February 2012
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I'll stop calling it rape when it stops being rape →
Also, WTF with the headline? “Crying rape”? For real?
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Rick Santorum, Meet My Son →
“I’m so grateful that Ronan is my child. I also wish he’d never been born; no person should suffer in this way—daily seizures, blindness, lack of movement, inability to swallow, a devastated brain—with no hope for a cure. Both of these statements are categorically true; neither one is mutually exclusive.”
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The latest in state rape: Alabama's SB12 mandates... →
Oh, and if you’re pregnant and your fetus dies “of natural causes” in utero, you also have to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a verbal description. Classy! Reading comprehension fail, my bad.
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Lady reporters too sexy for Twitter
In case you didn’t see this gem, media and politics blog FishbowlDC thinks that female journalists should stop being so damn sexy in their Twitter avatars. They even provide some examples of these scandalously whorish women with a couple of happy looking ladyreporters, and ask readers to send in similarly slutty pics.
When taken to task over the blatant sexism of the post over Twitter,...
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BREAKING: Virginia Personhood Bill Officially Dead →
stfuconservatives:
fuckyeahfeminists:
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I watched the Republican debate on CNN tonight
And all that kept going through my mind was this scene from PCU…
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Oakland Police Shoot Oscar Grant’s Cousin →
What the ever loving fuck.
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The GOP’s Long War Against Women and Sex →
My latest at The Nation…
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WatchThe Daily Show takes on VA’s transvaginal ultrasound law.
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Virginia governor no longer fully supports... →
Props to all the pro-choice activists in VA!
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Calculator: How Expensive is Birth Control? →
Anonymous asked: I love your work and admire what you've done. I've got a question, its personal so don't feel bad not answering it! Basically, I was raised being told constantly that, if I had sex before marriage, I'd go to Hell and I'd be a whore. I'm 20 now, and I don't follow the church anymore. I'm a feminist through and through. And I want to have sex. But every time I...
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Hundreds of women take to VA State Capitol to... →
Via Steph Herold.
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Support young feminists in Texas →
A group of young feminists at the University of North Texas in Denton are trying to raise funds to go to the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Young Feminist Conference in DC…help them out at the link!
Anonymous asked: I am a recent grad & I want to use my degree to create positive social impact, especially in regard to equal rights. I was fortunate enough to land a job w/ a nonprofit mgmt & fundraising consulting firm, however, my first assignment is fundraising for a Catholic school. The project itself is great, raising money for facilities for the students, but I struggle w/ the fact that my beliefs...
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Santorum is against coverage for prenatal testing
So Santorum doesn’t think that amniocentesis should be covered by insurance because when there’s a problem “in most cases physicians recommend abortion.” (Not true.) Most people who get amnios do so because a prenatal blood tests have showed that there may be a chromosomal abnormality (or for women over 35 years old, because your doc will strongly encourage it). Yes, in...
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CNN’s Dana Loesch Equates Mandatory Trans-Vaginal... →
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Goodnight, y'all.
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Anonymous asked: You're writing another book? On what??
Anonymous asked: This is going to be a really weird question. But i'm young, my parents monitor all of the things I buy very closely. My parents are very strict and preach abstinence as an only option. I have been going to purity balls with my father since before I can remember. After I saw the preview for your documentary I want to see more, and learn more about this subject. But like I said, my parents...
Anonymous asked: Dear Jessica, I just watched The Purity Myth Documentary online and I really enjoyed it. Thank-you for making such a great documentary (and book), I hope it is widely used for years to come. Also, I was very impressed with your appearance on Anderson Cooper. You said everything I would have wanted to say in a more eloquent way than I would have managed.
Anonymous asked: I was happy to learn that your family life is stabilizing, and I am equally happy to see you've been raising your profile again recently (most notably, Anderson Cooper's talk show). Can we expect to see more of you in the media?
Anonymous asked: First off, I just wanted to say that my sister introduced me to you and your work, and your books are what really got me thinking about feminism. But I have to ask - how do you personally cope with how exhausting being a feminist can be? I often find that I seem to get so overwhelmed by the reality of all the inequality, injustice and ills of society and usually it results in me becoming...
toweirdtolivetoraretodie asked: have you heard of the pregnant women support act, what do you think about it?
Anonymous asked: An article called Stand up and Defend Life (I can't embed but if you google that + Amherst, you can find it...) was recently published in the Amherst College newspaper. I'm a student at Amherst and I was appalled that they would allow something so blatantly misogynistic to be published. I was wondering your opinion--should things like that be given a school sponsored outlet...
Anonymous asked: I am a Resident Assistant in my university's dorms, and I have 58 female residents who laugh at the idea of feminism and are perfectly okay with being objectified. What is a good program or activity I could do for them that would convince them otherwise?
caishcaish asked: Yesterday on my way to the bar a random guy shouted "hey shorty suck my fat dick" in my direction. I was too shocked to respond and hoped he hadn't been speaking to me, but looking back I think he was. Since I've had my "feminist" revelation I realize that this is not something that I should accept as normal and ignore. I wish I had said something to him. How would...
miumachi asked: Have you read Nina Power's "One Dimensional Woman"? She has a chapter that references a lot of quotes from you in it... just wanted to know what you thought of it if you have checked it out.
Anonymous asked: diva cup. yes or no?
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Fox News pundit Liz Trotta on women getting raped... →
motherjones:
Gee, she must have a pretty low opinion of male soldiers. And women. But as we found out, she didn’t have those problems when she was a “combat” reporter in Vietnam.
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New Jersey Senate Approves Marriage Equality →