So according to this guy in his New York Times op-ed, it's time we bring in a greater stigma towards single mothers... to stop them from being currently unhappy (which therefore gives men higher happiness ratings than women). He writes:

They should also be able to agree that the steady advance of single motherhood threatens the interests and ( Read more... )

No no no no no no no!

GET WELL SOON RUTH, PLEASE. WE NEED YOU.

LOVE,
EVERY THINKING PERSON IN AMERICA.

p.s.
Our uteruses send flowers.

Because sometimes, decisions make sense. And sometimes, women get to make (equal) cents.

In a word: refreshing.

Also: HURRAH!

It's about FUCKING TIME we got some fair pay acts! You go, Lilly. You go and earn your fair pay. (Well, maybe not exactly, but Ms. Ledbetter paved the way for the rest of us ( Read more... )

Hey friends,

On the actual day of massive online activism for Roe v. Wade, I was out being a big ol' campus rep and scurrying around with button-making supplies and assorted pro-choice paraphernalia, and thus couldn't quite get my act together to blog. Then Friday came and went, and on Saturday I was out the door by 5 a.m. to do some clinic ( Read more... )

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Franken's been declared the winner? The Lizard People have done it, once and for all ( Read more... )

During my senior year of high school, my English teacher, knowing my feminist tendencies, handed me a photocopied column from The Nation. "This is by Katha Pollitt," he said, “You should read her stuff ( Read more... )

So, remember how Bush wants to pass all this last-minute bullshit to shit a tad more on women’s reproductive autonomy? Like here and here ( Read more... )

When I last posted on the election, I had been Whoabamaed.

His post-Iowa speech stirred me, and so, I finally decided to place one, tentative limb onto the Obama Bandwagon O' Hope.

And that's when the sexist floodgates opened. In part because Hillary's own floodgates opened, or so trumpeted the truly suffocating headlines-- "HILLARY GETS ( Read more... )

"He also said that, as predicted earlier, Mr. Obama has a big edge with younger voters and Mrs. Clinton an edge with women, and the fight is over younger women."

"Our colleague Marjorie Connelly, from our polling desk, reports that Mr. Obama’s strength came from younger voters, voters who are looking for change, independents and very liberal ( Read more... )