Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Links: Interesting Things To Read

“‘Science’ kits that teach stereotypes” at Adventures in Ethics and Science. “Worth a listen: Kenji Yoshino”Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights”” at Blackfeminism.org. “Reflections On BigLaw” at The Happy Feminist. “Katherine Arnoldi: Fighting For Teen Moms” at Feministing. … Continue reading →

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Her Rapist

Author Maureen Gibbon has an essay called “My Rapist” in today’s NYT Magazine. The courage she showed by writing this, and by publishing it in such a public venue, is incredible. Though the prose is fairly pared down, her pain … Continue reading →

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She Wasn’t Human To Them

At Women’s Space/The Margins, Heart has been blogging about acts of violence against women. It can’t be easy for her to write these posts, and they are very difficult to read, but it is important that people pay attention to … Continue reading →

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Pole Dancing Kit For Girls

Taking the sexualized Halloween costume for young girls to a whole new level, we have this development out of England: a pole-dancing kit being sold as a toy for young girls. After an outcry from parents, the kit was taken … Continue reading →

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The Path To Marriage In New Jersey

A few days ago the NJ Supreme Court stopped short of ordering full marriage rights for same-sex couples.   Instead, the court ordered the legislature to institute a system of equal benefits and rights for them, whatever that system may … Continue reading →

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Court to “Toto” Constant: Pay $19M in damages to women raped and otherwise tortured by death squad under your command

The Center for Justice and Accountability (www.cja.org), on whose founding Board of Directors I served, has just announced a significant victory for justice. The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ordered Emmanuel”Toto”Constant to pay $19 … Continue reading →

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“The College Administrator’s Survival Guide”

The cover and the use of initials in place of a first name are a little off-putting, but I’m guessing that was the publisher’s idea, so that prospective readers wouldn’t be scared off by girl germs. The author is in … Continue reading →

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Halloween Costumes For Girls

Of course no one has to buy them if they don’t want to, and the option of making a Halloween costume is always available, but for parents or kids who do want to purchase commercially manufactured costumes, the ones produced … Continue reading →

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Severing the Link Between Sex and Porn One Blog Post At A Time

That’s what Twisty Faster is attempting. Here is an excerpt from her latest: I am pleased to report that Broadsheet’s Page Rockwell is on the case of the slutty Halloween costume epidemic (as reported in the Thursday’s NYTimes Style section)[See … Continue reading →

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How Irritating Is This?

From a NYT article entitled “The Waist May Expand, but the Libido Stays Fit”: Remarkably handsome at 70 and with a strong libido, he was talking one day about his desire for sex outside his marriage.”Women just don’t have as … Continue reading →

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Condoms4Life

The text of this post was written by the Condoms4Life organization: The Condoms4Life campaign, a campaign of Catholics for a Free Choice, is circulating a letter in which we ask Pope Benedict to lift the ban on condoms. This letter … Continue reading →

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Shabby

Over at Jurisdynamics, Jim Chen notes that Gerry Studds, America’s first openly gay member of Congress, died last week but his surviving spouse, Dean Hara, has become the first congressional spouse to be denied death benefits. He calls it “shabby” … Continue reading →

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Mixed Emotions About These Tees…

Available here. I know they are just supposed to be funny, but there is something weird about the messages too. Somehow they possibly embrace rather than subvert patriarchy? Or maybe I’m taking this too seriously. –Ann Bartow

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“How To Land A Rich Man” Reconfigured As Advice For The Fundraising Law Dean

Last summer the wretched Forbes (capitalist “tool“) published a “Special Report” called How To Land A Rich Man. The original text is unaltered and indented. Interspersed in italics are comments that are intended to adapt the advice for law school … Continue reading →

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Life of a Doctor Who Performed Abortions “Pre-Roe”

Aspazia at Mad Melancholic Feminista has a post up about a research project she undertook about the life of William Jennings Bryan Henrie, a Pre-Roe abortion-performing doctor from Grove, Oklahoma. You can read about the series on the interviews she … Continue reading →

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Taking On Roles That”Women”Aren’t Supposed To Take On

A friend of mine, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Kay Bailey Hutchison, and she and KBH debated last night on San Antonio ‘s PBS station. The debate was sponsored by the League of Women Voters. … Continue reading →

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Carnival of the Feminists #25

Up at Philobiblon.

