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Cartoon by Jack Ziegler. For more: http://nyr.kr/XbiVUU
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Shouts & Murmurs - Portman Opens Door, G.O.P. Follows
WASHINGTON—Just after Senator Rob Portman of Ohio said having a gay son had caused him to reverse his opposition to gay marriage, Portman’s Republican colleagues began changing their positions on a variety of issues when they discovered that they, too, have families.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner said they realized they had wives and daughters, leading them to rethink their views on the Violence Against Women Act. “Having women in my life,” said Boehner, who has been married for thirty-seven years, “puts this thing in a whole new light.”
Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/10ROA0p
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An Unusual Heavy-Metal Love Story…
Beth Winegarner talks to Sherine Amr of the band Massive Scar Era, and looks at the growing number of female heavy-metal musicians in the West: http://nyr.kr/Z0cKm2
Photograph: Courtesy Massive Scar Era.
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From the Desk of Bob Mankoff…
John Stuart Mill’s famous dictum that the only antidote to bad speech is more speech also applies to humor. This Kim Warp cartoon works as a concise antidote to Seth MacFarlane’s performance at the Oscars.
In this case, I thought it would be interesting to let the cartoonist speak for herself. Take it away, Kim:
The discussion about the Oscars has moved on a little since I drew this cartoon. The comments I see floating across Facebook lately are more like, “Why did all the women go ape-shit? Seth MacFarlane was making a joke about himself. They’re acting like he’s Hitler!” I’ve been asking myself the same question, because, on a certain level, I went way out-of-proportion ape-shit, too. I’ve concluded that the boob song at the Oscars hit a hidden nerve with women. You know how when you go home for the holidays, you think you’re all over your childhood traumas and you’ve achieved something in life that they can’t touch? And then some jerky relative makes a joke putting you down about something you’d forgotten all about, and you go absolutely, inexplicably ape-shit? That was the nerve that Seth MacFarlane hit…
Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/ZgzkYl(Source: newyorker.com)
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"The initial, heedless reactions to Ms. Sandberg’s book spoke to a larger problem, namely the pressures that the twenty-four/seven hamster-wheel pace of the contemporary media puts on writers: to speed up rather than to slow down, to shoot first and ask questions later, to create drama, and, sometimes, to operate from a place of bad faith and fixed biases."
— Anna Holmes weighs in on the backlash to Sheryl Sandberg and her book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead”: http://nyr.kr/12p6dcR(Source: newyorker.com)
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Cartoon by William Haefeli. For more: http://nyr.kr/Xt9nXj
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Overwhelmed and Creeped Out
Ann Friedman on the quest to create a dating app that women will actually use: http://nyr.kr/ZJ4YU9
(Source: newyorker.com)
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"I love art, and art loves me more than any man has ever loved me."
— Tracey Emin talks to Emma Allen about finding love in Times Square: http://nyr.kr/Wah0Q7(Source: newyorker.com)
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Did a Mass Murderer in Waiting Go Undetected Because She Was a Woman?→
In the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, last December, there has been much public discussion about the necessity of greater vigilance regarding mental-health issues—about our ability to recognize red flags early and get potentially dangerous individuals into treatment. It’s a reassuring notion, and less divisive, certainly, than calls for greater gun control or for censoring video games. But, as the [Amy] Bishop story [which I recount in a piece the current issue of the magazine (“A Loaded Gun”)] makes clear, this kind of early-warning system is often difficult to institute in practice. Amy Bishop shot her own brother, after all. She punched a woman at a pancake restaurant. She stood accused of mailing a bomb to one of her supervisors at Harvard. Red flags don’t get much brighter than that. Yet nobody stepped in. Why not?
Continue reading Patrick Radden Keefe on gender-bias in the criminal-justice system: http://nyr.kr/YhD78p
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"While gun ownership is presented as an expression of liberty, it is defended with images of universal victimhood. We are a nation of damsels in distress, left to reach for an AR-15."
— Amy Davidson on the caricaturization of women at the Senate hearings on gun control: http://nyr.kr/118vKGs(Source: newyorker.com)
