Community blog highlights!

Some great stuff over there today…
Lissette calls our attention to the fact that LPGA athletes are getting the WNBA treatment.
erica asks, “Will someone tell John McCain that the wife beating jokes just aren’t funny?”
And Josh O. of Planned Parenthood of South Dakota writes about how his state has failed to keep pace with declining teen birth rates.

Some great stuff over there today…
Lissette calls our attention to the fact that LPGA athletes are getting the WNBA treatment.
erica asks, “Will someone tell John McCain that the wife beating jokes ...

Misinformed consent

Today the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court injunction, allowing South Dakota’s “informed consent” legislation to take effect. The legislation requires doctors to inform women seeking abortions that the procedure “ends a human life.” Because, you know, women are stupid and are just getting abortions willy-nilly, without thinking about it much. We need to be told “the truth,” because clearly no woman is aware that carrying a pregnancy to term is an option.
Last April, Sarah Blustain wrote about this case and other “informed consent” laws for the Prospect:

This line of thinking makes clear that women are too ignorant to realize that they are carrying some sort of nascent life in them, and too weak ...

Today the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court injunction, allowing South Dakota’s “informed consent” legislation to take effect. The legislation requires doctors to inform women seeking abortions that the procedure “ends a human ...

Men of the House: Sworn virgins in Albania

There’s a really interesting story in the New York Times about sworn virgins in Albania, a custom that’s said to have declined because of an increase in gender equality:

The sworn virgin was born of social necessity in an agrarian region plagued by war and death. If the family patriarch died with no male heirs, unmarried women in the family could find themselves alone and powerless. By taking an oath of virginity, women could take on the role of men as head of the family, carry a weapon, own property and move freely.
They dressed like men and spent their lives in the company of other men, even though most kept their female given names. They were not ridiculed, but ...

There’s a really interesting story in the New York Times about sworn virgins in Albania, a custom that’s said to have declined because of an increase in gender equality:

The sworn virgin was born of social necessity ...

Stay classy, Bloggingheads!

You know, there is something simultaneously hilarious and disgusting about Blogginheads hosting Ann Althouse (of boob-shaming fame) and Robin Givhan (of WaPo’s cleavage coverage) in a clip called “Michelle Obama’s Arms.” It’s like they have no shame whatsoever. (And they really, really should.)
If Bloggingheads is really supposed to be about making political discourse better by circumventing corporate television to give folks ample time to talk about issues in depth (rather than in sound bites) – then why in the world would they produce something like this, which basically embodies the worst of American media?
Or maybe this is just what they think “women’s issues” are? Tits, arms and power suits?

You know, there is something simultaneously hilarious and disgusting about Blogginheads hosting Ann Althouse (of boob-shaming fame) and Robin Givhan (of WaPo’s cleavage coverage) in a clip called “Michelle Obama’s Arms.” ...

Trans Day of Action in NYC


When: Friday, June 27, 2008 – 3:00pm
Where: Starting rally at City Hall Park, Manhattan, NY


Today is the Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice, which is organized by the TransJustice working group of the amazing Audre Lorde Project. So if you’re in the New York area, come out and march for trans justice.
Jack at Feministe has more.


When: Friday, June 27, 2008 – 3:00pm
Where: Starting rally at City Hall Park, Manhattan, NY


Today is the Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice, which is organized by the

Terrorism, campaigning and cleavage

On Dennis Miller’s radio show Wednesday, McCain’s former top strategist Mike Murphy talks about current chief strategist Charlie Black’s recent slip that another terrorist attack would be “a big advantage” for their campaign. And what better way to lighten the conversation by joking about tits:

Transcript:

MILLER: Charlie Black, the aide decamp for McCain who gacks it here, does he have to go, do you think?
MURPHY: Well, he’s an old friend of mine, so I’ll defend him. I don’t know what happened. I think there must have been tremendous reporter cleavage involved or something.
MILLER: hahahahahahaha
MURPHY: Charlie got off his focus, he’s a good guy, he’s apologized for it… (Emphasis mine)

Via Think Progress.
h/t to Jake.

On Dennis Miller’s radio show Wednesday, McCain’s former top strategist Mike Murphy talks about current chief strategist Charlie Black’s recent slip that another terrorist attack would be “a big advantage” for their campaign. And what better way ...

Happy Belated, Title IX!


I’m ashamed to admit this is four days overdue. But better late than never. Monday, June 23rd marked the 36th – yes 36th – anniversary of Title IX, the U.S. law stating that “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Title IX has been largely associated with the rights of girls and women’s to participate in sports in school, but most don’t know there’s 9 other issue areas that are really important:

Access to Higher Education Career Education Education of Pregnant and Parenting Teens Employment Learning Environment Math & Science Sexual Harassment Standardized Testing Technology

In ...


I’m ashamed to admit this is four days overdue. But better late than never. Monday, June 23rd marked the 36th – yes 36th – anniversary of Title IX, the U.S. law stating that “No ...

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