A Mother’s Day present from health care reform: Being a mom will no longer be a pre-existing condition. http://wh.gov/JPY7
Word.
Top editors and reporters at Talking Points Memo.
Also: editors of The New Republic (not a surprise to me), comedians at the New York Comedy Festival, the current Pritzker Prize jury …
Yep.
A girl feeds her pet bear in Riggins, Idaho.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic
Meet the Senate’s new women caucus.
LADY BUSINESS
Mandy Patinkin Could Not Be Happier About Someone Else Giving Birth
I really wish Mandy Patinkin was this excited about my baby.
Everything about this picture.
After prohibiting them for 116 years, McSorley’s Old Ale House was ordered by Mayor John Lindsay to open its doors to women in 1970. The article from that August describes the first co-ed bar brawl in McSorley’s history, when Lucy Komisar, a vice-president of the National Organization for Women and pictured at right, was heckled and antagonized by patrons. Photo: Barton Silverman/The New York Times
"There is a new dominatrix in town. And her name is Vagina."
Everything about Ariel Levy’s subtle takedown of Naomi Wolf is the best. Especially the part where she gets the phrase “rat pussy” into the New Yorker.
Let the convention begin!!!
Perhaps This SHOULD Be The Stuff of Feminist Manifestos
Reading a New York Times campaign blog about feminism and the current election, I stumbled over this passage:
The issue of how to find a “work-family balance” for working women continues to gain mainstream political traction, but that’s hardly the stuff of feminist manifestos.
Calling it “work-family balance” makes it sound all cutesy and like it’s just some frivolous personal empowerment thing. What it’s actually about is proper access to child care, less insane family leave laws, better access to health care so that families can start small businesses or pursue freelance careers. Obviously this isn’t just a feminist issue or a woman’s issue, but I’ll be damned if we shouldn’t be writing manifestos about it.
