Social Studies

• Amanda Marcotte (yes, I know) at AlterNet spotlights seven women misogynists.  
• Samhita Mukhopodhyay (Feministing) wrote, for the Guardian, reprinted at AlterNet, another one of those articles about *gasp* how many people are single and how awful that is, although the middle of the article tries for a more nuanced view.  

  ...the stereotypes about single people are usually inaccurate and don’t take into account dating in today’s complex cultural and financial realities.
  
  Single simply means unmarried – not that anyone counted in singlehood’s ranks is not in a relationship. You could be in a seven-year relationship, going strong and still check the box for “unmarried” and decide never to participate in the institution of marriage, but only the government (and maybe your interfering mom) will think that you’re single. [...] Marriage has long been a mostly-financial transaction anyway: from when marriages were exclusively a deal brokered between a father and his son-in-law to be, to the ghastly cost of modern weddings, there’s always been money involved.

  And then the wrap-up:

  Many single people not in relationships have to navigate being caught between two worlds: one in which everyone gets married and it’s the standard organizing principle of our society; and one in which we can allegedly just “have it all” but can’t even pay our rent and are wondering if he’s ever going to text again.

  Only two? Really?
• Janee Woods (AlterNet) on the difference between discomfort and danger in racial settings.