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Comment on Mansprain by Kaimipono D. Wenger

Kaimipono D. Wenger — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:31:55 +0000

For folks unfamiliar with the underlying term, there’s some useful background here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/a-cultural-history-of-mansplaining/264380/

Comment on About this Blog by Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:15:24 +0000

I am NOT the author of this list, just a re-poster!

Comment on About this Blog by Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work « Silent Thoughts

Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work « Silent Thoughts — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:24:04 +0000

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Comment on “When Men Are Too Emotional To Have A Rational Argument” by anyc

anyc — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:42:47 +0000

I have been saying this for years! Thanks to the original essayist for her wise words!

Comment on “When Men Are Too Emotional To Have A Rational Argument” by anyc

anyc — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:42:30 +0000

I have been saying this for years! Thanks to the original essayist for her wise and well-put thoughts!

Comment on Lance MacMillian, “Adultery as Tort” by Q. Pheevr

Q. Pheevr — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:47:22 +0000

This bit strikes me as disingenuous:

Gay marriage advocates see state licensing as an essential step in elevating the status of same-sex couples. Gay marriage opponents, on the other hand, look to the state as the decisive authority for protecting the traditional view of marriage as being between one man and one woman. But if the state is the proper vehicle for legitimizing the marriage bond, as all sides seem to agree, [...].

It’s not entirely fair, I think, to claim that “all sides seem to agree” on the basis of a description of only two “sides”—even if they are the two largest and most prominent factions involved in the debate. There is, after all, another view that holds that the state should get out of the marriage business altogether. Civil partnerships, granting the same sorts of next-of-kin rights and privileges that marriage currently does, could be recognized with no reference whatsoever to the sex of the partners, or to whether their relationship is a sexual one at all. So far, this is a minority position, but it is clearly a principled one, and it deserves to be acknowledged in any serious discussion of the re-evaluation of the state’s role in marriage that has been prompted by the gay rights movement.

Comment on Lance MacMillian, “Adultery as Tort” by Katherine Franke

Katherine Franke — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:52:48 +0000

Bridget – great follow up to the larger ongoing discussion on Petraeus and adultery. I sent Ethan Bronner from the New York Times Peter Nicolas’ article on adultery which Bronner cited: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/us/adultery-an-ancient-crime-still-on-many-books.html!

I’ll forward him Lance’s piece as well.

Katherine

Comment on Getting (Back) into the Writing Groove: Inspiration from Georgia NeSmith by Great post on writing introductions (of disses or otherwise): Getting (Back) into the Writing Groove: Inspiration from Georgia NeSmith | Feminist Law Professors « Academic Ronin

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:24:16 +0000

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Comment on U Chicago Bio Prof Demonstrates Evolutionary Theory by rtushnet

rtushnet — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:25:49 +0000

What I love is that Wikipedia editors considered this not worth noting and reversed the addition of the incident to his page because only a couple of blogs have picked it up. Double standards, alive and well.

Comment on Major Steps Backwards for Women in the Law – I Don’t Have More Than a Lifetime to Wait – Do You? by JohnSteele

JohnSteele — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:34:45 +0000

I probably meant “won’t” not “shouldn’t,” as I was trying to make the point that we’re likely to see backsliding at the margin and that that’s a bad thing.