Disrespectful to Food
This article, about a prodigy at eating, offended a few people who wrote in to the Datebook section to complain: Our rates of childhood obesity have tripled since 1980. Regular reminders from the California Department of Education inform us that about 75 percent of our kids flunk national fitness tests. And yet, I don’t know [...]
...read moreHow Many Feminists Does it Take to Tell a Joke?
Ilyka, in comments about The Alphabet of Occasional Chuckles: I’ve been thinking about this general subject of what’s funny vs. that’s not funny a lot recently anyway, and I don’t think there are any easy answers. For myself, it breaks down like this: I might laugh at a misogynist joke, but two conditions have to [...]
...read moreStudy Finds Female Genital Mutilation Can Increase Risk that Mothers or Their Babies Will Die In Childbirth By 50%
Scary. The first large medical study of female genital cutting has found that the procedure has deadly consequences when the women give birth, raising by more than 50 percent the likelihood that the woman or her baby will die. Rates of serious medical complications surrounding childbirth, such as bleeding, also rose substantially in women who [...]
...read moreBetter Late than Never
(So during the long blog slowdown that attended the Cold that Wouldn’t Leave, finals week, and my trip to New York, I received several links from alert readers and saw some nifty stuff online that I wanted to comment on. I’m gonna start with what I think is the earliest first.) First of all, brownfemipower [...]
...read more‘Splain This To Me
So, here we have an op-ed by a member of Opus Dei, who is a professor of English at the University of Houston, taking the view that The DaVinci Code is actually good for Opus Dei because it gets people curious, and he can then answer questions and do a little recruiting. And yes, he [...]
...read moreBlaming the Victims
Oh, it’s just gotten even more special. The White House is now blaming New York and Washington, D.C. for the huge cuts in the Homeland Security budget allocation for those cities. No matter that both cities remain the only American cities directly hit by foreign terrorists. No matter that both cities remain targets, as the [...]
...read moreWhy I Hate the Washington Post
You may have noticed that I rarely link to the Washington Post, and that most of my newspaper-reading centers around the New York Times and the LA Times. Why? Because of articles like this. I’m vomiting in my mouth a little bit, and I feel dumber just from having read it. The topic? The Wingman. [...]
...read moreManly Men
Apparently in patriarchy-speak, “Man” = “Total Asshole.” George Ouzounian, aka “Maddox,” creator of “The Best Page in the Universe” and author of the forthcoming “Alphabet of Manliness,” is making more hay on testosterone than a bull breeder. His Web site, which he started in 1997 while a programmer at a telemarketing company and which trumpets [...]
...read moreBad Advice
Why is it so difficult to accept that some people just don’t want to have kids (second letter)? I think I want kids. I’m not sure. The idea of adopting appeals much more to me than giving birth does, mostly because there are already lots of kids who need homes, and if I can provide [...]
...read moreMore Bad News from South Dakota
The Pine Ridge council has outlawed abortion and suspended president Cecilia Thunder Fire.
...read more100 Hottest Women
Feministing‘s Jessica Valenti pens an article for The Guardian about those silly 100 Sexiest Women lists found in magazines like Maxim, and promotes the feminist version. Check it out.
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