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Seoulbeats – Irene’s Crime: Reading?

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It is a book with themes of marginalization, internalized misogyny, and gender based discrimination. Male fans of Irene took this as a personal attack.

…Irene’s angry male fans have been leaving comments like, “I’m disappointed in her”, “I regret ever thinking of marrying you”, and “Don’t be so naïve to the world. She needs to realize that the majority of her fans are male and it’s wrong for her to make them feel bad when they’re spending money on her”.

…Not unlike many other modern societies, the true heart of feminism is lost through the representation by more radical feminists, who dominate the gender equality conversation.

This may be the case with South Korea: with some of the public’s understanding of feminism being misandry as opposed to equality, feminism has become equated with man-hating.

… When female idols associate with feminism, the problem isn’t that it is seen as an act of man-hating. The real problem is that female K-pop idols associate with feminism, it directly undermines the system of objectification and fantasy that toxic fans construct around female idols. The K-pop industry markets their idols with the perfect boyfriend or girlfriend fantasy.

…A person with autonomy cannot be a fantasy, because a person isn’t a fantasy. Irene, in an offhanded comment, reminded her fans that she is more than just her K-pop persona, and that was her gravest crime in the eyes of toxic fans.

Irene’s Crime: Reading? – seoulbeats

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A Hit Man Came to Kill Susan Kuhnhausen. She Survived. He Didn’t.

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Ten years after the attack, Susan finds comfort in helping others to understand that they, too, can survive a near fatal attack. “If you can’t run and you can’t hide, you have to fight,” she says. “You don’t know that you won’t survive.”

…”They’re not calling you a hero because you killed a man,” her boss told her. “They’re calling you a hero because they want to believe, given the same circumstances, they, too, might survive.”

A Hit Man Came to Kill Susan Kuhnhausen. She Survived. He Didn’t. – Willamette Week

huh

What It’s Like to Be a Woman in the Academy – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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I was 22, fresh from undergrad, and, as a child of the “girl power” 1990s, entirely unused to the idea that anyone would take me less seriously simply because I was not a man. I soon learned that being taken seriously depended on style and self-presentation as much as on intelligence and insight.

The male graduate students in my cohort displayed their academic seriousness with an ease that I found impossible to imitate. They knew how to dress for class (blazer, oxfords, a touch of tweed); how to speak forcefully in seminar, without making apologies or soliciting approval*; how to shake hands with male faculty members in a way that was both chummy and professional.

…”Women are welcome,” announced the male graduate student who directed the Hegel reading group, as if women needed his permission** to think dialectically.

…Anxious and confused about how to establish a suitable academic self, I spent my first few years of graduate school vacillating between girlishness and a kind of steely professionalism. I started wearing dresses, then chopped off all my hair. I spoke with ingratiating, self-effacing “uptalk” one day, and was entirely too strident the next.

As the years went by, and I advanced toward the Ph.D., the rules for women became more numerous, and the box for acceptable behavior grew smaller still. Do be an approachable teacher, but don’t be too friendly with your students, or they’ll take advantage of you. Don’t wear a dress to your MLA interview; you’ll be in a hotel room, possibly proximate to a bed, and men won’t be able to stop themselves from sexualizing you. At your job talk, be sure to say “thank you” after each question; men shouldn’t do this — they would appear obsequious — but women must (or so a female faculty member advised me). Be extremely careful when speaking about partners and families, or you might not get the job.

…Hierarchies — of gender, race, and class — are established and reinforced through hirings and firings, handshakes and outfits.

What It’s Like to Be a Woman in the Academy – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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* – one be inclined to add, without fear of their confidence being interpreted as being over-the-top, bitchy, unfounded, or inappropriately aggressive, and giving rise to reactions like, “Who do he think he is?”

** – (or encouragement and support)

New Indiana law requires doctors make women confess abortion history or go to jail

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This truly is straight out of the Handmaid’s Tale. Indiana has a new law which requires doctors and hospitals to interrogate women about whether they’ve had an abortion when they are seeking “treatment for a physical or psychological condition that is in any way connected to a past abortion.” Any provider who fails to submit an “abortion complications” report to the State Department of Health “risks being charged with a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, for each instance of noncompliance.”

New Indiana law requires doctors make women confess abortion history or go to jail

My god….

68 Iowa faith leaders: We support woman’s right to an abortion

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The constitutional right of women to make their own healthcare decisions is being attacked in the Iowa Legislature. With arguments based only in religious beliefs, it will create harm to Iowa women and a woman’s right to make her own medical decisions. It is creating a clear path for the government to intrude in the most personal rights and decisions of Iowa women. This is unconstitutional and it is wrong.

