76.Lydia Saad, “U.S. Still Split on Abortion: 47% Pro-Choice, 46% Pro-Life,” Gallup, May 22, 2014, http://www.gallup.com/poll/170249/split-abortion-pro-choice-pro-life.aspx.
77.See the bulletin from Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties, Inc., Autumn 2008, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/8214/0302/5698/Fall_2008.pdf.
78.“Abortion,” Gallup, no date, http://www.gallup.com/poll/1576/Abortion.aspx.
79.Norma Nyhoff, “Anti-Abortion Groups in a Tizzy over FDA’s Approval of Ella,” NOW.org, August 24, 2010, http://now.org/blog/anti-abortion-groups-in-atizzy-over-fda-s-approval-of-ella/.
80.“Ohio Governor Kasich Sides with Extremists, Signs Dangerous Anti-Choice Measures into Law,” press release, NARAL, July 1, 2013, http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/media/press-releases/2013/pr07012013_ohio.html.
81.“Brownback Signs Extreme Anti-Choice Bill Banning Abortion in Almost All Cases,” press release, NARAL, April 19, 2013, http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/media/press-releases/2013/pr04192013_kansas.html.
82.Terry Moran, “Does John Edwards Condone Hate Speech?,” ABC News, February 6, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2007/02/does_john_edwar/.
83.Paige Winfield Cunningham, “SGR Senate Vote on Monday—Enrollment Hits 6 Million—The Obamacare Report Card,” Politico, March 28, 2014, http://www.politico.com/politicopulse/0314/politicopulse13441.html.
84.Melinda Henneberger, “‘Princess Nancy’ Pelosi Calls Cain ‘Clueless’; Vows to Do More for Child Care,” Washington Post, November 17, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/princess-nancy-pelosivows-to-do-for-child-care-what-we-did-for-health-care/2011/11/15/gIQACzY1VN_story_1.html.
85.“Gillibrand, Maloney, Quinn, Gloria Steinem and Dozens of Women Leaders Join Together to Protest Anti-Choice Stupak Amendment in Health Reform Bill,” press release, Office of Kirsten Gillibrand, November 16, 2009, http://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/gillibrand-maloney-quinn-gloria-steinem-and-dozens-of-women-leaders-join-together-to-protest-anti-choice-stupak-amendment-in-health-reform-bill.
86.Katie McDonough, “Delusional National Review Writer Thinks ‘Pro-Life’ Efforts—Not Contraception—Reduce Abortion Rate,” Salon.com, June 18, 2014, http://www.salon.com/2014/06/18/delusional_national_review_writer_thinks_pro_life_efforts_not_contraception_reduces_abortion_rate/.
87.Choice, a publication of Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, Fall 2010, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/2914/0546/1803/PPSFL_CHOICE_Fall_2010.pdf.
88.Amanda Marcotte, “Anti-Choicers Drop the ‘Life’ Pretense, Increasingly Admit They’re Angry about Sex,” RH Reality Check, January 27, 2014, http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/01/27/anti-choicers-drop-life-pretense-increasingly-admit-theyre-angry-sex/.
89.Amanda Marcotte, “Civility? For the Anti-Choice Movement, It’s an Alien Concept,” RH Reality Check, September 25, 2011, http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2011/09/25/impossibility-civility-0/.
90.Michelle Goldberg, “Paul Ryan’s Extreme Abortion Views,” Daily Beast, August 11, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/11/paul-ryan-s-extreme-abortion-views.html.
91.An image of the original press release appears in Andrew Johnson, “Emily’s List: Selecting Iowa’s First Female Senator to Respond to SOTU Just ‘Window Dressing,’” National Review Online, January 16, 2015, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/396579/emilys-list-selecting-iowas-first-female-senator-respond-sotu-just-window-dressing.
92.Hanna Rosin, “The Patriarchy Is Dead,” Slate, September 11, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/09/the_end_of_men_why_feminists_won_t_accept_that_things_are_looking_up_for.single.html.
93.Nora Caplan-Bricker “‘The End of Men’ Author Mansplains,” New Republic, September 12, 2013, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114683/hanna-rosins-end-men-wrong-patriarchy-not-dead.
94.See tweet from Janet D. Stemwedel, Steptember 13, 2013, https://twitter.com/docfreeride/status/378685999405989888.
95.Caplan-Bricker “‘The End of Men’ Author Mansplains.”
96.Katie J. M. Baker, “Patriarchy Is Dead If You’re a Rich White Lady,” Jezebel, September 11, 2013, http://jezebel.com/patriarchy-is-dead-if-youre-a-rich-white-lady-1294793681.
97.Kat Stoeffel, “39 Things We’ll Miss about Patriarchy, Which Is Dead,” New York, September 11, 2013, http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/09/39-things-well-miss-about-patriarchy.html.
