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By Amelia Harnish • 11 years ago

The Kate Bolick Show Gets Picked Up by CBS

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The TV show adaptation of Kate Bolick’s stir-causing Atlantic cover story “All The Single Ladies” sold to CBS yesterday, Deadline Hollywood reports. While The Lives of Independent Young Women has recently become a full-on pop cultural meme thanks to shows like Lena Dunham’s Girls, no mainstream television show has yet attempted to take on the “rom-com industrial complex” that consistently makes finding a male partner the central narrative of every woman’s life.

The show will center on “a successful, thirty-something woman who doesn’t want it all.” Just like in Bolick’s article, the main character turns down her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in favor of keeping her current independent single life, which to me, sounds like a canned attempt at feminism–as if the goals stop at just not needing men. But thankfully, as Slate‘s Alyssa Rosenburg points out, the show is still in development, and if it actually ends up being about an interesting character who just happens to be content to stay single, it could be a first for network television:
By Amelia Harnish • 11 years ago

A rape survivor’s open letter to Rep. Todd Akin

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When Rep. Todd Akin said that pregnancy cannot occur after a “legitimate rape,” I lost it, as any decent person would. I saw it first on Twitter, and immediately started tapping out the first of what I thought would be a series of very, very aggressive tweets to @RepToddAkin.

But I never hit send. I took a deep breath. I reminded myself that basic science refutes his horrid assertion, and that most people are as shocked as I am that Rep. Akin actually went there. But then I thought about my rape. I thought about how few people know about it, and how frustrating it is that I still feel a tinge of fear ...

A SYTYCB Entry

When Rep. Todd Akin said that pregnancy cannot occur after a “legitimate rape,” I lost it, as any decent person would. I saw it first on Twitter, and immediately started tapping out ...