SYTYCB entry In the midst of Todd Akin ignorance, an article by Rebecca Solnit resurfaced this week on The Problem With Men Explaining Things . In it, she discusses the problem of mansplaining: that phenomenon by which many men assume – often wrongfully and patronizingly – that those they are talking to have total ignorance of the subject [...]

A SYTYCB entry Over the weekend, America’s Most Wanted aired a segment on Athena Joy Curry, a 20 year old, African American woman who went missing on May 27, 2011. Until this segment, and The Root article highlighting it , very little attention has been paid to the case in the news media. Unfortunately, this isn’t the [...]