98.Jonathan Chait, “Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the Language Police Are Perverting Liberalism,” New York, January 27, 2015, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html.
99.Liesl Schillinger, “Endangered Species or Still the Enemy?,” New York Times, July 13, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/fashion/13books.html.
100.Cassy Fiano, “Breaking News: Jessica Valenti Is a Giant Coward,” NewsRealBlog, November 12, 2010, http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/12/breaking-news-jessica-valenti-is-a-giant-coward/2/.
101.Ibid.
102.Alan White, “Oxford Abortion Debate between Two Male Journalists Cancelled due to ‘Security Concerns,’” Buzzfeed, November 18, 2014, http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/heres-what-happened-when-two-men-decided-to-debate-abortion#.axx825bD3.
103.Tim Stanley, “Oxford Students Shut Down Abortion Debate. Free Speech Is under Assault on Campus,” Telegraph, November 19, 2014, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11239437/Oxford-students-shut-down-abortion-debate.-Free-speech-is-under-assault-on-campus.html.
104.White, “Oxford Abortion Debate.”
105.Tom Calver, “Christ Church Refuses to Hold ‘Abortion Culture’ Debate,” Cherwell, November 17, 2014, http://www.cherwell.org/news/college/2014/11/17/christ-church-refuses-to-hold-quotabortion-culturequot-debate.
106.Niamh McIntyre, “I Helped Shut Down an Abortion Debate between Two Men Because My Uterus Isn’t Up for Their Discussion,” Independent, November 18, 2014, http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/i-helped-shut-down-an-abortion-debate-between-two-men-because-my-uterus-isnt-up-for-their-discussion-9867200.html.
107.Ibid.
108.Tim Black, “Oxford, Abortion and the Closing of the Western Mind,” Spiked, February 2, 2015, http://www.spiked-online.com/freespeechnow/fsn_article/oxford-abortion-and-the-closing-of-the-western-mind#.VNvXsHQo4dk.
109.William Saletan, “Do Pro-Lifers Oppose Birth Control?,” Slate, January 15, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/saletan/2014/01/15/do_pro_lifers_oppose_birth_control_polls_say_no.html.
110.Scott Lemieux, “A Guide to Anti-Choice Concern Trolling,” American Prospect, July 23, 2013, http://prospect.org/article/guide-anti-choice-concern-trolling.
111.Amie Newman, “Media Watch: Saletan in Slate,” RH Reality Check, May 1, 2007, http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2007/05/01/media-watch-saletan-in-slate/.
112.“DePaul Punishes Student for Exposing Vandals of Pro-Life Display,” press release, TheFire.org, February 28, 2013, http://www.thefire.org/depaul-punishes-student-for-exposing-vandals-of-pro-life-display-2/.
113.Greg Lukianoff, “Vigilante Censorship Alive and Well in Kentucky,” TheFire.org, April 14, 2006, http://www.thefire.org/vigilante-censorship-ali.
114.Geroge Will, “Pro-‘Choice’ Intolerance: A Johns Hopkins Anti-Abortion Group Is Denied Recognition,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 8, 2013, http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/george-f-will-pro-choice-intolerance-a-johns-hopkins-anti-abortion-group-is-denied-recognition-682514/#ixzz2PrwVbAHP.
115.Todd Starnes, “University Compares Pro-Life Students to White Supremacists,” Fox News, no date, http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/university-compares-pro-life-students-to-white-supremacists.html.
116.Yvonne Wenger, “Anti-Abortion Group Stirs Speech Debate at Hopkins,” Baltimore Sun, April 8, 2013, http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-voice-for-life-20130408,0,198981.story.
117.“National Survey of Healthcare Consumers: Abortion,” Tho
mson Reuters, March 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20110626152139/http://www.factsforhealthcare.com/pressroom/NPR_report_Abortion.pdf.
118.Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, and Rachel Laser, Millenials, Religion, and Abortion Survey (Washington, DC: Public Religion Research Institute, 2011), http://publicreligion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Millenials-Abortion-and-Religion-Survey-Report.pdf.
119.Alexa Coombs, “Johns Hopkins Denies Pro-Life Club, Equates Them to White Supremacists,” LifeNews.com, March 29, 2013, http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/29/johns-hopkins-denies-pro-life-club-equates-them-to-white-supremacists/.
120.Maria Wiering, “Johns Hopkins’ Pro-Life Club Fighting for Official Recognition,” Catholic Review, April 8, 2013, http://www.catholicreview.org/article/home/johns-hopkins-pro-life-club-fighting-for-official-recognition.
121.Maria Wiering, “Johns Hopkins’ Pro-Life Club Fighting For Official Recognition, Abortion,” Free Republic, April 8, 2013, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005558/posts.
