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Showdown: Chauvinist Humor vs. Racist Rhetoric
There’s some need for discussion about this feminism thing. I mean, contrary to popular belief, feminists don’t necessarily hate all men – or love all women, and equally importantly, feminists have a sense of humor. I mean, as matsu’s blog at MediaGirl (hat tip for the image) points out, “Make a racist joke to a [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2007 under Civil Rights, Congress, ERA, Equal Rights Amendment, Other, United States, apples, black, candidate, chauvinism, chauvinist, citizens, civil rights act of 1964, color, discrimination, equality, feminism, feminists, gender, hatred, humor, injustice, institutionalized racism, jail, justice, law, men, minority, nation, national origin, oranges, politically correct, race, racial discrimination, racism, racist, rape, rape trial, religion, rhetoric, sense of humor, sex, sexism, sexual assault, slavery, the Other, white men, women, women's movement.
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Vibrators: All Abuzz about that Pecuniary Value.
As recently as Monday, according to the Associated Press, the Supreme Court left an Alabama ban on sex toys intact, meaning that you can still face a $10,000 fine or up to 1 year in jail… for a pleasure device. A second offense can lead to up to 10 years in prison. To quote a [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2007 under ACLU, Alabama, American, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, New York, Texas, adult, associated, civil, colorado, court, district, fine, general, genital, happiness, human, jail, law, lawyer, liberties, medical, mississippi, morality, obscenity, offense, organs, owner, pleasure, politics, press, prison, public, religion, sex, sexism, sodomy, store, supreme, theater, toy, union, vibrator.
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More Like Bringing Repression of Women Back…
Okay, check out this video that I got from NARAL Pro-Choice America today. If you’re bringing sexy back, and not considering women, I hope you’re looking to other genders to have sex with. Just sayin’.
Posted: August 4th, 2007 under 2008, America, Bringing Sexy Back, Fred Thompson, John McCain, Justin Timberlake, Mitt Romney, NARAL, Roe vs. Wade, Sam Brownback, a woman's right to choose, abortion, candidate, election, freedom, law, life, medicine, presidential, presidential debate, pro life, pro-choice, procedure, radical right, science.
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Every (Male) Sperm Is Sacred.
. . .That’s pretty close to the text of a new bill introduced to the Ohio legislature by Republican John Adams, who suggests that women who are trying to get an abortion should have to get written permission from their fetus’ fathers in order to abort. Yep, that’s right. The Record Courier reports that the [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2007 under Department of Justice, Feministing, Jessica Valenti, John Adams, NARAL, Ohio, abort, abortion, abortion ban, anti-choice, bill, birth, dominance, father, fetus, financial responsibility, freedom, human rights, incest, intelligence, justice, law, legislature, man, parents, partial birth abortion, paternal permission, paternity, paternity test, permission, police, police report, politics, privacy, pro-choice, rape, rapist, record courier, reproductive rights, republican, sex, sperm, sperm bank, unborn children, women's rights.
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Red Eye, and !Ojo para viajeros: la red del disastre!
I was on the red eye to La Paz, Bolivia last night. Perhaps everything was going too well: the previous flight had had free refills and personal tv sets for each passenger and offered me both Before Sunset and I Heart Huckabees in addition to an episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa switch [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Bart Simpson, Before Sunset, Bolivia, Canadian, Cuzco, I Heart Huckabees, La Paz, Lima, Lisa Simpson, Peru, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, TV, Viru Viru, airlines, catholic, economics, free, gender, goody two shoes, horror movie, latino, law, peruvian, professional, punishable offense, race, red eye, refills, risk analyst, sexual harassment, television, the Simpsons, troublemaker, turbulence.
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On Sppeling, Philosophy of Language & Parrots
Right, so first the spelling thing and then on to the long awaited polyamory discussion. I have no idea why I’m not asleep right now, but I’m sure I’ll get to that eventually. I’ve never really seen the need to respell words – ie wimmin, womyn etc. – to exclude men and man from them. [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2007 under American, Unapologetically Female, attraction, awkward, bilingual, cathartic, cheating, cigarette, cousin, cynicism, diction, emotional attachment, emotions, encyclopedia, english, feelings, female, feminism, feminist, feminist philosophers, force, foreplay, gender, gender neutrality, grammar, hand, invisibility, language, law, legal definition, linguistics, los abandonados, love, male, male gaze, male perspective, male worldview, man, mascot, masturbation, mixtape, orgasm, parrot, philosophers, philosophy, philosophy of language, polyamory, primate, psycholinguistics, rape, relationships, school, semantics, sex, sexual activity, sexual harassment, sexual partner, sexual relations, spanish, spelling, stanford, the invisible woman, wimmin, womyn, words.
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Reserved to be Judged by God: Prostitution in Argentina
Last night, over wine ($3.50 a bottle) at a fancy club where most people were in awe of a celebrity named Gisela something who none of my compatriots recognized, someone I had just met told me the story of being pressured to join a prostitution ring. It was a long story, but it can be [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under AMMAR, American, Argentina, Argentine, Argentine constitution, Bolivian, Buenos Aires, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Europe, Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Female Sexuality, Gisela, God, Mercy Plaza, Mujeres Creando, Ninguna mujer nace para puta, Once, Once Plaza, Plaza de la Merced, Plaza de la Puta, United States, VIP, activism, activist, arrest, awareness, breasts, brothel, cab, cabron, celebrity, club, condom, constitution, crime, curse, danger, english, fashion, feminism, feminist, fine, fur coats, garter belts, hijueputa, insult, jail, judge, law, marriage, national campaign, pedophile, police, prostitute, prostitution, prostitution ring, punk, retro-punk, scam, sex tourism, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, sexual violence, spanish, swear, taxi, the state, tourism, tourists, vandalism, whore, wine.
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