Some things worth reading:
Shakespeare’s Sister on how gay-bashing is pervasive yet strangely invisible.
Helena Silverstein and Wayne Fishman have an article up in The American Prospect that sheds light on just how useless the judicial bypass procedure that theoretically allows minors seeking abortions in parental-notification states is in practice.
Take the New Yorker’s Bush Quiz. Via Punkass Marc.
Punkass Marc also has a post about that article in the NYTimes about men who’ve stopped looking for work because they don’t want to take a job that’s “beneath” them — yet are perfectly happy when their wives do so to support the family. (Ann at Feministing gives it her treatment). Oh, and a lot of them aren’t doing any housework, either.
Speaking of unequal housework burdens, Rebecca Traister in Salon has a piece about the never-ending Second Shift.
Also in Salon, Michelle Goldberg takes a look at the efforts to shut down the last abortion clinic in Mississippi.
Are You a Toxic Parent? — and why everyone loves a good Parent-from-Hell tale.
Tiffany at Blackfeminism comes out as a straight woman . . . and has some reservations about doing so.
Bitch, Ph.D. on the recent ordination of several women priests in defiance of the Vatican.
The battle for creationism in the classroom still isn’t over in Kansas. Though I suspect that it will be once college acceptance rates start going down and property values soon follow. PZ Myers has more.
Speaking of property values, Amanda has a post about the coming economic disaster that will surely follow the collapse of the housing market — and which has already started in the form of predatory debt collection practices, as Sheelzebub reports here.