Great Depth from XX Factor

I'm working on whittling down my Google Reader numbers and read through about sixty recent posts from Slate's XX Factor (previously written about here and here).

Two highlights from the reading:

1. XX Factor had reported being underwhelmed at the recently released trailer for Where the Wild Things Are, the forthcoming movie based on the book. It has, however, in the opinion of the XX Factor women, spawned a "fantastic spoof," a quite funny faux-trailer for a fictitious film based on the classic children's book Everyone Poops. (Which we do.)

2. An extended conversation (or multiple conversations, highlights of which are here, here, here, here, here, and here) (all actually in short, unsatisfying snippets) about teen sexuality and pregnancy, which centered on two foci: a new book, The Purity Myth, that argues against the current protect-abstinence/chastity=purity approach (though the blog appropriately raises the current lack of a replacement myth, the same problem I have had in thinking about an intellectually honest contemporary sexual ethics), and the ongoing Bristol Palin/Levi Johnston saga, capped off by pointing me towards this wonderful piece on NYTimes.com about Elizabeth Cousins, a teenage mother whose decision to have her daughter (though made under the guise of sketchy advice) seems to have helped produce a thoughtful woman.