By Samhita • 11 years ago

What we missed

Courtney Baxter from the Op-ed Project on her mentor and Feministing alum Courtney Martin, hope, fear and finding your dream job.

Joe Biden said, “transgender discrimination is the Civil Rights issue of our time.” Swoon!

Brad Pitt gave 100K to HRC in support of marriage equality.

A former pro-lifer on realizing that the pro-life movement isn’t really about saving babies.

 

Courtney Baxter from the Op-ed Project on her mentor and Feministing alum Courtney Martin, hope, fear and finding your dream job.

Joe Biden said, “transgender discrimination is the Civil Rights issue of our time.” Swoon!

Brad Pitt ...
By Samhita • 11 years ago

Sometimes silence is more effective than noise

Campaign finance reform is not exactly a sexy topic. But it’s on the mind of many Americans and is one of the largest threats to democracy today. Unlimited donations to certain candidates is what has allowed so many anti-women types to make it to the forefront of politics. At least 83% of the public feel there should be some limit on how much money corporations give to political campaigns. And the issue is non-partisan: both parties have accepted astronomical amounts of money and dedicated more time to fundraising than campaigning this election cycle. Not one candidate was asked about this in either debate, nor is the mainstream media pushing the issue.

As the election draws near, folks in battleground states are ...

Campaign finance reform is not exactly a sexy topic. But it’s on the mind of many Americans and is one of the largest threats to democracy today. Unlimited donations to certain candidates is what has allowed so ...
By Chloe Angyal • 11 years ago

This is what misogyny looks like

Last week, a doctor who has dedicated his practice to helping rape survivors heal was attacked. His family was held hostage, he was threatened at gun point, and his security guard died. Why didn’t you hear about it? Because it happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lauren Wolfe reports at The Atlantic:

No money or property was taken and the car was left behind, calling into question robbery as a motive. Whether this was a kidnapping or assassination attempt, no one is quite sure, but what we do know is that the attack occurred within a couple blocks of the headquarters of MONUSCO, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo — the largest current ...

Last week, a doctor who has dedicated his practice to helping rape survivors heal was attacked. His family was held hostage, he was threatened at gun point, and his security guard died. Why didn’t you hear about ...
By Chloe Angyal • 11 years ago

Because your intelligence hasn’t been insulted enough already in this campaign

I am obviously voting for Paul Ryan’s ticket, because the guy is totally dreamy. Sure, his fiscal policies are mathematically nonsensical at best and socially unjust at worst, and he thinks I should be left die in the ER if I need a life saving abortion but the doctors don’t believe in the procedure. But have you seen his biceps? Guy is smokin’!

And the folks at the Republican group the Young Guns know that that’s how all the other lady voters make their decisions. They’re running this radio ad in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional district.

Transcript below the jump.
Snark aside, this is insulting not only because it assumes that women actually think and talk like this, that they choose ...

I am obviously voting for Paul Ryan’s ticket, because the guy is totally dreamy. Sure, his fiscal policies are mathematically nonsensical at best and socially unjust at worst, and he thinks I should be left die in ...
By Samhita • 11 years ago

Racing Obama: Are critiques of ethnic solidarity useful?

The conflict between different race ideologies has been ongoing during President Obama’s term. There are those who recognize the historic importance of a black president in a country as racially divided as the US. And there are those who are frustrated–despite having our first black president, some argue, there hasn’t been an actual shift in the quality of life of black and/or poor Americans. These two viewpoints are often overlapping, making race talk rather complicated.

Fredrick C. Harris writes of the latter in the Sunday Review pages:

But the triumph of “post-racial” Democratic politics has not been a triumph for African-Americans in the aggregate. It has failed to arrest the growing chasm of income and wealth inequality; to improve prospects ...

The conflict between different race ideologies has been ongoing during President Obama’s term. There are those who recognize the historic importance of a black president in a country as racially divided as the US. And there ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

What We Missed


AWWW.

Why Democrats are right to politicize Sandy.

Mike Huckabee has a super dramatic new ad warning Christians to vote against Obama or go to hell.

The heroes of the hurricane.

Conservative radio ad urges women to vote for the “cute one” for Congress.

Who is going to fix the NYC subway now? Blacks and Latinos.


AWWW.

Why Democrats are right to politicize Sandy.

Mike Huckabee has a super dramatic new ad warning Christians to vote against Obama or go to hell.

The heroes of the hurricane.

Conservative radio ad urges women ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

Romney surrogate Norm Coleman claims Romney won’t overturn Roe v. Wade

Norm Coleman, my former Senator and current Romney surrogate, says not to worry our pretty little heads about Roe v. Wade being overturned if Romney wins, because it’s just not gonna happen.

“The reality is choice is an issue for a lot of people, an important issue. President Bush was president eight years, Roe v. Wade wasn’t reversed. He had two Supreme Court picks, Roe v. Wade wasn’t reversed. It’s not going to be reversed.”

As Irin Carmon writes, this is “blatantly and intentionally misleading.” There is, in fact, video of Romney saying that he wants to appoint Supreme Court justices who will reverse Roe. And the reason Bush wasn’t able to do so during his presidency primarily

Norm Coleman, my former Senator and current Romney surrogate, says not to worry our pretty little heads about Roe v. Wade being overturned if Romney wins, because it’s just not gonna happen.

“The reality is choice is ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

Newt Gingrich advises women upset about GOP’s rape comments to just “get over it”

Were you one of the many people outraged to hear Richard Mourdock say he opposes abortion in cases of rape because “it’s something God intended”? Are you tired of regularly hearing conservative politicians–from Todd Akin to Roger Rivard–make awful statements downplaying rape? Pissed that this trend, though certainly not new, really seems to be a pattern these days?

Well, Newt Gingrich has some advice for you:

“Every candidate I know, every decent American I know condemns rape. OK, so why can’t people like Stephanie Cutter get over it?”

Feel better?

Were you one of the many people outraged to hear Richard Mourdock say he opposes abortion in cases of rape because “it’s something God intended”? Are you tired of regularly hearing conservative politicians–from Todd Akin ...

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