Second Sex Dispatch

A discussion by Melissa Ryan at MyDD about women in the Netroots.

Twisty Faster isn’t impressed with the BlogThing feminist quiz.

Feministing’s weekly feminist reader, including a link to the 42nd feminist blog carnival and a story about a technique doctors are using to get around the ban on so-called partial birth abortion (dilation & extraction.)

Feministing also pointed to Black and Missing but Not Forgotten, a blog that tracks missing person reports on women and girls whose absence would probably be a national uproar if they were white.

Shark-Fu muses on Elizabeth Edwards’ comments about John Edwards’ non-female and non-blackness.

If you strap people into lie detectors, gender-based differences in average numbers of sex partners goes away.

Brownfemipower on the high levels of violence directed against black women in Florida.