Stories by Amanda Marcotte
Amanda Marcotte co-writes the popular blog Pandagon. She is the author of It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.
Marriage is failing many, many people. Why do we still idealize it?
Posted on Jul 1, 2009
Every person who trots out vicious nonsense and misinformation about abortion played a part in the murder Dr. George Tiller.
Posted on Jun 4, 2009
The message of the film is clear -- only bad people use condoms to have sex for pleasure.
Posted on May 4, 2009
Lots of porn dovetails nicely with the conservative view on sex: that good girls dislike sex and bad girls who get down don't deserve respect.
Posted on Mar 12, 2009
Abusers often taunt their victims with just this question, because they grasp the psychological power and the self-esteem erosion behind it.
Posted on Mar 4, 2009
There is a growing movement of 'sex-positive' evangelicals, who bluntly talk about how to have better (married) sex.
Posted on Feb 24, 2009
The word slut describes women, not men. We still live in a world where Good Girls Don't. No wonder many women have trouble being sexual.
Posted on Feb 18, 2009
Hostility to women perceived as "sexually loose" cripples efforts to protect women's rights and health.
Posted on Jan 28, 2009
Health care reform would give us the opportunity to create jobs that pay us back tenfold.
Posted on Jan 5, 2009
What does it take to kill a right-wing myth? Garlic, sunshine, wooden stakes, silver bullets?
Posted on Dec 14, 2008
What Obama and McCain's positions on contraception and health services would mean for Americans.
Posted on Oct 21, 2008
We're lucky to have the Pill, but a wider variety of contraceptive options would do womankind good.
Posted on May 24, 2008
Describing immigrants in dehumanizing terms like "illegals" turns immigrant women into targets for sexist oppressors, from anti-choicers to rapists.
Posted on Apr 7, 2008
It's time for rational people to cast an eye of skepticism on the unscientific and wholly irrational claims of the anti-choice movement.
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
One should never underestimate the lengths to which wingnuts will go to control female sexuality.
Posted on Mar 7, 2008
Do right-wingers not know where babies come from, or is there more to the story?
Posted on Feb 21, 2008
Men need more birth control options, not negative assumptions and ugly stereotypes.
Posted on Feb 20, 2008
The days of illegal abortion were ugly, but many clandestine abortion providers were competent, caring professionals who believed in justice.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008
The
Roe v. Wade decision may have been about abortion, but its legacy has been fuller bodily autonomy and expanded freedoms.
Posted on Jan 22, 2008
Diane Sawyer interviews an abused woman and shows video of her battering filmed by her son.
Posted on Sep 21, 2007
Everyone these days wants to hear how young women have lost their way, especially if the author can blame feminism for it. But in reality, feminism has been anything but a tragedy for women.
Posted on May 5, 2007
Misleading 'crisis pregnancy centers' are appearing across America, aiming to limit or even prevent women from exploring all of their legal health care options.
Posted on May 1, 2006
In a desperate attempt to protect the president, the right wing has resorted to blaming the victims.
Posted on Sep 16, 2005
Cindy Sheehan's rapidly-growing contingent of moms in floppy hats and comfortable shoes throws the cowardice of the opposition into sharp relief.
Posted on Aug 22, 2005
