Objectify This

I should be writing my thesis, so why don’t you just head over to Sex Like Men for a pithy commentary on the annoyingly reductionist NYT article about rediscovering the madonna-whore dichotomy in the world of feminism. Priyanka says all of the things I’d like to say, which is helpful because I don’t have time [...]

Lou Dobbs has done it again. There is no “race problem” in America. . . only racist people like Lou Dobbs, making veiled allusions to Condoleeza Rice as a cotton . . . what? A cotton-picking politician? Wait, what was this about no problems talking about race? Check out the outrageous footage after the jump. [...]

In this recent article from the New York Times about Susan Pinker’s new book, The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, Emily Bazelon writes, “In her zeal, Pinker veers to the onesided. She doesn’t acknowledge that some of the research cited in her footnotes is either highly questionable as social science (Louise [...]

Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]

In need of a little new year’s inspiration? Broadsheet “recommends novelist Isabel Allende’s poignant and hilarious talk on passion, writing, beauty and feminism given in Monterey, Calif., at the TED conference last year in March. (It was just posted on the TED site in January 2008.)””It’s moving,” writes Broadsheet’s Katharine Mieszkowski, “to watch Allende exhort [...]