We’ve got another awesome Sex and the State guest post! If you would like to submit a guest post, please fill out my contact form with an brief outline of what you want to write about. In libertarian and even conservative circles, the phrase “check your privilege” seems to have become the ultimate symbol of all things … [Read more…]
Facebook raised eyebrows earlier this year by unveiling 49 new gender options for users. Hopefully that’s just the start of the ubiquitous social network’s social boundary-pushing ways. The next frontier? Unconventional relationship options. Instead of multiple options for relationships with just one other user, Facebook should allow users to be in relationships with multiple users. … [Read more…]
Mutual Exchange is the Center’s goal in two senses — we favor a society rooted in peaceful, voluntary cooperation, and we seek to foster understanding through ongoing dialogue. Mutual Exchange will provide opportunities for conversation about issues that matter to the Center’s audience. A lead essay, deliberately provocative, will be followed by responses from inside … [Read more…]
From the New York Times piece on the recently passed Maya Angelou: “Hallmarks of Ms. Angelou’s prose style included a directness of voice that recalls African-American oral tradition and gives her work the quality of testimony.” Testimony. In the Alabama Southern Baptist churches I grew up in, we gave our testimonies. By that we meant … [Read more…]
Well, between FEE, Stossel, and the ban bossy campaign, it appears the libertarian world is in a full-blown privilege discussion. I kind of hate that this is like, my deal. What some people know me for. Because everyone is right about the fact that it generally sounds hostile and dismissive to say “check your privilege” … [Read more…]
Tea Party favorite and former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is upset that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a broad bill which carved out a special right for religious people to discriminate against gay individuals. “I was sorry that she made the decision, and it’s because I believe that tolerance is a two-way street and … [Read more…]
Last week I published Michelle Bachmann Didn’t Care for Religious Tolerance Unti AZ Law on the Huffington Post. Sunday morning I received this email. I’ve altered absolutely nothing. This person is apparently teaching history high school history in the United States. That should tell you everything you need to know about our education system. Subject: Re: … [Read more…]
For too long, the Food and Drug Administration under President Obama was a pretty big disappointment to women. But this week’s decision to make generic emergency contraception (sometimes known as the morning after pill or Plan B) available to women without a prescription, marks the latest move in an improved path toward policy backed by science instead … [Read more…]
Susan Patton, author of Marry Smart: Advice for Finding ‘The One,’ has turned the old adage about men not buying the cow if they can get the milk for free into a WSJ article. While Patton’s goal may be to motivate young women to marry well by marrying early, she counterintuitively insults men and women in the process. … [Read more…]
It just couldn’t be clearer. “Amnesty International is opposed to the criminalization or punishment of activities related to the buying or selling of consensual sex between adults.” Thus begins a recently leaked document from the famed human rights organization calling for an end to prohibitions on sex work. Ironically perhaps, the most important, and controversial … [Read more…]