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Defining and defending a term
It all started when I ventured in to the comment section on BuzzFeed’s article on the Duke campaign “We Don’t Say.” It’s a collection of photographs of student athletes from various sports and the...
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It’s race baiting when it’s half truths
Seattle’s alternative weekly, The Stranger, recently ran a story with the following headline: Watch Seattle Police Pepper Spray Teacher Jesse Hagopian on MLK Day The article includes a photo showing a...
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Yoga Pants, more ass than we need to see
It’s such an easy target; a GOP lawmaker wants to ban yoga pants, suggesting they are indecent. This leads to the usual predictable snarks. Republicans; the party that wants small government yet also...
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NCAA is rife with hypocrisy
Did you see the news recently regarding Eastern Washington University’s starting QB Vernon Adams transferring to the University of Oregon? Adams falls into the 5th year graduate category; he will have...
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Columnist feeds gender distrust during divorce
Carolyn Hax muffs it when giving advice to a Mom with a child who’s heading down the path to divorce; by framing it as a need to be “safe.” A concerned Mom writes in saying her daughter married too...
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Slut, friend zone and bitch
Let’s just be clear: I am not defending the use of slut, cunt or bitch. For that matter, I am not defending the use of player, prick or tool. But, those two sentences back-to-back illustrate...
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Dear Abby perpetuates male stereotypes
It sounds like the same old story. And maybe it is, for all we know. But, based on what was printed and shared, Dear Abby is guilty, again, of perpetuating a male stereotype while not challenging the...
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Can we criticize women? – the over-reaction to Tim Hunt
A question I have is this, can women handle criticism? Well, of course many can. But can we talk about those who can’t? Can we acknowledge a pattern, any pattern, if it’s critical of women? I ask...
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Women, humor and the workplace
I’ve heard the complaint before, from a certain type of man, that women have no sense of humor. I usually dismiss these complaints because this type of man is usually an asshole; his behavior boorish...
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The anatomy of a joke
I keep hearing that Sir Tim Hunt’s joke was a bumbling attempt at humor or outright sexism. But the more I read the text of his comments and the more I read the conversations online that make up the...
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Bio-Mom withdraws when child seeks relationship with Bio-Dad
Andy in Georgia writes to Dear Abby that he has made contact with his bio-dad. His mother however has responded coldly to this news. Andy reports “After I told her I have been talking to him for two...
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Militant loses foster kids… and for good reason.
Let’s take LaVoy Finicum at his word that he and his wife have done a great deal of good working with troubled boys. As someone who has worked with troubled youth I can imagine that the structure he...
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This is your GOP
It’s been entertaining to witness various conservative and Republican leaders first dismiss Donald Trump, then scramble to compete and finally stumble as if sucker punched by a bully. And while Donald...
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There doesn’t have to be “Mommy Anxiety”
Want to Parent, Not Sure About Being a Mommy writes in to Carolyn Hax feeling “ambivalent about motherhood.” She acknowledges some social pressure suggesting that parenting is “all-consuming and...
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After all, we are the oppressors.
It appeared on my Twitter feed and so I clicked; an article on male privilege. The author, J. Brown, seems earnest. He is confronting issues he sees in the world and examining the language we/he uses...
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The mansions are going to burn
I have an acquaintance who is a former sheriff who worked in the area between the suburbs and the city. Over the course of thirty years he saw the city encroach on the suburb and observed affluence...
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Trucks or Guns?
In this rebuttal we’ll poke holes in the notion that truck and gun are interchangeable. The tragedy in Nice, where a truck was used, is not at all relevant to the discussion of gun control in America,...
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Faith in Politics
In observing various social media feeds after the Vice Presidential debates the subject of faith drew my attention. For me what is interesting is not what Mike Pence or Tim Kaine said but how...
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Militants in Malheur standoff acquitted
Gobsmacked. That was my initial reaction to the not guilty verdict issued by the jury on the armed occupation of the Malheur reserve in Eastern Oregon. It was interesting, though, how quickly that...
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Choose your battles, Liberal
I don’t often agree with Charles Krauthammer, he’s another one of those caustic conservative commentators whose points are well made, but whose columns are little more than intellectual one-upmanship....
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