Rick Perry in Dallas late last year.
Let’s see if I remember how to do this.
- Grand Prairie man who shot and killed his family at his son’s 11th birthday party was “eerily calm” before the crime.
- The intrepid trend-spotting reporters of Tyler, TX have discovered this newfangled thing called “roller derby.” It’s gonna be huge!
- Dallas sex writer Jenny Block is answering every single one of your intimate sex questions, in about 200 words or less.
- National conservatives likely to balk at Rick Perry’s endorsement of the Gardasil vaccine, arguably one of the only decent things he’s done for women while in office.
- Rick Perry says gay marriage is a states’ rights issue.
- Rick Perry also signs new human trafficking law.
- San Angelo braces for the Warren Jeffs polygamy and child rape trial.
- Amarillo woman to be among first female officers on Navy submarines.
- Texas has one of the highest rates of c-section births in the country.
- What a Texas game warden saw at Warren Jeffs’ ranch.
- Female comics exist in Dallas.
- Texas public school sex-ed curriculum asks kids to evaluate their partner’s love of Jesus.
sincerely, me
conspiretheatre
Jenny Rain
merrittmartin
Tessa Muldvarp
nanarchist
rooflizard
Susan
theakohout
thefword527
andrea grimes
Not local, and maybe not the place to post this comment, but it is a recent read: “Ladies, We Have a Problem” by Rebecca Traister, in the NYT Magazine. I won’t weigh in on the unease with SlutWalk that she outlines in the few ‘graphs (as she seems to come around by the end of the piece), but at least one of her points bears repeating: whenever a woman comes forth with a story of rape or sexual assault, you can be sure character assassination ensues. The writer, Rebecca Traister, focuses on other women who participated in the take-downs — in order, that is, to look at critiques from within feminism. (It will be of comfort to some at this blog to see a nod in her piece to the NY Times’ own prejudices in its reporting of the DSK case.) And her takeaway, expressed in the penultimate ‘graph, is particularly relevant, as we, particularly those of us on the left, can never be satisfied with the rate of social progress, which is at best incremental. I don’t know, food for thought anyway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/clumsy-young-feminists.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
D’oh… should read “first few ‘graphs”. Other mistakes / instances of sloppiness are solely the responsibility of my basset hound.