Salon has an interview with Dan Savage titled “The evolution of Dan Savage” which is a pretty good read if you’re not very familiar with the progression of his career, and includes an interesting (to me) bit about his motivation for starting the It Gets Better Project: One of the […]
Read MoreThis just in: free birth control will bring about the apocalypse
GOP congressman says free birth control will end the human race, said a headline that I was very reluctant to believe. Someone claims that? Seriously? But I was pretty much wrong: GOP Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) suggested that providing free birth control would lead to the end of the entire […]
Read MoreSpeculations on the economics of sterilization: Denmark edition
From the blog of Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics: The Economics of Sterilization When it comes to sterilization, Denmark has had a rather turbulent history. In 1929, in the midst of rising social concerns regarding an increase in sex crimes and general “degeneracy,” the Danish government passed legislation bordering on […]
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Pat Robertson declares that just as every other country to accept homosexuality and gay marriage has failed, so shall the U.S. One wonders exactly how Robertson defines failure, given that Denmark legalized civil unions in 1985 and many other countries have embraced gays as equal to a similar or greater […]
Read MoreThose immoral, sinful, perverse, lucky lesbians
From How to be a Retronaut: Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1935-1958 The description at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library site reads: Included here are twenty-five illustrated front and back covers from pulp fiction novels dating between 1935-1958. This small collection of novels is part of the Beinecke Rare Book and […]
Read MoreTaming the tiger
Ed posted at Dispatches today about Slut Walk and Vox Day’s reaction to it. My favorite comment of the thread so far, hands down, comes from Eric: Just as you don’t teach a tiger to stop devouring steak by continuously waving a bloody t-bone in front of it… He’s not just […]
Read MoreThis just in: opponents of Slut Walks identify with rapists. Shocking.
“I see cleavage! Must rape!” Holy cats. If you have a need to troll for misogynists, apparently there’s no better way than to have a Slut Walk. Articles on the subject appeared in the Guardian and the Daily Mail yesterday, and Dawn Foster found these in the Mail’s comment thread: If women […]
Read MoreDon’t dress your children provocatively…or major news sites will call them “tramps”
I find it difficult to imagine how someone could read this without being creeped out by the author rather than the subject of his own disturbance: I saw someone at the airport the other day who really caught my eye. Her beautiful, long blond hair was braided back a la Bo […]
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