The War on Women is still going strong. Heartbreaking news, because legally banning all abortions, doesn’t mean that they won’t happen, it just means that women will either have to drive to another state to have the procedure done or they will find alternative, dangerous, and lethal alternatives.
Let me guess, the North Dakota legislature is run by WASP men?
(Source: think-progress)
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womaninterrupted:
This.
Unfortunately these Republican Congressmen think that the laws they make that apply to their constituents do not apply to their families. A Congressman can easily afford to have his or her daughter fly out of the country to take care of an unplanned pregnancy, and daughters of privilege, just like sons of privilege, have easier access to high quality health care and education, while also being given golden tickets once they do graduate to opportunities that their classmates can only dream of wistfully.
Don’t be fooled - the GOP has no reason to help either the middle class or lower class woman, because they do NOT understand her struggle and to think that their daughters would face that same kind of life or even seriously understand it is the height of ignorance.
(Source: bg5000, via apsies)
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officialssay:
“I feel like it’s kind of emasculating.” -Google co-founder Sergey Brin on smartphones. Brin was promoting Google Glasses as the better (and more masculine) choice.
photo by James Duncan Davidson.
Uhmmm…. *thinks about it* *tries to comment* *thinks some more* *opens mouth to say something* *shakes head* *thinks some more*
He really didn’t equate using a certain type of technology to whether or not it was more MASCULINE than FEMININE, right?
*tries to calm down* *keep head from exploding*
RIGHT?!?!
I’m really starting to see the appeal of Bing… and also remembering why I sometimes HATE being a technical geeky girl.
…..or did Silicon Valley decide to declare war on women, like Congress? Why didn’t I get that memo?
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I’m just going to leave this here to remind people of who and what they’re voting for in 2014.
(ALL) Elections Matter. (ALL) Elections HAVE CONSEQUENCES!
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“You can do polling and find that people who self-describe as pro-life actually believe in the rights of women to have access to abortion. These political labels mask what’s actually happening in this country.”
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards talks to Brian Lehrer about why her organization wants to move beyond “pro-life” and “pro-choice.” Listen. (via wnyc)
(via kileyrae)
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“From Griswold, to Roe, to Casey, our courts have recognized that these personal decisions — the ability to take ownership of your own reproductive destiny — are inherent in the liberty and equality our Constitution protects. As we approach the next major reproductive rights case to reach the Supreme Court, the question now is whether those rights will be made subject to the religious beliefs of others.”
From On the 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade, Why Talk About Birth Control?
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In you’ve got to be kidding me news today:
“I’m not sure she had rehearsed for that type of question,” Johnson told BuzzFeed Wednesday afternoon, after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “I think she just decided before she was going to describe emotionally the four dead Americans, the heroes, and use that as her trump card to get out of the questions. It was a good way of getting out of really having to respond to me.”
Go to the link and read the rest, because I cannot… just.. cannot.
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gq:
Too much tumblr (excuse the expression) fuckery going on from mainstream media publications that should know better.
As a magazine that publishes attractive looking men and the trends in male fashion, you’d think you’d understand that a large portion of your audience is also female. I have, in fact, having a love of good looking men in suits, purchased far more GQs in my lifetime than Cosmo (when I didn’t know any better in my younger years) or Vogue and my purchases of GQ are only outranked by those I’ve made for the (Kennedy friendly) Vanity Fair.
The nice part of the magazine is that, even if you did exploit a woman’s sexuality by your questionable cover choices, you did at least provide some remarkable interviews of those same women.
However, the final straw I’d have to say, is having a “Girls We’d like to Pin” board on Pinterest, a media site whose audience is largely female.
Do you guys not really understand how to market to people? I mean, I get that you’re trying to sell that “hot” “girls” dig well-dressed men and vice versa, but… seriously?
I also get that you’re trying a play on words, but this is one step too far. Not only are you making a mild reference to sexual assault, you’re doing it to seem like you’re a man that men should emulate. Also? Using the word “girls” when these are obviously capable women is just unnecessary condescension in this case.
GQ is now no longer worth my purchase consideration.
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