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I Blame The Patriarchy


Update from the spinster compound

At Thanksgiving I usually let some steam whistle through my kettle of disgust regarding the holiday’s shameless celebration of domination culture, but this year I’ll confine myself to...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: announcements, heartwarming nature crap, morsel institute, oppression culture, pre-recorded twisty
A Face in the Crowd

Heather Havrilesky has a quasi-jokey column that precisely illustrates the reasons for my long-held view that Oprah is the opiate of the (white middle class female) people. Yesterday, when word got...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 7 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: mass media, not altogether depressing, the entertainment industrial complex, the spinster's finger on the pulse of today
Funny sexism: harms outweigh benefits

The No Shit! Department at Spinster HQ brings you breaking news from 2007: Study shows that sexist jokes induce actual sexism! Two years ago psychology researcher Thomas E Ford et al authored a paper...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 7 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: men hate you, number 1 science information, oppression culture, the spinster's finger on the pulse of yesterday
American boobs used as political football, part 472

Regular readers know that, news-wise, CNN confuses me, and that I have all but kicked the NPR habit (it seems fantastic, but El Rancho Deluxe gets only one radio station, and it only plays one song:...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: crazy sexy cancer, men hate you, politics, the spinster's finger on the pulse of today, the megatheocorporatocracy
Spinster aunt has puerile episode

My sidekick Stingray is a professional wino. She can tell you the names of about 87 different species of fungus that grow on grapes. She speaks reverently of the Moldavian terroir. She goes around...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 2 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: easy persiflage, lobe-blowing, morsel institute
Same stupak, different day

I Blame the Patriarchy marches to the beat of a different news cycle, so this may be ancient history to you, but, Stupak! I propose that “stupak” be incorporated into common usage as a...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 2 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: compulsory pregnancy, men hate you, oppression culture, politics, rape culture
Raper’s Delight, Part 3

Remember back in December of 2005, when Canadian rapist Jan Luedecke got a free pass because his lawyers had successfully argued that their client’s “sexsomnia” is a legitimate...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 2 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: lobe-blowing, men hate you, rape culture
LubeWatch ‘09

Unidentified terrestrial object, September 2009. Fellow heartwarming nature crappists will recall that, although spinster aunts are closely related to mushrooms (in terms of a shared propensity to...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 2 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: art is my life, el rancho deluxe, femininity, heartwarming nature crap, keep your bias off my gender
Hugs, Twisty: Blaming now a recognized science

I Blame the Patriarchy has won an award! Dear Blog Owner, Our website Science.org is a informational databases and online news publication for anything and everything related to science and...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: hugs, twisty, magical mysteries from godtown, not altogether depressing, ways in which the internet is a hoot
Supercilious punctilio of the week

As has been well documented, I have exhibited gallantry and forbearance on this painful subject for years, but dammitjim I can be silent no longer! I Blame the Patriarchy is now officially a...

Started in I Blame The Patriarchy • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: announcements, blogulation, glossology, heartwarming nature crap
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