{"id":490,"date":"2003-12-12T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/12\/12\/ampersand-has-been-readings-stuff-lately-oh-yes-my-precious-he-has-been\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T18:33:19","slug":"ampersand-has-been-readings-stuff-lately-oh-yes-my-precious-he-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Ampersand has been readings stuff lately, oh yes, my precious, he has been"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>PinkDreamPoppies wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/001079.html\">earlier this week<\/a> that &#8220;vacuums are from hell.&#8221; He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eviltron.com\/bushsucks\/\">didn&#8217;t know the half of it<\/a>. (Via Skippy).\n<li>Echidne of the Snakes celebrates the latest milestone in women&#8217;s sports: <a href=\"http:\/\/echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com\/2003_12_01_echidneofthesnakes_archive.html#107114581269701678\">The Lingerie Bowl<\/a>.\n<li>Check out Noli Irritare Leones for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notfrisco2.com\/webzine\/Lynn\/003847.html\">a good critique of a bad Wendy McElroy article<\/a> &#8211; this time on the father&#8217;s rights movement.\n<div class=\"snip\">OK, so McElroy has found several hundred different embittered men who believe women are heartless golddiggers. And &#8220;it becomes prudent to listen&#8221; &#8211; in other words, to take these testimonials, not as evidence of some men&#8217;s opinions, but as evidence of the way family law right now really is. Well, guess what? There are lots of embittered divorced women out there. There are stories like <a href=\"http:\/\/bodyandsoul.typepad.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/losers.html\">this one <\/a>of a woman who traded her daughter&#8217;s college education to hang onto her house, and then lost the house anyway. And there are bitter single women to match the bitter single men. It&#8217;s not hard to find several hundred divorced people, men or women, prepared to say that they were screwed. Taking the stories of the men alone, even if you have several hundred of them, is not adequate evidence that family courts really are biased against men.<\/div>\n<li>Dirk Deppey has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/journalista\/zarch200312Ba.html\">long, well-done rant <\/a>about the state of the current comic book industry. Shorter Dirk Deppey: If superhero fans don&#8217;t learn to broaden their tastes, comic book stores won&#8217;t be able to survive.\n<li>Last week I linked to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/story.php?storyID=13976\">article in <i>Foreign Policy <\/i><\/a>about Japan&#8217;s population troubles &#8211; basically, many young Japanese women are choosing to remain single and childless rather than subject themselves to the sexist norms of marriage in Japan. <a href=\"http:\/\/trishwilson.typepad.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/japanese_women__1.html\">Trish Wilson has more commentary <\/a>about the article, pointing out that women in many cultures could be making the same complaints.\n<li>Blueheron has some interesting thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/heron61\/210547.html\">Christianity and Neo-Pagen Spirituality<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a sample:\n<div class=\"snip\">Every pagan I know talks about how we shouldn&#8217;t insult Christianity and Christians, and yet almost all of us do so. I was amused at a comment years ago on alt.pagan about how the Wiccan declaration of honoring all gods in practice means honoring all gods except the Christian Trinity. This discomfort that most pagans feel with Christianity is troubling for two reasons. The first reason is obvious and honestly hardly needs to be repeated. Every pagan reading this knows that responding to intolerance with intolerance is useless and actively harmful, especially since there are many Christians who have no trouble with pagans. However, the other reason is somewhat more complex. From a historical and anthropological perspective, Wicca and all of the other neo-pagan faiths, from the OTO to the Church of All Worlds are in large part Christian variants.<\/div>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/archives\/005159.html#005159\">Why wait until election day?<\/a> ABC News has pulled its reporters from the Kucinich, Sharpton and Moseley Braun campaigns. Via TalkLeft.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/op-ed\/20031208-092909-1855r.htm\">Tod Lindberg discusses gay marriage<\/a>. What&#8217;s interesting is that even a homophobic right-winger like Lindberg can see that the &#8220;secular&#8221; arguments against gay marriage are exceptionally weak.\n<li>Everything you could want to know about the McDonalds Spilled Coffee Lawsuit &#8211; and probably a good deal more &#8211; can be found in these well-done posts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curmudgeonlyclerk.com\/weblog\/archives\/2003_12.html#000620\">The Curmudgeonly Clerk <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/daubertontheweb.com\/2003_12_01_archive.html#107102733850230485\">Blog 702<\/a>. Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daubertontheweb.com\/2003_12_01_archive.html#107124132860399524\">Blog 702 again<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.50minutehour.net\/archive\/2003_12_01_index.htm#107119086580023409\">The Fifty Minute Hour <\/a>has a good post describing the French government\u2019s attempts to outlaw Muslim women from wearing hijabs.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/archives\/000987.html\">Chris at Crooked Timber <\/a>provides this startling factoid from Amartya Sen:\n<div class=\"snip\">In fact, it turns out that men in China and in Kerala decisively outlive African American men in terms of surviving to older age groups. Even African American women end up having a survival pattern for the higher ages similar to that of the much poorer Chinese, and decidedly lower survival rates than then even poorer Indians in Kerala. So it is not only the case that American blacks suffer from <i>relative <\/i>deprivation in terms of income per head vis-a-vis American whites, they are also <i>absolutely <\/i>more deprived than low-income Indians in Kerala (for both women and men), and the Chinese (in the case of men), in terms of living to ripe old ages.<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=purchase-viagra-on-the-internet\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PinkDreamPoppies wrote earlier this week that &#8220;vacuums are from hell.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t know the half of it. (Via Skippy). Echidne of the Snakes celebrates the latest milestone in women&#8217;s sports: The Lingerie Bowl. Check out Noli Irritare Leones for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[50,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms","category-wendy-mcelroy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}