HPV

Phew, what a weekend! Why don't you kick back, relax and read some of our favorite posts from the Internet from last week with this special On Our Radar, Special Monday edition! 

• Get ready to toss some rice and shed some tears because Kevin Keller, the first openly homosexual member of Archie comics' Riverdale Gang, is being joined in matrimony next January.
• Minh-ha T. Pham writes about the discomforting and not-so-new phenomenon of eye taping to appear "Asian."
• Remapping Debate horrifies everyone with the simple statistics about constricting abortion regulation in the US.
• Cartoon Movement calms everyone down by educating us about the other side of the war on women's health.
• Alex Vesey sits down and reads Record Collecting for Girls so you don't have to.
• Lena Chen tells us that dating her just because you have an Asian fetish is definitely a dealbreaker (bonus points if you read guest blogger Garland Grey's dealbreaker).
• Amy Rebecca Klein kindly points us to a letter from a man to a woman, telling her that no, she is not crazy.
• The Feminist Peace Network fill us in on some points we might not have thought about regarding the HPV vaccine debacle.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

Sometimes it seems futile to try and separate the wheat from the douche from week to week in politics. You just want to give up. I mean why even bother? But persevere, everyone, because this week we really got one. We found someone who’s douchetastic, factually inaccurate intrusion into women’s health actually made Rick Perry look reasonable. Her flagrant douchery even inspired an auxiliary wave of Internet slut-shaming. That’s right, it’s Michele Bachmann.

There is not much we can agree on as a nation, but if there’s one thing we every American should be able to declare a common enemy, it’s cancer. Right? Sometimes we’re allies with Afghanistan, sometimes we let North Korea slide but we, as modern intelligent Americans, will never defend that old varmint cancer. So then why are some true-blooded American politicians getting on their soapboxes to kill legislation that could help kill cancer? The way some politicos are spinning it, female sexuality is a greater risk to our nation than cancers that kill 3,700 American women every year. The HPV vaccine shouldn’t be controversial – it prevents 90 percent of those types of deadly cancers in women. But as the HPV vaccine snags headlines recently thanks to new research showing it's more effective than previously thought, conservative leaders are seizing the spotlight to swap morality for science and make sexually-active women the threat, rather than our arch-nemesis cancer.