Dating advice from Fox News gets even more obnoxious, Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon, January 2, 2015
Fox News continues its march right past being conservative on gender issues and towards being overtly and grotesquely misogynist. As David Edwards at Raw Story reported, the show Fox & Friends did a New Year’s Day bit praising one of those sexist dating guides that promises women they’ll be able to “catch” a man while simultaneously and unintentionally arguing that men are wretched creatures that no woman should ever mess with. (To be clear, I disagree. There are plenty of men who don’t need a woman to debase herself by acting like an unpaid servant in order to “earn” love, but these kinds of dating guides always assume men are such weak monsters that this is the only way to get one to like you.) The book is called Single Man, Married Man and it purports to be a guide to how to mold yourself to be what men really want. And apparently what men really want is a doorma, though one who pretends that waiting on you hand and foot and never standing up for yourself is a form of “strength”.
Can We Please Stop Pretending Republicans Have Ever Had A Health Care Plan? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, January 9, 2015
Whether the Nixon plan was more liberal than the ACA is debatable. But Brill himself explains why the question is beside the point. You might, at this point, be wondering why if everyone favored health care plans more liberal than the ACA no actual health care reform of any kind passed. One crucial reason is that Nixon’s plan wasn’t a “Republican proposal” in any meaningful sense. It was a proposal a Republican pretended to support when it appeared that Congress might pass something better. Hopefully you’re all aware by now of the Heritage Uncertainty Principle, the fact that federal Republican health care plans only exist if there is no chance of them being implemented. Nixon’s proposal was entirely within this tradition.
Republicans are forcing women to have abortions – and then telling us it’s too late, Jessica Valenti, The Guardian, January 9, 2015
Why is the GOP trying to ban later abortions when they’re doing such a stellar job forcing women to get them?
After all, Republicans are the ones who want to spend millions on abstinence-only “education” – as in those medically inaccurate, ideology driven classes on sexuality telling students that condoms cause cancer and birth control pills cause sterility. I mean, why go through all the trouble of making up such fantastical lies if not to make sure that sexually active teens are more likely to have unwanted pregnancies, right? And it’s working! Teen pregnancy is highest in states with abstinence-only education.
Adults need not worry, though: the GOP is heavily invested in forcing women of all ages to wait weeks upon weeks to get an abortion.
