Dowering Our Daughters
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Dowering Our Daughters

The world lacks drinking games relating to women’s studies, so here’s a suggestion: If you can get a women’s studies stalwart to say the word coverture before the conversation’s second minute elapses, throw one back for the 21st Amendment.  Then you’ll be comfortable as you receive a wealth of information about women under English Common...

Charlize Theron and the Tully Monster
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Charlize Theron and the Tully Monster

Tully Produced by Bron Studios Directed by Jason Reitman Screenplay by Diablo Cody In the summer of 1998, a teenybopper friend and I went to see some big deal war movie. Afterwards, we walked back to her car with our minds full of weeping men and piles of guts. “Did you like that?” she asked....

The Sport You Aren’t Watching
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The Sport You Aren’t Watching

Women’s sports lurch upon a troubled foundation.  To throw like a girl is to fail on the grounds of athleticism, and not to throw like a girl is to fail on the grounds of girlism.  Worse, the quest for equality cannot reconcile its dogmatic ideal with how its professed adherents live out their faith.  If...

Midwife Crisis
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Midwife Crisis

A few things can be said with certainty of the BBC’s Call the Midwife: None of those babies are swaddled tightly enough.  Car births aren’t the greatest, but I’ve seen worse than the one in Season Four.  And if Sister Evangelina doesn’t know why Sister Monica Joan paired the ass and the angel in her...