While I’m on the subject of women, a bunch of Stitchin’ Sedition knitters in Portland Oregon got really pissed off and put together this website to counteract the effort of the Bushites to try to claim that “W is for Women.”
Hee. Hee. They have a whole lot of pointy sticks and they’re not going to take it anymore, they say. They’re compiling a list of all the things that “W” really stands for in Bush country. If you’ve got some good ones, let them know.
(Got this from b!X. Now there’s a son a feminist mom can be proud of!)

Over at Blog Sisters Brooke Biggs asks for input about what we women have been doing wrong in trying to change our country’s policies — 200 words or less. Well, I couldn’t do it in even twice that many. But here it is, anyway:
It was 1975 and the first Stepford Wives movie had just come out, Ms Magazine was three years old, the book Fascinating Womanhood was getting big play, and the Vietnam War had just ended. I was a vocal feminist, a disgruntled housewife, a struggling mother, a war-protestor, and I thought that Gloria Steinham should rule the world.
Along with thousands of other women, I marched and argued for women