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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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The Walkers' feud is way too complex and layered for us to assume we really understand what is going on between them. Clearly there's family dysfunction, old resentments, past disappointments—all the stuff that most families deal with on some level or Read More...
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Today at 5:01 p.m. PT, same-sex couples will begin to marry. I send them love and congratulations. And I send my profound hope that every single newlywed couple—the ones who have been together for 30 years ago or for 3 months ago—may be happy together Read More...
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Two things bother me about the Rebecca Walker essay (which last week stirred up a hot intergenerational discussion on a feminist listserv I'm on). First is her conflation of her mother and feminism. I'm sorry, but when did Alice Walker become the spokesperson Read More...
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About a year ago, I was visiting friends in Los Angeles. They had a small dinner party in my honor. All of us were lesbians, all relatively political. One couple had been together nearly 30 years, since they met in law school; another couple was raising Read More...
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Hey y'all, I am delighted to be joining this brilliant assembly. For my first post here, I'd like to point out that Mother's Day is coming up. A year ago I wrote a great deal about how the news media gets working mothers' issues all wrong—talking about Read More...
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Dear Emily, Once, at a dinner party honoring the retirement of a friend of my father-in-law, I sat next to the law firm's former managing partner. You would have heard of the firm; it's one of those with huge offices in New York and Washington and all Read More...
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Today’s NYT cover story on Obama’s late mother , Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, contains one passage that gave me a sinking feeling: In Hawaii she married an African student at age 18. Then she married an Indonesian, moved to Jakarta, became an anthropologist, Read More...
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On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart showed footage of a few of Eliot Spitzer's predecessors in the "Parade of Shame,'' who, as he said, were "all following the one simple rule of public humiliation: Bring a date.'' Then Samantha Bee gave us the Read More...
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Quick, before we're all caught up in the reading of campaign entrails, I'd like to mention an item on the agenda of the Department of Labor's first budget hearing later this week: the American Time Use Survey, which will be eliminated if the Bush administration Read More...
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Mom who works at home: Bill will be picking up the girls today . Non-salaried mom: Why, are you out of town ? M: No, just on deadline . N: Well that's awfully nice of him. I hate for him to have to do that . M: It's not nice; he's their dad . N: But, Read More...
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The pertinent fact about Patti Solis Doyle's explanation for leaving Hillary's campaign (that her little boy cried for Daddy instead of for her) seems to me to lie outside its factual veracity. It's probably a fictionalized condensation of something that's 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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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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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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More frivolously occupied than Dahlia or Emily have been, I spent a bit of my weekend flipping through The Daring Book for Girls . I picked it up after my daughter had written about it for her high-school newspaper—and after The New York Times had mocked Read More...
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Geez, Juliet , I hope you don't believe that Republicans are all cold-hearted greedmeisters while Democrats are all selfless philanthropists! I bet I can think of a few greedy Democrats and, if I try hard enough, a generous Republican or two. I can see Read More...
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