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.
Supermodel and coding student Karlie Kloss has just announced her latest initiative to help girls aged 13-18 get more opportunities to learn computer programming. It’s called Kode With Klossy, and it’s a two-week summer camp that has just begun to accept applications.
Supermodel Karlie Kloss Announces Kode With Klossy, a Coding Summer Camp for Girls | The Mary Sue
cool!!!
A young woman who bought drugs on the internet to induce a miscarriage after failing to raise enough money to travel to England for a termination is given a suspended prison sentence.
Woman who bought drugs online to terminate pregnancy given suspended sentence – BBC News
Sigh….
Rights commissioner says allegations against UN, French soldiers will be fully investigated
UN Responds to ‘Sickening’ New Sex Abuse Allegations in CAR
Oy!
When we say that Elvis …is all about sex, what we’re really saying is that he aroused women and empowered men. Women thought Elvis was sexy, and men felt sexy acting like Elvis.
For all of the pole dancing, nipple slipping, and straight up sex talking of the Queens of Pop, it’s super important to note one simple fact: these women are not “eliciting arousal” from their audiences because their fans are predominantly women. …What they’re doing for their mostly female audience is what Elvis did for his male audience members: sexually empowering, not sexually arousing, them.
…I want to be free. I want to be sexual. I want to arouse my fans. And I don’t want to be slut-shamed for it.
This Is Why I’m A Naked Rock Star | Thought Catalog
hmmmm
Shandra Woworuntu hoped to start a new career in the US hotel industry, but instead she found herself in a world of sexual slavery, forced drug-taking and violence.
Shandra Woworuntu: My life as a sex-trafficking victim – BBC News
Sigh…
The move was a victory for abortion rights advocates who had been fighting laws in states like Texas, North Dakota and Ohio that required providers to follow the original F.D.A. labels.
New F.D.A. Guidelines Ease Access to Abortion Pill – The New York Times
mmmhmmm
Japan’s plan to get more women into its shrinking workforce, so-called “womenomics” – looked great, but within two years the targets have had to be cut.
Is Japan’s plan for more women in the workplace failing? – BBC News
hmmm
One lost their job. The other became a viral sensation. Take one guess why.
Can You Spot the Difference Between These Two Stories About Sexy Underwear Model Teachers?
Yup.
Some of you who are raising boys should probably be warned of what I’ve advised my daughter to do if someone snaps her bra.
If You’re Raising Boys, Please Know This Scary Mommy
lol, nice!
The law signed by Gov. Mike Pence holds doctors liable if a woman has an abortion because of objections to the fetus’s race, sex or a disability and restricts fetal tissue donation.
Indiana Governor Signs Abortion Bill With Added Restrictions – The New York Times
Sigh….
Donald Trump has always been that guy: the one whose third wife is 26 years his junior. That guy whose side business was, for a long time, owning a beauty pageant, which allowed him inspect and smooch as many young beauties as he pleased. That guy who makes comments about being attracted to his daughter. Trump was always that guy who would tweet out an unflattering picture of some other dude’s wife next to a highly finished picture of his own, saying, “The images are worth a thousand words.”
Ted Cruz was also always that guy: the one who would look away as his allies circulated a naked picture of the wife of his enemy, and then suggest that “real men don’t attack women.” That guy who who stands silently by as his allies suggest that a man’s fitness for office can be measured in terms of the chastity of his wife—that her comparative purity, and his willingness to defend it, are tests of his manly authority. That guy who would suggest the only female Democratic presidential candidate in this race needs a spanking.
…The use of wives as proxies in the struggle between the two leading Republican contenders shows how much American conservatism has changed.
Photo of Melania Trump vs. Heidi Cruz: The Depressing Nature of American Politics – The Atlantic
I think this articles misses most of the change in conservatism over the past few decades. It barely scratches the surface of the changes and what they signify. Perhaps the author was blinded by sensationalism? All that aside though, it’s an interesting take.
When I was asked to be one of the coaches for an all-girls T-ball team in a league filled with boys, I didn’t know what to say.
“OK, sweetie,” I said. “Hold the bat like this.”
She looked up at me with her big blue eyes and uttered, “My name’s Edie.”
I’ll admit, it doesn’t really get any more adorable than watching a group of 4- and 5-year-old girls in matching uniforms on the baseball field. It’s just that these girls aren’t participating in a novelty act. They want to compete, and that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
I coached an all-girls T-ball team. They taught me more than I taught them.
nice.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has come under fire for ‘shouting’ during her victory speech – attracting complaints of sexism and double standards from her supporters.
US elections 2016: Hillary Clinton sparks sexism ‘shouting’ row – BBC News
This is a bullshit double-standard. Bernie yells and it’s passion, she yells and she has done something wrong. Grrrrrrrrr.
The Hollywood insider wants his sets to look more like America.
The law, similar to one at issue in a Texas case, threatens to close all but one of the state’s abortion clinics.
Supreme Court blocks Louisiana enforcement of abortion clinic law – The Washington Post
nice!
WASHINGTON (AP) — The military services are already beginning to recruit women for combat jobs, including as Navy SEALs, and could see them serving in previously male-only Army and Marine Corps infantry units by this fall, according to new plans endorsed by Defense Secretary Ash Carter and obtained by The Associated Press.
…All of the services say they have made required changes to base bathrooms and other facilities to accommodate women, and they will monitor training, injury assessments, and possible sexual harassment or assault problems.
…Military services have put together plans outlining exactly how they will incorporate women into the male-only units. The Army intends to first assign female officers to jobs in the infantry and armor units, and then gradually bring in female enlisted soldiers. And it plans to also assign more than one woman in a unit.
…Unlike the Army and Marine Corps, the Air Force said it will not assign women in groups to units, and will instead follow routine assignment procedures.
Military beginning to recruit women for combat jobs – SFGate
Nice!
A company says it plans to introduce a “period policy” to allow female staff to work flexibly around their menstrual cycle.
Bristol firm plans to give women time off for periods – BBC News
Psst, ladies….
Institutionalizing the idea that the biology of gender prevents women from working as well or as regularly as their peers in not progress.
This is a huge step backwards.
Saying nice things about Hillary Clinton has become a subversive act.
This, this, this.
Every fucking single word of this!
The venomous online attacks against Hillary supporters, and women in particular…
..has clearly just begun. It only gets uglier from here on out. And every Bernie Bro sharing a Hillary drinks Shocktop and doesn’t know football from futbol is complicit.
Bernie Sanders NH Comms Director Calls out Anti-Hillary Trolls for ‘Misogyny and Vitriol’ – Blue Nation Review
At a certain point, who the fuck cares if it starts with GOP trolls. It’s a bunch of so called Dems, Libs, and Progressives buying into it and spreading it. I blame the asswipe sharing the rework Nerd Girls memes just as much as whoever wrote the first one.
“THIS IS BASICALLY TWITTER RIGHT NOW:
Hillary: College should be affordable.
Twitter: Establishment puppet, no better than GOP.
Bernie: College should be affordable.
Twitter: DAD
…WHY DO WE HAVE TO HATE HER TO SHOW HOW MUCH WE LOVE HIM?”
-Courtney Enlow
This is so awesome.
Richard Stewart, the mayor of Coquitlam, B.C., says he wore the same suit for 15 months to highlight double standards faced by women in politics when it comes to appearance.
hmmmm
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