Sarah Seltzer
By Sarah Seltzer
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Life Antifeminists vs. Real Feminist Fighters
This week professional antifeminist trolls Christina Hoff Summers and Kay Hymowitz both posted another round of sallies about how the feminist movement is failing women, who just may be natural nurturers after all. But this time around they didn’t get the usual traction and ire that they look for with these kinds declarations. The reason…
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Life Why Combining Abortion with Austerity Is Wrong
For years now at the Sisterhood we’ve been following a series of rollbacks of abortion rights and contraceptive access known as the War on Women. Despite losses at the voting booth and public opinion, far right wing legislators can’t stop and won’t stop pushing laws and regulations that hurt women and threaten providers. Resistance is…
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Opinion They Said Fetuses Do What?
Abortion should be banned because fetuses—male ones—are busy pleasuring themselves in the womb, didn’t you know? Yes, that is the logic that seemed to have come out of a legislator’s mouth this week. It appears that two of the Right Wing’s favorite bogeyman—abortion and masturbation—have come together in a perfect storm. These comments are giving…
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Life The Enduring Rape Myth Created by Nazis
Usually on the internet when Nazi analogies come into play, it means Godwin’s Law—the theory that all online arguments will eventually devolve into a Hitler comparison—has been invoked and the conversation is over. But in the case of the “women who are raped can’t get pregnant” myth, a myth Republicans love to perpetuate, there’s actually…
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Life Plan B Is Free, But Stigma Remains
After years of cajoling, protesting, advocating and pleading from women’s health advocates, Plan B, the most commonly-used brand of emergency contraception, has been released from legal limbo. Hopefully this morning after pill will now be able to spend the rest of its days in the friendlier, more accessible haven of the pharmacy shelf rather than…
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Life What Are Female Friends For?
I heartily agreed with Elissa Strauss’s skeptical take on Ann Friedman’s widely-circulating friendship advice. Boiled down, Friedman argues that we should figure out what attracts us in the women who provoke our envy, and befriend them. I concur, of course, with the article’s basic premise that we should cultivate these folks instead of covet their…
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Life Judy Blume’s ‘Tiger Eyes’ Comes to Big Screen
My favorite Young Adult novels when I was a young reader were the ones that I now think of as “my summer of death and kissing” novels. Sound morbid? It’s not, really. It’s about a certain kind of melancholy grandeur. The way I see it is: If art, like life, boils down to sex, death…
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Opinion Horace Mann Says Sorry — and Stumbles
Horace Mann alumni like me got emails in our in-boxes a few days ago and soon thereafter, the news was splashed everywhere: our alma mater had officially apologized. The school apologized for the many instances of child abuse, sexual assault and worse that journalists have revealed as occurring in its classrooms, hallways and teacher’s homes….
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