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    11/17/09

    In reply to Double X Isn't Closing—It's Crawling Back Up Into Slate's Uterus
    Maybe, just MAYBE it's the fact that it maintained Slate's DNA that caused it to fail as a separate site? #doublex
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Double X Isn't Closing—It's Crawling Back Up Into Slate's Uterus
    I prefer to think of it as sending Double XX back into Slate's kitchen to fetch it a beer and make dinner. #doublex
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    11/17/09

    @VoxPopuli: They certainly took its shoes and knocked it up. #doublex
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Double X Isn't Closing—It's Crawling Back Up Into Slate's Uterus
    Slate vagina dentata chews DoubleX cud. #doublex
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/17/09

    In reply to Double X Isn't Closing—It's Crawling Back Up Into Slate's Uterus
    Did you know, Mr. Cook, that the ancient Greeks thought the uterus could detach itself and wander all over the body, causing all kindsa sinister havoc for the be-wombed, better known as "hysteria"? #doublex
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    Image of MissPeacock MissPeacock
    11/17/09

    @BookishLookish: *flapping hands about wildly*

    Hearing that just gave me the vapors. #doublex
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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    11/17/09

    In reply to Double X Isn't Closing—It's Crawling Back Up Into Slate's Uterus
    Peggy White, the exiting publisher of Double X, strikes me as eminently employable elsewhere: She was formerly the general manager of Yahoo Finance. Could former boss Scott Moore, now at Microsoft, be calling? #scottmoore #tips #peggywhite #valleywag #doublex
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/16/09

    In reply to Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
    "Much fanfare" eh? So why is this the first time I've heard of it?

    Oh, right; I'm not married to someone who reads Slate. #slate
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    11/16/09

    In reply to Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
    Perhaps some voice of reason spoke up and said "hey, throwing everything by/about women into a pink ghetto makes us look like assholes."

    But probably not. #slate
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/16/09

    @City_Dater: But that's what they did, didn't they? And segregated black issues to The Root. So they could have their Slate playpen to themselves, white male graduates of good schools pretending their positions are radically contrarian, when in fact they're just conservatism in some odd Reagan sense gussied up as "contrarian".

    Slate sucks, actually. Geek smartasses in the backwater of DC trying to pretend they aren't presenting the dreariest conventional wisdom out there. #slate
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/17/09

    @Baroness: +111111111111111 #slate
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    Image of Carly Carly
    11/16/09

    In reply to Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
    I still don't understand why "women's" articles need to be divided off from the "mainstream" into their own little section. There aren't men interested in reading articles written by/about women? I certainly don't mind reading articles written by men about men. It's the convention! To not read those articles would practically be to not read.

    What would be best, in my opinion, would be to have a media format that equally integrates articles written by men and women, about men and women, and our various issues. The idea that women are a certain subset of reader is ridiculous.

    For example, there was recently an interesting XX article about why birth control is not included in the heath care bill. One of the reasons why it is not included is that BC is considered a women's issue, and our good men in congress don't see why everyone should have to cover the cost. How they don't see the critical role BC plays in their own lives is beyond me. Anyway, it was a great article. Ironically, few men will read it, because it was written for and placed in the XX Factor.

    People don't need a gender binary label to tell them what issues are important to them, or what they'll find interesting. People can determine that on their own.

    If we want "women's" issues to matter to others, and become SOCIETY'S issues, we need to not be sectioned off, we need to be MAINSTREAMED. #slate
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    11/16/09

    In reply to Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
    No great sympathy here. A few years ago, there was a post on the XX Factor about the great progress women were making.

    I wrote (under a different name), that things weren't actually all that great and that there was plenty of data to support that conclusion. I was criticized for being soooo negative.

