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91
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An image of the original press release appears in Andrew Johnson, “Emily’s List: Selecting Iowa’s First Female Senator to Respond to SOTU Just ‘Window Dressing,’” National Review Online, January 16, 2015,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/396579/emilys-list-selecting-iowas-first-female-senator-respond-sotu-just-window-dressing
.

92
.
    
Hanna Rosin, “The Patriarchy Is Dead,”
Slate
, September 11, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/09/the_end_of_men_why_feminists_won_t_accept_that_things_are_looking_up_for.single.html
.

93
.
    
Nora Caplan-Bricker “‘The End of Men’ Author Mansplains,”
New Republic
, September 12, 2013,
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114683/hanna-rosins-end-men-wrong-patriarchy-not-dead
.

94
.
    
See tweet from Janet D. Stemwedel, Steptember 13, 2013,
https://twitter.com/docfreeride/status/378685999405989888
.

95
.
    
Caplan-Bricker “‘The End of Men’ Author Mansplains.”

96
.
    
Katie J. M. Baker, “Patriarchy Is Dead If You’re a Rich White Lady,” Jezebel, September 11, 2013,
http://jezebel.com/patriarchy-is-dead-if-youre-a-rich-white-lady-1294793681
.

97
.
    
Kat Stoeffel, “39 Things We’ll Miss about Patriarchy, Which Is Dead,”
New York
, September 11, 2013,
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/09/39-things-well-miss-about-patriarchy.html
.

98
.
    
Jonathan Chait, “Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the Language Police Are Perverting Liberalism,”
New York
, January 27, 2015,
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html
.

99
.
    
Liesl Schillinger, “Endangered Species or Still the Enemy?,”
New York Times
, July 13, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/fashion/13books.html
.

100
.
  
Cassy Fiano, “Breaking News: Jessica Valenti Is a Giant Coward,”
NewsRealBlog
, November 12, 2010,
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/12/breaking-news-jessica-valenti-is-a-giant-coward/2/
.

101
.
  
Ibid.

102
.
  
Alan White, “Oxford Abortion Debate between Two Male Journalists Cancelled due to ‘Security Concerns,’” Buzzfeed, November 18, 2014,
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/heres-what-happened-when-two-men-decided-to-debate-abortion#.axx825bD3
.

103
.
  
Tim Stanley, “Oxford Students Shut Down Abortion Debate. Free Speech Is under Assault on Campus,”
Telegraph
, November 19, 2014,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11239437/Oxford-students-shut-down-abortion-debate.-Free-speech-is-under-assault-on-campus.html
.

104
.
  
White, “Oxford Abortion Debate.”

105
.
  
Tom Calver, “Christ Church Refuses to Hold ‘Abortion Culture’ Debate,”
Cherwell
, November 17, 2014,
http://www.cherwell.org/news/college/2014/11/17/christ-church-refuses-to-hold-quotabortion-culturequot-debate
.

106
.
  
Niamh McIntyre, “I Helped Shut Down an Abortion Debate between Two Men Because My Uterus Isn’t Up for Their Discussion,”
Independent
, November 18, 2014,
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/i-helped-shut-down-an-abortion-debate-between-two-men-because-my-uterus-isnt-up-for-their-discussion-9867200.html
.

107
.
  
Ibid.

108
.
  
Tim Black, “Oxford, Abortion and the Closing of the Western Mind,”
Spiked
, February 2, 2015,
http://www.spiked-online.com/freespeechnow/fsn_article/oxford-abortion-and-the-closing-of-the-western-mind#.VNvXsHQo4dk
.

109
.
  
William Saletan, “Do Pro-Lifers Oppose Birth Control?,”
Slate
, January 15, 2014,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/saletan/2014/01/15/do_pro_lifers_oppose_birth_control_polls_say_no.html
.

110
.
  
