Stories by Amanda Marcotte
Amanda Marcotte co-writes the blog Pandagon. She is the author of It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Posted on May 16, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The Christian right is increasingly out of step with how Americans feel about gay rights. This issue might be the one that destroys them in the end.
Posted on Apr 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Romney seems to assume that women don't care about sexual rights. But reproductive issues impact almost all women.
Posted on Mar 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Legislators are using the mandated ultrasound to scare, insult and humiliate women.
Posted on Feb 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet
How the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation put their corporation-friendly image before women’s actual health concerns.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Gingrich doesn’t live by the strict sexual rules laid out by conservatives, because those rules are meant for other people: the poor, Democrats, gays, and minorities.
Posted on Jan 2, 2012, Source: RH Reality Check
To really understand Iowa, you need to understand the primacy of abortion as an issue to the Christian right.
Posted on Dec 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Here are some predictions for where the anti-choice movement will try to go in 2012.
Posted on Dec 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet
When we deprive women of access to abortion, shun them, and even throw them in jail, we as a society become weaker.
Posted on Dec 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet
They’ve sent a strong message to Republicans: It’s not enough to be “pro-life” anymore. They want full-on war on women and sex.
Posted on Dec 4, 2011, Source: RH Reality Check
Concerned Women for America claims that allowing military women access to abortion is somehow a "cover-up" of the crime committed against them.
Posted on Nov 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet
What kind of sexual misconduct qualifies as an important news item, and what kind is just scurrilous gossip?
Posted on Nov 24, 2011, Source: AlterNet
As television becomes more daring, there are still many basic feminist ideas that read as taboo on the small screen.
Posted on Nov 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet
A personhood amendment is a backdoor to stripping away women’s rights -- their very right to be considered autonomous human beings.
Posted on Nov 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Less than a year after the 2010 elections, the right-wing is losing its ability to dominate the media's attention. Here's why it hasn't been able to tarnish OWS.
Posted on Oct 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The Mormon-bashing directed at Mitt Romney should concern everyone for what it reveals about the undue influence of religion in American elections.
Posted on Sep 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Anti-gay bigotry is just one piece of a larger picture of conservative fear and loathing of all forms of sexuality.
Posted on Sep 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The Tea Parties are partly a product of the suburbs, where social isolation leaves communication about social mores to reality TV. Is it any wonder the movement lacks empathy?
Posted on Sep 14, 2011, Source: Comment Is Free
Perry may have lost no sleep over Texas's 234 executions during his tenure, but the death penalty panders to crude bloodlust.
Posted on Sep 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Atheists are moral, loving and multicultural, and you might even find them in foxholes.
Posted on Sep 1, 2011, Source: Comment Is Free
The Texas governor's ultra-invasive sonogram law was overturned by a court this week, providing an excellent opportunity to examine his awful record on women's rights.
Posted on Aug 22, 2011, Source: RH Reality Check
The belief that sex is "immoral" pushes Conservatives to support abstinence-only, sex-is-immoral education and policy, even though it is proven to be harmful.
Posted on Aug 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Who really deserves a reputation as too much of a right-wing extremist for the Beltway media to take seriously?
Posted on Aug 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Conservatives' attacks on sexuality have grown more radical, in the past year alone.
Posted on Aug 1, 2011, Source: RH Reality Check
It's sex panic that helped create the modern right-wing populist, and it's the modern right-wing populist that created the current crisis.
Posted on Jul 27, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Here are ten realities pro-choicers should throw in the face of opponents of choice they have the misfortune to get into arguments with.
Posted on Jul 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
So many Americans object to other people doing it that opposition to sex drives American politics.
Posted on Jul 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
No matter how young people are doing it, they’re doing it wrong, according to the mainstream media.
Posted on Jul 3, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Atheism is not just about disproving religious belief; it's also a burgeoning social justice movement intent on tearing down the social structures that perpetuate injustice.
Posted on Jun 23, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Republicans, who claim to find fetal life precious and abortion horrendous, also favor the very policies that drive increasing numbers of women to seek abortions.
Posted on Jun 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to increasingly restrictive state laws, we're seeing a return to pre-Roe back-alley abortions and criminal treatment of women.
Posted on Jun 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet
This scandal may represent the end of the presumption of sexual privacy for anyone people like Andrew Breitbart deem interesting enough to harass.
Posted on Jun 1, 2011, Source: Comment Is Free
The uproar over the improper photo sent from Rep. Weiner's Twitter account fits a larger pattern of rightwing culture warriors ganging up and sexually harassing young women.
Posted on May 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Glib comments about rape by anti-choice Republican lawmakers reveal that the anti-choice movement is deeply rooted in antagonism to women's rights.
Posted on May 13, 2011, Source: The Guardian
Republicans fear that if they aren't constantly shoring up masculinity and attacking the feminine, they might grow soft. This has dangerous effects.
Posted on May 12, 2011, Source: The Good Men Project
Many ballsy women are afraid to say 'Please do this' or 'Don’t do that' in bed. Here’s what some women are really thinking.
Posted on May 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet
State Republicans have introduced nearly 1,000 laws restricting women's reproductive health access. Here are 10 of the worst states to be a woman between puberty and menopause.
Posted on May 5, 2011, Source: AlterNet
At the state level, the GOP's attacks on reproductive rights may widen the already huge gulf between red and blue states in health, family stability, and education.
Posted on May 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
If you get pregnant outside of their very narrow parameters of what's acceptable (middle class, married, white), conservatives simply want you to suffer for it.
Posted on Apr 25, 2011, Source: RH Reality Check
As the right's crusade against abortion becomes a war on contraception, its viciously misogynistic agenda becomes ever more clear.
Posted on Apr 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The war on contraception and general sexual health care is just heating up, and liberals best be prepared for more battles over contraception access and funding in the future.
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