January 2011
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Ugandan Who Spoke Up for Gays Is Beaten to Death →
More at the Nation and the Maddow Blog.
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Another 9-year-old girl killed by political... →
But where’s the outrage?
Why Minnesota Mothers Are Doing Pretty Good →
“Don’t get me wrong: It’s not that Minnesota parents don’t care about their children. Just the opposite. They would sacrifice anything for their children, even if it was out of their way and they weren’t already sacrificing something anyway. That’s just who we are.”
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“[B]ut do they actually believe that Planned Parenthood would be so irresponsible...”
– I write at Feministing about an apparent anti-choice sting operation against Planned Parenthood by a man posing as a sex trafficker. What exactly is the “gotcha” supposed to be? That Planned Parenthood offered sexual health services to victims of sex trafficking? Outrageous!
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The Sexual Cost of Female Success →
An amazing response by Molly Lambert to this interview with the author of “Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate and Think About Marrying.” The new book (but old story) argues that men have all the power in relationships because 1) successful, educated women now outnumber successful, educated men and 2) women give it up too soon these days. That’s...
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“Why are we focusing on the tiny number of women who want to have post-viability...”
– Very important piece. Jill Filipovic explains why the horrific Gosnell case doesn’t actually challenge the pro-choice position on late-term abortion, as much as Will Saletan might want it to.
Imaginary Lines From a 9/11 Sex and the City... →
A-mazing. “Later that day I got to thinking about Muslims and relationships. If I couldn’t even tell Big that I was upset about our dinner, was I really any more liberated than a veiled woman? How do we New York women take off our emotional burkas?”
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“Look, if you want to argue—by cherry-picking “scientific” studies—that men...”
– I weigh in on the recent article that used bullshit evolutionary psychology to argue that women evolved to protect themselves from rape when they’re ovulating.
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The kids these days! Smart and articulate. →
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No One Listened to Gabrielle Giffords →
Frank Rich: “If we learn nothing from this tragedy, we are back where we started. And where we started was with two years of accelerating political violence — actual violence, not to be confused with violent language — that struck fear into many, not the least of whom was Gabrielle Giffords.”
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“The point, again, is not that Alex Jones, Zeitgeist or The Tea Party are...”
– Michelle Goldberg discusses the film that greatly influenced Jared Lee Loughner and the fact that paranoid, anti-government conspiracy theories—which were once relegated to the fringe—have become increasingly accepted by the mainstream conservative movement.
Harold Meyerson has more on...
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If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today ... →
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“The decade-long hysteria over a “hookup culture,” imperiling young women who...”
– Word. The Atlantic Weeps For The Sad, Slutty Drunk Girls (via sexisnottheenemy)
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“Are you kidding? The patriarchy has been scattering palm fronds ahead of me...”
– A Dude
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FACT: More states impose mandatory waiting periods...
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“There were 36 homicides last night. 480 sexual assaults. 3411 robberies. 3685...”
– C.J. Gregg on the West Wing.
Gail Collins: “But you do not hear much about the fact that Jared Loughner came to Giffords’s sweet gathering with a semiautomatic weapon that he was able to buy legally because the law restricting their sale expired in 2004 and Congress did not have the guts...
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Let's Get This Straight →
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“But it’s not about cause. It’s about context. And it’s not actually about Jared...”
– Me at Feministing on (what else?) the Giffords shooting and the violent political rhetoric of the right. Plus a roundup of smart perspectives from other writers.
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“Sometimes it’s easy to forget that sex-negativity—and the stigma around teen...”
– Me at Feministing on a new study that suggests some young people lie about their sexual behavior and the need for better communication between doctors and their teen patients.
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Tips for the Solo Woman Road Warrior →
Goddamn, I want to go on a road trip with Ann Friedman.
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“Ross Douthat apparently finds it paradoxical that some women want to have...”
– Jill Filipovic on Ross Douthat’s recent NYT column on the “paradox of America’s unborn.” Poor Douthat can’t seem to wrap his (stupid, misogynistic) head around the fact that sometimes a pregnancy is desperately unwanted and sometimes a pregnancy is “hungrily...
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