Questionable statistics
Yeah, I know, you’re sick of hearing about Matt Yglesias. But I want to address something that kept coming up in his posts and the comments thereto, as well as Ross Douthat’s defense of abortion criminalization. Namely, the idea that the Guttmacher study is flawed and those who say that criminalization does not affect abortion [...]
...read moreGoodbye, Farewell…
I’m heading off on vacation to lovely Tunisia this evening, and won’t be back until the 28th. Lucky for you all, I have two spectacular guest bloggers lined up to hold down the fort while I’m gone. So you shouldn’t miss my “posting like a crack-addled monkey” (Zuzu’s words) too much. I’ll let them introduce [...]
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OMG Teh Hysterical Feminists Again!
Help! The radical feminists are coming! Watching the responses to Zuzu’s post and other feminist responses to Matt’s piece has been… enlightening. It’s a classic example of how concepts like rationality and logic become gendered, with men automatically assumed to be exercising them when they’re challenging women, and women automatically assumed to be bypassing them [...]
...read moreGirls & Gangs
Preface: This is my first day of guest-blogging and I am looking forward to it a lot. I have done it before @ Feministe but this time it will be for longer and I am thankful to Jill for this opportunity. I’m a university student in a south-western town in England called Bristol but my [...]
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