Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte writes for and manages the blog Pandagon, blogs for Slate’s Double X, and has two books out: “It’s A Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments” and “Get Opinionated: A Progressive’s Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action)”. She’s written about politics, pop culture and feminism for outlets such as Slate, Salon, the LA Times, the Guardian, Bitch, and the American Prospect. A former resident of Texas, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

The Haves and Have-Nots of Abortion

Amanda Marcotte

A lot of women seem to be embracing single motherhood because they've absorbed their community's hostility to abortion. But college-educated liberal women generally feel okay about abortion to prevent it, leading to a growing economic and social rift between women.

Millennials Don’t Know Roe, and That’s Okay

Amanda Marcotte

It's no big surprised that a majority of the under-30 set doesn't know the name Roe v Wade. After all, they grew up in an era where the debate about reproductive rights was about more than legal abortion, but also contraception and sex education.

Phil Gingrey Perpetuates the “Women Cry Rape” Myth

Amanda Marcotte

Phil Gingrey backed up Todd Akin's claim that women routinely lie about being raped to cover up consensual sex, and that "legitimate" rapes have contraceptive powers. Too bad for him there's not much evidence of either contention.

SBA List Fights Women’s Rights in General: Shame on Time Magazine For Featuring Them

Amanda Marcotte

Time gave the SBA List space to promote their claim to be "pro-life feminists." Except that in order to be a feminist, you have to work for women's equality. SBA List is on the anti-feminist side on pretty much every issue, including equal pay and violence against women.

Time to Stop Restricting Abortion and Start Restricting Assault Weapons

Amanda Marcotte

It's not a contradiction to believe that gun control is good while abortion restrictions are ineffective violations of basic human rights. Abortion access improves society, whereas the proliferation of guns simply leads to more violence.

Conservatives Must Stop Blaming Victims for Violence Against Them

Amanda Marcotte

With a plodding inevitability, conservatives have started to blame Kasandra Perkins for the choice of an entire other person to pull the trigger and take her life. But this is an urge that not only can be resisted, but should be resisted.

Mississippi’s Hypocritical Anti-Choicers May Close Last Abortion Clinic

Amanda Marcotte

In January, a regulation that could end legal abortion in Mississippi could go into effect. The entire situation is a classic example of the NIMBYism and hypocrisy of anti-choicers, who are more interested in appearances than realities around abortion.

Sorry, John McCain, But Anti-Choicers Are Judged on Actions, Not Words

Amanda Marcotte

John McCain joins the growing list of Republicans who claim that attacking reproductive rights while declining to talk about it in public will help them win elections. But that strategy has been in effect for years now, and it's not working anymore.

Ohio Is The Latest Battlefield in the War on Contraception

Amanda Marcotte

In the United States, the war on contraception continues, with the Ohio state legislature mounting a new attack on subsidized birth control for low income women.

What the 2012 Election Means for Women and for Feminism

Amanda Marcotte

Pro-choice candidates gained big time this election cycle, while anti-choice politicians lost even more power, at least on a national level. The lesson of all this is simple: After decades of feminists arguing for women's rights, the majority of the public is on board.

Amanda Marcotte

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