

UPDATE: Obama might drop funds for family planning from the economic stimulus package. Argh!.

I hate Rush Limbaugh. This isn't news, I mean he is an asshole. But I love that he is so angry about Colin Powell's historic decision to support Barack Obama, exclaiming that it is "ABOUT RACE." Powell has bore the brunt of the racism of the Republican right for a long time, from being called "well-spoken" to having his race ignored or having to pretend he wasn't a person of color for the benefit of the party. I have frequently disagreed with his perspectives and policies, however, I was *very* moved by his public endorsement of Obama.

I understand that Powell has to say he is not endorsing Obama because of race. I understand that is what Chris Rock has said, what many public black men have had to say. Because they have to pretend to be color blind. Because racism in this country is so deep, so entrenched that as people of color we have to ignore it and can only call it out in polite and really obvious ways. If we get too angry or speak out we are divisive. And if we endorse a candidate because he is black, well then *we* are the racist ones.

So of course Rush is screaming Powell's endorsement is about race. He noticed that there is a shot that a black man might make it to the presidency which is a direct threat to old white male power (as subtle as it is going to be) and Rush has taken himself to the task of exposing us libruls as the racists that we are.

See, calling someone a traitor because they chose to support a candidate because they agree with his politics, thinks that his own party is using bad tactics and because he is the same race, well that makes him a racist, not a well reasoned human being. And making images like this one, well that is just political expression. Not racism.

UPDATE: After thinking about this a little bit more and before the link thread spirals out of control about how we should support Palin because she is a woman...I think it is important to state the obvious. This is not a competition between what is a more compelling reason to vote, gender or race. They are both things to consider and it helps that Obama has politics that I or most feminists do support therefore gaining the support of most feminists. However, I didn't support Powell when he was considering running for President and would have voted against him even if it meant voting for someone white instead.

The point however is that whether Powell says it is for race or not, he is going to have it thrown in his face in a way that a white conservative supporter would not. That is the way racism functions, you are damned if you do, damned if you don't. There is a specific type of anger that Powell's endorsement is unleashing that is tied to white power and control and it is interesting to watch it play out.

...and, for good measure, criticizes feminists for decrying violence against women.

On his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh said,

Obama's patriotism is not being attacked in an ad. McCain's just out there saying he's putting his own personal political ambition ahead of the country's. It's -- you know, it's just -- it's just we can't hit the girl. I don't care how far feminism's saying, you can't hit the girl, and you can't -- you can't criticize the little black man-child. You just can't do it, 'cause it's just not right. It's not fair. He's such a victim.

Ah yes, those ridiculous feminists trying to convince the American people that domestic violence is a bad thing -- even if she was asking for it. And that ridiculous media, daring to publish anything favorable about a black man.

I can't say I'm surprised, though. It's Limbaugh.

Seems like an appropriate moment to republish Samhita's "fuck you" to Limbaugh:

Check out this gem from Media Matters:

On the August 12 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh said of former Sen. John Edwards' recent disclosure of an extramarital affair: "I've got a theory about the motivations..."It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk." Limbaugh went on to say in a subsequent segment: "my theory that I just explained to you about why -- you know, what could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk."

You know because chatty smart bitches make for limp dicks.

I'd like to suggest that Rush check this out.

Inspired by a ten page article about Rush in NYTimes Magazine, I figured this was FU worthy. Rush has been spewing crap since I was a wee one and his frequently unfounded and baseless arguments are clearly constructed to be controversial, but actually affects public opinion. This is scary.

(I know I need to get a real camera.)

Thanks to George for the link.

