Pity Poor Paris
When I wrote this, my point was that the dialogue surrounding the Paris-Hilton-goes-to-jail affair has been sexist and slut-shaming, that our criminal justice system is broken, and that the Hilton case is no more a victory for justice than any other case is in a fundamentally flawed system. My point was not that Paris is [...]
...read moreAutoAdmit Sued
This is why it’s probably a bad idea to harass, threaten and defame female law students. Background on AutoAdmit for the newbies: My first post about my run-ins with AutoAdmit The Washington Post covers the story. AutoAdmit director Anthony Ciolli steps down. AutoAdmit returns in response to my post about Duke lacrosse. Anthony Ciolli loses [...]
...read moreWhat Do We Do About Video Games?
As some of you may have noticed in my bio that Jill posted, I’m a self proclaimed geek. One thing that I’m particularly passionate about is video gaming. I’ve been a huge gamer for almost as long as I can remember. My father purchased one of our first gaming systems, waaay back in the 2600 [...]
...read more“Check Your Privilege At The Door” – Entering women-only spaces as a man
More male-oriented thoughts for people to chew over (or chew up and spit out, as appropriate!) This is an abridged version of a post over on my “A Femanist View” blog, feel free to read the whole self-obsessed rambling over there, if you can bear it… I’d like to talk about two instances in my [...]
...read moreThe Candidates on Abortion
Republicans. Democrats.
...read moreWhy We Fight
Courtney Martin has an interesting interview with Sisterhood Interrupted author Deborah Siegel about feminist in-fighting. A few of Siegel’s comments really struck me, including her characterization of the underlying issues in the inter-feminist conflicts: In the early days of the second-wave women’s movement — and actually all the way through the 1990s — feminists debated [...]
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