[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- In Heated Debate, McDonald’s Insists Happy Meals Can Grow Mold
- The Atlantic Wire – It started when Sally Davies bought a McDonald's Happy Meal in April and photographed it for six months, posting the photos on Flickr. What's special about the photos? Well, the food in them isn't decomposing… What follows is the summary of a truly weird debate over whether a Happy Meal can, in fact, grow mold.
- Health Insurers Routinely Deny Coverage for Pregnant Women
- [Change.org's Blog Network - Brie Cadman]
Findings from a House Energy and Commerce Committee investigation, released Tuesday, show that the individual health insurance market denies pregnant women coverage and limits their ability to purchase maternity care. The four largest for-profit insurance companies, Aetna, Humana, UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint, listed pregnancy as a medical condition "that would result in automatic denial of individual health insurance coverage."
[Instead of working, you should go home and make babies. Oh, and we're going to make you pay for it. -L]
- Why a Politician’s "It Gets Better" Video Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Adults
- [Change.org's Blog Network - Mindy Townsend]
This video comes from Joel Burns, councilman on the Fort Worth City Council. Councilman Burns gives a powerful speech about the recent spate of suicides of gay teens, and tells his own story.
It clearly took incredible courage for this man to expose his most personal emotional scars. His message was akin to Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project. But it was not just a message for young people who are dealing with their emerging sexuality. This message should act as a wake-up call to adults.
…what seems clear is that we can never expect kids to stop bullying LGBT people as long as we have parents who feel free to do so.
- Aaron Sorkin Talks Sexism and The Social Network
- Just when I thought the conversation about women and The Social Network would fade away, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin took to the blogosphere in defense of his work…
…I think this story is important to our culture [because of] what it says about women and men… our culture is in serious trouble and this movie is Rorschach test for where we are and where we could be going. It is also a real indicator of the continued growing backlash against women in society. Let me be crystal clear here – I’m not saying that the film is a backlash film, I’m saying that the film reveals how infiltrated the backlash is in our society.
…The problem is that this misogynistic behavior is part of the culture of Harvard, especially the final clubs, that perpetuate and in many ways train these young men to believe they are better and smarter than women.
If the behavior felt like an aberration we would not be having this conversation.
- If You Want to Work for the History Channel, You Need to Be An Historian With a Penis!
- [Feminist Law Professors - Ann Bartow]
[And it's not hyperbole. -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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