Scott Lemieux, “A Guide to Anti-Choice Concern Trolling,”
American Prospect
, July 23, 2013,
http://prospect.org/article/guide-anti-choice-concern-trolling
.

111
.
  
Amie Newman, “Media Watch: Saletan in Slate,” RH Reality Check, May 1, 2007,
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2007/05/01/media-watch-saletan-in-slate/
.

112
.
  
“DePaul Punishes Student for Exposing Vandals of Pro-Life Display,” press release,
TheFire.org
, February 28, 2013,
http://www.thefire.org/depaul-punishes-student-for-exposing-vandals-of-pro-life-display-2/
.

113
.
  
Greg Lukianoff, “Vigilante Censorship Alive and Well in Kentucky,”
TheFire.org
, April 14, 2006,
http://www.thefire.org/vigilante-censorship-ali
.

114
.
  
Geroge Will, “Pro-‘Choice’ Intolerance: A Johns Hopkins Anti-Abortion Group Is Denied Recognition,”
Pittsburgh Post
-
Gazette
, April 8, 2013,
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/george-f-will-pro-choice-intolerance-a-johns-hopkins-anti-abortion-group-is-denied-recognition-682514/#ixzz2PrwVbAHP
.

115
.
  
Todd Starnes, “University Compares Pro-Life Students to White Supremacists,” Fox News, no date,
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/university-compares-pro-life-students-to-white-supremacists.html
.

116
.
  
Yvonne Wenger, “Anti-Abortion Group Stirs Speech Debate at Hopkins,”
Baltimore Sun
, April 8, 2013,
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-voice-for-life-20130408,0,198981.story
.

117
.
  
“National Survey of Healthcare Consumers: Abortion,” Thomson Reuters, March 2011,
https://web.archive.org/web/20110626152139/http://www.factsforhealthcare.com/pressroom/NPR_report_Abortion.pdf
.

118
.
  
Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, and Rachel Laser,
Millenials
,
Religion
,
and Abortion Survey
(Washington, DC: Public Religion Research Institute, 2011),
http://publicreligion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Millenials-Abortion-and-Religion-Survey-Report.pdf
.

119
.
  
Alexa Coombs, “Johns Hopkins Denies Pro-Life Club, Equates Them to White Supremacists,”
LifeNews.com
, March 29, 2013,
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/29/johns-hopkins-denies-pro-life-club-equates-them-to-white-supremacists/
.

120
.
  
Maria Wiering, “Johns Hopkins’ Pro-Life Club Fighting for Official Recognition,”
Catholic Review
, April 8, 2013,
http://www.catholicreview.org/article/home/johns-hopkins-pro-life-club-fighting-for-official-recognition
.

121
.
  
Maria Wiering, “Johns Hopkins’ Pro-Life Club Fighting For Official Recognition, Abortion,”
Free Republic
, April 8, 2013,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005558/posts
.

122
.
  
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, “FIRE Letter to Schaefer Whiteaker, Chief Justice, Student Government Association Judiciary, Johns Hopkins University,” FIRE, April 8, 2013,
http://www.thefire.org/fire-letter-to-schaefer-whiteaker-chief-justice-student-government-association-judiciary-johns-hopkins
.

123
.
  
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, “John Hopkins Office of Institutional Equity Response to Voice for Life,” FIRE, April 3, 2013,
http://www.thefire.org/johns-hopkins-office-of-institutional-equity-response-to-voice-for-life/
.

124
.
  
Alice Bell, “Why Women in Science Are Annoyed at Rosetta Mission Scientist’s Clothing,”
Guardian
, November 13, 2014,
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/13/why-women-in-science-are-annoyed-at-rosetta-mission-scientists-clothing
.

125
.
  
Rose Eveleth, Tweet on November 12, 2014, Twitter,
https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/532538957490561024
.

126
.
  
Chris Plante and Arielle Duhaime-Ross, “I Don’t Care If You Landed A Spacecraft On a Comet, Your Shirt Is Sexist and Ostracizing,”
Verge
, November 13, 2014,
http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213819/your-bowling-shirt-is-holding-back-progress
.

