My initial gut response to the Franken story was to want him gone ASAP, and I still lean that way, but this seemed like a good question to adopt a "shut up and listen to women" approach, so that's what I'm doing. (And, of course,...
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This post is currently sitting nearly commentless at my joint. I actually wrote it specifically for LGM, but had not received the keys to the kingdom yet. With all the.
Brief note before we continue: No part of this series should be thought of as an authoritative statement about pregnancy, parenthood, or anything else. Rather, it should be understood as.
Today in the NY Times Thursday Styles section, that bastion of feminism, there's an article called "Is the 'Mom Job' Really Necessary?" I could not fathom what this article might be about...part time jobs for women with kids maybe?But no. The first three paragraphs make...
Like Cara, I think I'll pass. Any allegedly feminist project that divides women into the category of "good" and "bad" based on how often they have sex, or uses the.
In Daniel Lazare's smart and biting review of books about America's incarceration culture, appearing in last week's Nation, he highlights an incendiary argument from Marie Gottschalk's book, The Prison and.
Legislation has been introduced in the Ohio legislature requiring women to not merely inform fathers before obtaining an abortion but to obtain written permission. And why not? Given that a majority of the United States Supreme Court has argued that anachronistic assumptions about the inferior...
At the end of an excellent post about the nature of allegedly "traditional" marriage, Dana Goldtsein concludes: "What's at stake for conservatives aren't marriages that raise happy children, but a.
In this thread, Bean suggests that the solution to the issues created by prostitution may be decriminalization but not legalization, and another commenter suggests a model that would make the.
See Ann Friedman, Catherine Andrews, and Unrequited Narcissism. This really is an under-discussed aspect of gender subordination.
One of the most misunderstood things about feminist thought is the idea that identifying patriarchy is about "hating men" or "blaming men for the world's problems" or whatever. But, of.