During the final debate between John McCain and Barack Obama at Long Island’s Hofstra University moderator Bob Schieffer asked about the abased tone of the campaign, and the GOP contender made this cryptic, inside baseball reference: “In fact, some T-shirts that are very… unacceptable.”
What T-shirts? McCain never says. And unless you watch FOX News or regularly read political Web sites, you would not know what the heck he’s taking about.
Unacceptable? The Stiletto is perplexed and dismayed that McCain has never defended the honor of his running mate, who has been …

Marilyn Fitterman, a former head of NOW NY, responded to a recent post on Kitty Genovese and Sarah Palin.  In her widely circulated email, Fitterman gives the following observations of Gov. Palin:
“She is being treated by the media in the way all women have come to expect from time immemorial.  More to the point, Sarah Palin is collaborating with the patriarchy.”
In other words, Marilyn believes that women should NOT speak out and defend Gov. Palin.  After all, Gov. Palin doesn’t believe in the same policies as Marilyn (although, Marilyn, you …

Like a social club with “Whites Only” posted over the entryway, the Catholic Church’s continued refusal to ordain women to the priesthood seems both archaic and atonishingly bigoted.
The New York Times reports that Catholic women marched on the Vatican on Wednesday, during a synod of 253 bishops from around the world, in order to protest women’s exclusion from the priesthood, but the Vatican doesn’t yet show any inclination to back down from centuries of gender-descrimination that holds the priesthood to be the sole province of men.
In May, the Vatican insisted …

The creator of the “Drill Baby Drill” pro-rape rap video is named Ezra Stead. He’s a film student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, working on an Associate Degree.
Ezra Stead works as a cashier at the Riverview Theater, 3800 42nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406. Phone: 612-729-7360.
Ezra Stead’s email (stedrazed333@yahoo.com)
Note: all information came from the MySpace page of the individual in question.

Witnessing the horrific treatment of Senator Clinton during the 2008 Presidential Primary, many women of this country joined forces and said: “Never again!”
The sexist treatment of Senator Clinton has been credited by some for the reawakening of feminism in our country. Amanda Fortini wrote an article for the New York Magazine in April 2008 titled: “The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the Fourth Wave”; Lisa Wangsness wrote an article for The Boston Globe in August 2008 titled: “Clinton’s Journey Awakens a New Women’s Movement”; and …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sheri Tag is the host of the very popular No We Won’t on BlogTalkRadio. She called into The New Agenda’s radio show Monday night to share this list with us. It speaks volumes.
Extremes of Sexism – Same ResultsHillarySarahHillary is cold.Sarah is hot.No man would ever want to have sex with Hillary.Men want to have sex with Sarah.Men are afraid Hillary will castrate them.Men don’t fear for their private parts around Sarah.Hillary has too much Washington experience.Sarah does not have enough Washington experience.Hillary has too much …

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, thinks the MSM is being too kind to Gov. Sarah Palin and her performance in the veep debate with Sen. Joe Biden: “[M]uch of the media saw a credible performance. …  In effect, columnists, bloggers, talk-show hosts and digital lamplighters everywhere have adopted the ethic of the political consultant: what works, works. It did not matter what Palin said. It only mattered how she said it …”
Contrary to Cohen’s assertions, a new poll by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that Americans …

The following image appeared on a supporter’s page at Obama’s campaign site. It has since been replaced with something innocuous, but the Google cache remains.

Ben Smith writes:
One of their [the t-shirts'] creators, emailing under the name Rhiannon Volpe, objected to my suggestion that she was a Democrat:

“I personally am a registered Libertarian, supporting Obama this year. Palin is the last woman I want to hold a political office right now. Her lack of common sense, cruel treatment to animals, and just plain ignorance to what we (Americans, and even women) …

Are you sick and tired of women bashing other women?
C’mon, ladies:
Issues are fair game. Sexist or other degrading attacks are not!
The New Agenda plans to speak out against these personal attacks.
We’re starting a new initiative…
CALL IT OUT
BOO: When we observe women making personal attacks on another woman, we will call her out and provide her email address for all of us to contact her and ask her to stop!

YEAH: When we see a woman agree or disagree based (appropriately) on issues, we will also speak out to commend her.

Our …

A fireside chat with Ophelia.
Can we talk?
Are you sick of these lying politicians? Are you tired of picking up the newspaper just to find more vile personal insults of female politicians? Are you worried about the economy and furious that we’re in this mess? Are you so angry and upset you could SCREAM?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are hardly alone. The country is going through a real rough patch and we need to be there for one another.
Enter Ophelia.
Ophelia is here to listen and understand …