“Yemen offers paid parental leave!” male feminist Michael Kimmel exclaims. “Come on! What’s wrong with us?!”
The Washington Post
Below are a handful of more recent pieces. A few of the articles Copeland wrote during the 2008 presidential election include a look at the denigrating rhetoric of how Hillary Clinton became “Poor Hillary,” this take on John McCain during the last hours before the vote (“The king of doggedness, who knows something about patience, and something about being a pain, and whose charm and gall derive from that combination…”), and the unlikely love story of Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich, which involved “Indian nuns, a bust of Gandhi, a portrait of ‘conscious light,’ a mystical opal ring," and, naturally, Shirley MacLaine. She also accompanied Johnny Weir on a designer shopping trip during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy (the sight of a knockoff "hurts my feelings," he declared, dropping $1,330), and during the 2005 Michael Jackson molestation trial, she chronicled the shady culture of Neverland – “a hotbed of intrigue and petty theft, disgruntled employees and hangers-on.”
Meet the Mormon brothers who make adorable ads about disgusting things (WaPo Mag)
Perhaps it takes people highly attuned to the fault lines of culture to know how far they can push things.
Saying that a killer ‘snapped’ is not an explanation for domestic violence
When Ronald Lee Haskell was accused of killing six members of his ex-wife’s family in Texas this month, I wondered how long it would take for a news report to suggest that the suspect had “snapped.” The scope and horror of the crime — the victims included four children ages 4 to 14 — meant it took a little while for this media narrative to show up.
…Or maybe men should not abuse and assault women
With all the talk about marriage these days, there is a tendency in certain corners to promote it as a panacea for social ills. You see this approach, for instance, when people suggest marriage as a cure for poverty, as if one thing causes the other. Now comes the latest argument for marriage – that it protects wives and children from violence.
Head Over Heels in Love with Baby Olive
We don’t have time. I’m terribly conscious of it. Every moment is gone as I notice it. In our old lives all we had was time — wasted time, long evenings, late mornings. But now: Isn’t it strange how time compresses, how you can be nostalgic for a thing even as you’re in the midst of it?