Given that Wal-Mart's business model is borrowed heavily from the supply chain management system pioneered by the same textile industry that brought you the Triangle Fire and Rana Plaza collapse, it's hardly surprising that the company would then import the intimidation of pregnant women so...
sexism
My usual response over turmoil at major media outlets is to make fun of the media spending a day on its favorite theme: talking about itself. And I really don't.
Worth remembering 10 years later how the wardrobe incident at the Super Bowl halftime show effectively ended Janet Jackson's career with zero repercussions for Justin Timberlake.
Another classic, this time from Edge of the American West: Gives the Good Neighbor policy a new meaning.
As a white male, being attacked by the hate-spewing mouthbreathers of the internet gun lobby was horrible. Were I a black woman like Zerlina Maxwell who rejected the ludicrous notion.
Leave it to a congressman from the ex-Confederacy, where the white rape of black women has a long and sordid history, to hold up the Violence Against Women Act in.
Amanda Marcotte has some interesting commentary on the inherent sexism of the marriage proposal. Having been down this road a couple of times now, the entire marriage structure is sexist. I proposed both times and even the possibility of me not being the one who...
To build slightly on Scott's post, let me recommend Lindsay Beyerstein's excellent piece today decrying those who use Jenny McCarthy's nude modeling as a reason to dismiss her crazy anti-vaccine.
Wow. H/t Amanda Marcotte
Sharon Friedman makes a very good point about the language of environmentalism, particularly the use of the term "virgin forests." Calling anything involving forests "virgin" muddles the concepts of "old-growth," "native forests" and "past practices," promotes the notion of nature as female and humans as...
I was lucky enough to chair a panel at WPSA where Rebecca Gill presented the latest iteration of her research into how the judicial merit evaluations done under ABA guidelines.
As someone who is marginally obsessive about reading the New York Times obituaries, and not only to track my Death List, I found this discussion of sexism within the NYT.