The family planning organization said the proposal “mocks the seriousness of this looming public health crisis.”
GOP’s Zika Bill Limits Contraception Access And Prevents Planned Parenthood From Helping
WTF?!
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.
The family planning organization said the proposal “mocks the seriousness of this looming public health crisis.”
GOP’s Zika Bill Limits Contraception Access And Prevents Planned Parenthood From Helping
WTF?!
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is more interested in maintaining the status quo.
House blocks amendment by Republican who said the Tubman $20 is “racist” and “sexist” – Vox
Sigh…
New physical standards established so women can compete for combat posts in the Marine Corps are disqualifying some men, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.
New Marine Corps fitness standards for combat weed out men, women alike
sounds like they are working then…
Apps and websites that use telemedicine and other methods to offer prescriptions have sprung up with little of the furor expected in issues involving reproductive health.
Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar
Awesome.
Witchy, too girly, mumsy or a bit like Jimmy Krankie – you’d never hear the same level of criticism for leftwing male politicians
How should Hillary Clinton dress? However she goddamn pleases | Fashion | The Guardian
Yup.
“One of our male teachers encouraged us to break dress code since the boys never get in trouble for it, why should we? Several girls went to school in tank top style dress and thick strapped tank tops. Boys wore hats and cutoffs. In the morning, girls were immediately pulled into the office. They were told their outfits were inappropriate and distracting, but the boys had no consequences. They were not told to cover up or that their outfits were distracting. Our teacher helped us prove how sexist our dress code really is. The teacher was sent home for being unprofessional and encouraging us to protest. We lost a very valuable teacher that day because our school cares more about the dress code than the quality of teaching we are receiving.”
Constant policing of girls’ bodies creates a hostile learning environment. It forces girls to internalize the sexist societal message that women should be judged based on appearance above all else. Dress codes that sexualize young girls force them to view their own bodies through a heteronormative patriarchal lens that objectifies girls and women and blames them for the actions of others.
…The dress code at Indian Creek High School is less about health, safety, and limiting classroom disruptions and more about controlling girls. Although, the dress code states that clothing to the “point of immodesty may not be worn” and shorts and skirts must “extend past the students fingertips when the arms are extended,” school-mandated uniforms for Girls’ Volleyball, Cheer, and other sports do not even come close to meeting dress code regulations.
Teacher Sent Home After Conducting Social Experiment
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Overt sexism is significantly more likely to be tolerated in our society than overt racism. It is a low-risk form of bigotry and discrimination that rarely damages professional or political careers. Because of this, far fewer people worry about crossing that line.
…the one thing that seems to most negatively and consistently affect public perception of Hillary is any attempt by her to seek power. Once she actually has that power her polls go up again. But whenever she asks for it her numbers drop like a manhole cover.
…a media frenzy has been aimed at Hillary Clinton for accepting speaking fees of $225,000 while Donald Trump has been paid $1.5 MILLION on numerous occasions with hardly a word said about it.
…Hillary is nobody’s idea of perfect. Fine. But in my view if a man with her qualifications were running in the Democratic primary, Bernie would have been done before he even started. And if a man with her qualifications had been running for the Republicans, they’d be anointing him the next Reagan while trying to sneak his face onto Mount Rushmore.
Thinking About Hillary — A Plea for Reason — Medium
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How the Stanford case presided over by Judge Aaron Persky represents a maddeningly incremental kind of progress
The Stanford Rape Case Judge’s Controversial History | Rolling Stone
The new Game Developer Barbie seems like she’s doing her job right. No more pink laptop, no more pink headset. Instead, she has a realistic outfit, computer, headset, desk set-up (including He-Man and She-Ra action figures), and some real coding skills according to Slate’s Casey Fiesler.
Mattel’s new Game Developer Barbie finally gets Barbie right | News | Geek.com
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The first woman to lead a major-party presidential ticket practiced her speech to keep her composure as some supporters wept.
Clinton reflects on the emotion of her historic moment — and rips into Trump – The Washington Post
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A federal judge weighing whether to block a new Indiana law banning abortions sought because of a fetus’ genetic abnormalities sounded skeptical of the measure during a Tuesday hearing, saying it may infringe on some women’s right to an abortion.
Judge: Indiana abortion law may infringe on women’s rights – Chicago Tribune
mmmhmmm
“who has sacrificed her feminine power by excelling in the imperialist white supremacist capitalistic patriarchal narrative.”
Open Letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton: Skeletons From Our Past
What an ignorant, hateful, little cunt this author is. …And crazy. Total fucking nutjob whackjob.
Her thesis is that Clinton is somehow culpable in a violent sexual assault (that she has absolutely zero connection to) because the author does not approve of attorney’s defending criminals who are guilty? Never mind that one of the few saving graces of our (in)justice system is that all defendants have to right to a defense, the right to an attorney making their case for them in the court of law… OR that all defense attorney’s might be in that position at one point or another. This random fact provides the basis to indite Clinton for… Well, it’s really hard to tell for what exactly.
Or does the author simply hate on the woman because she does not approve of Clinton making headway and having some success swimming upstream against the social currents of patriarchy? The thinking seems to run that to succeed in less than ideal circumstances is somehow an offense to those who did not. It comes off as nasty, shrill, jealousy and nothing more.
Earth to ignorant little troll, there is nothing more anti-woman than hating on a woman for no other reason that she experienced success in a male-centric environment.
Calling someone racist (and let’s be honest here, that is all that is implied when someone uses the term “mighty white” in this context) because they don’t see things exactly as you do is not only ignorant and insulting to anyone involved in actual struggle for actual, real-life justice in the face of actual, non-fictional racism but reeks of jealousy and bigotry on the part of the person mis-using the term.
