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    The Recently Deflowered Girl: A Reissue, A Review

    Going Rouge: Feminists Weren't Fooled Once, Won't Be Fooled Again

    "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1

    Is It Time To Stop Listing "Best" Books?

    Superfreakonomics: Not That Super Or Freaky

    Am I Dating A Werewolf? And Other Questions For Francesca Lia Block

    Bright-Sided: The Negative Consequences Of Positive Thinking

    Impossible Motherhood: An "Abortion Addict" Tells Her Story

    Prospect Park West: In Park Slope, Hell Is Other Parents

    Mad, Bad & Sad: History Of Female Mental Illness Turns Into Indictment Of Psychotherapy
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    11/18/09

    In reply to Going Rouge: Feminists Weren't Fooled Once, Won't Be Fooled Again
    And we're not capable of being fooled! Not even by a woman! #shitnormanbatessays
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    Image of IamnotStarJones IamnotStarJones
    11/18/09

    In reply to Going Rouge: Feminists Weren't Fooled Once, Won't Be Fooled Again
    She's white America's Madea.
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    Image of gretchasketch gretchasketch
    11/19/09

    @IamnotStarJones: I'm assuming you mean Tyler Perry's Madea and not the character from the Greek tragedy because then I love this comment.
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    Image of IamnotStarJones IamnotStarJones
    11/19/09

    @gretchasketch: Of course I mean Tyler Perry's Madea!
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    Image of canthelpmyself canthelpmyself
    11/18/09

    In reply to Going Rouge: Feminists Weren't Fooled Once, Won't Be Fooled Again
    This is certainly Sarah Palin week on Jezebel. I feel like a stumbled into a bad movie, "The Sarah Palin Chronicles: Rise of the Brain Dead".
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    Image of TRexstasy TRexstasy
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Recently Deflowered Girl: A Reissue, A Review
    Hey, Sadie, not to nitpick, but I think you meant "wrought".
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Recently Deflowered Girl: A Reissue, A Review
    I need this. I need this so bad. Why can't payday be right now?!
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Recently Deflowered Girl: A Reissue, A Review
    "Pretend to be completely engrossed in the ride" - It would seem to me that this is applicable in most of these situations.
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    Image of ElleL ElleL
    11/18/09

    In reply to Going Rouge: Feminists Weren't Fooled Once, Won't Be Fooled Again
    Just remember, The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

    We must always remember this woman exists, and can wreak havoc. No matter what she makes herself into in 2012.

    *shudder*
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    11/18/09

    @ElleL: Maybe Palin is what the Mayans warned us of...
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    Image of soeffingclassy soeffingclassy
    11/18/09

    @Lymed: hearted.
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    Image of ElleL ElleL
    11/18/09

    @Lymed: You're so right. Where is John Cusack!?

    #tips
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    Image of sybann sybann
    11/18/09

    In reply to Going Rouge: Feminists Weren't Fooled Once, Won't Be Fooled Again
    I am windmilling like Townshend as we speak.

    Before people get all bent outta shape about the wall-to-wall coverage - remember ABSENCE makes the heart grow fonder. *wink*

    You betcha!
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/18/09

    @sybann: ABSTINANCE makes the heart go flounder. (Or was is it ABSINTHE makes the heart go pounders?) OBSTINANCE make the world go rounders ....

    I'll shut up now.
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    Image of sybann sybann
    11/18/09

    @NotChoinski: ONLY because you ran out!!! Heee
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    11/18/09

    @sybann: Agreed. The more moral outrage the radical right spends now on behalf of their beloved icon, the less spending power it'll have come 2012. She may have succeeded in keeping her name in the spotlights but she's pissing people off left and right and spending vast reserves of her severely limited cachet. So let's get all the entertainment and easy outrage we can out of her before she flames out or just ends up taking a cushy job on fox and becoming another Coulter clone.
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    Image of Blueberry26 Blueberry26
    11/18/09

    @sybann: Unfortunately this has seemed to be playing out for George Bush. He keeps his mouth shut and we forget how much we despised him.
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    Image of sybann sybann
    11/18/09

    @Blueberry26: I HAVEN'T!
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    Image of boxspelunker boxspelunker
    11/18/09

    @NotChoinski: I had a rhyme about it when I was younger that I thought was oh-so-clever.

    Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
    Questions make the mind go ponder.

    It is deep.
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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    11/18/09

    In reply to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1
    You have forgotten the most important similarity: the country/world would be a whole lot better if both of these people went far far away and never came back.
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    Image of GeorgeFayne GeorgeFayne
    11/18/09

    @CherriSpryte: Oh there are so many more. For example: They are both idiots. Also, I hate them both, such as.
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    Image of That_little_attention_whore That_little_attention_whore
    11/19/09

    @GeorgeFayne: oooh, ooh, I can play this game too! Both will never be taken seriously by anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together
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    Image of GeorgeFayne GeorgeFayne
    11/19/09

    @That_little_attention_whore: They both would be well-advised to stop alienating the gays, you know, if they want to keep having pretty hair?
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    Image of Notes from the underwhelmed Notes from the underwhelmed
    11/18/09

    In reply to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1
    The most irritating thing about this is that they do have points, and the left has allowed them to have those points, and given them the ammunition. Yeah, Obama isn't any more pro-gay marriage than any conservative out there, and there is a lot of sexism on the left. Look at what they did to Hillary Clinton. We choose to ignore these things, and this is what happens.
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    Image of funnyface funnyface
    11/18/09

    In reply to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1
    These two make Miss Teen SC look like a genius. At least she's realized that the thing that made her famous is a joke, and she's willing to laugh at it and make fun of herself. Who knew she'd be my favorite conservative beauty queen?
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    Image of toastandlove toastandlove
    11/18/09

    In reply to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1
    What I don't get is that these women spend a hell of a lot of time explaining that they DO oppose gay marriage, but never really dwell on WHY.

    I would really like to hear an explanation as to why. Preferably one that does NOT include the phrase "opposite marriage".
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    Image of Zapatos Zapatos
    11/18/09

    @toastandlove: Y'know, this is a really good point, not just for Prejean and Palin, but for all the people shouting that gay marriage is EEEEVIL and will destroy America. I really want to go up to them and ask them to use real data, not just a vague shake of the Bible, to convince me of their point.

    Moral of the Story: Back your thesis up with actual evidence, people!
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    Image of toastandlove toastandlove
    11/18/09

    @Zapatos: I Googled "why be against gay marriage" and came up with a bunch of different lists, mostly detailing how if we let the gays marry it will be the beginning of the decline of the family (lots of families are currently fucked up, we don't need the gays to do that), how it will inevitably lead to polygamy (silly fear mongering), how schools will be required to teach this "perversion" as normal (don't see how teaching kids to be accepting of all relationships is a bad thing), and how if we let the gays get married, they'll get all the same rights as the straights (kinda the point). So really, it just comes down to bigotry. And this convinces people?
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    11/18/09

    @Zapatos: Yep, if your only reason to be against gay marriage, or anything else that may or may not be a law, is the Bible, that's not a good reason. There's that whole church and state seperation. Using religion as a reason for a law kind of violates that.
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    11/18/09

    @Red-headed bookworm: Plus, to piggyback off toastandlove, but if they are going by what the Bible says, then they should be advocating for marriage between a man and sixteen wives and four thousand concubines.

    But then again, that assumes they've actually read the Bible, and it's been my experience that the majority of those who wave it around as some sort of authority on modern-day morality haven't actually read it.
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    Image of magicwaffle magicwaffle
    11/18/09

    @whynotshesaid: Unfortunately, it has been explained to me that not everyone in the Bible, even the heroes, are paragons of good behavior. Just because some dude in the Bible does it, doesn't mean it's okay.

