By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 12 years ago

What We Missed

France has officially done away with the term “mademoiselle.”

At The American Prospect, I interview Tammy Duckworth, the double-amputee Iraq War vet who is running for Congress in Illinois. She, unsurprisingly, thinks that Rick Santorum’s recent comments about women in combat are total rubbish.

Also at The Prospect, Jamelle Bouie writes about the scapegoating of hooking up and binge drinking in the Yeardley Love murder case.

Cindy McCain says that the GOP is not anti-gay, it’s just that the media that portrays them that way. Yeah, the media, which report on the GOP’s anti-gay policies and rhetoric, allowing anyone with half a brain to draw the conclusion that the GOP is anti-gay. Stupid liberal media!

Only 7 of Babble.com’s Top 100 Mommy Blogs of 2011 are written by African American moms. Sociological Images examines the role of economic and racial privilege in mommy blogging.

Here are some photos of three-week-old dingo puppies. This is obviously a very serious and important feminist issue.

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Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

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