…And blaming a woman, any woman, for the sins of people she does not know and has no contact has no merit in fact or ideal.
In fact, blaming a woman for a crime committed by a man against other women does nothing other than pull all women down.
The only person culpable in the act of shitting on other women here is the author. That fact is glaringly obvious. There is no justification, and indeed no honor, in assigning blame to those who are wholly unconnected to the offense. It is a tactic employed by those who seek to divide and conquer, those who work against raising people up and empowering them.
If the author thinks she is anything other than a tool of the patriarchy, engaging in tearing all women down and help to keep them down-trodden and oppressed, well she need to listen to that alarm bell. Right now she is the polar opposite of woke as fuck.
A court in Qatar convicts a Dutch woman charged with having sex outside marriage after she told police she had been raped.
Qatar convicts Dutch woman held ‘after being raped’ – BBC News
Hateful, unjust, shameful, sinful, shithole of a government.
Hillary Clinton secures the Democratic nomination for US president, but other parts of US public life are still short of a “milestone for women”.
US Election 2016: Hillary Clinton and ‘milestones for women’ – BBC News
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Clinton won in New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and was leading in California, while Sanders notched victories in Montana and the North Dakota caucuses.
“Tonight’s victory is not about one person; it belongs to generations of women and men who sacrificed and made this moment possible,” Clinton told a cheering crowd in Brooklyn, N.Y., exactly eight years after she fell short in her first quest for the presidency to Barack Obama.
She thanked Sanders for the “vigorous debate” he and his supporters have spurred on economic inequality, calling it “good for the Democratic Party.”
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Clinton’s campaign and other Democrats point out that at this point, her lead over Sanders is nearly three times larger than President Obama’s was over Clinton in their 2008 primary fight. With her wins Tuesday, she also claimed a majority of the pledged delegates throughout the campaign cycle.
But with Clinton’s speech and in a video unveiled earlier Tuesday, she was already looking ahead to November and reminding voters that she has broken one of the thickest glass ceilings in political history.
Clinton Touts Historic Night As Sanders Vows To Fight On
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Stanford law professor leads campaign against judge who gave six months to the former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman
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Look Kallie, I’ll give you a little hint. “By this age, women should know” is never a good way to start a sentence, unless it’s “women should know that their true value is invested not in the clothes they choose to wear but the impact they leave upon society and the world through their actions and personalities” or “women should know to look both ways before crossing the road”.
Or perhaps “Women should know never to tell another woman how to dress, not least when half the items they discuss refer specifically to the way they appear to the opposite gender and how attractive they appear”. Women should know that rocket scientists can wear disco pants, neurosurgeons can wear crop tops, good listeners can wear furry boots, lovers can wear dungarees, and activists can wear hoop earrings. Women should know that what they do, and what they say, is so much more important than what they wear.
20 Things Women Over 30 Shouldn’t Wear & Why That’s Total Bollocks – Bells & Whistles
Ayup.
This morning, as I was perusing through my Facebook timeline, I happened upon an article that a lovely friend shared. It was entitled “24 Things Women Should Stop Wearing After Age 30,’ and it triggered Maximum Eye-Rolling from everyone who took the time out to read it.
Motivated by Kallie’s “article”, I decided to churn up one of my own! I bring you now:
24 Things Women Over 30 Should Wear:
Whatever the fuck they want
24 Things Women Over 30 Should Wear – warning:curves ahead
Ayup.
Unfortunately, after reading the defendant’s report, I am severely disappointed and feel that [the assailant] has failed to exhibit sincere remorse or responsibility for his conduct. I fully respected his right to a trial, but even after twelve jurors unanimously convicted him guilty of three felonies, all he has admitted to doing is ingesting alcohol. Someone who cannot take full accountability for his actions does not deserve a mitigating sentence. It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of “promiscuity”. By definition rape is the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.
On the other hand, as a society, we cannot forgive everyone’s first sexual assault or digital rape. It doesn’t make sense. The seriousness of rape has to be communicated clearly, we should not create a culture that suggests we learn that rape is wrong through trial and error. The consequences of sexual assault needs to be severe enough that people feel enough fear to exercise good judgment even if they are drunk, severe enough to be preventative.
…How fast [the assailant] swims does not lessen the severity of what happened to me, and should not lessen the severity of his punishment. If a first time offender from an underprivileged background was accused of three felonies and displayed no accountability for his actions other than drinking, what would his sentence be? The fact that [the assailant] was an athlete at a private university should not be seen as an entitlement to leniency, but as an opportunity to send a message that sexual assault is against the law regardless of social class.
Here’s The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Attacker – BuzzFeed News
Amen.
“So it is an additional service that facilitates the lifestyles of one sector of Saudi women, who are the minority.” …[Hatoon al-Fassi, a women’s rights activist and academic at King Saud University] warned against interpreting the popularity of Uber as a feat for women’s rights.”It is not this [Uber] that will make the difference … there are people that have an interest in keeping women the way they are.”
Women react to Saudi $3.5bn Uber cash injection – AJE News
sigh…
In 2015 and early 2016, CNN hosted more than twice as many anti-choice guests as pro-choice guests on its evening news programs, according to a new Media Matters study. CNN also didn’t host any reproductive rights advocates as guests until November’s fatal attack on a Colorado Springs, CO, Planned Parenthood health care center.
CNN killed the journalism star.
A Media Matters study of 14 months of evening cable news programs found that discussions of abortion were weighted toward anti-choice speakers, which resulted in widespread misinformation on the topic.
STUDY: How Cable News Talks About Abortion
GRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
This is not a simple candidacy — or candidate.
Did Hillary’s Campaign Have to Be This Hard? — NYMag
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