Amanda reviews the year in movies about pregnancy, interviews reproductive rights activist Krista Jacobs, and mocks the big business of selling guys pick-up artist tips. Also, a short examination of conservatives who equate homosexuality with pedophilia.
It's all Jamie Lynn Spears all the time on this week's Reality Cast. Well, except Amanda does tackle the hard-hitting news about the protesters in Denver trying to block the opening of a new Planned Parenthood.
Fundamentalist dating videos, O'Reilly gets too familiar with Dennis Miller, your cervix in documentary form, and Chris Matthews becomes a full wingnut, all on this holiday edition.
Amanda interviews Lynn Paltrow about the war on pregnant drug addicts, Rachel Maddow triumphs over abstinence shills, Michael Savage loses control thinking about men in uniform, and why is the mainstream media letting blatant misinformation about HIV transmission go uncorrected?
Dodging the question of how much time she should do, dodging patients who want contraception, and dodging the lube while reaching for your Gideon Bible. Amanda also talks to Harriette Wimms about the difference between getting fertility treatments when you're straight vs. getting those same treatments when you come out as a lesbian.
This week host Amanda Marcotte talks STDs, doulas, lying panty-sniffers, and thinking Americans. She also wonders (and finds out) what topic drives most of the traffic for Conservapedia? You'll also enjoy an interview with writer, doula and Senior Advocacy Associate for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Helath, Miriam Perez.
Discussing RU-486 with Kimi Faxon Hemingway, abstinence and anorexia, the business of being born and women that are made of cardboard. Also: Is Nellie McKay flirting with you?
An interview with Steve Trombley from Chicago Planned Parenthood, Bill O'Reilly takes on teenage lesbians, Tyra Banks tells you whether or not you pee out of your vagina, and do men have the right to an abortion?
Abstinence only education in Texas, more unhinged homophobia and ways to bond with your father other than promising him your hymen. Also interviews with researcher Elizabeth Miller about partner violence and coercing pregnancy.
Amanda talks courts with Louise Melling of the ACLU, mocks values voters and concedes that Fox made an okay documentary on abortion. Also, secret homosexuality in Harry Potter and secret feminism in Guitar Hero.