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  • Closer to Home

    Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:28 PM By Dahlia Lithwick

    It would have been just one more distressing story about a controversial, possibly threatening student essay; gun possession on campus ; and an expulsion and involuntary hospitalization in Virginia. There are almost too many layers to untangle: The 23-year-old Read More...

  • More on Girls 'n' Guns

    Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:34 AM By Dahlia Lithwick

    My friend Corey Owens takes me to school for last week's gender-based generalizations . . . . Guest post follows: Not to stand between you and your spitball-straw, but "...if women ever ran the country"...?!? Come on. The not-so-subtle suggestion that Read More...
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  • Girls 'n' Guns

    Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:08 AM By Dahlia Lithwick

    In just over a week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important gun rights case of our lifetimes. And two days ago, the student body president for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was shot to death in a residential Read More...
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  • They Shoot Plus Sizes, Don't They?

    Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:05 PM By Melinda Henneberger

    Michelle Obama is no Nancy Reagan, either, and I think maybe all of these women are just trying to "pop'' on TV. But—shameless forced transition alert—whatever shade we're in the market for ... doesn't it seem like the phrase "shop until you drop'' is Read More...

  • Baby Bond Girls

    Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:08 AM By Meghan O'Rourke

    Parody site of the day, via feministing: Guns for girls . "My Little Carbine" takes the cake for its pastiche of My Little Ponies with assault weapons. It's startling to me how perniciously traditional many children's TV ads still are. We didn't have Read More...
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