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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
ameliaelf
Published Letters: 37 Editor's Choice: 3
It is unclear from this man's letter whether he wants to solve the root problems that are making the women around him irate, or whether he just wants the women to stop being shrill and irritable. If it is the former case, then bully for him. It warms my heart when men actually step up to the plate and ask how they can help fight the battles that feminists have had to fight alone for so long.
If it is the latter case, well, sorry dude, but sometimes women have genuine grounds for complaint. You cite Broadsheet for sniping. Don't you think that's just a little dismissive of the important issues that blog brings up? You say that a lot of women are really angry. Yes some complaints and angry t-shirts contribute unduly to the hosility between the sexes, but there are also people who have real reasons for being angry. I would rather have a more cantankerous society and allow the righteous complaints to come to the surface than to have everybody just "chill out" and have those complaints get buried in the name of peace.
the cutest thing I've ever seen.
As others have mentioned, equating correlation with causation is specious. This is a totally amateur mistake for researchers to make and for the media to propagate, considering that it's pretty much the first lesson you learn in Statistics 101. I'm not a fan of sexually degrading music, but I can't take statistically-unsound studies seriously.
There might be underlying lifestyle factors that cause people to be both smokers and overweight. That said, smoking is bad, and everyone should quit.
Someone suggested that males and females would react differently to the letter. It's interesting that nowhere in the letter does it say that the LW is a woman. I sort of assumed the ex-couple was two men, given that we heteros are a little less likely to use the "partner" title. Of course, it doesn't change the ethical quandary of the situation!
I tend to think the ex's bad behavior should not be a factor in the LW's decision. The ethical solution should not hinge on the way the relationship ended.
I just went back and looked at a bunch of these Bill Maher "New Rule" clips on Video Dog, trying to find one that would elicit some kind of laugh. Is Salon under contractual obligation to publish them? They're just not that funny. No, not in the "I'm so offended" kind of way. They're just not humorous. Maher looks like he's phoning it in, which leads to poor timing and no punch. It's odd, because Maher's writing on this same website is piquant enough. I may not agree with all of his caustic conclusions, but at least it's usually a good read. These clips are just yawn-worthy.
If you control for incumbency, women are just as good at fundraising as men, if not better. Incumbents are in an infinitely better position to raise money, and most incumbents are male, so it may seem that women are not doing as well. But if you compare male incumbents to female incumbents, and male challengers to female challengers, research shows that there is no difference in fundraising ability.
People sure do have bizarre reactions when it comes to Hillary and the press coverage about her. Salon prints two articles dissection the Clinton campaign and outlining her weaknesses... so Salon MUST be in Clinton's pocket! Polls show her negatives are high... so all those polls showing her beating every possible Republican opponent must be wrong! She's unelectable, remember!
And I don't buy the Rove factor. Honestly, when the criteria for Republican candidates has become "can you beat Hillary?" don't you think we can end this little game of which-cup-contains-the-iocane? She's the best chance we've got, and for what it's worth, she's awesome.
JK Rowling started being overly blabby in Book 7 itself. Deathly Hallows ended with an epilogue set many years after the final battle, in which we find out the happy, boring fates of our heroes.
Blech!
What was the point of such an unambiguous ending? Yes, it's nice to have *some* closure, but it could have been simply a brief glimpse of what happened after the dust settled. I wish she had left it to the reader to imagine what happened to Harry, Hermione, Ron, and everyone as they became post-war adults.
...the comments made by AKA Smith and MizBinkley. Our language and culture prefer gendered pronouns and descriptors. If we see a group of men standing together, we say "there's a group of guys over there." Likewise with a group of women. We tend not to say "there's a group of people over there."
Sure, it's possible that the Clinton campaign is trying to use the girl defense, but they also don't have much choice in terms of words to use. As others have pointed out, using gender-neutral terms is actually unnatural in our somewhat gender-specific language.
On the other hand, at least we don't speak French or Spanish or any of the scores of other languages that would point out, with almost every single adjective used to describe her, that she's a woman.
I say yea to Flight of the Conchords!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
