Small ask: If you were thinking of using women’s naked bodies as political talking points, don’t. Just this week the used menstrual pad dirty bird-cage lining newspaper the New York Post released several decades-old nude photos of potential FLOTUS Melania Trump. I must protest that these are even news-worthy as it’s long been known she […]
The ever-changing political climate of American has shaped the journey of women’s reproductive rights through our legal system. From the moderate Republicanism of the 70s when Roe v. Wade was decided, to the neo-conservatism of the 80s and 90s, the court’s attitude towards women’s rights has shifted along side. Now, at a time of “us versus them” identity politics, […]
Chris Geidner analyzed nearly 100 pages of oral arguments from the Supreme Court Justices, Whole Woman’s Health, and Texas lawmakers on whether HB 2 has placed an undue burden on women seeking legal abortions. Findings: the female judges are a badass “feat of force” and the boys are running scared.
The Ethicist column in the December 6th issue of New York Times Magazine featured a female contributor with some serious qualms about her fiancee’s father’s criminal past—enough to consider breaking off the marriage completely. Her list of grievances with marrying the fellow included: “…I would have to take the name of…someone I find morally reprehensible.” This admission […]
This is old news by now, but if you want to waste some time reading yet another article that blames drunk women for causing their own rape, read College Women: Stop Getting Drunk by Emily Yoffe. I don’t even care to comment on the victim-blaming part (so done). I do want to comment on this […]
You may have heard around the blogosphere that a few weeks ago, the Georgia Assembly introduced and debated a bill that would make it “illegal to obtain an abortion after 20 weeks even if the woman is known to be carrying a stillborn fetus or the baby is otherwise not expected to live to term,” or so […]
HuffPo, by placing the horoscope section squarely in the Women’s Voices section of their site, is reinforcing stereotypes that women are interested in pseudoscience and woo, not fact and hard sciences; candles and palm reading, not reason and hard decision making.
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