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Feminism Stole My Car Keys!
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Public health scare edition.

Drunken Feminists?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — By Patrick Appel Alex Morris's article on women allegedly drinking more because of Second Wave feminism earns her the ire of Kerry Howley: First and most obviously, the entire piece treats the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) as some kind of objective brain trust, filled with people thinking new and Important Thoughts on the relative merits of those substances called “drugs.” But CASA is a prohibitionist organizaton. When CASA publishes gems such as “Non-medical Marijuana: Rite of ...

Today In Left-Medvedism
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Sacha Zimmerman approvingly cites this New York article. Alas, she doesn't deal with its fundamental problems, most notably its reliance on anecdotes and otherwise less-than-impartial data and the fact that it's not clear what an increase in female drinking would have to do with feminism even if it was true (cf. Valenti, Howley, Filipovic.) And, worse, the tut-tutting about young women (rather than, say, young people in general) drinking is pretty clearly anti-feminist. Rather than addressing any of these problems, Zimmerman ...