Suggested Summer Play In The Park? Lysistrata!

After presenting our summer reading suggestion, Cider House Rules, I thought it might be a good idea to suggest a play for 2022’s Play in the Park presenters. Time to put away those tired old Shakespearean chestnuts and go for the real classics: Lysistrata! and why? well, here’s the synopsis…

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Vice President Pence Has Absolutely No Respect For Women

just ask Susan Page (tonight’s moderator).

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Madeleine Albright: “There’s a special place in hell” for women who don’t support other women

I guess according to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when it comes to the 2016 Democratic presidential race women shouldn’t be able to make up their own minds on who to support – they should just reflexively support Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman. Hillary Clinton’s older feminist supporters…

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem and Style?

There is a marvelous article in today’s New York Times interviewing long time friends Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the face of American feminism and former editor of Ms. magazine, Gloria Steinem. I enjoyed reading it but felt it didn’t go anywhere near far enough in covering their…

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VIDEO: Emma Watson gives impassioned speech on feminism and gender to U.N.

This weekend actress and U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador. Emma Watson gave an impassioned speech on feminism and gender at the U.N. headquarters in New York to launch the “HeForShe” campaign which aims to galvanize one billion men and boys as advocates for ending the inequalities that women and girls face…

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SCOTUS Turn Their Own Decisions Into A Moving Target

Just days after opening a second front on the war on women, the Supreme Court of the United States back tracks on one of the alternatives they delineated in their Hobby Lobby decision. No really! Birth Control Order Deepens Divide Among Justices WASHINGTON — In a decision that drew an…

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Front page Hobby Lobby photo sends faux feminist message

When I originally saw this photograph, my response was a chuckle while shaking my head. But there is far more going on here than most of us realize. [and I have often complained about how the right ‘messages’ their positions while the left just doesn’t get it, and here’s a…

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Conversational Items

Conversational item #1: At age 64 Diana Nyad is the first swimmer to cross the Florida Straits without a shark cage. Yikes. But wow. Nyad swam for 53 hours from Havana to Key West. Wow again. An incredible feat for any human being, and an inspiration to all but especially…

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Nuns Are In And Priests Are Out

The Catholic Church has taken a lot of abuse lately, and for good reason. On the first day of February it was announced that retired LA Cardinal Roger Mohony would be stripped of his duties. Under his watch, an unprecedented number of children were sexually abused by various priests. Instead…

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Left Wing Extremist Republican Dies

RIP Betty Ford. Yes, Betty Ford spoke in favor of the Equal Rights amendment, and also in favor of legalized abortion. Perhaps there is no bolder sign of how far to the right the Republican Party has dragged itself than to look at the life of Betty Ford, once right…

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