"Mandatory" does not mean that all parents have to do is say they opt out.

What "Opt out" means differs from state to state.

All states have religious "opt outs" -- My kid opts out because it is against my religion.

Some, but not all states have "medical opt outs" -- My doctor says my kid should not have this.

Some, but not all states have "personal opt out" -- My kid opts out because we don't agree with it.

In some states they check on what your religion actually believes. If they decide your religion does not opt out, you can't choose opt out.

To get a medical opt out, you need to find a doctor to write that note. Your doctor may disagree with you.

In many states you cannot opt out of A and then opt in to B. It is not your decision to pick and choose. If you opt out, you opt out of all vaccines, including vaccines that you may approve of.

How come the editors don't know this and star bogus misinformation? Is this a blog or a magazine based on journalism?

Apparently, reading your own post, Carrie Lukas is correct, and you are not.

Carrie Lukas: In a fiery Washington Post Op-Ed, Carrie Lukas argues that the oft-cited statistic regarding the gender gap in wages -- "women make just 77 cents for every dollar that a man makes" -- is total feminist hogwash.

Your article: All that being said, it isn't that the pay gap is entirely attributable to gender. "The evidence shows that even when the 'explanations' for the pay gap are included in a regression, they cannot fully explain the pay disparity," the report concludes. "The regressions for earnings one year after college indicate that when all variables are included, about one quarter of the pay gap is attributable to gender. That is, after controlling for all the factors known to affect earnings, college-educated women earn about 5 percent less than college-educated men earn."

How you report it: What better time to release a new study that debunks pay gap denials than the day before Equal Pay Day? Today, the American Association of University Women released a study finding that just a year after graduating from college, women earn just 80 percent of what men make. Ten years down the line, women make 69 percent of what men earn. This flies in the face of the popular argument that women earn less simply because of their lifestyle choices -- here's hoping Carrie Lukas and Kate O'Beirne are taking note.

Who is the denier?

I can't wait till Pandagon links to Feministe links to Feministing links to you links to Pandagon links to Feministe links to Feministing links to you.

We will be able to expect Broadsheet to correct them and say it is really only 5% due to gender, right?

Ever since the divorce, my idea of a fancy restaurant is one that offers a Royale with Cheese, but I have heard that these fancy restaurants do only hire men as waiters.

How do they get away with that? Similarly, how does Hooters get away with hiring primarily women? (I've always thought my man boobs would look good in orange.)

and then ask why they should substitute your dogma for the "patriarch's dogma" when all they want to do is live the independent life those second wave feminists fought for and mostly won?

I mean really Jessica, in late January you got all offended that Wendy McElroy said that feministing wouldn't call the Duke Rape a rape any more. What you were upset about was that she confused a commenter's opinion with your own, but what you wouldn't say was whether you actually believed the Duke rape was still rape.

Then when the charges were dropped entirely, your coblogger Samhita wrote a post saying the Duke students were not innocent, that the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence, that they deserved what they got, and even if they were innocent, well they were white, and so "they got a taste of how black men are treated EVERY DAY by the criminal justice system."

All they have to do is look at your blog, look at your behavior, look at Samhita's behavior, look at some of your favored commenters like Donna Darko and Ginmar and they can see for yourself the hate speech you spew and encourage.

They can see in your comments your authoritarian comment policy in which dissenters are mocked, called names, and banned. And they can wonder if that sort of bad-faith commenting policy is really the "safe environment" that women need.

I sure hope for the sake of feminism that none of those young would be feminists end up on your site.

was 5%.

Not the 23% that Jessica et. al., like to claim, but 5%.

5% is significant, but it's a whole lot let than the 23% that is widely claimed.

And 5% is awfully close to say, maybe 2% at which point we would all agree there is no gender based wage gap.