What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
People were lining up to leave their “I Voted” stickers at the gravesite of the women’s suffrage activist. Elsewhere, tributes popped up on Twitter and Instagram to other icons of the movement.
At Susan B. Anthony’s Grave, Visiting Hours Extended For Election Day Crowds : The Two-Way : NPR
The group’s stated goal is to express support for Hillary Clinton, but it has also served as a forum to discuss issues raised by Donald J. Trump’s rhetoric.
…Ms. Chamberlain, 33, created Pantsuit Nation to support Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, less than three weeks ago. Since then, more than 2.5 million people have joined the group — which is invitation only — and have reported donating more than $216,000 through the Pantsuit Nation fund-raising drive. But even that growth didn’t prepare the group’s organizers for the explosive activity on Tuesday.
People, mainly women, posted photos of their daughters wearing “Future President” T-shirts or creating an “H” with their bodies. They posted images and memories of their pioneering grandmothers, like an early airplane pilot. Many thanked the group for the virtual support it provided when they went to their polling places in mostly red states. These users called themselves “blue dots.”
“There was a post from an 18-year-old who went to vote with her 91-year-old grandmother,” Ms. Chamberlain said. “It’s a montage of every sappy thing you’ve ever seen about America. Only these are real people, in their own voices, and I think it’s a picture of the real diversity in the country.”
Pantsuit Nation, a ‘Secret’ Facebook Hub, Celebrates Clinton – The New York Times
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When Souad al-Shammary posted a series of tweets about the thick beards worn by Saudi clerics, she never imagined she would land in jail.
She put up images of several men with beards: An Orthodox Jew, a hipster, a communist, an Ottoman Caliph, a Sikh, and a Muslim. She wrote that having a beard was not what made a man holy or a Muslim. And she pointed out that one of Islam’s staunchest critics during the time of Prophet Muhammad had an even longer beard than him.
The frank comments are typical of this twice-divorced mother of six and graduate of Islamic law. Raised a devout girl in a large tribe where she tended sheep, al-Shammary is now a 42-year-old liberal feminist who roots her arguments in Islam, taking on Saudi Arabia’s powerful religious establishment.
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Her godddaugher told the Associated Press that Reno died from complications related to Parkinson’s disease.
Janet Reno, first female U.S. attorney general, dies at 78
RIP
Since then, though, women’s progress has been halting, according to data collected by the Center for American Women and Politics that is updated through May 2015. Though President Obama appointed Hillary Clinton to serve as his first secretary of state, each of his terms had a lower percentage of women in cabinet-level positions than the corresponding term of Bill Clinton’s (albeit a higher percentage than the corresponding term of President George W. Bush.)
Women’s Progress In Cabinet Positions Has Stalled Since Janet Reno | FiveThirtyEight
Sigh…
The first woman attorney general revealed a very real and troubling double standard for female politicians.
Janet Reno, Hillary Clinton, and the relentless backlash to women in power – Vox
hmmm
The connection between the suffragists’ chosen color and some of Mrs. Clinton’s recent clothing has produced a campaign of its own.
On Election Day, the Hillary Clinton White Suit Effect – The New York Times
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An Indian woman alleges police asked her lewd questions when she tried reporting that she was raped.
She said an officer loudly asked her which man “gave her the most pleasure” and which, “size she liked best” when she told them she had been assaulted two years ago by a group of men.
The unidentified woman says the “brutal treatment” forced her to withdraw her complaint against her attackers.
The woman, a mother of two, said one of her attackers was an influential local politician who had told her to withdraw her complaint or “face the consequences”.
“They told me they would kill my children so I took back the complaint,” she said, adding that the “humiliation” she suffered at the police station was even worse than the rape itself.
India rape victim alleges police asked her about ‘pleasure’ – BBC News
GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
“To dismiss this as locker-room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere.”
