One of the tricky parts about Blogging While Feminist is deciding which issues are worth tackling. Some days, it's far too tempting to be sidetracked by outrage...or the outrageous.

Other times, it's not so hard at all.

Submitted for your examination: Jesse Lee Peterson.

He’s a minister of… Read full post »

If you need proof to confirm campaign silly season is already in full flower, look no further than the Massachusetts Senate race.

Incumbent Scott Brown has jumped with glee on a Boston Herald report last week that his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, had listed herself as &l… Read full post »

"We might as well own it, right?"

This is the new battle cry of Sluts Across America, a crowdsourcing website that wants to take the steaming cowpies dropped by Rush Limbaugh and his fellow travelers and form a "collective voice of the women and men in this country/… Read full post »

The trial of confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik had barely gotten underway in Oslo when debate erupted over the media's coverage of the event. 

Press turnout was impressive. Some 800 reporters were on hand for the opening day; pool video coverage of most of/… Read full post »

In late February, Helen Thomas wrote a letter to the board of the White House Correspondents Association.

"As the first woman president to preside over the WHCA, and one of a few women who were instrumental in successfully convincing President Kennedy to boycott the dinner, it is very import… Read full post »

For days, he was nameless. Staff Sargent X. 

Without a name, he was an abstraction:  A rogue U.S. soldier who walked out of his base in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, March 11 and, it is alleged, systematically gunned down 16 Afghan civilians, the majority of them women and small… Read full post »

After weeks of debate over personhood, Planned Parenthood funding, transvaginal ultrasounds, fetal pain, Fluke-fest, aspirin-between-the-knees, and the little matter of 130,000 economically disadvantaged Texas women losing access to basic health care starting today, discussions about the accessibilit… Read full post »

Just as Rush Limbaugh has his many detractors, he has his many supporters, and almost in a chorus, those supporters have spent the last couple of days arguing that the other side says horrible things about women, too, but never seem to face this kind of tidal wave of public criticism./… Read full post »

Until his advertisers began departing in droves over the weekend, one imagines that Rush Limbaugh was having the time of his life.

His verbal attacks on Georgetown University law student and reproductive rights activist Sandra Fluke brought him the sort of attention he loves, the kind of ou… Read full post »

Let's pause for a moment to reflect on this past week in American Womanhood.

All over this great nation of ours, legislators are hard at work giving a clump of sub-microscopic cells that may or may not ever develop into a baby the same legal rights as a full human… Read full post »

With the presidential race looking like an un-dramatic Obama-Romney plod to November, the most memorable thing about Election 2012 may turn out to be anything but the candidates.

Instead, it seems poised to go down as The Year of the Super PAC.

Look the figures: Through last week, independent… Read full post »

When all the ballots were counted on Saturday, the Stephen Colbert-Herman Cain Train walked away with 6,324 votes, giving them a fifth place finish with about 1.1% of the total vote. While that is forty times the votes for Cain over his non-Colbert affiliated New Hampshire tally (according to Ba… Read full post »

Newt Gingrich is exploring the possibility of taking his battle to get his name on the Virginia primary ballot to the courts after failing to submit the required number of valid signatures ahead of the December 22 ballot - an event his national campaign director Michael Krull, with seemingly no sense… Read full post »

Namibia has a population of 1.8 million - about the same as Kansas City - and one… Read full post »

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign and again during the bruising battle for health insurance reform, one of Barack Obama’s oft-told anecdotes was of his dying mother’s struggle with insurance in the final months of her life.

It was a story that came up in almost every… Read full post »

Rumor has it that New York City prosecutors are preparing to drop the charges against the now-former IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Last week, officials went to court to loosen the tight restrictions placed on Strauss-Kahn during a bail proceeding last month, citing new evidence that his accuser,… Read full post »

“What if nutritionists came up with a miracle cure for childhood malnutrition? A protein-rich substance that doesn’t require refrigeration? One that is free and is available even in remote towns like this one in Niger w… Read full post »

In the spring of 1865, assassin John Wilkes Booth was cornered by Union troops in a Virginia tobacco barn and shot dead. His body was loaded onto a ship and taken back to Washington, autopsied and incontrovertibly identified on the basis of a ragged neck scar and a… Read full post »

The White House today released President Barack Obama’s “long form” Certificate of Live Birth from the State of Hawaii, asserting that he was indeed born at the Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu at 7:24 pm on August 4, 1961

The release of this document w… Read full post »

I met Geraldine Ferraro, just once and just briefly, at a political event in January, 2008.

She looked amazingly like she had twenty-five years earlier on the platform of the Moscone Center, when she had first flitted across my 12-year old consciousness: tiny but fierce, smart but approachable. She… Read full post »

As the bombs began falling on Tripoli this weekend, a cry was heard on blogs and op-ed pages and chat shows throughout the land: the President Barack Obama had been -- for want of a better phrase -- pussy-whipped into war by three women.

The emerging storyline is that Secretary of… Read full post »