In this Bloggingheads conversation between BeliefNet's Steven Waldman and Slate's William Saletan, two dudes demonstrate why two dudes should not film themselves talking off-the-cuff about abortion for an hour. They call the segment "Two Men, No Uteruses." Waldman and Saletan putting their headsets together to figure out how to convince women not to be so [...]

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 [...]

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, 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 [...]

According to Slate's William Saletan, whose abortiony rhetorical stylings my colleagues and I have discussed at length, "Sixteen million girls are missing in China."
Holy shit, China. How did you manage to lose all these little girls?! Prepare to send out the biggest fucking Amber alert of all time!
Oh wait, this is Saletan we're talking about—the [...]

Why do women stay in abusive relationships? That's the question Slate's Linda Hirshman poses in her review of the new abuse memoir Crazy Love. Hirshman thinks the question is a "terribly important one" to ask women, and that it is a "mark of respect" to do so.
And yet, Hirshman's question remains a rhetorical in her [...]

Unborn fetuses: Your lives are in Saletan's hands.
Welcome back to "Sexist Beatdown," the weekly event wherein Sady, of New York ladyblog "Tiger Beatdown," and myself, of D.C. ladyblog "The Sexist" carry on evolved conversation on such topics as abnormal boners. This week, we discuss William Saletan, the Slate contributor obsessed with what Sady and I [...]

Getting your baby in there doesn't come cheap.
In his Slate column this week, William Saletan discussed what happens when biological parents stop paying the surrogates who are carrying their fetuses. SurroGenesis is a California surrogacy service that sets up infertile couples with willing replacement mamas, and facilitates payments between the two parties—well, it used to. [...]

This week, Slate's Ad Report Card attempted to explain the unexplainable: The commercial for the "6 Hour Power" energy drink, which ad-grader Seth Stevenson suggests is possibly "the most sexually explicit ad ever."
Watch the commercial here, please.
After counting down 6 Hour Power's explicit ways ("You rarely see skirts this short or cleavage this prominent outside [...]

* Slate intrudes on the Sexist beat, telling you how to donate a kidney through your vagina ("Good news: You can now get a kidney from a vagina. . . . The kidney doesn't start in the vagina, of course"), and asking whether sharing a bed with your baby is a good idea (Answer: No).

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