Moon Duchin, a 1993 Westinghouse finalist, is one cool woman. After Duchin's success in high school, she went on to Harvard to study math and kick some patriarchal ass:

[B]ut even as she pursued a fairly traditional track for a promising young mathematician, she was becoming suspicious of the traditional great "Men of Mathematics" (to quote a famous book title) concept. "Does it hinge on specific people or is it inevitable it will come out that way?" she asks. The Great Man model of a genius working alone in his garret "started to seem like it was obscuring some of the important community aspects of mathematics, and like it was controlling who would even think to enter the field," she says. Duchin stuck it out because of her 7-year-old dream and "adolescent stubbornness," but "it wasn't always easy to see my way through. Meanwhile, I'd picked up an enduring interest in cultural practices and philosophical issues in science."

So at Harvard, Duchin wound up double majoring in math and women's studies. She did a mathematics research thesis, and also one for the women's studies department looking at "Why the notion of genius is so attractive with thinking about math and how it functions, and what it does to math as a field," she says. "Lots of people think this is a non-social field—would math come out differently in a society with a different social organization?" While she's not trying to debunk the existence of genius ("there really are people you meet in math and you learn about who just synthesize things in ways that other people don't have access to with any investment of time"), the Great Man theory "definitely stilts the narrative. A real intellectual history is harder to do but it illuminates the math very differently."

Oh, and if that isn't enough to win you over - Rush Limbaugh once called her a feminist ringleader in one of his trademark rants. Hot.

Thanks to David for the story!

Limbaugh should get back to being an oxycotin addict because this bullshit that is somehow marketed as political punditry is disgusting. You would think when are you talking about the women's movement or the civil rights movement you might want to do *some* research as to what were our guiding principles, along with some understanding of our wins.

First listen.

No wonder right-wing pundits say such ignorant things about what they perceive as identity based voting. They don't know anything about it-which could turn into our advantage. I would give a more thorough response to his actual comments, but I am too busy convincing women to get abortions.

I think Rush Limbaugh owes it to us to STFU.

via M-pyre.

Thanks to Karlos for the link.

January
We saw Nancy Pelosi sworn in as the first female Speaker of the House, and watched Hillary Rodham Clinton announce her candidacy for president. Predictably, rampant sexism ensued.

We learned about Purity Balls for dudes, where -- surprise! -- they don't tell boys their self-worth depends on virginity.

Rush Limbaugh and Tony Snow went all feminist police on our asses.

February
Drew Gilpin Faust was named the first woman president of Harvard.

After Camel introduced cigarettes marketed toward women, we wondered: Will the cancer be pink, too?

The Bush administration threatened to axe the budget of the Office on Violence Against Women.

A DePauw University sorority dismissed 23 sisters for being "socially awkward" -- aka overweight, black, Korean, or Vietnamese. Classy. (The sorority was ousted from campus shortly thereafter.)

A Florida town was so embarrassed by the actual name for the female anatomy that it performed the "Hoohah Monologues."

Texas Governor Rick Perry made HPV vaccination mandatory.

March
Bush appointed crazy anti-choicer "Dr." resigned.

We marked the gray rape".

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that businesses don't have to cover your pills.

We were disgusted by America's Next Top Dead Model. And Dolce and Gabbana pulled its offensive "fantasy rape" ads.

We reminded everyone that it's not ok to make death threats toward feminist bloggers.

The Brooklyn Museum opened a wing dedicated to feminist art.

Texas officially put a price on motherhood: $500.

April
We noted that guys doing housework should be standard practice, not something dubbed "porn for women."

We watched the Duke rape case wind down.

Girls Gone Wild douchebag Joe Francis was ordered to do jail time.

Don Imus made his infamous "nappy-headed hos" comment about the Rutgers women's basketball team.

The Supreme Court upheld the federal law said it all. Leslee Unruh reveled in the shopping-spree-like ecstasy.

Jessica's Full Frontal Feminism hit bookstore shelves! So did Courtney Martin's Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters.

We were honored by Choice USA!

We created a feminist "gang sign."

The Supreme Court said it's totally cool with gender discrimination at work.

May
We tackled patriarchy, violence, and honor killings.

We gently reminded the mainstream media that feminism is not to blame for girls "going wild."

We gently reminded the mainstream media that feminism is not to blame for girls "going wild."

