By Jessica • 16 years ago

LA Times: What rape crisis?


I’m not getting wet, so there’s no way it’s raining!
This op-ed in yesterday’s The Los Angeles Times is very likely to make your head explode. Or at the very least, inspire you to write a scathing letter to the editor.
Writer Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the right-wing think tank the Manhattan Institute, says that the rape crisis is all in our heads – and that it’s really slutty girls who are to blame for all this “rape” nonsense.

Such a crime wave — in which millions of young women would graduate having suffered the most terrifying assault, short of murder, that a woman can experience — would require nothing less than a state ...


I’m not getting wet, so there’s no way it’s raining!
This op-ed in yesterday’s The Los Angeles Times is very likely to make your head explode. Or at the very least, inspire you to ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Docs refusing to perform paps on unmarried women

Better women get cancer than doctors be forced to provide health care to sinners. At least, that’s the sentiment of some Canadian doctors.
RH Reality Check reports that in Canada, some doctors are refusing to give unmarried women pap smears, citing religious objections. (You know, because we shouldn’t be having sex to begin with.)

To look for answers, I turned to Patricia LaRue, Executive Director at Canadians for Choice, to see what she could tell me if doctors have the right to refuse ANY procedure that they see as going against their religion. She reminded me that doctors have a “conscience clause,” allowing them to refuse prescriptions for birth control, abortion, and now pap smears. The ...

Better women get cancer than doctors be forced to provide health care to sinners. At least, that’s the sentiment of some Canadian doctors.
RH Reality Check reports that in Canada, some doctors are refusing to ...
By Ann • 16 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

SO much stuff this week!
This entire article about sommeliers in Australia never explains why, in the photo, the one female sommelier is naked, while the men are all in suits.
Catholics in New York take to YouTube to bash pro-choice Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
How the media treat Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse differently than Owen Wilson and Heath Ledger.
DC Comics turns a black superheroine white.
More anti-LGBT bullshit in high schools. This week: Belleville, IL and Gary, IN.
Ve vill suck your period blood! (via.)
Can you believe that some whorish women want to wreck the white purity of their wedding gowns with a low-cut neckline? Horrors!
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SO much stuff this week!
This entire article about sommeliers in Australia never explains why, in the photo, the one female sommelier is naked, while the men are all in suits.
Catholics in New York

By celina • 16 years ago

Miki Fujiwara: Art for Change


Miki Fujiwara, aka Urban Envy, is a self-employed visual artist/community activist based in New York City.
Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Miki is known to be one of the original members of the New York Tributary Art Movement. The majority of her work, mostly paintings, has been categorized as “Cultural Surrealism,” often said to be in the “tradition of Cynthia Tom and Frida Kahlo.”
Urban Envy’s works can be seen in local galleries of New York City.
Here’s Miki…


Miki Fujiwara, aka Urban Envy, is a self-employed visual artist/community activist based in New York City.
Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Miki is known to be one of the original members of the

By Ann • 16 years ago

Friday funny

Hilarious parody:

ABSTINENCE-ONLY DRIVER’S ED.
BY SUZANNE KLEID
– – – –
Thanks for making it out on a rainy Saturday, kids. Slippery out there, huh? Let’s get started. We’re gonna have some fun today!
Car accidents are a leading cause of death for teenagers. The school board and your elected representatives want to make sure that you and your families are spared from such a tragedy, which is why the money for driver’s ed was eliminated from the budget. Whereas last year I was teaching your older siblings how to shift and brake and three-point-turn during a six-week course, it has since been decreed that I actually need just one afternoon to tell you the only piece of safety ...

Hilarious parody:

ABSTINENCE-ONLY DRIVER’S ED.
BY SUZANNE KLEID
– – – –
Thanks for making it out on a rainy Saturday, kids. Slippery out there, huh? Let’s get started. We’re gonna have some fun today!
Car accidents ...

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