I find it odd how people are so quick to talk about how this action is about privileged women and then, when a number of people raise their hands to say, “I’m not privileged and I support it,” it’s like suddenly they—and their identities as racial and other minorities—don’t count.

One answer to the slander that this is for “privileged” women is linked below.

One answer to the slander that this is for “privileged” women is linked below. 

Not country, and it’s about a woman killing her abusive dad...but honorable mention for “Janie Got a Gun.”

Not sure why you seem to be blaming the reporter here. Most reporters at print papers have little to do with the headlines. Major print dailies still usually employ people specifically to write headlines.

By the way, that opening quote—“Men dream of women, men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at...”—is from art critic John Berger’s amazing and groundbreaking 1972 “Ways of Seeing.”

Minor thing: aren’t Levin and Kitty characters in Anna Karenina, not War and Peace?

Most states have an organ donation program that you can register with online, Often they are run through the Secretary of State's office. In Illinois it's here: https://www.ilsos.gov/organdonorregi…

None of the medical workers who worked on Duncan were told to quarantine themselves or limit contact, and she was not symptomatic—therefore not contagious—when she first travelled. If she hadn't been in Cleveland, she likely would have been working in that hospital in Dallas, taking care of other sick people, when she…

Joan Rivers on dead Palestinian civilians, from Mediaite

1) Yes, actually, the voices of Holocaust survivors speaking out against the idea that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism are important—because for so long there's been a monolithic idea that because anti-Semitism exists there must be a Jewish state so that there never will be a repeat of the Holocaust. And that is the…

Then that must make Hedy Epstein, a 90-year-old Holocaust supporter, an anti-Semite? Or Suzanne Weiss? Or Hajo Meier, Marianka Ehrlich Ross, or any of the other Holocaust survivors and descendants of Holocaust survivors who recently signed onto a statement against "the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people," and…

And is that "Artemis" from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia who has the phobia of balls...cotton balls?

I'm pretty sure you've misspelled her last name: It's Catanzaro

The Magdalene Sisters: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt031841…

Hey, you try teaching a kid with one parent in jail and who didn't get any dinner last night or breakfast this morning. Try teaching a kid who is clinically depressed. Try teaching a kid with medical problems that a family can't get taken care of because there's no money for a doctor and the wait for state Medicaid is…

Newsflash: Native hunters engaged in subsistence hunting are not "shit." They hunt for survival, not for sport. At the end of the day, you running your air conditioning in the summer probably does more to threaten the survival of polar bears than this guy's hunting does.

The Nation sportswriter Dave Zirin has an excellent piece today about the intersection between rape and jock culture. Required reading.

Baum's family has apologized for the editorials—so apparently they didn't see them as satire. And as far back as 1997, the L. Frank Baum society attempted to pass a resolution condemning them, so there's apparently a significant chunk of Baum scholars who also don't believe they were sarcasm. It's also worth…

Actually, the early feminist movement split into two camps in 1860s specifically over the question of racism. In many cases, the early feminist espoused a version of white, pure womanhood that, by design, left out their sisters of color (and argued hard that Blacks did not deserve the right to vote). See Sojourner…