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Shocked?

Bob Herbert at Majority Report Radio asks the question I was wondering during the Amish school shooting coverage:

BOB HERBERT: Why Aren’t We Shocked?

In the recent shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania and a large public high school in Colorado, the killers went out of their way to separate the girls from the boys, […]

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Pandagon has an illuminating post up about feminism and porn.

It’s true porn reinforces misogynist attitudes, but it’s hardly the cause and it’s probably undeserving of the reputation many anti-porn feminists give it as such a big instigator of violence against women. As Jensen noted in his talk, the group of men who don’t look at […]

Countdown last night

As much as I like Keith Olbermann and as much as I dislike all the attention that Paris Hilton gets and the way she manipulates that attention to get more of it (like I’m doing now), I have to agree with this commentator’s take on what happened during Countdown’s celebrity gossip round-up:

Last night in his […]

Biting Beaver is pregnant

I meant to write something about this post when I first read it but never got to it. By now a lot of people have read it and commented on it so I don’t really feel like getting into a discussion of the original post. But I do want to write about a […]

A feminist deconstructs Disney’s “Little Mermaid”

This author makes some good points about Little Mermaid.

Now, aside from the obvious class situation (both Eric and Ariel are the children of royalty), this is a pretty decent feminist tale. A feminist girl gets taken in by the claims of the patriarchy that the best way to get the man she wants […]