122.Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, “FIRE Letter to Schaefer Whiteaker, Chief Justice, Student Government Association Judiciary, Johns Hopkins University,” FIRE, April 8, 2013, http://www.thefire.org/fire-letter-to-schaefer-whiteaker-chief-justice-student-government-association-judiciary-johns-hopkins.
123.Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, “John Hopkins Office of Institutional Equity Response to Voice for Life,” FIRE, April 3, 2013, http://www.thefire.org/johns-hopkins-office-of-institutional-equity-response-to-voice-for-life/.
124.Alice Bell, “Why Women in Science Are Annoyed at Rosetta Mission Scientist’s Clothing,” Guardian, November 13, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/13/why-women-in-science-are-annoyed-at-rosetta-mission-scientists-clothing.
125.Rose Eveleth, Tweet on November 12, 2014, Twitter, https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/532538957490561024.
126.Chris Plante and Arielle Duhaime-Ross, “I Don’t Care If You Landed A Spacecraft On a Comet, Your Shirt Is Sexist and Ostracizing,” Verge, November 13, 2014, http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213819/your-bowling-shirt-is-holding-back-progress.
127.Ibid.
128.S.E. Smith, “A Philae Researcher Wore An Unbelievably Sexist Shirt on A Livefeed and Women in STEM Are Pissed,” xoJane, November 12, 2014, http://www.xojane.com/issues/sexist-shirt-philae-matt-taylor.
129.Ibid.
130.Elly PriZeMaN, Tweet on November 13, 2014, Twitter, https://twitter.com/ellyprizeman/status/532927131098300416,
131.Tim Stanley, “Matt Taylor’s Sexist Shirt and the Day Political Correctness Officially Went Mad,” Telegraph, November 15, 2014, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11232986/Matt-Taylors-sexist-shirt-and-the-day-political-correctness-officially-went-mad.html.
132.Lakeidra Chavis, “UAF Announces Plans for New Kameel Toi Henderson Building in Honor of 59 Percent Female Demographic,” University of Alaska Fairbanks’ The Sun Star, March 26, 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20131114174408/http://www.uafsunstar.com/archives/22309.
133.Will Creeley, Letter to Chancellor Brian Rogers, FIRE, January 15, 2014, http://www.thefire.org/fire-letter-to-university-of-alaska-fairbanks/.
134.Samantha Sunne, “University of Alaska Fairbanks student newspaper under investigation following sexual harassment claims,” Student Press Law Center November 26, 2013, http://www.splc.org/article/2013/11/university-of-alaska-fairbanks-student-newspaper-under-investigation-following-sexual-harassment-cla.
135.Interview with author, November 2014.
136.Pauline W. Chen, “Sexism Charges Divide Surgeons’ Group,” New York Times, April 15, 2011, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/sexism-charges-divide-surgeons-group/?_r=1.
137.Ian Tucker, “The Uses of Semen? One: Reproduction. Two: Best Not Mentioned, Really . . .,” Guardian, May 7, 2011, http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/08/lazar-greenfield-semen-antidepressant-women.
138.Chen, “Sexism Charges Divide Surgeons’ Group.”
139.Ibid.
140.Ibid.
141.Michael Smerconish, “Lazar Greenfield’s ‘Semengate’ Stuns Scientific Community,” Huffington Post, April 25, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-smerconish/semengate-stuns-scientifi_b_853164.html.
142.Jacquelyn C. Campbell et. al, “Risk Factors for Femicide in Abusive Relationships: Results from a Multisite Case Control Study,” American Journal of Public Health, July 2003, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447915/#r1.
143.“Intimate Partner Homicide,” National Institute of Justice Journal, U.S. Department of Justice, https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/jr000250.pdf.
144.Bureau of Justice Statistics Factbook, “Violence by Intimates,” U.S. Department of Justice, http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/vi.pdf.
145.Glenn Kessler, “Holder’s 2009 Claim That Intimate-Partner Homicide Is the Leading Cause of Death for African American Women,” Washington Post, December 18, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/12/18/holders-2009-claim-that-intimate-partner-homicide-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-african-american-women/.
146.Christina Hoff Sommers, “Domestic Violence Myths Help No One,” USA Today, February 4, 2011, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-02-03-sommers04_st_N.htm.
147.Kessler, “Holder’s 2009 Claim That Intimate-Partner Homicide Is the Leading Cause of Death for African American Women.”
148.“Incomes vs. Earnings,” United States Census Bureau Blog, September 23, 2010, http://blogs.census.gov/2010/09/23/income-vs-earnings/.
149.Carrie Lukas, “It’s Time That We End the Equal Pay Myth,” Forbes, April 16, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-that-we-end-the-equal-pay-myth/.