    King's David and Solomon had lots of wives and concubines and it was bad. Not that the Bible tells us that. We just need to understand it. "that's how society was back then"; "look at all the trouble having all those wives caused them: David had someone murdered and Solomon let his pagan brides worship their heathen gods in his city"

    It takes a degree to know what's advice and what's a warning.
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    11/18/09

    @magicwaffle: You are just affirming my belief that it is far better to base one's morality on something other than the Bible.

    #tips
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    Image of magicwaffle magicwaffle
    11/18/09

    @whynotshesaid: You mean you don't want to get a doctorate in theology just to know what it is you are supposed to know?
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    11/18/09

    In reply to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1
    All I can add at this point is this: If my charter-subscriber-to-Ms., protesting on the streets of DC in the 60s and 70s, multiple degree holding Original Feminist mom had an opportunity, Carrie Prejean would definitely NOT be "still standing." Mom is 66 years old and all kinds of pissed-off. Her exact words to me the other day were "I'd like to bust her in one of those rubber boobs." Man, I love my mother.
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    Image of GeorgeFayne GeorgeFayne
    11/18/09

    @I_can_still_pitch: Oh shit, I love your mom too.
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    Image of tiredfairy tiredfairy
    11/18/09

    In reply to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1
    I'm sick to death of the argument that having an opinion that's criticizes is some kind of infringement on your freedom, speech, or entitlement to that opinion. Or that being criticized for that opinion is in any way comparable to the discrimination homosexuals and other marginalized people have been grappling with forever because other people feel their opinions are more important than civil/human rights.

    Have at your opinions, ladies. No one is saying you can't have them. But opinions are not sacrosanct and above criticism just because you feel strongly about them. Especially not when you want those opinions to directly effect the equality UNDER THE LAW of other people.

    I'm sorry most of their opinions are ill-informed, bigoted, thoughtless, and rely on a narrow religious agenda. But that doesn't belong anywhere near the public schools, Ms. Prejean. The public schools are responsible for teaching reality, not morality.

    The level of self delusion is something they both have in common, too. And that same smug hypocrisy a lot of the radical right seems to favor. We're persecuted! We're the majority!
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    11/18/09

    @tiredfairy: I love how they're allowed to have bigoted, discriminatory opinions, but I'm not allowed to have the opinion that they're discriminating bigots.

    I guess double standards are A-OK for them.

    #tips
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    Image of Cerridwen Cerridwen
    11/18/09

    @tiredfairy: Ugh, yes! Precisely no one is telling Prejean or Palin they are not entitled to their opinions. Free speech does not mean you are immune to criticism. It means that you have the right to hold and express opinions. But it's fair game for everyone else to point out how problematic, bigoted and hypocritical those opinions are.

    Also? How can these people think it's ok to whine about the "discrimination" they supposed face, while actively lobbying to take other people's legal rights away? The lack of self-awareness, it boggles my mind.
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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    11/18/09

    @tiredfairy: If they are free to say whatever they want, then I am free to criticize it. Why is that such a hard concept?
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    11/18/09

    @tiredfairy: Freedom of speech is not just about your right to be an idiot. It is also about my right to call you an idiot.
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    11/18/09

    In reply to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1

    I can guess why she didn't want to pay homage to Elton John, but this would have made a much cooler book cover.
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    Image of sarahsmile sarahsmile
    11/18/09


    @CurtCole: There, fixed it.
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    11/18/09

    @sarahsmile: You're my new best friend.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    11/18/09

    @CurtCole: You are my evil twin, because I was just going to post about that.
    I am a random person, so I laugh when I think her book is called Still Standing. It is also a song by MajorGay(tm) Elton John and the video just may be the gayest video ever made, to boot.
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    Image of PaigeTurner PaigeTurner
    11/18/09

    @sarahsmile: that's awesome.
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