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As a mother of a boy, I remain terrified

Another tragedy, a massacre orchestrated by a young man who felt entitled and spurned. Another young man who thought women owed him their affection and their bodies by virtue of his wanting them, and who, by ignoring him, earned violence. He was broken. I don’t know what broke him or when, but it was a snap loud enough to have repercussions far enough outside his sphere of existence that I am now writing about him,…

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No comfort

When John H visited Memphis back in December, he asked me what made me become a feminist. I said it came largely from growing up in a religious household where the man was, by virtue of his sex, the automatic leader of the family, and how that view of man at the absolute top was not only personally insulting, but also really impractical. Egalitarian relationships tend to make everyone more happy than those where sex/gender…

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Still no cure for cancer

O glorious day! Japanese scientists have figured out a more natural way to mutilate and inflate the female bosom! Just suck out some stem cells and “encourage” them to grow breast tissue. Then inject that shit back into Chesty McFlat and make a beeline for the golf course. Thanks, science! (HT: Slate)

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