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Women are “hos” in Republican PAC’s radio ads targeting African American voters

The excerpt below appears in an anti-abortion radio ad produced by a self-described black conservative who claims that “George Bush was re-elected president in 2004 because of an effective advertising campaign that brought our message to African American voters.” The … Continue reading →

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Riverbend Has A New Post Up

After a long lapse, Baghdad Burning has been updated. Read Riverbend’s discussion of the Lancet Study concerning the number of Iraqi deaths since the war started, here. Among other observations, she writes: We literally do not know a single Iraqi … Continue reading →

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Question for the New York Times

I know why you run photographs like this: I know why you titled the associated article: “Good Girls Go Bad, for a Day.” What I don’t understand is why the caption beneath the picture is: POST-POST-POST-FEMINISM? –Ann Bartow

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Blog Law

I like reading nonlawyerly takes on the law, and I found a good one in the comments at Screaming Into The Void, where the header tagline currently reads “Scaring women-haters with my hairy legs since 1987.” Amananta, who blogs there, … Continue reading →

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“Secret Asian Man”

Cleaner version here. “Secret Asian Man” is also the name of the cartoonist’s blog. Blog found via Sour Duck, who got it from Y. Carrington.

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Supposedly Liberal Satire

Law prof Jack Chin appeared on the Daily Show in a clip that law prof Eric Muller at Is That Legal? does not find particularly funny.

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“First woman wins Bahrain parliament seat”

According to this Yahoo News article: A British-educated civil servant has become the first-ever female to serve as an elected member of Bahrain’s parliament, the Gulf kingdom said Tuesday. Eighteen women are among 221 candidates vying for seats in the … Continue reading →

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In Which A Bankruptcy Judge Goes All Dr. Seuss

Actual text of the opinion in In re Riddle, 344 B.R. 702 (2006): SUA SPONTE ORDER DETERMINING DEBTORS’ COMPLIANCE WITH FILING REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 521(a)(1) Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 521(i), if an individual debtor in a voluntary case under … Continue reading →

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“Preschool Puberty”

Today’s NYT has a story about the effects of “endocrine disruptors” on children. According to the article testosterone and estrogen can be found in a variety of unexpected places, including shampoo. The effects are most noticeable and alarming in young … Continue reading →

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I am not challenging anyone’s right to post or comment anonymously. I am instead suggesting that people remain very cynical and questioning about the authenticity, honesty and integrity of anonymous speakers.

Is that clear enough? For context see this post and associated comments. For background on astroturf and anonymity issues see this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. –Ann Bartow NB: Sorry for the hostile … Continue reading →

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I Wanted To Like It

The Alliance for Justice produced a film called “Quiet Revolution” that is, according to an accompanying booklet, pitched at informing viewers about the “transformative legal agenda that movement conservatives are pursuing” through the political process generally and the judiciary particularly. … Continue reading →

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Flaming the Messenger

At the Blogher blog, Kim Pearson reported: When Alternet editor Laura Barcella used the word “femicide” in a blog item about a report from the Violence Policy Center that analyzed state-by-state statistics on the killing of women by men, she … Continue reading →

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The “Northwestern Colloquy”

According to this site: The Northwestern Colloquy will be the first scholarly weblog to be operated by a major law review. It will feature legal commentary written in the form of blog posts. This new format will allow scholars to … Continue reading →

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NYT Columnist Bob Herbert Asks: “Why Aren’t We Shocked?”

