LaPrincipessa @ sexgenderbody | Why “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” Is So Important.

Ashley Sayeau @ RhRealityCheck | “Sex and the City” Hate: Why Don’t Men Get Slammed for Lavish Spending?

Amanda Hess @ The Sexist | Why Wedding Weight Loss Isn’t About “Health.” Hint: few things are where weddings and People magazine are concerned.

Amanda Hess and Sady Doyle @ The Sexist | Sexist Beatdown: The Chat They Didn’t Want You to Read! Edition. On the discourse surrounding non-consensually publicized sex tapes.

Cara @ The Curvature | Rape, Male Victims, and Why We Need to Care.

irrationalpoint @ Modus dopens | Don’t have answers. On the DSM V and other ways of pathologizing sex and gender nonconforming people and behavior.

Molly @ first the egg | motherbaby, 1981 & 2006. Images of two generations of women and their newborns.

Sinclair @ Sugarbutch Chronicles | On Processing & Analyzing. Ways of communicating, thinking, and writing about relationships.

Courtney @ Feministing | Love across oceans: U.S. government is still a sinking ship. Immigration as a feminist issue.

Ann Friedman @ The American Prospect | It’s Not the End of Men. And I wish to god we’d stop claiming it was.

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