150.Glenn Kessler, “President Obama’s Persistent ’77-Cent’ Claim on the Wage Gap Gets a New Pinocchio Rating,” Washington Post, April 9, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/04/09/president-obamas-persistent-77-cent-claim-on-the-wage-gap-gets-a-new-pinocchio-rating/.
151.Mark J. Perry and Andrew G. Biggs, “The ‘77 Cents on the Dollar’ Myth About Women’s Pay,” Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2014, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579483752909957472.
152.See, e.g., Forbes, supra at 16.
153.CONSAD Research Corporation, “An Analysis for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women,” CONSAD, January 12, 2009, http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf.
154.Louis Jacobson, “Barack Obama Ad Says Women Are Paid ‘77 Cents on the Dollar For Doing the Same Work As Men,’” PolitiFact, June 21, 2012, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jun/21/barack-obama/barackobama-ad-says-women-are-paid-77-cents-dolla/.
155.Hanna Rosin, “The Gender Wage Gap Lie,” Slate, August 30, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/gender_pay_gap_the_familiar_line_that_women_make_77_cents_to_every_man_s.html.
156.Meghan Casserly, “The Gender Pay Gap Got Worse, Not Better, in 2012—And It’s Great for Women,” Forbes, February 14, 2014, http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2013/02/14/gender-pay-gap-wider-2012-and-its-great-for-women/.
157.Sarah Jane Glynn, “Explaining the Gender Wage Gap,” Center for American Progress, May 19, 2014, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/report/2014/05/19/90039/explaining-the-gender-wage-gap/.
CHAPTER NINE: FEMINISTS AGAINST FACTS, FAIRNESS, AND THE RULE OF LAW
1.Eliana Dockterman, “When Enforcing School Dress Codes Turns Into Slut Shaming,” Time, March 25, 2014; http://time.com/36997/when-enforcing-school-dress-codes-turns-into-slut-shaming/; Christine Wolf, “Haven Middle School Bans Leggings & Yoga Pants – Too Distracting for Boys,” Evanston Patch, March 23, 2014, http://patch.com/illinois/evanston/leggings—yoga-pants-banned-at-haven-middle-school.
2.Rebecca Rose, “Confusing School Ban Over ‘Distracting’ Leggings Ignites Controversy,” Jezebel, March 19, 2014, http://jezebel.com/confusing-school-ban-over-d
istracting-leggings-ignite-1547616678.
3.Maya Dusenberry, “Quick Hit: #Rapecultureiswhen. . . .,” Feministing, March 25, 2014, http://feministing.com/2014/03/25/quick-hit-rapecultureiswhen/.
4.Charles Bartling, “Middle school dress code clarified,” Evanston Now, March 26, 2014, http://evanstonnow.com/story/education/charles-bartling/2014-03-26/62445/middle-school-dress-code-clarified.
5.Ibid.
6.Rachel Raczka, “Students in Ill. Are protesting legging ban,” Boston.com, March 25, 2014, http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/2014/03/25/students-ill-are-protesting-legging-ban/rPifhOXhTfntj1Ok6MPC1O/story.html.
7.“What Is Rape Culture?,” Women Against Violence Against Women, http://www.wavaw.ca/what-is-rape-culture/.
8.Kaelyn Polick-Kirkpatrick, “Man Up and WOW Factor! perpetuate sexism and rape culture,” The State Press, October 8, 2014, http://www.statepress.com/2014/10/08/man-up-and-wow-factor-perpetuate-sexism-and-rape-culture/.
9.Tara Culp-Ressler, “Why Rape Prevention Activists Don’t Like the New Nail Polish That Can Detect Roofies,” ThinkProgress, August 25, 2014, http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/08/25/3475190/date-rape-nail-polish/.
10.Ibid.
11.Katrin Bennhold, “Abuse Cases in British City Long Ignored, Report Says,” New York Times, August 26, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/world/europe/children-in-rotherham-england-were-sexually-abused-report-says.html.
12.June Thomas, “At Least 1,400 Children Sexually Exploited in One English Town. How Could This Possibly Happen?,” Slate, September 2, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/09/02/rotherham_sexual_abuse_1400_children_exploited_in_one_english_town_and_authorities.html; “1,400 Kids Sexually Abused in U.K. Town,” Daily Beast, August 26, 2014, http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/08/26/1-400-kids-sexually-abused-in-rotterham.html; Isha Aran, “New Details Emerge in Case of Horrifying British Sex Abuse Ring,” Jezebel, September 2, 2014, http://jezebel.com/new-details-emerge-in-case-of-horrifying-british-sex-ab-1629539480; “Muslims react with outrage at UK sex abuse report,” Salon.com, August 27, 2014, http://www.salon.com/2014/08/27/muslims_react_with_outrage_at_uk_sex_abuse_report/; Maya Dusenberry, “Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet,” Feministing, http://feministing.com/?s=rotherham.
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