Tag Archives: Sexism

Child Spy Rats Out English Teacher

The child spy tip line in Virginia received a complaint about how a teacher was teaching “Beowulf.” Meanwhile, a Texas school has banned Neil Gaiman’s works.

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Kesey, Spokesman for Reactionary Men

“One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” anticipates rightwing attacks on women and people of color.

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Chaucer Was No Sexist or Anti-Semite

In which I agree with a recent article defending Chaucer against charges of sexism and anti-Semitism.

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Elizabeth Warren, Like Eve, Persists

It was four years ago when McConnell said about Sen. Warren, “Still she persisted.” Milton’s Eve also persisted but the comparisons end there.

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Who Gets to Be Called “Dr.”?

Alexandra Petri satirizes a dismissal of Jill Biden’s doctorate by imagining herself as Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

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The Woman Who Refused to Be Still

Dickinson’s “They shut me up in prose” captures the narratives that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to fight through–and help other women to break down.

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Elizabeth Warren, Lucille Clifton

Elizabeth Warren withdrew from the race yesterday. Her upbeat spirit can be found in the poetry of Lucille Clifton.

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St. Paul, St. Thecla, and the Wife of Bath

The Wife of Bath threads between visions of marriage articulated by St. Paul. In the process, she articulates a far more spiritual vision than that propagated by misogynist monks of the period.

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Atwood’s Circe vs. Brett Kavanaugh

Monday The contrast between an accommodating Christine Blasey Ford and an exploding Brett Kavanaugh is indelibly printed on my mind and may be the major thing I take away from the hearings. That white privileged men can use anger to assert dominance while women and people of color must speak in measured tones has become […]

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