NRA allows national convention vendor to sell “ex-girlfriend” target

Yeah, those folks at the NRA are a classy bunch… In addition to making a mannequin target that looks like President Barack Obama, Zombie Industries sells a mannequin called simply “The Ex” — a large-breasted dummy that “bleeds” when shot.  

At the National Rifle Association convention in Houston over the weekend, Zombie Industries, the [...]

Salary Comparison: Bo Black vs. Don Smiley With a Side of Sexism?

I distinctly remember any number of brouhahas over the salaries commanded by a very will respected and very successful Bo Black during her years running Summerfest…but while her successor, Don Smiley, who has allowed attendance to drop although overseeing major improvements in the festival grounds, has been paid three times Ms. Black’s salary, not so [...]

The sexist spin on Hillary Clinton’s Senate testimony

I know I’m a couple of days behind on this, but Aviva Shen of ThinkProgress has a great post up highlighting the sexist coverage of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony during a Senate committee hearing on the Benghazi terror attacks last week,

In fact, here’s the Thursday morning cover of the New York Post, [...]

South Korea Elects a Woman President

South Korea elects their first woman president.

Meanwhile, fifty one percent of the population of the United States of America is female. After the November 2012 elections, we were nearly breaking our arms patting ourselves on the back for electing TWENTY women to the US Senate for the first time in history (there should [...]

What’s the Deal with Progressives and Sexism?

Two of my favorite liberal women talked with me about my earlier post: What’s the Deal with Progressives and Agism?

I was so tuned into the issue of agism in progressive politics, partly because I am of the generation of Americans being dissed, that I may have overlooked another issue entirely.

But it was pointed [...]

Domestic Violence and the GOP War on Women

In the wake of the Azana Salon & Spa shootings, the media around town published letters, articles and op-ed pieces asking “WHY”.

One particularly heartfelt question came from an area doctor via a letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Here’s the most pertinent question from the letter:

What is it about our [...]

So You Think You’ll Be Dirty Harry?

I have too recently written this article before…just after the Sikh Temple murders and the Aurora theater massacre.

But in the wake of the Brookfield Spa shootings, I have to do it again because the usual suspects again ran out their litany if IF ONLY. If only state legislatures didn’t permit property owners to [...]

Ignore the Binders, It’s the Real Truth Behind That Statement To Fear

Mitt Romney’s turn of phrase, Binders Full of Women, has become the meme from the second Presidential Debate. But all of the bloggers and wags and commenters have missed the real point buried in that statement.

Mr. Romney, after all of his years in college and business and running for governor, didn’t know any women [...]

Wisconsin legislator explains his “Some girls, they rape easy” comment

Ten months ago, Representative Roger Rivard (R-Rice Lake) made some alarming statements about sexual assault, but the story didn’t gain any traction at the time. Now it’s election season, post-Akin, and Rep. Rivard finds himself in a close race. He’s been forced to explain what he meant when he stated that “Some girls, they rape [...]

Once last word on Rep. Todd Akin

There has been enough press coverage on the Missouri Representative’s Dark Ages ideas on rape that I don’t need to reprise the issue again here on Blogging Blue.

But rather than this plank from the 2012 Republican Party Platform:

The Republican campaign platform denounces contraceptive education in schools. Instead, it advises kids to abstain from [...]