Objectify This

Recently my girl Ashley pointed me to a post at Jack and Jill Politics. In my browsing there, I came upon yesterday’s post, “The Field Negro Smacks Down Shelby Steele’s Self-Hating BS.” While the post makes important points about the natural alignment of the black power movement and liberal politics’ focus on the government’s commitment [...]

Jessica Lynch “was born in Palestine, West Virginia,” according to the Wikipedia page about her. It continues, “her family could not afford to send her to college; her older brother had to drop out for financial reasons. Searching for a way to pay for the children’s educations, the Lynch family met with an army recruiter [...]

I’m writing this post with this header image in the hopes that it will not appear to be an advertisement for sex. This is not usually a problem I have; most of the things that I blog about are not nearly this much fun. That’s why I am boldly persevering, despite it all. Being a [...]

Hat tip to Bust for their coverage of this well-heeled event in their August/September issue: there’s a a new annual parage of feminist men who strut their stuff and walk the walk, literally. The “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” which bills itself as an “International Men’s March Against Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence” [...]

I’ve been listening to the London-based Simian Mobile Disco, a music production team who call themselves “Electro/ Psychadelic/ Alternative” on their Myspace page. They are composed of two guys named James (foreground, left) and claim to sound like “good, old-fashioned, analogue party music” (as their wacky Brit-ball spelling has it). Specifically, I’ve been listening to [...]

Recently I stumbled upon this website run by that beacon of truth and goodness, the Christian Right. In fine form, they announced at the beginning of the page, “FEMINISM IS EVIL! Beware of the feminists, many are LESBIANS!” Ah, yes, such tolerance and open mindedness is exactly what we have been taught to expect from [...]

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 [...]