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  • Where is a discussion about Father's Rights?

    Up front allow me to say that I am a clear supporter of abortion rights under any and all circumstances. I was raised in a strongly feminist household and support equal rights for women and do not believe they have been achieved yet. And yet I was deeply troubled by the language Linda used in this article in its absolutism about it being only ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by AJIntrocaso on August 13, 2008

  • My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action

    An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008

  • Re: female infidelity

    WOW! So much tension here. Let's see if I can set about answering the original challenge. I think women and men are very similar in their reasons for cheating but I don't think asking why women cheat is the right question. I think asking why women cheat when they have so much more to lose is a better question! So before everyone jumps on my ...
    Posted to XX Factor by santeriasister on May 27, 2008

  • Where's the real XX Factor??

    I'm becoming more and more confused at how these posts can be considered a political commentary from the female perspective, when there is so much female-bashing mixed in with everything! Instead of focusing on the policies of Clinton and Obama, their personalities/gender/race/clothes! are all anyone talks about. They may be very similar in ...
    Posted to XX Factor by asadastra on March 11, 2008

  • Why does XX bug me?

    I've been away for a while so this is new to me. Is it just a patriarchal caveman knee-jerk reaction on my part or does it seem like the suggestion is that the women of Slate's voices are too weak to stand on their own? Or maybe I'm just a little embarrassed and ashamed at the amount of focus from the media that's been put on Obama's ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Pherdnut on March 8, 2008

  • Steinem, Morgan and what happened to feminism?

    Dear Dahlia, Emily, Hanna, and all, I was born in the same year as Ms. magazine. As soon as I could read, I eagerly snatched up each new issue and tore the “Stories for Free Children” from the centerfold. (My favorite, which must have dated from somewhere around 1979, had to do with a child named ‘X’, who had no evident gender ...
    Posted to XX Factor by denada on February 17, 2008

  • Hillary Clinton won't lose because of sexism

    Here's an interesting statistic: According to the Pew Research Center, Democrats view Hillary Clinton slightly more favorably than Barack Obama (79% vs. 73%). [And for those keeping score, that's 72% vs. 72% for males and 83% vs. 74% for females.] In other words, it's not that voters detest her, it's just that they want to vote for Obama. ...
    Posted to XX Factor by milandv on February 5, 2008