Reasons I Am Not Approving Your Post
Anyone who read my article in the Prospect yesterday can guess that this here very blog has attracted its share of sports misogyny apologists in the last few days. Which might make you wonder – how...
View ArticleMy Sluthood, Myself
Last summer, I suffered the breakup of a relationship that I had thought would be permanent. Now, I’ve been through my share of break-ups, even of quite serious relationships, but nothing ever broke me...
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous Woman In America
Y’all, I apologize in advance. Ever since she first introduced herself to me by casting aspersions on my mental health, making a dig involving my mother, and then calling me “baby,” I’ve known that...
View ArticleProstitution on CraigsList: the US and Singapore
Posted on August 31, 2010 on <a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/amandabrooks/2010/08/30/prostitution_on_craigslist_the_us_and_singapore by Amanda Brooks, reposted here with permission. Imagine my...
View ArticleFalse Rape Allegations Are Rare
Any regular readers here are likely to already know this. The reputable, methodologically sound reviews put the frequency of false reports in the single-digit percentages. There are people who, for...
View ArticleMeet the HR3 Ten: Heath Shuler
This is part one of a guest series by Sarah Jaffe, crossposted with permission from Champagne Candy. So! H.R.3 supposedly won’t redefine rape anymore, but the fight’s just getting started. We learned...
View ArticleThe Anti-Choice Suffering Agenda
[Trigger Warning: discussion of women dying for deliberate withholding of medical care] The stories about the Pitts bill, HR 358, broke last week. (See TPM, Kos diary, Feministe.) Bearing the...
View ArticleMeet the HR3 Ten, The Anti-Choice, Anti-Woman Democrats. No. 2: Mark Critz
Ten Democrats cosponsored H.R.3, even with language redefining rape; four of those ten also apparently don’t care if pregnant women die. Sarah Jaffe takes a closer look at all ten, find all posted to...
View ArticleThe Big Wedge
Marriage Equality Is Now The Majority Position Like I said before, resistance is futile. It looks kind of like a big wedge, doesn’t it? Driving into the far right? [Update: the law firm Boehner...
View ArticleThe Glee of Sex
I have a lot of problems with Glee. Start with the constant character assassination, cloying and ill-conceived Very Special Episodes, and plot holes through which you could pilot a plane, and don’t...
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