{"id":3095,"date":"2007-01-14T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/14\/ampersands-10-favorite-posts-by-ampersand-for-2006\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T00:15:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:15:36","slug":"ampersands-10-favorite-posts-by-ampersand-for-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Ampersand's 10 Best Of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ta-da! My ten favorite posts written by me in 2006. (I’m not going to attempt to rank the posts of other “Alas” contributors – but Maia has already done a “best of Maia 2006<\/a>” post, and perhaps Rachael will do the same.)<\/p>\n

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My ten favorite posts of 2006 are almost all refutations of something or other; that’s the sort of thing I write best, I think. Usually the posts I’m proudest are the ones that took significant research on my part, although there are a couple of exceptions. ((I was surprised that none of my 2006 posts about racism made my “top ten” list. There were a few that (I think) contained good research and good arguments, but someone none of them were top-ten-level standouts.))<\/p>\n

One thing not on this list are any of my “link farm”<\/a> posts; but I’m actually very proud of the link farms. Putting them together is more work than you might imagine, for one thing. And I like that there’s a wide variety of blogs I link to in the link farms; it’s not the same blogs all the time (although anyone who pays way too much attention could see that there are some blogs I read very regularly), and it’s not just the “big” blogs.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, in no particular order, Amp’s top ten posts by Amp for 2006:<\/p>\n

Posts about abortion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do They Really Believe That Abortion Is Murder?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By far my most popular post in 2006; this caused so many hits that “Alas” crashed for a day.<\/p>\n

When Does Personhood Begin?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

(Very) Basic Economics And Abortion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Refuting the Anti-Feminists<\/strong><\/p>\n

These sort of posts are one of the main reasons I do “Alas”; I want these arguments and the information they contain to be available for feminists who are stuck in debates about this stuff and are googling for ammo.<\/p>\n

The IWF Attack On Rape Statistics.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

If I ever get around to writing that book I sometimes contemplate, stuff like the above will be an entire chapter….<\/p>\n

Men’s Rights Myth: Typical Child Support Payments Are Insanely High<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Men’s Rights Myth: Women Trick Men Into Fatherhood So They Can Collect Child Support<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Even those these posts are both months old, I still frequently have to delete “my ex-wife totally screwed me over” type comments left on these two posts. (I woudln’t delete them if they actually addressed the arguments in the post or presented non-anecdotal arguments).<\/p>\n

In Defense Of Generalizations And “Petty” Complaints<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Fat Acceptance Advocacy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Case Against Weight-Loss Dieting<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The emails and comments I’ve received from people who found “the case against weight loss dieting” helpful to them are some of the favorite comments I’ve gotten all year.<\/p>\n

Anti-Fat “Science” (UK Edition)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Probably I spent longer writing this post than any other, all year long; the research just took forever, for some reason. This might also be my longest post of the year.<\/p>\n

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And a post that’s not research-heavy, for a change.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Othering And Centering (Jewish Family Driven Out Of Town By Christians)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Bonus eleventh post!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Worst. Newspaper error. Ever.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Okay, this post isn’t really “by me,” since it just reprints a newspaper article I found on someone else’s blog. But months later, it still totally cracks me up.<\/p>\n

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The Also-Rans<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regarding the US’s High Infant Mortality Rate<\/a>, Poor Methodology In Anti-Divorce Study<\/a>, Will Being A Few Pounds Overweight Kill You?<\/a>, Affirmative Action Doesn’t Increase Minority Drop-Out Rates<\/a>, Conservatives Slander Feminists And Whitewash Harms To Iraqi Women<\/a>, Most Black Americans Oppose School Vouchers<\/a>, On Transgender, Transsexuals, And Entrenching The Gender Binary System<\/a>, Experts Answer: What Does DNA Evidence Prove?<\/a>, Crack Cocaine Sentencing: Systematic Racism At Work<\/a> (For some reason, this is the most-read post on “Alas” for both November and December, even though only 10 people have commented on it), and Should Men Be Called Feminists?<\/a> (probably the most personal post I wrote in 2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ta-da! My ten favorite posts written by me in 2006. (I’m not going to attempt to rank the posts of other “Alas” contributors – but Maia has already done a “best of Maia 2006” post, and perhaps Rachael will do … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","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=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}