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Where Are My Spectacles II: Who Defends Women in the Dept. of Defense?
[trigger warning] What is this? Who defends women in the Department of Defense? Not Republican senators, apparently. When Al Franken brought forward legislation to combat the horrifically hostile and sexually abusive environment found in the Department of Defense and amongst its contractors on October 6th, a block of thirty white men rose up in opposition. [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under government, labor, law, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, social class, social inequality, socioeconomics, work, working conditions.
Tags: Acorn, al franken, amendment, class, class warfare, college, department of defense, education, equality, fair trial, gang rape, government, Halliburton, human dignity, human rights, Jamie Leigh Jones, jon stewart, labor, law, legal rights, legislation, military, partisan, patsy t. mink, politics, rape, republican, rights, senate, senators, sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, sexual respect, social class, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, The Crooked Dope, the law, title 9, title IX, title nine, unions, universities, work, workers' rights, working conditions
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Midwifery: Keeping Ya' Mama From Getting Cut For 5 Million Years
Don’t get me wrong. I love electronic culture. It gives me access to everyone else who has access to it, which is a lot of people. But it’s not everyone. And because of the necessarily exclusive nature of it, what gets lost is the full community experience. This is, for many, a digital age, and [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2008 under Female Sexuality, adaptiveness, anthropology, assisted birth, barack, biological anthropology, bipedalism, birth, birthing, brain, culture, digital, electronic, eminence, environment, episiotomy, evolution, evolutionary, female, fetal skull, isolation, labor, mammal, maternal, medical anthropology, midwife, midwifery, modernity, obama, pelvis, pregnancy, primate, sexuality, skull, surgery, tribe, vaginal cutting.
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