New website and new Femailings out for winter!

Very exciting news: Womaen’s Caucus has a new website up and excellent. Stop by in your next internet exploration: www.womaenscaucus.org.

Then you can stay warm and cozy with the wise, womaenly words of your favorite faithful feminists! The new edition of Femailings, our seasonal newsletter, is posted over at the Femailings section of this blog site. The theme of this issue is Women’s Ministries.

Curl up with some hot tea and a toasty laptop, read away, and pop back over here to post your comments about what you think.  We always want to hear from you!

Where have you gone, NPR?

On January 30th on All Things Considered, Democratic Strategist Dan Payne said, “There isn’t really a place for the white male to find a candidate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. All you have to do is look at them and see they’re not like white men.” Hear this commentary at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18549097

This comment is blatently racist and sexist, in that it assumes white men have no good option now that there are no white men in the race. Since the sufferage movement won the right of women to vote, women have voted for white men. Since the drives to register black voters in the 1960’s and before, black men and women have voted for white men. The idea that white men don’t have a candidate to vote for now in the democratic party is patently absurd! The second sentence of this comment gets even worse, in its assertion that women and black men and women are completely different types of human beings than white men, and by implication, are substandard. You don’t often hear such blatant discrimination stated on NPR, and I would urge them and anyone else considering hiring Dan Payne to reconsider.
Carla