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Katha Pollit, “Women Who Love Republicans Who Hate Them” | The Nation |
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Katha Pollit, “Women Who Love Republicans Who Hate Them” | The Nation |
Sad but true is the latest commentary from Robert Reich.
We’re witnessing the capture by fanatics of what was once a great and important American political party.
The Republican Party platform committee now includes a provision calling for a constitutional amendment banning all abortions, without an exception for rape or incest. This is…
Nicole Boudreau and the bunch headed over to Worcester to compete in the state Division 1 final game…for the third time. And they had no problem coming out with the win against Holyoke to become state champions once again.
The Andover Lady Warriors took down Holyoke Saturday night in the state Division 1 final game, 61-45, at the DCU Center in Worcester.
Check out all of the action, minute-to-minute, in our
live blog.We’ll be running a full article tomorrow morning on Andover Patch.
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Whether you’re a feminist or a fangirl or you just like to learn, these six “Tropes vs Women” episodes of Feminist Frequency are absolutely fascinating. Host Anita Sarkeesian makes sure you’ll never look at entertainment the same way.
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FemFreq is my favorite, and this series was SO helpful! It gave a name to a lot of stuff I knew existed, but couldn’t quite place. Now I sound super informed when I get on my soapbox.
She’s awesome and I hope that she has more videos coming up!
Tonight!
Women, War & Peace, a five-part PBS special, premieres Oct. 11, 2011. The series continues on Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. through Nov. 8.
(via Women, War & Peace Series Trailer | Women, War and Peace | PBS
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Invisible Women: The Military’s Not-So-Secret Gender Problem
Yesterday, we posted a link to a jarring GOOD magazine infographic with the title “Female soldiers more likely to be raped by their own troops than killed by enemy fire.” The response was huge…and it got us thinking.
(Source: Mother Jones)
SocImages has the story of The Brooklyn-based newspaper Der Tzitung, which targets the Ultra Orthodox Jewish community that ‘shopped the women out of this photo.