Every Woman Has An Eating Disorder: Response to being told “An eating disorder\u2014now that\u2019s something I\u2019d like to have.”<\/strong><\/a> The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum: Why The Pursuit Of Happyness Is Unfair To The (Ex-) Wife Character<\/strong><\/a> Confined Spaces: Top Ten Workplace Safety Stories of 2006<\/strong><\/a> Women’s ENews: ‘Eve-Teasing’ Makes India’s Streets Mean for Women<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Rachel’s Tavern: Is It Racist To Say A Black Woman Has Good Hair?<\/strong><\/a> Violet Blue Blog: 2007 Will See Several Small Publishers Forced Out Of Business<\/strong><\/a> Google Video: Tickle Me Elmo Burns To Death, Laughing<\/strong><\/a> Obsidian Wings: Beautiful <\/em>Take-Down Of Right-Wing Attack On Silly-Sounding College Course Titles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If you not only stop to think, but have even a tiny bit of self-awareness, you’d have to notice one more thing: that writing a column like this exemplifies all the faults it is supposedly opposed to. Lack of intellectual rigor? Check. […] Political correctness? Check. The “hollowing out” of the op-ed pages and “replacement by crude indoctrination sessions in whatever is ideologically fashionable”? Check. Offering what’s “trendy” “at the expense of actual academic content”? Check.<\/p>\n There are things one might legitimately criticize about academia. But this is not the way to do it. And it bugs me to see someone pretending to stand up for academic standards, which are dear to my heart, while betraying them so completely in what she writes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n DaRain Man: Autobiographical Post About Being Bullied<\/strong><\/a> Women’s ENews: Discrimination Against Women For Their Marital Status Is Legal In 28 States<\/a><\/strong> YouTube: Louie Anderson’s West End Blues might be the most perfect three minutes of music you’ll ever hear<\/strong><\/a> Tiny Cat Pants: Apparently The World Owes Wintermass A Perpetual Hard-On<\/strong><\/a> Google Video: College Classroom Prank: The Musical!<\/strong><\/a> Latina Lista: Mexican University Prepares To Outfit Undocumented Migrants With GPS Devices<\/strong><\/a> NY Times: There’s Been A Big Drop In Breast Cancer Rates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Transadvocate Blog: More Thoughts On The Feminist Arguments Against Trans<\/strong><\/a> Canadian Court Legally Recognizes Three Parents Of One Boy<\/strong><\/a> Junk Food Science: “Fat Children Cost More In Health Care” is a self-fulfilling prophecy.<\/strong><\/a> NY Times: Illegal Drug Use Is Up — Mainly Among Middle-Aged White People<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Why are so few Americans aware of these troubling trends? One reason is that today\u2019s drug abusers are simply the \u201cwrong\u201d group. As David Musto, a psychiatry professor at Yale and historian of drug abuse, points out, wars on drugs have traditionally depended on \u201clinkage between a drug and a feared or rejected group within society.\u201d Today, however, the fastest-growing population of drug abusers is white, middle-aged Americans. This is a powerful mainstream constituency, and unlike with teenagers or urban minorities, it is hard for the government or the news media to present these drug users as a grave threat to the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n PoliBlog: American’s Biggest Cash Crop: Marijuana<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Balkinization: The Laziest Son<\/strong><\/a> Feministe: New York Public Schools To Start Issuing Obesity Report Cards.<\/strong><\/a> 5 Weight Loss Myths<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Echidne: The Hairy Armpit Wars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The reactions to the armpit hair revolution were swift and of the expected type. The hairy armpit wearers were condemned as ugly (why not talk to Mother Nature about that?), as manly (ditto) and as unable to attract men and therefore giving up on the fight. But the hairy armpit wearers were also labeled as focused on a trivial matter, on something that has to do with body grooming, on something that was so silly as to endanger the whole feminist movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Alone in the darkness of a state mental hospital, Sarah Crider, 14, lay slowly dying….”<\/strong><\/a> Racialicious: Will UC Berkeley Become A, Um, Historically Asian College?