I've been hearing that for years from fauxgressive men who don't have to worry about their bodies being controlled. Despite the fact that pro-liars have been inveighing against contraception for years. (Of course, if you don't pay attention to gender politics because it's "identity politics" or "not real politics," you're not going to hear about it ( Read more... )

I would really rather not watch the anti-contraception video created by a bunch of right-wing nuns in Ohio that has been posted at DailyKos, Jezebel, and Joe.My.God. because I would like to retain those precious brain cells, but here is the summary of things you may learn from it ( Read more... )

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David Brooks: Wimminz ain’t breedin’ enough. But, being Bobo, he says it genteelly, which means that a lot of "civility"-worshipping idiots will deem it a “thoughtful” column rather than the far-right rhetoric that it is.

New fetus-hugger talking point: “Obamacare = $1 abortions." As Roy Edroso writes, it's a deliberate misinterpretation of §156. ( Read more... )

A total of 36 advertisers have pulled out of Lush Rimjob's show. Thousands of people have signed this petition to get him yanked off Armed Forces Radio Network (which, unfortunately, doesn't look likely to happen).

Also, I am shocked and gratified to see, in the neoconservative Washington Post no less, this blast by Gene Weingarten:I was surprised ( Read more... )

Via PZ Myers, some good news out of the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, notorious for suicides caused by bullying of gender-nonconforming children: The district has pledged better treatment of gay and lesbian students as part of a settlement, and the lone school board member who objected to the settlement has resigned.

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An amazing short story by Amanda Ching. Forwarded to me by
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Sara Robinson, who's moved from Orcinus to Alternet, has a great piece about how seismic birth control has been in the context of human history - and why it terrifies the patriarchs.That one fact, that one technological shift, is now rocking the foundations of every culture on the planet - and will keep rocking it for a very long time to come. It ( Read more... )

This crapulous sludge has been making the rounds. The writer, and I use that word loosely, asks, "What are women for?"

Has anyone with serious intellectual chops or even a pretense to same ever asked, "What are men for?" Men in the gendered and not the "all humanity" sense? Of course not, because, as Jill Filopovic writes,Men are… men. Their ( Read more... )