well said dawg. such a sad and needless thing. seems you can't feed those boys a clue with sugar or with spice.
Happy Holidays Dr. Dawg.
Great post. 
Merry Merry, Dr Dawg.
Great post.
Happy Holidays.
Thanks for that.
I suspect you are going to get a visit from runny as a reward.
Oh well.
Mark Collins is a queen.
...What?...What?
Great post Dawg as always.
I keep wondering how these so called progressive feminist denial asshats home lives are going.
Perhaps their wimmin folk are appropriately subservient to their lords and masters but somehow I think things on the home front have become a wee tad more complex.
That's of course contingent on whether they're allowed to know what their men folk are up to.
Thanks for that, Dr Dawg.
Thank you, Dr. Dawg. Dontcha know that tact is highly over-rated? 
Just what the Doctor ordered Thanks.
Merry Christmas to your & yours, Dr. Dawg.
Merry Christmas Dawg. And well said.
Feels good to "swear", doesn't it?
"And all that word means, dammit, is women striving for equality with men."
That's the definition of liberal feminism; that does not represent AT ALL other versions of feminism.
The real horror story is that the majority of the 'voters' for these blog awards are other bloggers! It's a freakin' popularity contest...but, you've chosen to hang with the cool kids, haven't you?!
The reasons that blogs have not achieved credibility as an alternative to MSM is because of this social networking, parade-like activity that I once was fooled by too.
Bloggers should be more focused on working together to reach a broader audience, not engaging in pseudo-social lives and self-congratulation.
It's a damn shame.
Part of this social networking, parade-like activity you refer to has led to a lot of solidarity and mutually-beneficial blogging activity, and I, for one, would have it no other way.
I pretty much agree with you on the feminism thing, though. Dismantling the patriarchy is more complex than women attempting to achieve equality with men.
Well said Dr. D, but there will always be a certain portion of the male population that can't deal with the equality issue. I worked for someone (a religious male) who told me, very clearly, that I should not be making what a male made for the same job (bookkeeping). Because ...are you ready... THAT'S THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE! (I don't work for him any more.)
I'm not a liberal. Neither was the fellow who wrote, "“Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.” I think there's more to "striving for equality" than legislation and individual rights and whatnot. But somehow the phrase, in all its hidden complexity, seems more concrete to me than "dismantling the patriarchy." The latter is a phrase that sounds portentous and revolutionary and really engaged, but no one here can tell me what it means, praxis-wise.
Am I in favour of "dismantling the patriarchy?" Damned straight. I'd like to get rid of capitalism, too. I'd like racism to be scraped away as well, and all of the other infections in the body politic. I'd like to reconstruct our social being, because nothing less will do. Yes, I have dreams. But for now, "striving for equality" seems a good place to get started, so long as we take a wide view of what that phrase actually means--and could mean.
And I see that Polly Jones continues to blog, despite its inherent parade-like uselessness. Seems she's running with the cool kids, too, and good for her. Happy solstice, everyone.
Good post, Dr. Dawg.
The story has been told in a number of places, but it lacks accuracy in some cases. You might mention to James Bow that he has the origins wrong, so much of his post is based on incorrect assumptions (I'm not registered there).
"The latter is a phrase that sounds portentous and revolutionary and really engaged, but no one here can tell me what it means, praxis-wise."
I will definitely concede that point.
Of course it is true that there are deeper transformations needed.
But if you are one of the people who have been facing brutal, up-front discrimination in their everyday lives, you know that you appreciate every "mere legislative" change along the way.
And if you've been fighting for deeper transformations for forty-plus years, you know that they're not coming tomorrow, so all those "mere liberal" advances mean a lot to real people in the here and now.
It seems to me that the only valid objection to a best feminist blog category was lost when the best activist and best GBLT categories were introduced. And further back with best conservative, best progressive, and best non partisan categories. There is no end of folks that would like to see their particular point of view eligible to receive an award.
Excellent post, Doc.
On a personal level, I've never thought about being a feminist, simply because I've never had the idea that women and men were not inherently equal. I shake my head in amazement that the issue of indoor plumbing versus outdoor plumbing is, in fact, an issue. That we still need for there to be feminists is a sad commentary on how many people are just not getting the idea that equality is a human right, and not up for discussion!
So...someone please start a feminist blogroll. And sign me up.
There is so much to be done; I just think it's a huge waste of time to even engage with the idiots who would lump feminist with GLBT and then have a 'best military blog'. And 'best blog citizen'. Oh geeze, let me guess who that might be...
Blah...
sorry...can't take it.
I'd missed that one, Polly. Best military blog, but no best feminist blog? I like to be restrained over here, but "ass-clown" is a word that comes unbidden to my mind. And the CBA "Ops" can distribute that as they will.
The proliferation of extraneous awards this year really makes one wonder whether the whole thing makes any sense any more. I mean, we could easily have the "Best Acadian Feminist African-Canadian" blog as soon as any of the other illigitimate spinoffs.
Or "best military blog." Or "best education blog."
Hey, wait! We have those. Seems "best feminist blog" is the only "illegitimate" one so far.
And illegitimate only because an radical right wing extremist said so and the Ops agreed. Really fair, huh?
Ti-Guy: I have a crown and you do not.
Merry Christmas, Dr, with a big woof!
Mark
Ottawa
Once again I have not been nominated..my tears fill rivers and all.
I suspect the answer to the absence of best "feminist" blog can be found in your own words Dawg: "And all that word means, dammit, is women striving for equality with men."
For the lefty folks running this gig "the striving is over", we have consensus, women are equal to men...anyone who disagrees is a denier.
Some of us might disagree but not at the risk of having good, sound, progressive males tell us to shut the fuck up and get with the program.
Of course women are equal to men, you fool! But women are not treated as equals in this culture!
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