Now I don’t know why Germaine Greer is so surprised … Speaking at the Hay Literary Festival, Greer accused the men of “deconstructing motherhood”, criticising them for the fact that Furnish was listed as mother on their children’s birth certificates. “Sometimes I think that really the problem is the concept of motherhood, which we can’t give any real structure to,” she said. “Sir Elton John and his ‘wife’ David Furnish
May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015
Feminist Greer attacks Elton John; decries ‘deconstruction of motherhood’ [Darleen Click]
May 28, 2015
#SomeBlackLivesDontMatter [Darleen Click]
Remember Baltimore? The city of “over-policing” where Freddie Gray’s death resulted in the controversial indictments of six police officers? Well, the police have decided to take a more laid-back approach and, via Bob Belvedere, there have been 36 homicides so far this month. “I’m afraid to go outside,” said Perrine, 47. “It’s so bad, people are afraid to let their kids outside. People wake up with shots through their windows.
May 28, 2015
Of course, Alice Goffman could just be making it all up [Darleen Click]
Steven Lubet does an old-fashioned journalistic review of sociology’s newest heart-throb, Alice Goffman and her book, ON THE RUN: Fugitive Life in an American City, revealing a confirmation bias that never even thought to vet the specifics. On the Run is the story of the six years Goffman spent conducting an ethnographic study in a poor black community in West Philadelphia. Beginning in her sophomore year at the University of