{"id":1066,"date":"2004-09-08T09:40:49","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/08\/more-links-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at\/"},"modified":"2004-09-08T09:40:49","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T17:40:49","slug":"more-links-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"More links than you can shake a stick at!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Terrific article in <i>The Scotsman<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/thescotsman.scotsman.com\/opinion.cfm?id=1040652004\">&#8220;Blame women &#8211; it&#8217;s easier than thinking.&#8221;<\/a> Here&#8217;s a sample:\n<div class=\"snip\">The difficulty with this mood of reaction, though, as with many &#8220;backlash&#8221; phenomena, it that it seems doomed to sow widespread feelings of fear and self-loathing &#8211; and to provoke plenty of recrimination among women about the different choices they make &#8211; without actually recommending any real course of action. If we had anything resembling a full consensus that gender equality is a good thing, we could simply get on with the task of compensating for the inevitable impact of motherhood on women&#8217;s working lives in all sorts of imaginative ways. But in practice, we still seem stuck in an endless, debilitating, backward-looking debate about whether the whole idea of equality between men and women is somehow unnatural and expensive, and ought to be replaced by a stoical acceptance that women will always face tougher choices than men, because nature decrees it so.<\/div>\n<li>My favorite protestors are always those who seem to be more concerned with funny street theatre than with actually making a point. So <a href=\"http:\/\/communis.server296.com\/GPU\/viewtopic.php?p=277\">this group of right-wing counter-protestors<\/a>, from &#8220;Communists for Kerry,&#8221; gave me a giggle. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/littlemissattila.mu.nu\/archives\/043554.php\">Little Miss Attila<\/a>.\n<li>Pinko Feminist Hellcat has a fabulous post on <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkofeministhellcat.typepad.com\/pinko_feminist_hellcat\/2004\/09\/the_false_hope_.html\">&#8220;The False Hope of First Ladies.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_09\/004639.php\">Political Animal discusses the real agenda behind &#8220;no child left behind&#8221; <\/a>&#8211; labeling as many public schools as possible, even ones that are by fair standards great schools, &#8220;failures.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xxblog.com\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/09\/07\/\">Sheelzebub at XX has a good post<\/a> asking why free market advocates won&#8217;t let Americans import cheaper drugs from abroad.\n<li><b>&#8220;Every time you pick up your fork, ask yourself, &#8216;is this the best bite I could possibly give my baby?'&#8221;<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/respectfulofotters.blogspot.com\/2004_08_01_respectfulofotters_archive.html#109390027856955747\">Respectful of Otters <\/a>has my favorite post I&#8217;ve read today (or way up there, anyhow), discussing how the pregnancy industry leaps at the chance to control and moralize every aspect of a pregnant woman&#8217;s life.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thememoryhole.org\/feds\/justice_redaction.htm\">The Memory Hole <\/a>has a frightening example of the sort of thing the Justice Department tries to censor from public records in the name of national security.\n<li>It&#8217;s another new <a href=\"http:\/\/unfutz.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/electoral-college-survey-96.html\">round-up of electoral college prognostications <\/a>from Ed Fitzgerald&#8217;s Unfutz. This week&#8217;s bottom line: Bush takes the lead for the first time in months. 20 sites show Bush winning, versus 15 showing Kerry winning. But clearly, it&#8217;s still a close race.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com\/2004_09_01_echidneofthesnakes_archive.html#109441092138360555\">Echidne <\/a>posts some revealing anti-Bush statistics focusing on terrorism and security. Here&#8217;s an example, but she&#8217;s got tons more:\n<div class=\"snip\"><b>1 <\/b>Number of Bush administration public statements on National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned al-Qa&#8217;ida.<\/p>\n<p><b>104<\/b> Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein.<\/div>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thurgood.blogspot.com\/2004_09_01_thurgood_archive.html#109414118550905889\">Mary Garth rebuts <\/a>a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A54700-2004Sep1.html\"><i>Washington Post <\/i>piece <\/a>predicting that the right-wingers are going to ride their larger breeding rates to victory.\n<li>Two days ago I posted a critique of Hugo Schwyzer&#8217;s pro-life, pro-feminism position. Hugo has responded to me and to folks who left comments here in two posts, <a href=\"http:\/\/hugoboy.typepad.com\/hugo_schwyzer\/2004\/09\/still_more_on_p.html\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/hugoboy.typepad.com\/hugo_schwyzer\/2004\/09\/criminalizing_a.html\">here<\/a>. (I&#8217;ll be responding to Hugo later this week.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/000406.html\">Lauryn at Feministing <\/a>discusses, and provides links related to, the real harms caused by Bush&#8217;s &#8220;global gag&#8221; rule.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mousewords.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/what-do-you-mean-when-you-say-hate.html\">Mouse Words argues <\/a>persuasively that the problem with &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; is that &#8220;hate&#8221; is way too broad and easily misconstrued a word in this context. She suggests &#8220;domestic terrorism,&#8221; which I think is right on target.\n<li>A new British investigation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,3604,1297941,00.html\">reported on in <i>The Guardian<\/i>, <\/a>finds that women accused of a crime are 4 times as likely as men to be held in jail while awaiting trial &#8211; even though fewer than 1 in 10 women are accused of violent offenses.\n<div class=\"snip\">The majority are vulnerable women, many have mental health or drug problems and 71% have never received a prison sentence before. Detention results in many being separated from their children, often when they are the sole carer. Frequently they find themselves with financial problems and increased psychological stress as a result of their prison experience. Many harm themselves while inside and 11 have killed themselves this year.<\/div>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/7143.html\">Facinating post by Timothy Burke <\/a>examines why an ignorant crank like Michelle &#8220;the Japanese deserved to be put in camps&#8221; Malkin nonetheless gets so much respectful attention in the (so-called liberal) media. <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2004_09_00.shtml#1094234176\">Eric Muller <\/a>also has some comments.\n<li>I should read Cathy Young more often; she&#8217;s without a doubt the smartest of all the major anti-feminist writers. She also goes against anti-feminist dogma now and then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/0408\/co.cy.taking.shtml\">as in this short article <\/a>critiquing &#8220;conservative dogma about sex roles&#8221; in the book <i>Taking Sex Differences Seriously<\/i>.\n<li>Scott Moss examines one of the most prominent affirmative-action programs taking place today, and asks what it can teach us about how such programs should be run in general: <a href=\"http:\/\/profhurtlaw.typepad.com\/bizfems\/2004\/09\/download_moss_2.html\">Lessons in Republican Affirmative Action<\/a>.\n<li>Yet another study finds that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/particle.php?id=15931\">dieting can lead to gaining weight<\/a>. &#8220;&#8230;of 149 women surveyed, all of whom are considered clinically obese, two-thirds had been on their first diet by the age of 14. This dispels the myth that the condition of overweight people is caused by laziness and inattention to their health and appearance. In fact, those who had gone on more diets tended to have higher body mass indexes.&#8221; Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5933199\/\">another new study <\/a>finds that being active matters more than being thin.&#8221; To quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfatblog.com\/archives\/001380.php\">Big Fat Blog&#8217;s <\/a>summary, &#8220;The study followed 906 women. By the end of the study, heart disease and its ilk were lower in active women no matter what their size. As noted by the study&#8217;s head researcher, this means that activity may be a bigger influence on health than weight.&#8221;<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrific article in The Scotsman: &#8220;Blame women &#8211; it&#8217;s easier than thinking.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a sample: The difficulty with this mood of reaction, though, as with many &#8220;backlash&#8221; phenomena, it that it seems doomed to sow widespread feelings of fear and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1066\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}