Ugh, Hanna Rosin's article was basically a lot of reactionary railing against collective action or identity. Good for her that she doesn't find women's unity useful, she should go be a hermit and stop trying to undermine the people who are actually seeking change. The world is bigger than each individual, and the…

Ditto.

I think it is what Boehner is saying to women.

Best sentence of the day: Lil Poopy, the diminutive lyricist future classics professors will discourse at length on when teaching students about the decadence of the late North American Empire...

I was mostly single for a long time, because I'm picky and I wasn't interested in settling for something that wasn't great. Single life is great, so a boyfriend better be a fucking improvement, and many of them are not. Therefore, I usually took a pass.

I don't know much about business schools, but that does seem to be the drill. I guess DC is like one big business school, and the business is federal government, so there's not even diversity of enterprise.

Oh, that's awful. I hope you told him that you in turn were also disappointed to learn that he was such a shallow piece of trash!

Ha, so glad I ditched that place, but now when I describe it to the lovely nerdy schlubs up here in MA people think I'm being really hyperbolic. They have no idea.

Well, I really appreciate my male friends who educate themselves about feminism enough to identify and point out issues on their own. That certainly doesn't mean I think they know everything, but it builds a lot of trust.

As to your first point about at least a fair bit of responsibility being with the Academy, I agree. Actually I don't know anything about McFarlane but I'm willing to take everyone's word for it.

The best way not to be the target of that anger is to be an outspoken ally.

The first 3-5 names would be people I work with and know personally who aren't public figures or known outside their communities. No I've never heard of Lemkin or Laber. "Human rights" are very broad.

Because of that I never tell non-white people that they look like someone I know, even when they really do. It's maybe an overcorrection, but it's not the most interesting conversation to have anyway.

That made my day.

The studies are really unambiguous about the value of pre-school down the road - lower teen pregnancy, lower crime, better grades, better jobs, better wages. Obviously it doesn't roll out exactly that way for every person. But it's unquestionably an important investment that our government should be making, and a…

Um, how many zillion Hollywood movies are about dumpy older men winning over conventionally beautiful women? Either with their humor and grace, or if not that, their dogged perseverance and patheticness?

Nope, not even close. I agree, it's a weird idea. And the apparently common perception that it should work, at least some of the time, is bizarre.

That was awesome. Emma Fitzpatrick also had nice comments to make about Anne Hathaway's performance: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/hollyworld/anne-hathaway-parody-les-miserables-emma-fitzpatrick

Not in many poor/immigrant/black communities. In some places it's pretty damn obvious what a police state means.

It's called the Violence Against Women Act, but it provides federal grants to all kinds of domestic abuse agencies, as well as federal laws and resources for domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, trafficking. The name of the law doesn't define everything that's in it.