Plans
Supposedly everyone agrees that we need to lower the teen pregnancy rate. But when we take a look at what the plans actually entail, we see what the “pro-life” movement actually stands for. First, the Dems: Both Obama and Clinton have backed and continue to support increasing spending on what they call comprehensive family planning [...]
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4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
I still haven’t seen it, but Ms. Lauren gives it rave reviews. There’s an interview with the director, Cristian Mungiu, in the LA Weekly, and he makes a few comments I’d like to highlight. Mungiu says, It didn’t start from the idea of making a film about abortion. I hope that it speaks about this [...]
...read moreThe same-sex marriage train rolls on
Yay! A New York state appellate court in Rochester has ruled that same-sex marriages solemnized in foreign countries (such as Canada) must be recognized in New York State: The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court on Friday reversed a judge’s ruling in 2006 that Monroe Community College did not have to extend health benefits to [...]
...read moreYou mean they can speak for themselves?
Palestinian feminists organize. Hamas leader Mahmoud Az Zahar returned from the Cairo meetings via the Rafah crossing Saturday afternoon where a major demonstration was underway with thousands of people present and feminists leading the way. The women demanded that the Rafah border remain open under the new agreement, and that the previous agreement be abolished [...]
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This Groundhog’s Day
I’ve been keeping to myself in a very unhealthy, bitter way lately. I’m battling a major depression and I think starting to pull out of it, but that’s not what I want to talk about. I’m a person who needs to believe that there is a purpose in life, even if I don’t believe in [...]
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Why I *heart* NY
Because you don’t even have to watch major sports games to know who wins — you can just sit in your apartment and you hear everyone either screaming and honking or groaning and booing as soon as it’s over. I take it the Giants won tonight? UPDATE 5 minutes later: This whole yelling/honking/ringing a cowbell [...]
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Feminist vs. Feminist
Jessica in the New York Times Congrats to Jessica and Feministing for their prominent mention (and photo!) in the New York Times. Jessica has some great quotes. It’s unfortunate, though, that the article has to be about pitting second-wave feminists against younger feminists, and that it relies on some tired stereotypes (young feminists are flirty! [...]
...read moreWhite Women Are A Problem
BILL KRISTOL: Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women. The Democratic establishment — it would be crazy for the Democratic Party to follow an establishment that’s led it to defeat year after year. White women are a problem, that’s, you know — we all live with that. [laughter] [...]
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Wait, I thought feminists were supposed to hate men
What Kay Hymowitz thinks 20-something men look like. Yet another reminder that it’s conservatives, not feminists, who think that men are inherently stupid Neanderthals who need women to control them. They’re also happy to remind you (if you are a woman) that while men are hard-wired to be stupid jerks, it is somehow your fault [...]
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Anti-Choice Terrorists Claim First Amendment Rights
Anti-choice activist Robert Ferguson Gotta love the anti-choice nuts at Operation Rescue. The backstory: They’re going after Dr. Tiller, a Kansas abortion provider, for approximately the 340,986th time. Dr. Tiller is a favorite of theirs because he’s one of the last abortion providers in Kansas, and he provides late-term abortions. One of their followers shot [...]
...read moreShameless self-promotion Sunday
Let’s have it.
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