    If I want to read about feminist issues I go to www.feministing.com. #slate
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    Image of hamburgerhotdog hamburgerhotdog
    11/16/09

    In reply to Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
    Where will Katie Roiphe post her inane rantings now?! #slate
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/16/09

    In reply to Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
    I would have read it if they'd called it "Triple X." Two x's just aren't hard core enough for me. #slate
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
    I prefer Double Y. The articles on weight lifting, prison life, big-and-tall fashion, and Australian tourism are nice, and I enjoy the Zeb Atlas advice column—though, truth be told, I’m in it for the centerfolds. #slate
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    11/16/09

    @iplaudius:

    My fave is XXY. Klinefelter's Magazine. #slate
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    11/16/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: Milk shoots from nose. #slate
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    11/16/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: I don’t know; the XXY editorial perspective is kind of impotent, and the original reporting always delivers such a small payload. #slate
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/16/09

    In reply to Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
    Slate is a men's magazine? #slate
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    11/16/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: And Salon is for women. Angry, angry, angry women. #slate
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    Image of yvanehtnioj yvanehtnioj
    11/16/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: You can tell because it's not pink. If they wanted ladies to read it, everything would be pink. #slate
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    11/16/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle:

    Men? More intellectually pretentious superannuated frat boys. #slate
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    11/16/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Well, it needs a separate section devoted to things women care about, doesn't it? #slate
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/16/09

    @John Cook: Let's see. Things women care about:

    1. Jobs
    2. The economy
    3. Foreign policy, engineering, technology, math, science
    4. Hair, makeup, diets
    5. Kids, family, pets #slate
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/16/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: You raise a good point, and an underlying question: Is the lack of women in traditional punditry:

    A. Due to the good old boys club

    B. Because traditional punditry, in print and in broadcast media, is just bullshit shouty playacting and posturing, hence the relatively high number of talibangelical conservatard authoritarian women pundits imitating the dominant men, compared to actually intelligent liberal pundits

    C. Because women just can't have intelligent opinions

    i. A
    ii. B
    iii. A & B
    iv. C #slate
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    Image of johnnypotatoes johnnypotatoes
    11/16/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Sort of incredible this has to be explained, but that's sort of the point John tried to make. Twice. #slate
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/17/09

    @johnnypotatoes: Understood. /snark #slate
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    09/02/09

    In reply to Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
    Bah! Since I've yet to hear any really crazy things about her in the last twenty years, and she's mostly stayed away from all things VH1 reality, then yeah, I'm gonna call this one true...until Cornell releases their own statement otherwise. Or the Real Roxanne says she has a Ph.D. from Georgetown and there is some sort of fight to the death marked by door knocker earrings and Le Coq Sportif tracksuits.
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    Image of oudemia oudemia
    09/02/09

    In reply to Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
    Well, shit. Here I was about to paste in [www.news.cornell.edu] from Cornell itself in 2008 saying that she had earned her PhD. But it no longer says that! But it does say "This article was modified on Sept. 2, 2009."
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    Image of utensil42 utensil42
    09/02/09

    @oudemia: But why would Cornell say she graduated if she never even attended? Are their records really so lousy that they don't know if someone attended their school? Is their PR dept. so bad that they can't fact-check before posting a news story on the school's website? Something does add up here.
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    Image of Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn
    09/02/09

    @oudemia: God bless google cache! [74.125.93.132]

    "Shanté retired from hip-hop in 1995 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in psychology at Cornell."

    BTW I was totally at that event last year (I am a grad student at Cornell), although I don't remember if she ever explicitly said that she got her PhD at Cornell.
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    Image of Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn
    09/02/09

    @utensil42: No - they keep good records. I could do some asking around with folks I know in administration. My guess is that she does have the degree but it may be under an assumed identity, which would compromise her physical or financial safety somehow. This smells like a coverup on Cornell's end, not on Shante's end.
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    Tremonius promoted this comment Edited by Anne Boleyn at 09/02/09 7:39 PM Anne Boleyn was starred Anne Boleyn was unstarred
    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    09/02/09

    @saya: Dubius. I knew a screenwriter once. She used an alias in the online group where I met her, and wouldn't reveal her true name. She said she had to do that, because her real last name was the same as her father's, who was the chief of the Dept of Corrections in CA, and if ex-cons knew her name, she would be stalked. Real criminals would stalk her if they somehow encountered our group of 250 souls and realized there was a Chavez there. Hey, I know that name ...

    Are you believing yet? She was a screenwriter, and she had no credits. She was actually the ex-wife of a teevee producer. They're all screenwriters without credit. Else they'd be stalked.
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