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Stuff An Incredibly Tiny Subset of White People Like

April 11th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Samitha at Feministing offers up a bit of a thumbsucker about Stuff White People Like, which reminds me that I’d meant to second Megan’s take from last month: The vast majority of the stuff there has always felt a bit like one of those fantastic Onion headlines that’s followed up by a lame article. It [...]

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Tags: Sociology

Punishment

April 1st, 2008 · 39 Comments

So, uh, yeah: If you’re a girl in your early teens and have no option but to carry to term an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy when you’re in no real position to care for a child, and when the burden of doing so is very likely to derail your future educational plans, the word for this [...]

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Tags: Horse Race Politics · Sociology

Label Inflation Hits Tween Fiction

March 27th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Jessica Valenti is pissed that a relaunch of the Sweet Valley High series has retconned the twin protagonists from a “perfect size 6″ to a “perfect size 4.”  I’m sympathetic to the idea that kids literature probably shouldn’t be compounding young girls’ body image issues by stipulating a “perfect” size, whatever it might be.  But [...]

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Tags: Language and Literature · Sociology

Wow.

March 18th, 2008 · 7 Comments

The Speech is really quite impressive—a richer, more thoughtful, and more honest speech on race than I recall hearing (or expecting to hear) from an American politician. I can pick out in advance the ones that are going to be flagged and quoted by angry conservatives and angry progressives. Watch for those; they’re probably [...]

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Tags: Journalism & the Media · Sociology

Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That

March 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Glenn Reynolds:
HMM: Rep. Ellison: Clinton Trying To Reap Benefit Of Obama-Muslim Smear. “I think that Barack Obama’ s Democratic opponents will say and do anything to try and win.” Well, yes.
But why does Ellison think calling someone a Muslim is a “smear”? If somebody called me a Muslim, I wouldn’t feel smeared, [...]

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Tags: Horse Race Politics · Sociology · Stupid Shit

Fictional Character

December 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment


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Tags: Sociology

Fun With Labels

August 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment


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Tags: Sociology

The Grass Is Always More Uniformly Green on the Other Side

June 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments


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What, You Think Yer (Hic) Better’n Me or Sumfin?

June 8th, 2007 · No Comments


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Tags: Sociology

Soviet Chic

June 8th, 2007 · 24 Comments


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Tags: Sociology