February 2012
8 posts
Amanda on "sensitivity training" →
amandahess:
There’s something sad, but also kind of hopeful, about a boomer who deploys a “sensitivity training” joke when called on some sexist bullshit. There exists in the history of work a specific place and time where a fancy guy could live out his days engaging in lazy sexism until some loathsome bureaucrat stuck him in a room and made him a watch a poorly-acted VHS tape about not talking...
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This House Panel on Birth Control Consists...
good:
The GOP’s explanation: The fight over birth control coverage mandates is “not about women.” It’s about “religious liberties.”
Really? Or is it just easier to wage a culture war with the language of “freedom” and “big government?
Read more on GOOD→
Me on the culture wars. Nice spin, fellas! #atleastbehonest
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“I am a logical liberal who also happens to be Catholic. I am embarrassed by the...”
– Georgia Rep. Tom Price dared us to bring him “one woman” who had been unable to afford birth control. Within hours, we found 25. Share your own story at #priceiswrong (via amandahess)
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January 2012
8 posts
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“The fact is, we can no longer tell someone’s financial reality by what they eat,...”
– A #HUSTLIN MUST-READ
Oh Hell Yes.
ellenwillis:
Out of the Vinyl Deeps was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award! This awesome news comes at the tail end of some pretty fab year-end accolades. Go mama!
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Open Marriages Aren't Wrong–Newt Gingrich Is →
Me on the difference between giving repressive tradition the finger and just being a total asshole scumbag.
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I Googled "Writing With Lipstick" →
Women talking politics clearly necessitates a lipstick Sharpie.
jessicavalenti:
Here’s the thing: I will always want more women’s (and feminist) voices in the mainstream media, particularly in politics. There’s an overwhelming byline gender gap and that needs to change. But The Washington Post’s new lady blog, “She the People,” is not a step in the right direction…
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December 2011
8 posts
OH, ZOOEY.
carefreewhitegirl:
A new rendition...
“I want to reclaim it, like “bitch,” until it carries the same connotation as...”
– ann friedman on “spinster.” (via amandahess)
November 2011
5 posts
“Most guys, we can recite all of The Godfather, we can recite all of Caddyshack,...”
– Aaron Sorkin (follow and join the #LadiesinFilm tag on Twitter to prove him wrong with quotable lines from women across film history). #geenadavis4eva
October 2011
8 posts
“It is the longing for happiness that is potentially radical, while the morality...”
– the quote by Ellen Willis (aka my mom) that inspired my GOOD piece today on winter and OWS: The Revolution Will Not Be Winterized.
"Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" Is the Best...
Lucy and I are going as Sue Ellen Crandell and Rose Lindsey from DTMTBD for Halloween. Some inspiration for my Rose costume from Tracie:
Which seems to have inspired Hillary’s amphibian-themed broach:
Also, worst outfit ever for a 20-hour trip to Australia: “I thought this trip was pleasure not business. What’s with the brief case?”
And more life lessons here.
Getting It
“Though the two are easily confused, female cynicism about men is not an expression of feminism. The cynic assumes that men will always have power over women and the will to exploit it, that if things change it can only be for the worse. But since few people can live entirely without hope, she tends to displace hers onto the past. For the feminist’s utopian vision, she substitutes a...
Re: The Last Unmarried Person In America
Fun fact: Kate Bolick was my mom’s student.
emilybooks:
by Marisa Meltzer
That first line of “The Last Unmarried Person in America”—“The great marriage boom of ’84 began shortly after Congress passed the historic National Family Security Act”—is such good science fiction that it took me several beats to realize it was in fact made up. Then Ellen Willis expands on it, noting that the Act...
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September 2011
3 posts
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WatchMY TWO FAVORITE THINGS: FACEBOOK TIMELINE AND MAD MEN.
My love letter to the Timeline: here.
My love letter to Mad Men: here.
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August 2011
4 posts
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“I was having trouble finding the clinic Saturday morning, but then I saw you...”
– best of craigslist: Planned Parenthood protestors - w4m (via becauseiamawoman)
July 2011
4 posts
“It was my research editor who told me it was completely nuts to willingly get...”
– Mac McClelland’s amazing piece called I’m Gonna Need You to Fight Me On This: How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD. (via mayaslinklings)
June 2011
11 posts
