Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Posts
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A guest post from Double X writer Linda Hirshman:
In responding to my column, “The Trouble With Jezebel,” Jaclyn Friedman
writes that I "said that the bloggers at Jezebel need to accept that they
may be raped if they’re going to insist on being such public sluts."
Friedman says she is paraphrasing. Definition: "to rephrase, summarize,
reword, interpret, translate, restate." Only problem: Something like the words
used to paraphrase must be there in the first place. I have never... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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On May 12, the New York Times ran a photograph featuring a
soldier in his underpants. The photo was eye-catching—I know it caught my
eye—and appeared above the fold on the front page. The photo was taken by David
Guttenfelder for the Associated Press, and its subject was Spc. Zachary
Boyd of Fort Worth, Texas. But what made it a standout was that... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Here's a really interesting study showing that proximity to women appears to
shape male views on policy. I recently wrote about a study showing the influence of female judges on their male
counterparts in gender discrimination cases. Courtesy of FiveThirtyEight,
here's a bunch of fascinating studies showing that fathers
of daughters tend to support more liberal programs, ranging from... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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The Palin family's message machine seems to have gone haywire of late. Governor
Sarah has plastered on her serious face, forswearing this month's White House
Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington to concentrate on the recession
in Alaska. She sent her husband to D.C. instead to hang with Greta Van Susteren
but say nothing to the cameras. At one WHCA post-party, former Palin
running-mate-in-law Meghan McCain seemed confused about how to deal with... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Over at Seed, Josh Rosenau describes his organization's long,
failed attempt to get the Texas School Board to adopt evolution-friendly
standards for the state's textbooks. Much as I'd like to, I cannot get
exercised over this issue; my own public, and later parochial, elementary
education was full of so much misinformation (America will run out of landfills
by the year 1990! Marijuana kills! New York City is the capital of New York!)
that... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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The Irish government has released a report
detailing the vicious beatings, rape, and emotional abuse inflicted on tens
of thousands children entrusted to the care of Catholic orphanages for 60 years,
until the 1990s. The Times pulls out this description:
“Punching, flogging, assault and bodily attacks ... burning, scalding, stabbing,
severe beatings with or without clothes, being made to kneel and stand in fixed
positions for lengthy periods ..." (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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It turns out Adam Lambert was too weird to win American Idol. Possibly gay, possibly Jewish (here's a video of him singing in Hebrew!), definitely wearing nail polish, Lambert was too much of a challenge, as they say politely, to American notions of masculinity. There was no way... (To read the rest of this post... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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This week, Hanna, Meghan, and I inaugurated the Double
X weekly podcast, called the "XX Gabfest" in tribute to some of
our Slate offerings, the "Political Gabfest" and
the "Culture
Gabfest." We hashed out our thoughts about Obama's speech on abortion at
Notre Dame, Nancy Pelosi's troubles, and... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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You know, it's funny, Hanna: I listened to Adam Davidson duking it out with Elizabeth Warren on Planet Money (love that podcast) and came away filled with satisfaction. That's partly because I like a good argument. But it was also because Davidson and Warren were having a substantive, heated disagreement about economic policy, and they trusted each other enough to argue both rationally and with real... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Recently on Planet Money, host Adam Davidson got into a tiff with Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor who oversees the Treasury's bank bailout. In the days since, their argument—which lasted all of two minutes—has ballooned into a comment war that taps into lefty passions about the economy, the future of the American family, and latent sexism.
Davidson is disappointed because he was hoping the Congressional Oversight Panel, which Warren chairs, would be something like the 9/11 Commission, a respected nonpartisan advisory board of "senior statesmen" that would sagely guide the administration on how to save the economy. "Senior statesmen" is a phrase he repeats a few times. In the clip, he raises his voice and... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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