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology: Everyone Seems Smarter On A Little Screen<\/strong><\/a> William Saletan: The Ongoing Failure Of The 30-Year Search For The Harms Of Lesbian Parenting<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Black Britain: Blacks Fell Less Pressure To Obsess About Their Weight<\/strong><\/a> Pandagon: Mean, sarcastic take-down of anti-sex right-wingers. I loved it.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Boing Boing: Microscopic fungus practices mind-control on ants.<\/strong><\/a> Box Turtle Bulletin: Respected Study Finds That 95% of Americans Have Had Pre-Marital Sex<\/strong><\/a> OMWO: Breastfeeding follies: Baby Attempts To Nurse From Bare-Breasted Statue.<\/strong><\/a> Planet of the Blind: Waiting For The Bus, Part II<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m having a revery on the bus. Someone will shortly lean toward me and say that they once had a dog like mine. They will tell me a long and pointless story about their dog. They will not imagine that I have heard approximately four hundred and twenty five thousand dog stories from assorted strangers over the past decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Replace The Lies With Truth!: Anti-Gay Christian Group Provides Hilariously Textbook Example Of An Ad Hominem Attack.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Queer Dude Formerly Known As…: Dinesh D\u2019Souza really, really, really hates liberals.<\/strong><\/a> The Morning News: Being Christopher Hitchens<\/strong><\/a> Because Sometimes Feminists Aren’t Nice: Round-Of Of MSNBC’s Advice About Eating and Weight<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Damn Cool Pics: Amazing Manhole Cover Art From Japan<\/strong><\/a> Crooked Timber: Contrary To Conservative Belief, That People Own Playstations Doesn’t Prove Inequality Isn’t A Problem<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Balkinization: Constitutions are most effective when they do not appear to be doing anything.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n As is the case with a good shot blocker, the constitution functions by creating a kind of consciousness that prevents issues from even arising in partisan politics. A corollary to this thesis is that issues are likely to arise and prove relatively enduring only when standard constitutional sources do not provide clear answers to the relevant constitutional questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n From The Archives: How Shy Young Men Ought Nicely Ask Women For Kisses, Or Sex<\/strong><\/a> BBC: The Tower Of London Has Appointed A Female Beefeater For The First Time In History<\/strong><\/a> I’m Not A Feminist, But…: Being Given Shit For Caring About Men Sucks And It’s Wrong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Wonkette: Amazing NRA Graphic Novel Revealed!<\/strong><\/a> The View From (Ab)Normal Heights: Anti-Gay Activists In Virginia To Target Divorcing Straight Couples<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Shakespear’s Sister: First Muslim Representative Sworn Into Office On Tom Jefferson’s Copy Of The Koran<\/a><\/strong> NY Times: The Financial Costs Of Caring For Elderly Parents<\/strong><\/a> Iambored.com: Condom Plant!<\/strong><\/a> Shakespeare’s Sister: Quote I Really Liked, Click Through To Read The Whole Post<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Realistically, the breadth of allies in a comprehensive challenge to the patriarchy is vast and varied. Though all of us, sans rigorous philosophical exertion, are hapless conduits for every limiting and oppressive archetype upon which the patriarchy depends, conveying the bars of our own cages, very few of us are its unconstrained beneficiaries. Even the average straight, white, middle class American man exchanges privilege for severe limitations on his personal expression and emotional life\u2014and he is encouraged never to examine that devastating trade-off too closely, lest the veneer on the alleged bargain prove thin enough through which to see. We all serve the same callous master, and there’s little to celebrate in being the favored slave\u2014especially compared to a life of freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home<\/em> Name Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Nonfiction Book Of The Year<\/a><\/strong> Google Video: Laurence Lessig Lecture On Copyright Reform And New Technology<\/strong><\/a> Ya’ll know the drill…. VeganKid presents: Radical Progressive Carnival #8! Every Woman Has An Eating Disorder: Response to being told “An eating disorder\u2014now that\u2019s something I\u2019d like to have.” I forget who pointed out this blog to me (Maia, perhaps?), … Continue reading
\nI forget who pointed out this blog to me (Maia, perhaps?), but it’s excellent. Gotta add this one to the blogroll.<\/p>\n
