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"Distracting" is apparently a female-only characteristic

An assistant principal at the Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, NC, had to apologize for implying his female dance students who wear spandex outside of class were teases and that the consequences were their fault:
"He explained that wearing leotards and tights in public places around the school would motivate the men to rape us," said the petition posted by a student and signed by dozens of others who attended the assembly. "He went on to ...
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Good Men Project goes bad

If you follow the feminist side of the blogosphere you will have already read discussion of the Good Men Project website and its founder Tom Matlack's article Being a Dude is a Good Thing where he claims women are always blaming men for everything and always picking on men, and subsequent meltdown over being called on his trite sitcom assertions without actually producing a ... << MORE >>

Alcohol Prohibition in the US and Women

I started watching the series "Prohibition" on PBS.

Alcohol consumption in the US had always been commonplace, but when the distillation process took hold, those people who used to have low-alcohol beer for breakfast, lunch, dinner and before bed were suddenly getting snockered on whiskey.

And at least at first, drinking this way was almost always done by men. Men were the ones spending their money in taverns, and without their participation in the home's economy, women and ...
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Who mugged Chris Hitchens?

There's a saying that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. I've wondered for some time, who mugged Chris Hitchens?

And I think it was himself.

He was a tireless, even compulsive, writer. Yet at some point he became tired of writing in support of Leftist views. As his tenure at The Nation came to a close, he lacked inspiration.

An anti-authoritarian, he first applied his talents to the Right, but he also questioned ...
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So Long Christopher Hitchens

I went to see him several times and have a couple of signed books.

He was a dick about a lot of things, but he was an intelligent and articulate voice for atheism and mostly quite entertaining. He will be missed, and fuck cancer.
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Plan B over the counter for those under 18

As probably everyone knows, US Health and Human Services Secretary Sibelius basically vetoed plan B over the counter for those under 18. The purported reason is that 11 year olds may not understand the directions, despite a study showing that those 11 to 17 in aggregate actually do understand the directions just fine.

A lot of the discussion on the web seems to fall ...
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Harassment = Affairs?

I don't know if anyone got this kind of response, but a friend of mine categorized Cain's affair and the harassment as the same thing!  Like "who cares if he had affairs." 

As if women's consent means nothing.

Headdesk.
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So long Cain

Herman Cain announced he is taking a little time out from campaigning.

So is there any scenario where he comes back?  This year? 

I can't imagine one.
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Linkspam

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/violence-against-women-is_1_b_1121001.html

Violence against women is a global pandemic? Like H1N1? Like in Contagion? No way. Think of your instinctive response to the idea of a worldwide bio-terror — that's what your response should be to the normalized level of violence against women around the world. Because, here's the thing: women are not a special interest group and fighting for the ability to live without violence is not a pet project.

Think I'm exaggerating, don't you? Until I ...

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OWS for men?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/30/occupy-wall-street-women-voices?newsfeed=true

This week marked an important step. On Monday, after a number of women complained of "overly aggressive" men dominating events, OWS has, for the first time, instigated a series of female-led meetings where only women can speak. It was an opportunity for "males to listen and for female marginalised voices to be heard," Holder said.

The meeting at Wall Street, attended by around 20 women and 15 unusually ...

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