ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

A HuffPo post argues that bright girls take their brightness as an innate talent, not something one has to work on, and that this is what ...

I am the world's best anti-marketer, even without trying. It's because I am deeply conflicted about fame and influence. Or rather...

1. Katha Pollitt asks if the GOP has gone too far in its war against women. 2. Kenya is finally fixing the reason why women (who provid...

Around 200 students took over the Memorial Hall at Dickinson College to demand changes in the college's sexual assault policy. It see...

Piers Morgan interviewed Charlie Sheen on Monday night, and during the interview told him: “You’re entitled to behave however the hell you...

In honor of National Women's History Month, 1000memories has partnered with the National Women's History Project and the Internet A...

Is a weird one. Arora, a Maryland House Delegate, campaigned, among other things, on marriage equality and co-sponsored a bill on same sex...

This is about alleged rape : Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has demanded the judicial bodies of Afghanistan to in...

That's from a joke about street harassment. A construction worker hollers that message to a woman passing by. She answers: "No t...

That seems to be the rule in Hollywood, writes David Carr in the NYT. He serves up the example of Charlie Sheen, star of the popular TV sho...

I wrote a post at the Ms. magazine blog on the treatment given to a mere editorial on the topic of possible rises in men's rates of de...

Paul Krugman wrote a post about education in Texas a few days ago: Now, politicians — and especially, in my experience, conservative poli...

The reporters on the Guardian disappointed me. They failed my masculinity test. They behaved like gossiping schoolgirls. -- Julian Assange,™...

While discussing The Daily Show on Wisconsin and the teacher-bashing: This attack on teachers has a very strange tinge to it. It was a t...

Via Amanda Marcotte , in Ohio : A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abort...

I woke up from a nightmare which I immediately forgot. Then I fed the birds and squirrels in the backyard with some trail mix and dry bage...

1. If someone had the very same experience, why, then the article must be generally true. 2. If someone did not have the same experience, ...

Poor deluded lass. She read those same woman-hating comments to her earlier piece I did , but arrived at a very different conclusion: M...

Paul Krugman: I don’t watch cable news, or actually any kind of TV news. But I gather that there’s a virtual blackout on the huge demonstr...

Justice Thomas has given a speech which he finished with these words: Thomas closed by citing a quote from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. – ...