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  • And if he or one of his surrogates were on MTP while Marin was hosting, she'd ask that question and push until we got a real answer or they were exposed as just another fauxgressive who doesn't give a rats ass about women's rights.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • And if he or one of his surrogates were on MTP while Marin was hosting, she'd ask that question and push until we got a real answer or they were exposed as just another fauxgressive who doesn't give a rats ass about women's rights.

    Why "Meet the Press" Needs Carol Marin 2008

  • There is the idea that somehow because someone is gay, or lesbian that one is necessarily more liberal, or leftist in their thought process; however the fauxgressive nature of the movement is immediately evident when one examines the power structure behind the organizing drives.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Renee 2009

  • Dan is just the kind of edgy fauxgressive that the media loves to embrace.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Renee 2009

  • King pre 1963 are the same ones that expect us to believe the utopian lie of equality and sit in silence while they push the fauxgressive agenda.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Renee 2009

  • To paraphrase Melissa McEwan, if you take misogynist pot-shots at conservative women, you're a fauxgressive, not a progressive

    Sarah Palin goes to Seneca Falls « Knitting Clio 2009

  • I am not comforted by shrill denials, or fauxgressive thought; the reality of living as a racialized body in a White world means a life of continual “othering”.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Renee 2009

  • Excellent take down on the way fauxgressive media uses lesbian love to say that they are cool with teh gay, as long as it is temporary and done to satisfy the male gaze.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Renee 2009

  • “Family Guy” is not about complexity; it is about taking the -isms that people normally confront while using ironic fauxgressive humour to challenge stereotypes.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Renee 2009

  • They scream of the fauxgressive liberalism that has become enfranchised in leftist discourse.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Renee 2009

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