April 2008

Parental Advisory: Explicit Content

by Cara April 21, 2008

This just made my day: Created by OnePlusYou HAHAHAHA. Stolen from Ren, who has a paltry 34.5% of her pages containing curse words. Better pick up the pace, Ren! By the way, the average is 9%. And my rate of swearing is apparently 988% more than other websites that took the test. I’m not sure [...]

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On Being an Ally

by Cara April 19, 2008

Last week, I noted that BFP’s blog had been shut down. And I said that with regard to the situation that caused her to close it, I did not know what to say. Later on in the day, Holly put up a post on the topic. And after reading it, and reading the thread, I [...]

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Quick Note on Email

by Cara April 18, 2008

Ever since I announced my joining Feministe earlier this week, my number of emails has skyrocketed. I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has sent me stories and generous compliments — I really do appreciate it. My relationship with email is one of my shortcomings, and I’m behind on non-urgent messages during the [...]

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I Think I Like John Edwards Again

by Cara April 18, 2008

Alright, alright. So I went from loving John Edwards to really hating on him. And I stand by everything I said. But . . . dude’s starting to win me over. I mean, he makes some excellent points; who doesn’t want to be a jet ski-riding spy? I know that I do. Also, happy anniversary [...]

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Maryland Court Rules That No Actually Means No

by Cara April 17, 2008

Maryland’s highest court has overturned a horrid ruling and joined seven other states in recognition of the fact that a woman (and hopefully any person?) can revoke her consent to sexual activity — and that, shockingly enough, when a person continues sex after being told to stop, that sex becomes rape. I’m thrilled that the [...]

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The Cost of Unwed Parenting?

by Cara April 16, 2008

Some conservative wingnut groups funded a study on divorced and out-of-wedlock parenting, and results claim that it costs U.S. taxpayers $112 billion each year. There have been previous attempts to calculate the cost of divorce in America. But the sponsors of the new study, being released Tuesday, said theirs is the first to gauge the [...]

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Mother May I?

by Cara April 15, 2008

Who remembers the 2005 and 2006 California propositions that tried to instate parental notification rules for minors seeking abortions? You know, the ones that failed? Well, not so fast. Looks like it’s probably going to be on the ballot this year, too. Meet the man you can thank: Jim Holman, owner of the San Diego [...]

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Diluting the Message

by Cara April 15, 2008

I love the folks over at SAFER, and you really ought to go check out this post. In short, some guy wrote a really obnoxious opinion piece about rape for his student newspaper. (The jackass starts off by saying that rape is “controversial” — WTF?) Essentially, he was playing the How Far Can I Go [...]

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Blog About The Congo Rape Epidemic

by Cara April 14, 2008

Yesterday was the day to blog about the Congo rape epidemic. As Sunday is my day off from blogging, I missed it — but as I always say when I come in late to these things (a specialty of mine), it’s better late than never, and it’s not too late for you to participate either. [...]

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Moving Up

by Cara April 13, 2008

This post is an announcement. It will stay at the top of the blog for several days; newer posts will appear below. Today, I just so happened to reach my 200,000th visit on the blog. And this Friday, April 18th, will be my one year anniversary of blogging and the one year anniversary of The [...]

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