Her parents divorced when she was a girl, in the 1960s, when banks could deny women loans if they couldn’t get a man to co-sign. “My mother couldn’t get credit. She couldn’t buy a car without a male signature. She couldn’t get an apartment without a male signature.”
….“To think about how far we’ve come,” Wilkinson added. “The fight and struggle just to vote for an intelligent, qualified, viable woman ― it was just sort of overwhelming to me on that morning. And I was thanking God that I was able to do this.”
Mom Breaks Into Tears: ‘I Got To Vote For A Woman For President’ | Huffington Post
Awwww
The 102-year-old was an honorary delegate for Clinton at the DNC.
Woman born before suffrage casts vote for Clinton – POLITICO
Cool!
Jeez….
Trump campaign sends women running for the exits.
Trump’s party of angry, white, abusive males – The Washington Post
hmmm
She’s a new ambassador for CoverGirl.
Muslim Beauty Blogger Nura Afia Is CoverGirl’s Newest Ambassador | Allure
Maybe she’s born with it….
Looking good, Cover Girl!
In 2007, the pharmaceutical company Bayer gave up on a male contraceptive “that involved an annual implant and a quarterly injection,” as my colleague Olga Khazan reported in 2015. The company, she wrote, “concluded that men would consider the regimen—in the words of a spokesperson—‘not as convenient as a woman taking a pill once a day.’
”Well, yes. That is far more convenient—for the men. Women will put up with it, of course, as they have for years, because the stakes are that high. And as research into male birth control accelerates, we are starting to see this hypocrisy more clearly—that the burdens women bear in exchange for their reproductive freedom are considered too much to expect men to deal with.
Source: The Different Stakes of Male and Female Birth Control – The Atlantic
Wayne, Valentino, and Oceno’s research, conducted in June, found hostility toward women was a major factor, predicting support for Trump more strongly than authoritarian attitudes and about as well as racial prejudice. The political scientists used a four-question survey to determine sexist attitudes, asking if people agreed with the following statements:
The survey also asked how strongly respondents supported Clinton or Trump. The higher they were on the sexism scale, the more likely they were to support Trump and the less likely they were to support Clinton. Hostile sexism was nearly as good at predicting support for Trump as party identification was.
Hostility toward women is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support – Vox
hmmmm
The stats seem ludicrous: Thirty percent of women on Food and Drug Administration-approved forms of birth control suffer the side effect of depression and are prescribed more medication for it, while a research study was terminated entirely because 3 percent of men — that’s 3 out of 100 — experienced symptoms of depression.
Men can’t handle side effects from hormonal birth control that women deal with every day – Salon.com
Sigh….
A Slavic workshop of stylists and photographers called Treti Pivni have decided to bring back one of the more amazing Ukranian traditions by giving it a new meaning. They’ve produced a portrait series of modern Ukranian women dressed in traditional Ukranian floral headdresses.
Ukrainian Women Bring Back Traditional Floral Crowns To Show National Pride
Gorgeous!
In February 2017, the Women’s World Chess Championship will be held in Iran. The U.S. champion, Nazi Paikidze-Barnes, will not be there.
Nazi Paikidze-Barnes has refused to participate in protest of the Islamic Republic’s compulsory dress code, which mandates that all women wear hijabs, or headscarves, in public. The law is strictly enforced regardless of a woman’s religion or nationality, and therefore would include all 64 competitors at the tournament. “I think it’s unacceptable to host a WOMEN’S World Championship in a place where women do not have basic fundamental rights and are treated as second-class citizens,” she posted on social media. She also wrote that she wouldn’t “wear a hijab and support women’s oppression even if it means missing one of the most important competitions of my career.” (Based on the formula of the tournament, she will not be eligible to compete again until 2019.)
Iranian activist and journalist Masih Alinejad says… “This is a discriminatory law, it’s not a cultural issue,” she told VICE Sports last week. “The government of Iran forces all women—non-Iranian, non-Muslim, and children—to wear hijab. All women should stand up and speak out. By accepting compulsory hijab, you are giving the Iranian government more power to oppress women.”
