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Does Kim Kardashian Really Widen the Spectrum of “Acceptable” Body Types?
I really love this photo by Spencer Tunick. I would tell you why, but Lisa at Sociological Images puts it so well that I’ll leave it to her: “It’s worth a good long look at each body; each is a...
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Female figures are, by definition, “feminine.”
Let’s take a break from our regularly scheduled rape programming today and talk about something else. Back with more rape news, rape commentary, rape apology, rape debate, and...
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Sunday Scraps 74
1. WRITING: Junot Diaz has a new book. The Atlantic wonders if Diaz, whose characters are consistently horrible to women, can write a sexist character without writing a sexist book. 2. SPORTS: With...
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Why You Should Be Reading Grantland
If you’re not an ESPN-watching dude, or you don’t have very many ESPN-watching dude friends, you might be missing out. The first person to send me something from Grantland, an online magazine on sports...
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The Best Things I Read on the Internet: Sports Edition
I like sports a lot. I like pretending to invest in my fantasy football team and then forgetting to set my line-up and accidentally starting three players on bye week and two who are nursing busted...
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Serena Part One
Do you remember the moment you found out that Martin Luther King Jr. cheated on Coretta? I do, and it felt like the history rug was being pulled right out from under me. It’s hard to find out your...
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Serena Part Two
I started writing yesterday about Serena Williams’ Steubenville comments through the lens of Jailbreak the Patriarchy and gendered assumptions about sexual behavior and entitlement. Today, for...
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