…We know that women do not want to be in the place to need an abortion. Life is not perfect and there are personal, often difficult, reasons that lead women to make a decision to end a pregnancy. The reasons are as varied as the women themselves. Unless we are invited into that conversation with a woman, it is not our business and it is not the business of the government.

…Every person has the right to their own personal and religious beliefs and to live their life how they determine is best for them. The government does not have the right to infringe on the freedoms or privacy of Iowa women based on those religious beliefs.

Every woman deserves to consult her values, faith, and doctor when making a decision about her body and her pregnancy. Any law that strips a woman of her faith and tries instead to legislate her values for her is immoral.

We stand with the women of Iowa and their constitutional right to make their own healthcare decisions. We ask the Iowa Legislature to do the same.

68 Iowa faith leaders: We support woman’s right to an abortion

nice!

Religious Freedom Counts First In This HHS Civil Rights Division

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“Director Severino presents himself as a civil rights lawyer. And what he has done as OCR director is turn the idea of civil rights on its head,” says Harper Jean Tobin, policy director at the National Center for Transgender Equality.

That’s because Severino — a devout Catholic and political conservative — has put the right to religious [discrimination] front and center …in health care.

Religious Freedom Counts First In This HHS Civil Rights Division : Shots – Health News : NPR

Perhaps it is human nature to want to discriminate against others after you, yourself, have been the victim of of discrimination.

….Or maybe this guy is just a bigoted asshole.

Vermont Is Now The Only State That’s Never Sent A Woman To Congress

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Jim Jeffords, Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy holding glasses of milk in 1999 in Montpelier.

On Wednesday, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant appointed the state’s Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith to a U.S. Senate seat, replacing Sen. Thad Cochran. With that appointment, Vermont is now the only state to never send a woman to Congress.

Vermont Is Now The Only State That’s Never Sent A Woman To Congress | Vermont Public Radio

Well, now…
Hmmmmm.

Martina Navratilova gets paid a tenth of John McEnroe’s salary for tennis commentating

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Tennis star Martina Navratilova has claimed she gets paid a mere tenth of John McEnroe’s salary for her work as a commentator at Wimbledon.

Speaking on BBC Panorama, the Czech tennis champion—who’s considered among the best female tennis players of all time— revealed that she gets paid about £15K ($21K) for her role as a Wimbledon commentator, while John McEnroe earns £150K ($209K) for the same work.

…”Gender isn’t a factor,” the BBC concluded.

Martina Navratilova gets paid a tenth of John McEnroe’s salary for tennis commentating

Of course it’s a factor.

…And fuck you BBC for being such dinosaurs.

NH Lawmakers consider allowing a full year of birth control pills with a single prescription

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Senate Bill 421 would lift the present three-month cap for contraceptive prescriptions, raising it to 12 months. Under the proposed law, doctors would prescribe 12 months of the medication, and insurance carriers would be mandated to cover it without imposing co-pays. Newly prescribed patients could walk into pharmacies and leave with a year’s supply of contraceptives.

The bill, championed by Planned Parenthood and health care industry groups, is meant to address a long-standing problem for those taking “the pill” – forgetfulness. Often distributed in packs of 28, and designed to be taken daily, the oral contraceptives require diligence to be effective. Having to obtain refill prescriptions every several months can prove difficult for some, setting up potential delays and lapses in use. Missing a week or even days can carry side effects for women who rely on the pill, or lead to unplanned pregnancy.

…Around a quarter of all women who use contraceptives report missing days due to difficulty getting prescription renewal, according to a 2011 study by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Supporters say the bill would benefit low-income people with less time to organize renewed prescriptions.

Lawmakers consider allowing a full year of birth control pills with a single prescription

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GOP lawmaker calls women “a lesser cut of meat”

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[South Carolina state senator] Corbin’s remarks occurred during a legislative dinner this week to discuss domestic violence legislation. Sources present at the meeting told FITS that Corbin directed his comments at fellow GOP state senator Katrina Shealy, the sole woman in the 46-member chamber.

“I see it only took me two years to get you wearing shoes,” Corbin told Shealy, who won election in 2012.

…Indignant at Corbin’s rank sexism, Shealy asked him where he “got off” making such remarks.

“Well, you know God created man first,” a smirking Corbin replied.  “Then he took the rib out of man to make woman.  And you know, a rib is a lesser cut of meat.”