…”Nazi is not boycotting the games but it is the Islamic Republic which is boycotting Nazi,” Alinejad said. “She has earned the right to compete in an international tournament and it is the Islamic Republic which puts another hurdle in front of her and says, ‘You can only compete if you conform to our dress code.’ Where in the FIDE regulations does it say that countries can impose religious rules on players?”
Gary Walters, the president of the U.S. Chess Federation, agrees—and has expressed support of the U.S. champion. In Walters’s words, “We reminded FIDE that the forced wearing of a hijab or other dress is contrary to FIDE’s handbook.” (Statute 1.2 reads, in part, that FIDE “rejects discriminatory treatment for national, political, racial, social, or religious reasons, or on account of gender.”)
Why the U.S. Women’s Chess Champion Refuses to Play in Iran | VICE Sports
booo, FIDE!
I’ve spent several days thinking about Rev. Run, Tyrese, Amber Rose and their conversation about sexual consent on OWN’s It’s Not You, It’s Men. In short: Amber Rose had to explain that “no means no,” Tyrese talked about women’s sexual energy practically forcing men to “grope” them and Rev. Run threw in a heavy dose of respectability politics to justify men being disrespectful to women.
It was … troubling, to put it mildly. These two men, who are hosting a show about relationships, also wrote a best-selling book about relationships (hence the show), and there they sat, on national television, unable to grasp basic concepts like consent and that what a woman wears isn’t a pass to treat her badly or fondle her. These are the men, the supposed-to-be-enlightened ones, advising women about relationships? Seriously?
Women, Stop Listening to Sexist Relationship ‘Experts’
Amen, girl.
I love being an Indian, truly I do. With the country’s powerful history, one of a kind culture, and to-die-for food, how could one simply not?
But behind India’s beautiful face, there is a growing disease that our society continually fails to recognize- colorism.
Colorism is a term coined by author Alice Walker, and is defined as a discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone among people of the same racial and/or ethnic group. Also know as, internalized racism.
I’m Indian, I’m dark, and I don’t care. – aswathithomas
hmmmm
Most of the police force and several officials resigned after the small town of Parma, Missouri elected its first African American woman as mayor,
Police, Officials Resign After Small Missouri Town Elects First Black Female Mayor | Huffington Post
In other news outlets the former chief is shrilly screaming up and down that he is not a racist. He cries about how as a public official whose contact info and residence are public information as if this is a new development instead of a condition of his career.He makes slyly disparaging and blatantly racist generalization about the mayor’s family.
In other words, this little piggie cried, “weh, weh, weh,” all the way to his indisputably bigoted home.
Elizabeth Warren swirling the word “nasty” around in her mouth like a sommelier enjoying a fine wine only served as the latest reminder to a certain Trumpy flavor of man that, at this point in the 2016 campaign, women don’t need their approval to exist, or even to succeed. In Tina Fey’s 2011 memoir Bossypants, the comedy maven recounted an exchange between former SNL castmates Jimmy Fallon and Amy Poehler. The story goes that Amy told a dirty joke, and Jimmy fired back that he didn’t like it. Amy responded, “I don’t fucking care if you like it.” [emphasis: mine] Fey advises all women in the workplace to conduct themselves similarly: do what you want, fuck ‘em if they disagree.
The world has coddled Donald Trump into believing that women who have somehow failed to meet his antiquated standards of femininity should feel chastened. Men like Trump expect women to feel like failures when a man calls them anything less than pretty, sexy, pleasant, nice. But the world outside of Trump Tower has been moving at a much faster pace than the creaky machinery between Trump’s ears. In the voting booth, compliance is optional. Deference to the whims of men is unnecessary, if not undesirable.
Trump Finally Pissed Off the Wrong Women. All of Them. – The Daily Beast
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