Woman Stoned For Adultery in Somalia
Trigger Warning In Somalia, insurgents have stoned a woman to death. The woman, who relatives named as Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow, was buried in the ground up to her neck and pelted with rocks until she was dead. The “crime” of which she was accused was adultery. The 23-year-old woman was placed in a hole up [...]
...read moreWhat Would Prop 4 Mean?
As an addendum to yesterday’s post about California ballot initiative Prop 4, which would instate a parental notification requirement for all abortions had by minors in CA, check out this chart which shows the steps a pregnant teen would have to undergo in order to obtain an abortion if Prop 4 became law (pdf; jpg [...]
...read moreWomen’s “Health”
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...read moreStrip Club Holds Sarah Palin Lookalike Contest
Via Sociological Images — a truly great blog I discovered recently — comes this story about a Sarah Palin lookalike contest held at Vegas strip club (oh, sorry, “gentleman’s club”). Lots of bikinis, sexualized use of guns and sexism abound. You can view more photographs of the event here. The saddest thing is that it’s [...]
...read moreMore Ballot Updates: No on Prop 4
Yesterday I provided an update on anti-choice ballot initiative Measure 11 in South Dakota — today it’s time for an update on anti-choice ballot initiative Prop 4 in California. Prop 4, a piece of legislation which will appear on the ballot for the third time in four years, would instate a parental notification requirement for [...]
...read more“Never Necessary”
NPR has a great story up about one of the families leading the charge against the South Dakota abortion ban. Tiffany Campbell was pregnant with much-wanted twins when she and her husband learned that the fetuses had a rare defect wherein they shared the same blood circulation, threatening not only their lives, but Tiffany’s as [...]
...read moreA Clearly Necessary Reminder
This is why you don’t give an eight-year-old child an Uzi, no matter how much “adult supervision” he has. And why doing so ought to be illegal. Dear god. It seems to me that a little boy needn’t have died in order to figure that one out.
...read moreArgentinian Journalists Develop Plan for Non-Sexist Reporting
In Argentina, an organization of over 100 journalists has drawn up a set of ten “commandments” for writing about gender-based violence. It’s an interesting idea, and as someone who’s obsessed with how the media covers violence against women, I think it’s also a really necessary one. Here are the rules: THE DECALOGUE 1. The following [...]
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