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.

Sorry, Anti-Choicers, But Women Aren’t Mentally Ill Just Because You Want Them To Be

Amanda Marcotte

Louisiana is threatening to pass a bill that would require doctors to lie to women and tell them abortion causes mental health damage. This is bad news not just for abortion doctors, but for the mental health industry as well.

Straight White Men Don’t Have to Fear the Anti-Sex Political Crusade

Amanda Marcotte

Straight white men benefit from sexual freedom and reproductive rights. So why do the majority of them continue to support politicians who want to take those things away? Because they know someone else will always have to pay the price.

Here’s a Novel Idea: Let’s Teach Kids About Safe Sex Before They Have Sex

Amanda Marcotte

We don't wait to teach driver's ed until after young people start driving, so why on earth do most sex education classes occur after a significant chunk of teens are already sexually active? It's time to let go of the sentimental attachment to the idea of "innocence" in adolescents.

Conservatives Really Want to Make Us Believe Contraception Isn’t Health Care

Amanda Marcotte

Rhetoric trying to redefine contraception not as health care but as a sexual kink is becoming a mainstream conservative preoccupation, especially in light of the Affordable Care Act listing contraception as a preventive care service. What can be done to fight back, before the right start seriously chipping away at access?

‘Pink’ Stories Are Some of the Most Important of Our Time

Amanda Marcotte

The OpEd Project has released a dismaying report showing that female op-ed writers still mostly write about "pink" topics such as women-specific health care. But those stories are critically important, and if women "break out" and write about other things, who's left to cover them?

‘Abortion Tourism’ and Married Sex: Conservatives Get Mad at Anything Women Do

Amanda Marcotte

A writer at the Daily Caller is mad that women who can't access abortion locally might get the "vacation" of sitting on a bus to get outpatient surgery. Bill O'Reilly is mad that Beyoncé enjoys married sex. It seems like anything you do these days is making the right mad, if you're female.

#LiesToldByFemales Shows the Sexual Double Standard Lives On

Amanda Marcotte

A lot of #LiesToldByFemales are women claiming to adhere more closely to traditional gender roles than they actually do, to present themselves as more chaste and more submissive than they actually are.

Who’s to Blame When a Woman Experiences Abortion Regret?

Amanda Marcotte

Iowa legislators want to pass a law allowing women to sue abortion providers if they regret their abortions. Why not let women sue the people who actually caused the regret—the people who shamed and guilted them about the abortion—instead?

The Anti-Choice Movement Is a Denialist Movement

Amanda Marcotte

A new evidence-based report from the United Nations Population Fund recommends that “unnecessary restrictions on abortion should be removed and governments should provide access to safe abortion services.” The debate over abortion is now less about values and now a struggle between denialism and the facts.

College Women, Don’t Listen to Marriage Concern Trolls

Amanda Marcotte

Susan Patton may be the only person in the history of the world to get a book deal by being a crank who writes nutty letters to the editor. Her viral letter telling young women to get married in college is now being turned into a book, but that doesn't make her "advice" any less nutty.

Amanda Marcotte

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