Scoring by any other name
Pushing marriage as a way to encourage stability isn’t just for President Bush anymore. Apparently, it’s also for soccer coaches. “Bulgarian soccer club Litex Lovech wants its talented striker, Ivelin Popov, to curb his wild off-field living.” So what’s their solution? Order the 19-year-old player to get married by the end of the year. The [...]
...read moreJack Shafer didn’t satisfy the jackass quotient?
UPDATE I: please see Lesley’s comments for some fuller criticisms of Kendall’s methodology UPDATE II: I expected better from Freakonomics. Slate.com has some good things going for it, like Dahlia Lithwick. It’s also got some downsides, like Jack Shafer Clearly, Shafer wasn’t enough, because now Slate’s got Steven Landsburg and his simple declarative sentences. Guess [...]
...read moreNot much to add, so…
I’ll just link to this post by BFP.
...read moreSpunky Girl Revolutionary
Maia writes about Susan Brownmiller and the Case of the Trivialized Movement: The last one refers to Shulamith Firestone. This is only the beginning other women are described in just the same way: bubbly, titian hair, frizzy hair, big soulful eyes, hair that falls below her shoulders, open-faced and bespectacled. She describes Bernadette Dohrn as [...]
...read moreScore one for the rapists
Well this is good news for sexual assaulters everywhere: A Maryland appellate court has ruled that consent cannot be withdrawn once sex has started. This is an incredibly frightening ruling. It essentially means that once penetration occurs, you have no right to end it until your partner does. Once you’re having sex, you lose basic [...]
...read moreWhy fix the problem when we can push for a feel-good policy that won’t work?
Apparently, there’s still a horrible crisis in education. And the answer according to some pundits is to go back to single sex schools.
...read moreAdvocates of single-sex education for girls believe that, in general, many girls thrive when educated apart from boys. Research concerning the academic achievement of girls suggests that in coeducational classrooms they often defer to boys, are called on less frequently than boys, receive significantly less teacher attention than boys, and are less likely than boys to study mathematics and science. Evidence suggests that attending single-sex schools improves many girls’ academic performance and attitude toward less traditional school subjects for girls while encouraging them to assume non-traditional career paths.
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