* The Sexist's Manliest Workplace in D.C. tournament is live. Fill out a bracket to predict your manly winners and losers.
* Advanced Style, a street-style blog for the older set. Adorable, inspirational, and regularly updated, this elderly fashion watch is curated by three respectful whippersnappers.
* Jezebel asks if being a successful woman means staying single:
maybe [...]
* Slate asks: Why didn't Columbus get smote by God struck by lightning when crossing the Atlantic?
* Via Feminist Daily News: New Oklahoma lawsuit challenges mandatory ultrasound before abortion.
* Sarah Palin goes on offensive abortion offensive [via Time].
* Barack Obama is to Osama Bin Laden as Chairman of the Virginia Republican Party is to a [...]
* Slate is all over the sex & gender beat this week! First, Jack Shafer debunks the New York Times Sunday Styles "dudes love cats" trend piece:
How to write a bogus trend story: Start with something you wish were on the rise. State that rise as a fact. Allow that there are no facts, surveys, [...]
* From New York Magazine: An awesome conversation between NY Mag, 35-year-old poet-filmmaker-activist Suheir Hammad, and 74-year-old greatest-living-feminist Gloria Steinem about how the lives of women have changed—and what they see as the future of feminism. "There is no 'postfeminism,'" says Steinem. "That’s like saying post-democracy."
* Feministing asks about the "generational differences . . . [...]
* For Slate, The Abstinence Teacher author Tom Perrotta explains the political appeal of Sarah Palin's "Sexy Puritan" archetype:
I'm only trying to locate her within the context of the great American culture war, which she seems to have single-handedly reignited during an election season that was supposed to have been dominated by other issues (and [...]
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* Via Feministe: Taking your children to vote with you is adorable; homeless voters find obstacles at the polls.
* Slate's Trey Patterson remembers MTV video countdown "Total Request Live", set to take a "hiatus" this November:
TRL's signature moment came to pass one Thursday in [...]
The Sexist's morning roundup of District chatter on sex, gender, and Sarah Palin.
* On Slate, Dahlia Lithwick serves Joe Biden with some rules on how to fight a girl. Lithwick, a former parliamentary debater (side-note: totally awesome), gives Biden a frank run-down on how not to lose the Veep debate to Governor Palin. Most of [...]
