Because coyotes are the real American cynics.

I think this is a succinct summary and agreeable conclusion regarding the whole RadFem thing.

A nice collection of Chesterton quotations.

(Interview with Egyptian anarchist discussing the military coup and Muslim Brotherhood.)

As I understand the "RadFem" position, it rejects gender (man/woman) as socially constructed and oppressive to those in the Woman role, but embraces sex (male/female) as real and seeks to create safe spaces for Females. Yet such a sex realism simply moves the gender essentialism, whereby gender is an inescapable consequence of "socialization" as informed by anatomy, to a further remove. Essentialism in sheep's clothing. The motivation behind the whole fruitless endeavor seems to be to exclude trans-women from female liberation movements.

RadFems hold that women who are male (by some ostensibly scientific standard, I guess, or by some less-than-scientific claims of "socialization") are members of an oppressive class. Which, on its face, is ridiculous in my view. Trans*-identifying people are one of the most marginalized and vulnerable segments of society, and any movement which considers them to be oppressive is highly suspect to me.

A reading list on the "Right to the City."

"The broader implications of this go beyond Brown; one might think that what we are looking at is Cointelpro 2.0—an outsourced surveillance state—but in fact it’s worse. One can’t help but infer that the US Department of Justice has become just another security contractor, working alongside the HBGarys and Stratfors on behalf of corporate bidders, with no sense at all for the justness of their actions; they are working to protect corporations and private security contractors and give them license to engage in disinformation campaigns against ordinary citizens and their advocacy groups."