GOP lawmaker calls women “a lesser cut of meat” – Salon.com

Seems awfully un sputhern-christian to throw shade at BBQ… I think the only reason he’s talking such shit about ribs is that gawd-awful South Carolina mustard sauce.

Besides being a pig that is.

Gymnast Aly Raisman sues U.S. Olympic Committee over Nassar abuse

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In a statement, Raisman said the USOC and USA Gymnastics are stonewalling on the question of what they knew about Nassar’s predatory behavior.

“After all this time, they remain unwilling to conduct a full investigation, and without a solid understanding of how this happened, it is delusional to think sufficient changes can be implemented,” she said.

“I refuse to wait any longer for these organizations to do the right thing. It is my hope that the legal process will hold them accountable and enable the change that is so desperately needed.”

It was Raisman, a veteran of the 2012 and 2016 games, who turned up the heat on the Olympic Committee in January with a surprise appearance and searing statement at Nassar’s marathon sentencing hearing.

Gymnast Aly Raisman sues U.S. Olympic Committee over Nassar abuse – NBC News

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State Department report will trim language on discrimination

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State Department officials have been ordered to pare back passages in a soon-to-be-released annual report on global human rights that traditionally discuss women’s reproductive rights and discrimination, according to five former and current department officials.

The directive calls for stripping passages that describe societal views on family planning, including how much access women have to contraceptives and abortion.

…This sends a clear signal that women’s reproductive rights are not a priority for this administration, and that it’s not even a rights violation we must or should report on,” one serving State Department official said.

…A broader section that chronicles racial, ethnic and sexual discrimination has also been ordered pared down, the current and former officials said.

…Tillerson and Trump have both said human rights should not block other U.S. foreign policy priorities, especially when it to comes to key allies such as Egypt or Saudi Arabia. But the administration hasn’t held back on talking about human rights when speaking out against enemies like Iran and North Korea.

Last year, Tillerson broke with tradition and chose not to personally unveil his department’s human rights report — dismaying activists and lawmakers, including Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who believe human rights should be a pillar of U.S. foreign policy.

State Department report will trim language on women’s rights, discrimination – POLITICO

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Pence: Abortion will end in U.S. ‘in our time’

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…[Trump] has signed legislation reversing an Obama-era rule that blocked states from defunding Planned Parenthood and reinstated a ban on federal funds for global health programs that cover or promote abortions.

…He noted that while a ban on 20-week abortions passed the House last year, it failed in the Senate in January, where Republicans have a slim majority.

All but three Democrats blocked the bill and two Republican senators also voted against it.

Pence: Abortion will end in U.S. ‘in our time’ | TheHill

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Oklahoma Lawmakers Want Men to Approve All Abortions

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The first, Rep. George Faught’s House Bill 1549, was returning for a second year. Under the measure, a woman would be blocked from aborting a fetus because it has — or is suspected of having — a genetic abnormality, regardless of how early she sought termination. Although the measure made it out of the House in 2016, it languished in the Senate.

The bill was taking a complicated and personal issue and turning it into a cut-and-dry measure that in part seemed intended to pit disability activists and reproductive rights advocates against each other, Chowning thought.

But to Chowning and other members of the coalition, it was the second bill, HB 1441, that was even more disturbing, devoid of any nuance and completely unconstitutional. Written by another of the chamber’s freshmen, Rep. Justin Humphrey, the legislation would require a woman seeking an abortion first to obtain written permission from her sexual partner. It would also require her to provide his name to her doctor and would forestall the procedure if the man wanted the opportunity to challenge paternity.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a similar provision in 1992.

Oklahoma Lawmakers Want Men to Approve All Abortions

Oh, my….

Michael Steele blasts CPAC official for ‘painfully stupid’ insult but refuses to admit the GOP is racist

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Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on Friday refused an apology from a conservative official who said Steele had only been elected chairman “because he was a black guy.”

…While speaking at CPAC’s Ronald Reagan dinner on Friday night, Walters described former president Barack Obama’s election as a “big deal,” but said it led to the “terrible” selection of Steele to head the RNC back in 2009.

“We elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a black guy,” Walters told the room, reportedly drawing gasps. “That was the wrong thing to do.”

…Steele served as RNC chairman from 2009 to 2011 and was the first African-American to hold the role.

He has been critical of the Trump administration. Recently, after President Trump made a reference to “shithole countries,” Steele was asked if he thought the president was racist.

“At this point, the evidence is incontrovertible, it’s right there,” he replied.

Following Walters’ remark, Steele said he believes that there is a racism problem within the Republican Party, but that he didn’t think that the party was “that way.”

Michael Steele blasts CPAC official for ‘painfully stupid’ insult

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