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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
As unfortunate as it might be that women like Ayelet Waldman obsess over food and their bodies, it seems all too tempting to believe that this "condition" is in one's genes and therefore out of voluntary control. Why emphasize this, rather than the ways in which many women have made positive changes to their lives by rejecting the thin ideal and overcoming their preoccupations with food and weight?
Too many of Salon's female writers are apologists for women's neurotic behavior. Must we all be fractured, flawed, abused, and damaged? I am afraid that women who don't buy into the compulsory ritual of collective female suffering must pose a great threat to someone out there.
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"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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