Privilege explained in gamer terms

Spawned on second base, but thought they rolled a double.

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The Cost of Motherhood

Bryce Covert has a fascinating article in the Nation right now about how baby-having can put you deep in debt — not just because babies are expensive, but because U.S. parental leave policies put impossible financial strain on new parents.

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Women Are Better Than Men?

That’s Roger Ebert’s argument. And listen, I love me some Roger Ebert, but this is a big piece of crap. His point basically comes down to, “Women are nurturing and wonderful and non-violent, men are competitive and want to see boobs, because Evolution.” And ugh I don’t even have the time to pick through this mess, but y’all should go for it in the comments. I’ll start: Most people have the capacity to be wonderful, non-violent, nurturing and loving. Most people also have the capacity to be competitive, driven, aggressive and ruthless. Most people are capable of great kindness; most people are capable of being total assholes. The degree to which any of us displays any of these traits depends largely on circumstance and partly on individual personality and temperment. Those things are certainly influenced by gender, but our gender does not in fact hard-wire us to be nice or awful.

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UNITAID: 5 Years of Innovation for Better Health

UNITAID, a fantastic international health organization, is marking their fifth anniversary with a detailed and fascinating report. They use innovative financing to improve health care access and save lives. Click through and check out all the excellent work they continue to do.

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Kuttin Kandi: Hiphop, Heart Disease, Fatphobia, and Truth-Telling

I’m sorry to say I never heard of Kuttin Kandi (also known as Candice Custodio-Tan) before I read this article, clearly because I’ve been hiding under a rock.

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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Do it.

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Would you like a racist boyfriend?

Because there are so many racist boyfriends to choose from! (“I’m not racist! I just appreciate ethnic women!” -all of the boyfriends).

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When Feminists Face Abuse

“I want to make you happy”. That’s what he used to tell me sometimes after another rage fit of his. And for almost two years I believed that. I believed that even after he slapped me for the first time, taking a swing at my upper arm. I stopped believing it after the second slap, the one that landed on my back (luckily, not with full force).

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Family values: Staying together for the kids (I just fathered in New Zealand)

Give Alabama politician Bill Johnson an award for combining two of the Republican party’s favorite family values: traditional families, and being fruitful and multiplying. Wanting to keep his family together, Johnson invited his wife of eight years and her three children to come with him as he moved to New Zealand to be with the numerous babies conceived of his sperm.

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Christian group invites Thai sex workers to come to Daddy

This is the story of a video by eleven young women from the U.S.–almost exclusively white–who went to Thailand to save the “bar girls” to Jesus. “We found that we were the perfect ones to fight for them,” say the title cards. “Because we used to be women in chains… Just like them.”

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Obama supports marriage equality

I think anyone who knows anything about Obama knew this would happen eventually, but assumed he was waiting for after the election. Good on him for coming out with this now. Less impressive the he waited for the social tides to turn before he actually stated his real position, but better late than never.

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