Browsing All Posts published on »January, 2012«

Sex, Skydiving, and Puppies.

January 24, 2012

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Sometimes I get into arguments on Twitter. Unfortunately, they’re usually of the less civil variety. This is not through any intention of my own-I try to engage with people who have fundamentally different views of the world than I do because without such engagements I believe that the democratic process which I cherish so much… [Read more…]

An Open Letter to the Men’s Rights Movement

January 14, 2012

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Dear men’s rights activists, I have to preface this by saying that I consider myself one of you. Unfortunately, I suspect that a number of you might not agree with my self-identification as a men’s rights activist, because of another important self-identification: I am also a feminist.  I know that this may seem incoherent and even offensive… [Read more…]

On Luxuries and the Kitchen Table

January 12, 2012

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The ongoing physical battles on the streets of Greece have been mirrored in the rest of the financially struggling world with a rhetorical battle to establish the narrative of exactly what went wrong there. The deficit hawk s are winning this battle. Their message is generally along the same line as this Forbes article: A bailout,… [Read more…]

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