December 2011
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Yet Another Huge, Comprehensive Study Finds that... →
Last week, the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), published the world’s largest, most comprehensive and systematic review of mental health outcomes and abortion care. The review included 44 high-quality studies done in developed countries and published between 1990 and 2011.
The conclusion? Having an abortion does not increase the risk of mental health problems. “The best current...
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STFU Fauxminists!: Reverse sexism. →
Reverse sexism.
get-down-ladies:
Yes, it exists.
sex·ism
noun
1.
attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles.
2.
discrimination or devaluation based on a person’s sex, as in restricted job opportunities; especially, such discrimination directed against women.
By claiming that men as a whole are to blame for rape, or that men cannot be feminists, you are...
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2011: The War on Contraception (via RH Reality... →
The year 2011will be remembered by reproductive rights supporters as the year that the anti-choice movement really turned up the aggression, destroying the objections of moderate liberals who thought that pro-choice activists were being hysterical little ladies with our constant warnings about anti-choicers.
Up until late 2010, you could still find many a liberal who would argue that...
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UN Will Conduct Inquiry into Missing and Murdered... →
Tue, 13 Dec 2011
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has decided to conduct an inquiry into the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls across Canada. The Committee, composed of 23 independent experts from around the world, is the UN’s main authority on women’s human rights. The Committee’s decision was announced today by Jeannette...
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U.S.: Woman Jailed, Ostracized After Resorting To... →
When we deprive women of access to abortion, shun them, and even throw them in jail, we as a society become weaker.
By Amanda Marcotte
Jennie McCormack, a resident of Idaho and a mother of three, has spent the past few months of her life in a legal and social situation that calls to mind the trials of Hester Pyrnne, the heroine of The Scarlet Letter. As reported by Nancy Hass of Newsweek,...
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Plan ‘Oh No They Didn’t': Roundup of Responses to... →
We at Ms., along with feminists nationwide, were forced to dump our celebratory Korbel down the toilet last week when HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius threw women under the bus reversed the FDA’s decision to grant over-the-counter status to “morning-after” pill Plan B without an age restriction. As we reported last week, we had good reason to preliminarily pop the cork:
Countless doctors,...
“Researchers gave a group of men and women quotes from the British lad mags FHM,...”
– Can you tell the difference between a men’s magazine and a rapist? | Jezebel
The full story includes quotes used in the study, and they are profoundly disturbing. We couldn’t read the whole list.
(via sparkamovement)
this fucking list, i just can’t. ugh.
(via conjuringseed)
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In case anyone wanted to read some... →
littlecitywitch:runehermit:lindentea:loveoflopt:
Because I TOTALLY DID. Trying to find trans people talk about their experiences in Asatru, yes, this is what I wanted. Being told that having birth was Loki’s “punishment” for changing his gender and sleeping with a dude-horse. That is what I wanted.
Some icky stuff at that link. Folks talking about keeping their religion racially pure,...
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Women bloggers call for a stop to 'hateful'...
stfufauxminists:stfusexists:
Women bloggers call for a stop to ‘hateful’ trolling by misogynist men
I can definitely relate to this. It is not easy being a woman on the internet.
Yeah, I can definitely relate to this, too. I mean, shit, I’ve had videos posted on Youtube about how terrible I am - none of it actually relating to what I wrote.
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Afghan Woman Jailed for Her Rape Has Been... →
It’s a scene straight out of Old Testament: A 20-year-old woman who was raped by her cousin’s husband may now marry her rapist. The woman, known only as Gulnaz, reported the rape to local authorities more than two years ago, but instead of finding justice, she found herself in a prison cell, sentenced to 12 years for adultery. Behind bars, she bore the daughter of her rapist, and she has been...
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"Pray for Credit" Principal No Longer With School... →
David Hood, the controversial principal who proposed giving students school credit for praying outside the city’s women’s health clinic, has suddenly disappeared from his school.
Via the Winnipeg Free Press:
Catholic education officials said this morning that Paula Morrison is now principal of Christ the King School, but will not discuss what has happened to former principal...
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Mother of Fetus Found in Alley Charged with... →
MANHATTAN — A Washington Heights mother whose miscarried fetus was found dead and wrapped in plastic bags inside a trash can in an alley next to her home has been arrested and charged with self-induced abortion, police said Thursday.
Yaribely Almonte, 20, faces first degree self-abortion, a class A misdemeanor, for the death of her female fetus, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters...
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Behind the "Perfect" Body: Models and Bodybuilders... →
by Lisa Wade
In a link sent in by Anjan G., Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima explains what she does in the months prior to walking the catwalk (source). Here’s a summary:
For months before the show, she works out every day with a personal trainer; for the three weeks before, she works out twice a day.
A nutritionist gives her protein shakes, vitamins and supplements to help her body...
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Pickton inquiry won't protect former prostitute... →
A former prostitute described as the only one who got away from serial killer Robert Pickton won’t get the same protections as other witnesses during the missing women’s inquiry.
Commissioner Wally Oppal ruled in a written statement this week that the woman’s anonymity will be protected, but other provisions of the inquiry’s vulnerable witness protection protocol...
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Barriers to abortion on P.E.I. (via CBC) →
It’s been 23 years since the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the law that made most abortions illegal in Canada, and nearly 30 years since the last legal abortion was performed on Prince Edward Island.
While in the past there were obstacles set up to prevent doctors from performing the procedure on Island soil, Health PEI, the institution government created to run the...
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Corbella: Here's hoping cultural relativism gets a... →
As far as Homa Arjomand is concerned, official multiculturalism belongs in the prisoners’ box along with three Ontarians on trial for the honour killings of four female family members.
Mohammad Shafia, 58, his second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and their 20-year-old son, Hamed, stand accused of four counts each of first degree murder. They have all pleaded not-guilty to killing...