\nThis is one of my favorite posts that I’ve read all week. A definite addition to the ever-growing blogroll.<\/p>\n
\nI really can’t recommend this blog too strongly. Always fascinating (and infuriating).<\/p>\n
\nThere’s some really excellent discussion in the comments.<\/p>\n
\nThe bankruptcy of a major book distributor might be very costly to American books. Galley Cat<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n![\"Japanese](\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/manhole_1.jpg\")
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\nDisturbing.<\/p>\n
\nDespite being on an anti-feminist blog, this post is excellent, and describes a very real harm done to boys in our society.<\/p>\n
\nFrom what this article says, this may be a particularly severe problem for single mothers.<\/p>\n
\nCurtsy: Brownfemipower<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nBeautifully written, angry response to a misogynistic internet asshole.<\/p>\n
\nOh, I am awed. This is amazing. I love the prof cracking up, too.<\/p>\n
\nThe idea is, if they get lost in the desert or otherwise get in trouble crossing, they can activate the devices and be rescued by the border patrol folks, thus preventing deaths. It’s a neat idea, I hope it works.<\/p>\n
\nMarti bounces off a post I wrote, adding thoughts and analysis.<\/p>\n
\nHis two lesbian mothers and his father. I think this development is wonderful.<\/p>\n
\nTurns out the higher costs aren’t due to fat kids getting sick any more, or using more emergency room trips. The higher costs are due to doctors assuming that being fat is a disease and thus ordering more tests for fat child patients.<\/p>\n
\nI’m not usually a poetry reader. But this thirteenth century poem by Rumi, and the blogger’s discussion of it, was both entertaining and fascinating.<\/p>\n
\nBecause the fat kids aren’t given enough shit about their weight already. See this post at Majikthise<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n
\nWell-researched, horrifying news story about pattern of neglect and abuse in Georgia state mental hospitals. Curtsy: The Gimp Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nA study finds that, all else held equal, job candidates are more likely to be liked by employers if they interview via a videoconference rather than in person.<\/p>\n
\nAlas, the article-writer seems to think this is a bad <\/em>thing.<\/p>\n
\nWhat is there to say, except: Keeewwwlll<\/em>!<\/p>\n
\nAnd check out “Breaking News: Having Sex Is Normal”<\/a> at Sometimes Feminists Aren’t Nice, too, for another excellent post about the same finding.<\/p>\n
\nWith pictures! Curtsy: Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nEvery time I think that right-wing bestselling authors have reached the limits of their irrationality, I’m amazed anew.<\/p>\n
\nWhat if Hitch were a professional wrestler? Or a children’s book reviewer? Or stuck in a room with several other Christopher Hitchenses? Curtsy: Truly Outrageous.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Japanese](\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/manhole_2.jpg\")
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\nA couple of examples are on the right side of this blog post. Damn, are we lame in comparison. Curtsy: Obsidian Wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nIndirectly via Ezra, who discusses how excruciatingly horrible small talk is<\/a>. I quite agree.<\/p>\n
\nVery cool. And as Jack at AngryBrownButch<\/a> points out, it’s supercool that they’re having her wear the same uniform as all the other beefeaters.<\/p>\n
\nThe politics are awful, but the drawings are wonderful. (Curtsy to Echidne).<\/p>\n
\nA slap in the face of bigot Virgil Goode, the Representative from Jefferson’s home district, who loudly called the use of a Koran un-American.<\/p>\n
\nCurtsy: Family Law Prof Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s a science project! Curtsy: Bint<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThis is in addition <\/em>to the Time <\/em>endorsement I blogged about a week or two ago. I find it thrilling that Bechdel is having such mainstream success, after years of being one of America’s best unknown cartoonists. Late Reviews<\/a> has a review of Fun House, if you’d like more info.<\/p>\n
\nLong, and probably only of interest to people who already believe that the US approach to intellectual property desperately needs radical reform, but I enjoyed it. It’s worth sitting through the one or two dull Q&A bits at the end to get to the more interesting ones that follow, too. Curtsy: Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"