Link Farm and Open Thread #17

Y’all know the drill, right?

BlackProf: One Response To The Attack On Diversity In Law School Hiring
A rebuttal to the “everyone knows whites are more qualified to be hired” letter a professor at Rutgers-Camden Law School wrote. See also The Debate Link, which compares c.v.s.

Definition: Street Harassment & Misogyny

Definition: “Male, Female, or Other” Causes Gender-Panic

I’ve run across so many articles which talk about the feminist agenda of demolishing gender roles, establishing gender and sex as a continuum, etc, etc, and, without fail, these articles simply cite that as if it’s some self-evident flaw in feminist reasoning.

Family of African Musician Finally Wins “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” Royalties
Although not before one of the siblings died because she had AIDS and the family couldn’t afford to buy medication. I remember reading about this case in Rolling Stone many years ago; I’m glad they’re finally getting a little bit of the money due to them.

One Tenacious Baby Mama: Pregnancy, Pap Smear and Me

These pictures of my pap examination are about a month and a half old. […] I like them because they don’t romanticize my cunt and surrounding area. One of the things this deviant mama has found so problematic about most of porn I’ve seen is the emphasis on rendering female genitals into something to be consumed (er, pardon the pun), something air brushed, unreal, clipped and polished.

Make Your Own Tahoe Commerical
Chevy has a “make your own Chevy commercial” feature. See this one before they wise up and remove it from their site.

Broadsheet: Not one pro-life group in the US supports the use of birth control

At best, such groups, like the National Right to Life Committee, take no position on the question. At worst, pro-life groups have been actively working to redescribe traditional means of birth control, such as the pill, as “abortifacients,” and have been fighting state laws mandating insurance coverage for birth control by falsely saying they fund abortions. [Curtsy: Bitch PhD.]

Garance Franke-Ruta: The New York Times’ Women Problem

A Prospect examination of the authors published between late February 2004 and late February 2006 found that 90 percent of writers — including staff columnists — who discussed abortion on the Times op-ed page over the past two years were male. These men wrote 83 percent of the op-eds that mentioned abortion.

Even more surprising, more op-eds that mentioned abortion in the Times were written by pro-life men than by women of any belief system. [Curtsy: Feministe.]

Majikthise: Regarding Pro-Male Affirmative Action In College Admissions

Bitch|Lab: Good Advice From Gloria Yamato For Whites Who Want To Be Anti-Racist

LA Times: Abortion Lessons From Latin America

Lesson 1: Outlawing abortion does not stop women from having them. […] I have spoken to women who used knives, knitting needles, rubber tubes, even pieces of wood to pry open their uteruses. Some got access to abortive medicines that in theory lower the possibility of direct infection but that caused serious complications when they took them without medical assistance. Affluent women suffered fewer traumatic ordeals, often traveling to the U.S. for the procedure or sneaking off to upscale private Latin America clinics where, on paper, they had surgery for appendicitis. [Curtsy: Feministe.]

Written World: Marriage Counseling, Superhero Style

Persephone’s Box: Cultural Appropriation and the Blessingway
Interesting essay in which the (white) author describes her participation in a sweat lodge ritual.

Womens Enews: South Dakota Ban Drives Media Out of Hiding
Interesting overview of media coverage of abortion post-South Dakota.

Reuters: Mexican Rape Victims Often Denied Right To Abortion
In theory, Mexico’s broad abortion ban makes an exception for survivors of rape. In reality, the system finds ways to block access to abortion, even in cases of rape.

AP: World Abortion Trend The Opposite Of US

Over the past 10 years, more than a dozen countries have made it easier to get abortions […] The trend contrasts sharply with the United States, where this week South Dakota’s governor signed legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.

The World Health Organization says 19 million women _ nearly all in the developing world _ have “unsafe” abortions each year, done by someone unskilled or in a place with poor medical standards. Of them, 600,000 die from complications.

Reclusive Leftist: Kristin Davis is Fat? Whaaaa?

Appletree: Photos Show Hitler’s Gift for Empathy (Or Sociopathic Mirroring)
Curtsy: Reclusive Leftist

Darleen’s Place: Debate in Comments About “Partial Birth” Abortion Ban
I’m debating the blogger, who is pro-choice for early abortions but favors banning intact D&X abortions, in her comments. It’s not an especially great debate or anything, I’m just posting it here so I don’t lose the link.