AMONG THE GODDESSES. I appeared on bloggingheads.tv Tuesday with Ann Althouse, and while we had a lot to disagree about, we were mostly in accord in our criticism of TAP contributor Linda Hirshman‘s op-ed in the Sunday Washington Post on women, voting and Senator Clinton. Hirshman responded on her blog, accusing both us of reading […]
Ann Friedman
Ann Friedman is a columnist for New York magazine’s website and for the Columbia Journalism Review. She also makes pie charts for The Hairpin and Los Angeles magazine. Her work has appeared in ELLE, Esquire, Newsweek, The Observer, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many other outlets. She lives in Los Angeles, but travels so often the best place to find her is online at annfriedman.com.
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HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT.
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT. What great timing! The same day my column calling for universal HPV vaccination is published, World Net Daily brings the crazy with this column from Jill Stanek (of “abortion providers eat fetuses!” fame). She writes, There is only one good reason a virtuous young woman should consider getting the […]
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Our Best Shot
State legislatures across the country have begun debating whether to make vaccination against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) mandatory for all sixth-grade girls. And most local coverage of the debate has included stories about parents considering whether to vaccinate their daughters. Such Oprah-style tales of educated mothers and their wide-eyed tweens having heart-to-heart chats […]
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“PRO-WOMAN,” ANTI-CHOICE.
“PRO-WOMAN,” ANTI-CHOICE. If you read the October issue of the Prospect, then much of this week’s New York Times Magazine cover story wasn’t news to you. Like Sarah Blustain and Reva Siegel did months ago, writer Emily Bazelon explores the anti-abortion movement’s move toward an “abortion hurts women” rather than an “abortion kills babies” argument. […]
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CELEBRATING ROE, ANTI-CHOICE…
CELEBRATING ROE, ANTI-CHOICE STYLE. I marked the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade by attending the Blogs4Life conference this morning at the Family Research Council HQ. A couple observations: The majority of anti-choice bloggers, judging by the attendance, are 50-year-old men, several of whom brought their young sons along. Nearly every younger woman I noticed […]
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SEXISM: SADLY, ALWAYS IN STYLE.
SEXISM: SADLY, ALWAYS IN STYLE. Apparently it’s time once again to over-analyze the fashion choices made by female members of Congress. At least this story appears, appropriately, in the Style section. (It’s particularly maddening when the Times chooses to put basic coverage of women politicians in this section, as if they were still the “Women’s […]
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LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX.
LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX. I think Courtney Martin makes a great argument that the number of drunken acquaintance rapes might be reduced if everyone was more experienced talking about sex, boundaries, and needs. While I think it’s at some risk for being interpreted as, “Date rape is women’s fault if they can’t say ‘no’ loudly […]
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A SPLIT IN THE ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT?
A SPLIT IN THE ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT? I recently stumbled across this item from the Christian press in which prominent anti-choicer Leslee Unruh admits that during the South Dakota abortion ban campaign she faced more harassment from hardline “pro-lifers” than from pro-choicers. “When you�re running a pro-life campaign the last thing you need is pro-lifers who […]
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WHY THE BYLINE GENDER GAP MATTERS.
WHY THE BYLINE GENDER GAP MATTERS. Back in April, the New York Times Magazine published the cover story “Pro-Life Nation” about abortion in El Salvador. It was written by Jack Hitt, an old white dude and entrenched member of the elite lefty media (he routinely writes cover stories for Harper’s, Mother Jones, etc.). On Sunday, […]
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The Little Pill that Could
In the mid-1990s, the abortion wars were at a fever pitch over the impending approval of RU-486. Time magazine called it “The Pill that Changes Everything,” The New York Times Magazine dubbed it a “little white bombshell,” and anti-abortion leaders said over and over that this drug was dangerous because it would make having an […]
