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What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
This is the final panel of one of my favorite Calvin & Hobbes strips, though as you can see it works just fine on its own as well. Ignorance is an issue. It always has been, and it probably always...
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Naked Ladies and the Balance of Power
Not so long ago a friend sent me an article called “6 Reasons Female Nudity can be Powerful” by Soraya Chemaly. He wanted to know what I thought of it. To give you some context I should tell you that...
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Culture War Correspondence: The Police
EVAN: Rooooooooooxaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnne! Ladies, gentlemen, and others, Gordon and I have come together today to discuss, you guessed it, The Police. You could argue that there are other greater...
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Culture War Correspondence: Superman and Superheroes
GORDON: Up there! In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…! It’s…! It’s a cheesy rehash of the same joke we closed out on last time! EVAN: How dare you, sir. GORDON: Citizens, today our topic of...
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In Defense of the Warrior-Princess
Last Wednesday, Kat gave us a post titled “Why I Decided to Stop Being a ‘Tough Girl’ and Just Be Me“, a thought-provoking piece on femininity. I passionately disagree with it. Let me break it down...
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47 Traitors – A Torrid Tale of Tumidity
Sounds like the title of a really good or really awful thriller, doesn’t it? Let me bring you up to speed on what happened. With a hotly contested election still raging in Israel, embattled prime...
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Mad Max has a Feminist Hero for (Almost) Everyone
I know. Pretty well every woman with a computer has written about how great Mad Max: Fury Road was. I actually meant to write about it last week, but then I decided that I needed to address the news...
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3 Reasons Why I Will Be Watching Ronda Rousey Fight Bethe Correia
I enjoy fighting. I’ve even taken a couple classes in a couple different martial arts (although never for long enough to learn anything more than the basics). Occasionally, I even enjoy watching a...
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The Power of Twitter Showcased at the Oscars: #OscarsSoWhite, #YesAllWomen,...
Twitter has changed the way news is reported. The Black Lives Matter movement has been particularly successful in raising awareness for cases of police brutality that generally would have been...
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Hollywood’s Cover-Ups or Indonesia’s Castration Method: How Should We Deal...
The sexual assault of a child is the most abhorrent crime in the world. As a society we curse those who commit such crimes and refuse to recognize them as anything but outsiders and deviants....
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