December 2010
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FUCK YOU, 2010 →
Happy New Year’s!
Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
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MTV's shockingly good abortion special →
Check out Lynn Harris’ review of last night’s pretty impressive MTV special on abortion. And you can watch the episode here.
Dec 29th
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“Which is why it seems strange to me that anyone would be surprised that female...”
– I write at Feministing about the UConn women’s basketball team’s recent achievement and take the radical stance that male sports fans should embrace women’s athletics.
Dec 28th
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Julian Assange says “Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of... →
Seriously, the dude should really just stop talking about it.
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Merry xmas from my parents’ mantel! In other holiday news, did you know about this?! I did not.
Dec 25th
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“For there is no shortage of real horror built into the unassuming base of this...”
– In her sweeping critique—which moves from Jane Campion’s In The Cut to the New York City subway—Martha Polk argues that Black Swan is a “a horror film that misses the horror.”
Dec 23rd
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Olbermann responds to Twitter protest in worst... →
My latest on Feministing today is on Keith Olbermann’s response to the #MooreandMe Twitter protest calling on Michael Moore and Olbermann to apologize for dismissing and mischaracterizing the rape accusations against Julian Assange. “I can’t think of anything that’s a bigger slap in the face to feminists who genuinely believed—or at least dared to hope—that we were valued players on...
Dec 22nd
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“They knew they could count on the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the...”
– Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association reacts to the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Apparently, this is the moment the United States “consigned itself to the scrap heap of history” and “sealed its own demise.” It’s actually kinda heartening to...
Dec 19th
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“But condoms, in particular, are such a canard. You tell the world that the guy...”
– Sady, chatting with Amanda, about (what else!?) the Assange case and the bruhaha caused by the #mooreandme Twitter campaign.
Dec 17th
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The "Winter Boyfriend" →
“Lock him IN.” Also, btw, the Hairpin is pretty great so far. This, for instance, is just perfect: “And then we’ll be on his couch, cuddling really hard.” Oh girl I KNOW!
Dec 16th
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On Progressives, Rape Apologism, and the Little... →
Join the Twitter campaign (started by the great Sady Doyle) to get Michael Moore (@MMFlint) to apologize for dismissing the rape accusations against Julian Assange and claiming on Keith Olbermann’s show that the charges are “hooey” that involve nothing more than a broken condom “during consensual sex.” (That’s just not true.) When so-called progressives pull...
Dec 15th
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“No, love isn’t “a car in the driveway with a big bow on top.”...”
– Beautiful and heartbreaking piece from Tracy Clark-Flory: “All I want for Christmas is nothing.”
Dec 15th
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7 feminist reasons to watch the British teen drama... →
Seriously, everyone should be watching Skins. And it’s even on Netflix. No excuses.
Dec 14th
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“But it’s just embarrassing that a woman who spent much of the follow-up article...”
– Me at Feministing on Naomi Wolf’s embarrassing defense of Julian Assange from the “dating police” and her follow-up claiming that the case against him is a “slap in the face” to rape victims worldwide.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian →
Dec 12th
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Tony Porter, co-founder of A Call to Men, speaks at the TEDWomen Conference about breaking out of the Man Box. “I need you with me. I need you working with me and me working with you on how we raise our sons and teach them to be men. That it’s okay to not be dominating. That it’s okay to have feelings and emotions. That it’s okay to promote equality. That...
Dec 11th
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape →
An apparently ever-needed reminder from the always-smart Jaclyn Friedman that how we talk about rape in the media actually, ya know, matters.
Dec 10th
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“First, there’s a real asymmetry between liberal and conservative goals....”
– Kevin Drum on the tax cut deal—and really everything.
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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“Hundreds of men, women, and children gathered at the spot this morning to pray...”
– Amanda Hess reports on the anti-choice protesters at Dr. Carhart’s new clinic in Maryland.
Dec 8th
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"Listen up sweetheart: You buy the ticket, you... →
Right-wing blogger Robert Stacy McCain says Jill’s post explaining the idea of consent is “unadulterated nonsense.”
Dec 7th
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“But, again, the truth doesn’t matter when the specter of tax-payer...”
– Rep. Boehner & Co. bully the Smithsonian into removing a video from the National Portrait Gallery’s awesome new LGBTQ portraiture exhibition because it offends some folks’ homophobic sensibilities. Apparently Congress is now in the business of censoring art. How’s that small...
Dec 5th
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“…wry commentary about touching yourself and then crying and falling asleep...”
– Some suggestions for the next stupid New York Times trend piece.
Dec 5th
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Dec 3rd
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Coolest. Thing. Ever. →
Dec 3rd
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The Daily Show notes how John McCain seems downright determined to be on the wrong side of history when it comes to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Dec 2nd