Kriston links to two New York magazine features exemplifying one very sharp and one, shall we say, unhelpful approach to evaluating gender representation in modern art museums. The sharp feature is an immaculately argued article by art critic Jerry Saltz on the scant representation of women in MoMA’s permanent collection. It allows that, history being […]

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From Ann at Feministing comes an exchange on The O’Reilly Factor during which Laura Ingraham says: I talked a lot of families, too. I never hear a mother tell her daughter that her body is dangerous. I do hear mothers tell their daughters, you’ll be better off, less likely to commit suicide, less likely to […]

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The manager at my local Rite Aid had security kick a gay couple out of the store a few weeks back, and with no other explanation for their ejection forthcoming, it seems reasonable to suppose (as the couple did) that the problem was simply with two men displaying mild mutual affection in public. I guess […]

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Kerry Howley on the senatorial semiotics of fuck-me boots.

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Various folks are linking a New York Times piece on how the frequently-reported disparity in the average number of male and female sex partners is mathematically impossible. Maybe I’m missing something here, but while it’s clearly impossible for the (heterosexual) mean to be different, there’s no strictly mathematical problem with the median being different—which is […]

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There’s an interesting post at Feministe in which blogger Jaclyn grapples with some of her thoughts about dating a “cisgender man” (viz.: a biological male who was born that way and presents/performs male gender) after a long period of being involved exclusively with women and transmen. I’ll suggest in passing that some of the unease […]

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A couple years back, as part of a long article on gay adoption, I wrote about Ann Magro and Heather Finstuen, a lesbian couple who were fighting to overturn an Oklahoma law that denied recognition of out-of-state second parent adoptions by same-sex couples. An appeals court has now overturned that law as inconsistent with the […]

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My post the other day on the blogospheric spat about the deployment of the language of “eugenics” against supporters of abortion rights (including the right of parents to abort children with genetic defects) provoked this reply from John Goes: This controversy is plainly another front in the ongoing war between pro-life and pro-choice movements. If […]

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Ann at Feministing had a post last week about the problem—familiar to me because my old college debate partner used to get furious about it—of doctors refusing to perform elective tubal ligations on adult women in their 20s. The thinking, apparently, is that those women are old enough to make the irreversible decision to have […]

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Some good news in opinion poll trends. Since it’s pretty clear that age is strongly related to negative attitudes about homosexuality, we’re just going to see this continue. And since attitudes like these tend to be socially reinforcing, I’m betting there’s a critical mass where we see a big, abrupt jump, as older folk either […]

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