Posts Tagged ‘doublex’

Click Here For (A Feminist Critique Of) Sarah Palin’s Throbbing Thighs!

Yesterday, DoubleX tweeted the following teaser to a story on Sarah Palin's recent profile in "Runner's World":

"Sarah Palin, in spandex, discusses her 'throbbing thighs,'" is the classic ladymag linkbait-and-switch:

Memories of Late-Term Abortions

DoubleX is collecting memories of women who received abortions from Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered in his Witchita, Kan. church on Sunday morning. The stories provide a good deal of insight into why women receive late-term abortions, and why Tiller's work was so important. Tiller's clinic was one of only three to provide late-term [...]

A Skeezy Dude Looks At Date Rape

Moe Tkacik wrote a kick-ass response to her haters on DoubleX, a ten-year retrospective of sorts on her personal experience with rape. It's titled "Why I Didn't Report My Date-Rape: Because People Do Stupid Things."
And then, very quickly, a commenter did a stupid thing!
"doovinator," who appears in his photo with a young child wrapped around [...]

Sexist Beatdown: DoubleX Is Killing Feminist Blogs Which Are Killing Feminism Edition

Feminism: Oooooooooover it.
In this edition of Sexist Beatdown, Sady of Tiger Beatdown and myself of the Sexist talk of DoubleX, Slate's new online magazine for women—it's just like us, except we're the problem! Also, people who don't report their own rapes. It is mostly them (and not, saaaay, rapists) who are the problem.
Oh, problems. They [...]

Slate Launches “DoubleX” Magazine

Slate, which has been rolling out its female-specific content in the form of the XX Factor blog for months, has finally relaunched the feature in full-fledged magazine form. I haven't fully dived into "DoubleX" yet, but it already registers one improvement on its predecessor: You don't have to jump over to Slate's alien message board [...]