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“Girls” and the politics of the remote control
In case you were wondering, yes, I do have opinions on the show “Girls” and all the press it’s been getting. I wrote a piece that I definitely hope you check out at The American Prospect on the whole thing, were I lament how much ink is being spilled about…
Caitlin Flanagan exposes herself on the radio
Caitlin Flanagan gets a lot of attention because she’s able to write in these elliptical, obtuse ways that seem really profound, which is why it’s useful to listen to her on the radio, where she’s forced to be more concise, revealing that she’s just the same old culture warrior whose…
It’s pathetic that this is controversial
A number of people have written in and asked me to comment on this incident at Yale where a bunch of douchebag frat boys yelled a bunch of pro-rape stuff around housing where a lot of young women live. It’s obvious to me this is as classic as it gets…
Why Twilight?
You know what I really, really don’t get? The whole Twilight thing. I just don’t get it. I mean, I analyze and observe it like a good feminist critic of pop culture, but on the most basic, gut level, I just don’t get why it’s appealing to anyone, much less…
News bulletin: men have hearts that break
Conservative hand-wringing over young women having sex isn’t due to the double standard, we’re always being told. Oh no!, they say. We’d be totally indifferent to women having sex outside of our narrow confines if it wasn’t so harmful. But girls so badly want boyfriends! And of course, boys couldn’t…
No, really, the word “no” isn’t that confusing
I wish I had a more fun, cheeky thing to post on before a holiday weekend, but I can’t just let this new sex tape scandal thing slide. In the past, I’ve suggested that men who film women (with their consent) having sex and then release it (without their consent)…
False dichotomies
I didn’t initially think I had much to add to Tracy Clark-Flory refuting yet another round of trend stories suggesting that young women are suddenly embracing chastity (I’m going to pitch a story one day about young men suddenly renouncing their slutty ways and see if anyone bites), the most…
What about the men?
Every few years or even months or so, you get another alarmist article about how young women are failing their feminist foremothers. Young women don’t call themselves feminists! Young women don’t care about history! Young women are dropping out of feminism! These articles have a few flaws in common, the…
It’s not the sex, it’s the sexism
Rachel Simmons wrote yet another piece expressing concern that “hook-up culture” is damaging to girls, and this time, it’s actually getting taken seriously by feminist bloggers. The reason is that, unlike someone like Laura Sessions Stepp who is clearly acting out of prudery and a general disdain for the intelligence…
Quick fixes to kill feminism doomed to fail
One of the things that really undermines the anti-choice argument that they’re motivated strictly by love of “life” is the way they obsess particularly over college women, specifically the tendency of college women not to marry and have children while still in college, due to the fact that this is…
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