Here is his recent NYT column: “Who needs a brain when you have these?” : message on an Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt for young women In the recent shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania and a large public … Continue reading →

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Woman Shopping For Halloween Costume Receives Memo From The Patriarchy

Today’s NYT features an Op-Ed entitled “Halloween on Heels” by Allison Glock, who went shopping for a Halloween costume and notes: I walked past the displays for the sexy devil and the sexy bunny and the sexy leopard : which, … Continue reading →

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When the Sunday Funnies Aren’t

Read today’s Blondie and tell me what year it is. See also this version for better readability.

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The Cocks and the Lady Cocks

The “Fighting Gamecock” is the mascot of the University of South Carolina. For the male sports teams this is abbreviated to “Cocks” because they are clearly the ones the mascot is meant for. Officially the women’s teams are more demurely … Continue reading →

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“Feminist Cyborgs: Teaching like a Feminist in the Computer Classroom”

That’s the name of this paper, which you might find interesting even if you don’t get anywhere near the “Computer Classroom.”

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“If people stand still on escalators, then why don’t they stand still on stairs?”

Evolutionary psychologists offer some fairly odd accounts of the intersection between gender and behavior, see e.g. this, this and this, but when it comes to getting things utterly, ridiculously wrong, economists can sometimes give them a run for the money, … Continue reading →

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More Links

“What’s Gender Got to Do With it?: Carly Fiorina and Patricia Dunn” by Christine Hurt at The Conglomerate. Emma Coleman Jordan covered related territory in “Women CEOs and Corporate Gender Welfare” at the Georgetown Law Faculty Blog. “Women Just Can’t … Continue reading →

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Look at the time.

Cartoon by Natalie Dee.

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Feminists Can Too Be Funny

U.K. feminist blogger Witchy-woo wrote about a woman in England who was unable to obtain the “morning after” pill because her pharmacist declined to provide it, asserting that”it was against his religious beliefs.”Witchy-woo’s post is at her blog: Well I’ll … Continue reading →

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“Desperately Seeking Susan”

Great NYT Op-Ed today by Stacy Schiff, challenging the view that Susan B. Anthony was opposed to abortion, or would be today. Below is an except: …In her personal life Anthony was clear in her conviction that women were not … Continue reading →

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Ugh.

This product. Via Feministing.

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Yep, Been There

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Take the Bait? Or Not?

At “Above the Law,” David Lat has been running a “Law School Dean Hotties Contest.” Today he instrumentally linked to this blog, so obviously he wants some attention. If you have any interest in reading about or voting on the … Continue reading →

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Links, On The House

“Howdy Honey!” by Lori Ringhand at Ratio Juris “Laws of the World on Female Genital Mutiliation” “Domestic Violence Law of the World” “Abortion Laws of the World” “Nickel and Dimed: The FAQs” at Barbara’s Blog “By Request, That Hair Thang…” … Continue reading →

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More About The Dearth of Women’s Voices in Magazines

As a follow up to this post, I followed a link at the Dees Diversion that reported on the male to female writer ratios at “liberal” magazines (those are generalization quotation marks – not “scare quotes” – in acknowledgement of … Continue reading →

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Supposedly Liberal Dude Watch

This time it’s Keith Olbermann with the tee-hee sexism, calling Paris Hilton a slut, and mocking her for alleging that she got punched in the face. Yeah I know, I’m just humorless. Via Feministing. –Ann Bartow Update: See also.

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First African Women’s Carnival

Here, at African Women’s Blog.

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Cooking With Feminists

Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda went on the Colbert Report to publicize their Greenstone Media radio network. An unrelated two part interview with author Ariel Levy is available at the same URL. (NB: This is the show’s “most recent videos” … Continue reading →

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Today is National Coming Out Day

More information here.

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Props and Thanks to Jim Chen

Jim Chen made my day, and I mean that sincerely, not at all in a Dirty Harryesque “Go ahead, make my day” kind of way (see also), quite the opposite. Read this post at MoneyLaw, and then read this one. … Continue reading →

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