127
.
  
Ibid.

128
.
  
S.E. Smith, “A Philae Researcher Wore An Unbelievably Sexist Shirt on A Livefeed and Women in STEM Are Pissed,”
xoJane
, November 12, 2014,
http://www.xojane.com/issues/sexist-shirt-philae-matt-taylor
.

129
.
  
Ibid.

130
.
  
Elly PriZeMaN, Tweet on November 13, 2014, Twitter,
https://twitter.com/ellyprizeman/status/532927131098300416
,

131
.
  
Tim Stanley, “Matt Taylor’s Sexist Shirt and the Day Political Correctness Officially Went Mad,”
Telegraph
, November 15, 2014,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11232986/Matt-Taylors-sexist-shirt-and-the-day-political-correctness-officially-went-mad.html
.

132
.
  
Lakeidra Chavis, “UAF Announces Plans for New Kameel Toi Henderson Building in Honor of 59 Percent Female Demographic,”
University of Alaska Fairbanks

The Sun Star
, March 26, 2013,
https://web.archive.org/web/20131114174408/http://www.uafsunstar.com/archives/22309
.

133
.
  
Will Creeley, Letter to Chancellor Brian Rogers, FIRE, January 15, 2014,
http://www.thefire.org/fire-letter-to-university-of-alaska-fairbanks/
.

134
.
  
Samantha Sunne, “University of Alaska Fairbanks student newspaper under investigation following sexual harassment claims,” Student Press Law Center November 26, 2013,
http://www.splc.org/article/2013/11/university-of-alaska-fairbanks-student-newspaper-under-investigation-following-sexual-harassment-cla
.

135
.
  
Interview with author, November 2014.

136
.
  
Pauline W. Chen, “Sexism Charges Divide Surgeons’ Group,”
New York Times
, April 15, 2011,
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/sexism-charges-divide-surgeons-group/?_r=1
.

137
.
  
Ian Tucker, “The Uses of Semen? One: Reproduction. Two: Best Not Mentioned, Really . . .,”
Guardian
, May 7, 2011,
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/08/lazar-greenfield-semen-antidepressant-women
.

138
.
  
Chen, “Sexism Charges Divide Surgeons’ Group.”

139
.
  
Ibid.

140
.
  
Ibid.

141
.
  
Michael Smerconish, “Lazar Greenfield’s ‘Semengate’ Stuns Scientific Community,” Huffington Post, April 25, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-smerconish/semengate-stuns-scientifi_b_853164.html
.

142
.
  
Jacquelyn C. Campbell et. al, “Risk Factors for Femicide in Abusive Relationships: Results from a Multisite Case Control Study,”
American Journal of Public Health
, July 2003,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447915/#r1
.

143
.
  
“Intimate Partner Homicide,” National Institute of Justice Journal, U.S. Department of Justice,
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/jr000250.pdf
.

144
.
  
Bureau of Justice Statistics Factbook, “Violence by Intimates,” U.S. Department of Justice,
http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/vi.pdf
.

145
.
  
Glenn Kessler, “Holder’s 2009 Claim That Intimate-Partner Homicide Is the Leading Cause of Death for African American Women,”
Washington Post
, December 18, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/12/18/holders-2009-claim-that-intimate-partner-homicide-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-african-american-women/
.

146
.
  
Christina Hoff Sommers, “Domestic Violence Myths Help No One,”
USA Today
, February 4, 2011,
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-02-03-sommers04_st_N.htm
.

147
.
  
Kessler, “Holder’s 2009 Claim That Intimate-Partner Homicide Is the Leading Cause of Death for African American Women.”

148
.
  
“Incomes vs. Earnings,” United States Census Bureau Blog, September 23, 2010,
http://blogs.census.gov/2010/09/23/income-vs-earnings/
.

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