What We Missed

Amelia McDonell-Parry writes about her experience trying to teach men about rape over Thanksgiving at the Frisky.
The Colorado Independent (the first newspaper I ever interned with!) decided to see just how hard it is to get maternity coverage in health insurance. Answer: way too frickin’ hard.
“Once upon a time, grassroots women challenged the establishment by figuratively burning their bras. Now, in some masochistic perversion of feminism, they are raising their voices to yell, “Squeeze our tits!”” Gotta love Barbara Ehrenreich’s verve, even if her argument here feels a lil’ salacious.
The New York Times, unlike Publisher’s Weekly, recognizes that women write great books. Wahoo!
Sharmeen Gangat on Muslim women’s reactions to the Fort Hood tragedy.
I sound off on Tiger Woods and schadenfreude.
A new Johns Hopkins study in December 2009’s issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, proves that asthma medicines (the genericTerbutaline being one of the most common) used on fetuses is linked to increasing the chance of autism.
Good Intentions: The Beliefs and Values of Teens and Tweens Today, a national study conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute in partnership with Harris Interactive explores what youth today value and how they go about making decisions, based on research conducted with 3,263 3rd to 12th-graders from around the country.