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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
December 2007 - Posts
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Rachael , I agree that Dave Lindorff's joke is off-color—I certainly don't think the prospect of Red America wiped out by flood or drought due to global warming is a good thing! And yet I find myself wanting to defend the guy ... First, Lindorff's revenge Read More...
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Watching the tragedy of Benazir Bhutto's assassination unfold Thursday should have provided a sobering reality check for everyone who bemoans the state of politics in this country. We can go on endlessly about how divided our electorate is, about how Read More...
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You might be right, Melinda , that experience doesn't make Hillary Clinton or John McCain the "safe" candidate in light of the Bhutto assassination. (I'll admit I've found myself warming to McCain while he survived the greatly exaggerated reports of his Read More...
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Maybe John is right that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is apt to win supporters for the "safe'' presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. In much the same way that voters decided it was "safer'' to reward George W. Bush's bumbling Read More...
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Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today at a rally near Islamabad. A suicide bomber reportedly shot her at close range then detonated an explosive, killing Bhutto and 20 others. Bhutto was a complicated woman—underneath the traditional Read More...
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As Melinda said , for everyone who chuckles at the photo of Hillary looking haggard, there’s at least one other person whose vote will be tipped in her direction if they sense she’s being picked on for being a middle-aged woman who looks like a middle-aged Read More...
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I’m not sure if the bedraggled Hillary will win women’s sympathy. But it blows my minds that college students who can no longer get low-cost contraception at school aren’t getting much sympathy from Slate readers. College health centers have long gotten Read More...
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Just remember: Some women who do not love Hillary Clinton will nonetheless rally to her side if she's roughed up, looks like she's been roughed up -- or even, as John suggests, just looks like she had Ho Hos for breakfast and hasn't slept since Thursday. Read More...
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John (our intrepid political correspondent, who is who knows where in New Hampshire) read our exchange about the Drudge photo and has this to add: Hillary needs to look like shit right now because her message is that she's out there working like a dog Read More...
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Terrible photos are just irresistable, aren't they? This one of Hillary reminds me of the scary one of Mark Warner that ran on the front of the New York Times Magazine back when he looked like a viable presidential candidate. Remember it? His teeth looked Read More...
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I'm seeing this remarkable photo of Hillary Clinton all over today. On Drudge, first and foremost, but also on blogs that are discussing it. Like Ann Althouse, I first reacted with disbelief. Then a million questions popped into my head. How much of our Read More...
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Bill Clinton's remarks on "Charlie Rose" last week had more than a whiff of frustration. They made Hillary's campaign seem a little desperate. And so it's not surprising to read this morning that some of her advisers wish he would tone it down. I wonder Read More...
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Don't miss our books round-up (how's that for an inside plug?), which has convinced me to spend my winter vacation week reading about, what else, work. Like Michelle Tsai, who along with Torie Bosch recommends Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End , Read More...
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We often hear of the freedom from being judged by their sexual attractiveness experienced by Muslim women in traditional covering. Can we agree, however, that such freedom is compromised when it comes under threat of death? Here are two horrifying stories. Read More...
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Dahlia's right: Female fun in the movies is a dangerous thing. There's a 1994 movie by that title, Fun , in which two teenage girls meet, form an instant, high-spirited and giggly bond, and then decide to murder an old woman together just for kicks. The Read More...
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I thought of one Emily. Little Children -- smart woman cuts loose without regard for her responsibilities. Allows her child to gallivant with pedophiles as a result. Read More...
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Good question , Emily. The best example of a driven yet playful female character I can think of is Nikita in La Femme Nikita . She's a spy/assassin who's just as tough as the toughest guys, but what she really wants to do is put her gun away and goof Read More...
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Meghan's great lament about the humorless fate of the women in Knocked Up has me thinking: In what movies has Hollywood come through for us and provided what we might indeed want more of--women who are smart and also know how to play and cut loose? It's Read More...
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Juliet, your post on the Dutch couple who abandoned their adopted child is a nice bookend to this story I'd wanted to blog about: According to (also!) the Daily Mail , the world's oldest mother—she gave birth to her sons last year at 66—is seriously ill. Read More...
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Via the Daily Mail , a Dutch couple living abroad abandoned a 7-year-old South Korean girl that they had adopted as a baby. Apparently, the couple took in the girl after failing to conceive. Subsequently, they had two biological children, and then decided Read More...
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Our son insisted that we watch Sand and Sorrow on HBO last night, and I am filled with shame after seeing it: Not only has our government done little to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur, but have I so much as dropped a note to my elected representatives? Read More...
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Via Matt Yglesias , a story about Jamie Leigh Jones, a former employee of Haliburton/KBR who told ABC news she was gang-raped at a KBR camp in the Green Zone in Iraq, then held in a shipping container without food or water and threatened with termination Read More...
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There's a great discussion going on in the Fray about the varying IQs of older and younger siblings , featuring Norwegian study author Petter Kristensen and psychology writer Judith Rich Harris. Check it out . Read More...
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Reading the story about the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes that Dahlia points to , I couldn't help being struck by an eerie parallel. This story is unfolding a couple of days after the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the latest case about Read More...
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Remember that whole big legal debate we were having last month about water-boarding ? Remember when we were trying to understand why Michael Mukasey wouldn’t just come out and say water-boarding is torture? Remember when everyone thought the Bush administration Read More...
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Emily, thanks for bringing up Dick Cheney's bragging ; I thought I was doing OK without Jon Stewart, but now I see I was only fooling myself. Speaking of which, poor Mitt : He had to address the Mormon question , but then did so in a way that told us Read More...
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Dick Cheney has some observations in Politico about how his old House colleagues are faring under Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Most striking were his virtually taunting remarks of two men he described as friends from his own days in the House: Democratic Reps. Read More...
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Via Ann Althouse comes word of an annoyingly frivolous potential lawsuit. Outraged over the fact that the University of Iowa outfits the visitor's locker room at its football stadium entirely in pink, a former law professor at the university is threatening Read More...
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Writing in Slate , former Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein has gone on an impeachment tear this year—calling for Bush's impeachment , Cheney's , and maybe Nancy Pelosi''s next . He has also co-written a play, with Richard Lasser, "I—The Impeachment Read More...
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I wrote last summer about a Norwegian study on birth order that was being treated as definitive proof that first-born kids have higher IQs than their siblings--and that the IQ edge is due to social rank, not biology. (Actually, the results are about brothers Read More...
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