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Forgive your blogstress, mes amis , for having neglected you for so long. Your cybertrix, of course, was off doing worthy things, such as attending the National Conference on Media Reform (thanks to a scholarship from the outstanding organization, Free Press, Inc.), getting marooned in the Atlanta airport for a day on her way back to DC from Minneapolis, and then doing a lot of sweating in her 100-plus-degree oppo factory, which happened to lose its air conditioning on the hottest day of the year. But now -- rejoice -- your Webwench returns with a new collaboration in The Huffington Post. In answer to Linda Hirshman's instruction to the feminist movement (something of a white woman's manifesto) that ran in the Outlook section of Sunday's Washington Post , Shireen Mitchell and your ecrivaine today responded with our defense of what has become known as "intersectionality." (Kinda sexy, non ?) To find out what that means, check us out in HuffPo: CLICK HERE TO RE...

It would be one thing if this nasty, racist old man took his show over to satellite radio, where people have to pay to hear his crap, but to have him return to public airwaves -- a public trust, owned by toi et moi , is truly a slap in the face to women and Americans of African descent. At 12:30, Jennifer Pozner of Women in Media and News will appear on the Fox News Channel to argue against any deal that would return Imus to the airwaves. And check out Maretta J. Short , president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), who has been on the front lines of the Imus wars since the multimillionaire bully tried to demean the accomplishments of the women's basketball team at Rutgers , the state university of New Jersey. CLICK HERE TO HEAR MARETTA SHORT TAKE DOWN IMUS

From guest blogger Catherine comes this point well made: It's a shame that in order for a women's collegiate athletic team to receive national attention they must first be subjected to derrogatory remarks. The NCAA Women's Basketball Championship game, in which the Rutgers women's basketball team played, did not make front page news in the sports section of The Washington Post prior to the game -- or in the days following the game. Perhaps if women athletes received the respect by the media that they deserve -- and that their male counterparts are generously given -- then Imus would not have made such remarks. Ironically, it took the insult of Imus' comments for the outstanding athletes on the Rutgers women's basketball team to have their photograph published on the front page of The Washington Post and to be interviewed on national television. Those who are infuriated by his remarks should be equally ouraged by the lack of respect shown to the women athletes i...

This morning, mes amis , the venerable Diane Rehm devoted her first hour to the Imus affair. Her guests were Clarence Page , syndicated columnist, Chicago Tribune ; Michael Meyers , executive director, New York Civil Rights Coalition; and Frank Ahrens , Washington Post radio reporter. Now, couldn't one of those African-American men been excused in order to make way for a black woman commentator? This is after all, a story, in the the words of Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer "about the degradation of women." Enough already with the all-male commentary rosters on this story! You may write Diane Rehm at: drshow@wamu.org.

Steve Capus , president of NBC News, is currently on "Hardball," explaining to guest host David Gregory why MSNBC has decided to drop, for good, its simulcast of "Imus in the Morning." UPDATE Looking truly tortured, MSNBC's president (also president of the entire NBC News division) demonstrated the sort of anguished confusion that is becoming quite la mode these days among the upper ranks of the dominant culture when a light is shined on ideas about blacks and women that apparently continue to enjoy a sort of smirking acceptance in otherwise polite company. It was through conversations with "trusted employees," Capus said, that he came to the conclusion "that I had to make this call." Among those "trusted employees" is Al Roker , the beloved weatherman of the "Today" show, who blogged on MSNBC's own Web site that Imus had to go . Another reason for the change from suspension to firing, Capus explained, was yesterday...

As the first African-American president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) , Maretta J. Short has a thing or two to say about Don Imus and his attack on the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Here's Retta with Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now": AMY GOODMAN: Reverend Al Sharpton, joining us on the phone from New York. He is going to be having Don Imus on his radio program at 1:00 EST. Maretta Short, also with us, president of the National Organization for Women, New Jersey. Maretta Short, what is NOW calling for? MARETTA SHORT: Well, thank you, Amy. Yes, well, right now we're asking for people to go to our website and take action by sending messages to the general manager, Chuck Bortnick, of radio station WFAN, which produces Imus's show, and to Karen Mateo, communications vice president of CBS Radio, which owns WFAN, and to MSNBC television, which airs and promotes the show. Imus's message is racist to the core,...

Considering the fact that Imus, in his famously racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, used the sexist's favorite tactic of sexual verbal abuse, isn't it interesting that most of the people getting big-news airtime to comment on this thing are men? Hello? Is it any wonder that so many are saying they know Imus to be a good guy, even if, as Imus himself admitted, he "said a bad thing"?

At the risk of being called a humorless feminist (a taunt her readers know to be patently untrue, this blog being a veritable online whoopie-cushion -- right?), your blogstress has used her privileges at TAPPED, the Weblog of The American Prospect Online , to call for the firing of Don Imus , host of the obnoxious radio show, "Imus in the Morning," from the schedule of WFAN and MSNBC. Whether you agree or disagree, your écrivaine invites you to comment by clicking here . Your cybercribe also urges you to peruse the posts of her sibling bloggers, Brother Sam Rosenfeld and Sister J. Goodrich .