Category Archives: Link farms

Getting real about bad advice | language: a feminist guide Why advice to women to change how they speak is misguided. Via Grace, who says “It takes awhile to get there (while making other good points, mind you), but at … Continue reading →

“Take On Me” but it keeps getting faster. Feminist Groups Are Right to Rally Against the Brock Turner-Inspired Crime Bill The TSA is a waste of money that doesn’t save lives and might actually cost them – Vox When more … Continue reading →

The Armed Protests Outside Brock Turner’s Home Are Dangerously Counterproductive “The protest outside Turner’s home is the latest example of a weird sort of cognitive dissonance that has recently emerged among progressives around issues of criminal justice.” Lauer’s Pathetic Interview … Continue reading →

Donald Trump’s supporters are LESS likely to be affected by trade and immigration, not more – Vox New Study Shows Reading Harry Potter Lowers Americans’ Opinions of Donald Trump | Annenberg School for Communication “Even when controlling for party identification, … Continue reading →

Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls – The New York Times The logic of the Supreme Court’s Shelby County decision was that we no longer needed the preclearance mandate in this day and … Continue reading →

In praise of ambivalence—“young” feminism, gender identity, and free speech | Practical Ethics A post criticizing how leftists have responded to Alice Dreger and Germaine Greer. There’s some back-and-forth between me and the author in the comments. A discussion of … Continue reading →

For My Son, In The Event That The Police Leave You Fatherless Confidential Informants – CBS News Police unfairly pressure kids in their late teens or early twenties to wear a wire, in some cases leading to the informant being … Continue reading →

Beautiful Tomboys of the 1930s What it’s like to be that fat person sitting next to you on the plane. — Medium It’s not like this for me, happily, but I’ve heard several fat friends express similar feelings about flying. … Continue reading →

On Taste “Having taste tends to make you dislike popular things and to dislike more things. This is, I think, because taste does not so much change the things you care about as give you more things to care about.” … Continue reading →

This is historic: Hillary Clinton is the first woman presumptive nominee of a major party – Vox Whatever I think about Clinton as a nominee, to have a female nominee – and soon, I believe, a female president – is … Continue reading →