Fashion mags found yet another body part for you to feel insecure about. And we decried the latest in "designer genitalia."

June
We got another reminder that street harassment and catcalls are in fact a big deal.

Jessica rocked the Colbert Report.

Israel partnered with Maxim to "improve" its image by publishing photos of half-naked former Israeli Defense Forces soldiers.

July
We were once again grossed out by Real Dolls, this time by a documentary. Even Ryan Gosling couldn't really take the creepy out of this trend.

Courtney launched her Not Oprah's Book Club feature.

We called out the modesty movement's appropriation of feminism.

Jane magazine went belly up. Luckily, Jezebel was there to take its place.

We pointed out that that dancing girls in bikinis do not equal compelling political discourse.

We noted how race and culture factor into the wedding-industrial complex.

Birth control prices kept going up and up and up.

August

Ohio told women they may have to ask the father's permission to have an abortion.

We recoiled in horror at the concept of "Christian Domestic Discipline."

New York City considered banning the word "bitch."

The Air Force charged a woman with her own rape.

We found out Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offers a bachelor's degree in ladylike submission.

We celebrated the first anniversary of prescription-free Plan B.

Julia Serano railed against the sexualization of transpeople's motives.

September
We debunked the bullshit concept of a "reverse glass ceiling."

We posted (belatedly) on the Jena 6.

Security guards at a school in upstate New York pulled girls from class to ask if they're menstruating.

Southwest becomes the official airline of Dawn Eden and Wendy Shalit.

Lactivists in 30 states held protests at Applebee's restaurants.

We fought for the new Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora, Ill.

October
A teenage girl was beaten, expelled and arrested for dropping a piece of cake in the school lunchroom.

We laughed at the idea of hymens as bling.

November
We noted that 30 years of the Hyde Amendment is way, way too many.

We stopped avoiding the issue of porn.

We asked people to use grown-up terms for the female anatomy, not words like "vajayjay."

We demanded that male politicians stop playing the gender card.

Don Imus returned to the airwaves.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed Congress -- without gender identity protections.

We defended our logo

Jessica gave us a sneak peek of her second book.

Anti-choicers attempted to define a fertilized egg as a person.

We won a Bloggers' Choice Award for Best Political Blog!

December
Wal-Mart tells girls their honey pot is their money pot -- but later stops selling the offensive panties!

R.I.P.
We mourned the deaths of activist Yolanda King, writer Molly Ivins, Pakistani minister Zil-e-Huma Usman, Jamaican diplomat Angela King, author Madeleine L'Engle, The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, civil rights hero Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, feminist health pioneer Lorraine Rothman, former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

Offensive Quotes of the Year
“She got what she wanted. She’s an overtly sexual person.�
-- Defense attorney Al Stokke, whose client, a cop from Irvine, CA, ejaculated on a woman (who happened to work as a stripper) during a routine traffic stop.

"You don't get there when you're young," he said. "There's a considerable amount of lag time."
--Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, after being asked why the Court has just one female justice.

"By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape."
--Anti-feminist Phyllis Shlafly

"I like lesbians, but they shouldn't be allowed to run for king."
-- Erich Logan, 18, on the first transgender high school student to run for prom king.

"I think 'rape and incest' is a buzzword."
-- South Dakota state Rep. Joel Dykstra

"If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen."
-- Right-wing hack Ann Coulter

"If you believe abortion, if you believe that doesn't affect you... I contend it affects you in immigration. If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 40 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it."
-- Disgraced former Rep. Tom DeLay, speaking to college Republicans.

"I'm not, like, a crazy feminist. I think women definitely need men. Like, I couldn't imagine having a girlfriend!"
-- Hilary Duff

"Do you find it difficult to debate a woman?"
-- MSNBC's Chris Matthews, to Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd

"I love when my laundry gets so clean/ Taking care of my home is a dream, dream, dream!"
-- The Rose Petal Cottage advertising jingle