Friday, May 15, 2009 - Posts
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In the spirit of Meghan's stated desire that the XX Factor blog remain a site of amicable cacophony, I'm feeling the need to stand up for my girl Dooce.
Well, the blogger who goes by that name, Heather Armstrong, is "my
girl" only in the sense that, like millions of her readers, I've been
following her life online for more than five years now on an almost
daily basis. But after reading Susannah Breslin's recent takedown of the "bad mommy" phenomenon, Ann Hulbert's review of a spate of recent confessional parenting memoirs, and a terrific discussion of those same books between our beloved Double X editors and the redoubtable Stephen Metcalf, it strikes me that something obvious is going unsaid... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Men, skip this post. A new study revives a very old method of birth control, and it's not happy news for you. Withdrawal, says the Guttmacher Institute, is not a bad way to go... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Our first week at Double X is drawing to a close. And we’ve heard all sorts of responses. We’re not feminist enough. We’re too feminist. We say we’re not feminist but then we talk a lot about feminism. We (and Slate) are ghettoizing women. First, I want to second my co-editors Hanna and Emily in what they wrote yesterday and today about why we wanted to create Double X and its relationship to Slate. Second, I want to take this moment to... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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I know that Sonia Sotomayor is a crazy, overemotional, hysterical, aggressive bitch because some anonymous lawyers told me so. On the other hand, she sounds quite rational in this 2002 speech on whether the gender or race of a judge should affect judicial decisions. The New York Times has... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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I had a sense of déjà vu watching the Grey's Anatomy denouement
of the Katherine Heigl character Izzie's season-long cancer diagnosis,
juxtaposed with the surprise hit-by-a-bus plot twist killing off T.R.
Knight's George O'Malley in the last scene. Until I read Willa Paskin's
post, I wrote the feeling off to general season finale redundancy.
After all, just this week... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Science reporter Joshua Wolf Shenk describes his visit to the famous Grant Study archives (named for the dime store magnate who originally funded the experiment) in the new issue of the Atlantic and includes a video interview of George Vaillant,
the longitudinal assessment project's director for the last 42 years.
Vaillant's perspective on the 268 "well-adjusted" sophomore male
participants' much-examined lives boils down to.... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Like Hanna, I accept Ann Friedman's welcome challenge. Yes, please! We want to influence the national conversation,
and send our writers and editors out to go forth and prosper in plenty
of other pastures. We're not interested in roping ourselves off into a
pink ghetto. I understand the fear that other people will do the roping
off for us. When we first started talking about the idea of a separate
site early last summer, several of the veteran women of Slate
said, hey, we've spent years getting strong women's voices into the
magazine. We've succeeded. Now you're taking us out and putting us
somewhere else? The answer we all settled on, in the end, was... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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There's a sort of covenant, an unspoken contract, entered into when a
person commits to a television series. Something like, "I, the viewer,
agree to watch this program, to care about these characters, to invest
in this world week after week, because you, the TV creator, agree to
make it fun." Last night, Grey's Anatomy
creator Shonda Rhimes broke this "we watch, she entertains" contract by
engaging in reckless character assassination—by which I mean... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Last night's season finale of 30 Rock wasn't the best episode
of the season—the A and B plots didn't hang together especially
well—but the episode provided some of the best lines of the year. The
Liz Lemon plot revolved around... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Sara, I agree with your defense—in response to Katie Roiphe's piece about women hiding behind their children on Facebook—of a woman's right to put her kids first. I'm 25 and enjoying my selfish years now, because, as Judith Shulevitz pointed out
in her piece about the seasons of a woman's life, I fully expect them
to end when I have kids. And I think that's natural. Just as natural,
in fact, for fathers as it is for moms.
My mother once relayed to my sister and me a hypothetical question... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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