ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

The fourth post in the series.

The third post in the series.

Or the impossibility of bringing up children without teaching them the cultural attitudes about gender. The second post in the series.

It can be found here . The whole series will be run this week as summer re-runs.

And to take care of some family matters.  This blog will resume live on August 9th on a daily basis. There will be summer reruns and most...

From here . I read it as a fairly deep analysis of the way women's abilities to do certain things are judged on an apriori basis,...

This is hilarious : Republican Marty Golden, the only Brooklyn state senator to vote against marriage equality, has some thoughts on g...

Not that she probably even knows I'm alive and not that this is really a response to the arguments she makes though it IS about those a...

Echidne's Note:  This series will continue in August.  For earlier posts in this series, go back to Part Three which links to the firs...

From June 28 , though he doesn't refer to Aaron Sorkin's views on women and such.  But it's priceless on the individual mandate...

The first can be found here .  It addresses her views on the individual mandate decision. The s econd is by Katha Pollitt.

This might be a new occasional series?  About books that have had an impact on us or about books which are just really fun to read.  Such a...

Our good friend David Brooks has written a not-so-awful column today .  Well, not-so-awful on the Brooks scale.  It's still titled ...

Some very funny responses to the Supreme Court's Decision to uphold the individual mandate in the new health care law.  By people who ...

Two pieces worth reading about the television and the recent "sexist-guy" dramas.  The first one is about Mad Men, Aaron Sorkin...

Based on reading fashion magazines at the hairdresser's today.  Fashion is circular so you should probably never throw your old-but-OK ...

Screenwriter and journalist Nora Ephron died yesterday.  An interesting tribute to her includes this bit: Two years ago, I sat next...

Such fun.  The authorities are planning to install a grunt-o-meter in women's tennis and to make too loud grunts punishable crimes.  T...

Courtesy of Gromit, I spent a fun few minutes reading through this (pdf) .  It's a description of the dream world of Texas Republicans....

This is a hilarious lesson on how to write about women for the Washington Post and other mainstream places (coughMaureenDowdcough).   The...