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Alesa Mackool wrote a new blog post: So maybe it wasn’t the Worst Week Ever for women? 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Like most good Democrats and decent people with a uterus, I’ve been rather doom and gloom lately because of the garbage in the news . This week Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-Men and Millionaires) signed the law that made Virginia the eighth state to mandate ultrasounds before abortions. Progressive superhero Chellie Pingree announced she wouldn’t be running for retiring [...]
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Alesa Mackool wrote a new blog post: Further dispatches from under the bus 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Rep. Trent Franks just can’t keep his hands to himself. Franks (R-Ariz.), author of the infamously ridiculous/sad May 2011 op-ed , “Women in Combat: The Culture War on the Backs of Our Troops” (excerpt: “It may surprise some of these feminists to learn, for example, that women can get pregnant while men, it turns out, cannot.”), has [...]
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Alesa Mackool wrote a new blog post: Hear Me Roar 1 year, 11 months ago · View
Ian Ritchie, head of the All England Lawn and Tennis Club, which hosts the Championships at Wimbledon, said expressive female athletes are “spoiling the game.” Ritchie seems to think a lady should be seen and not heard. Even a lady with a 129 mph serve. From the rather comical interview in the UK’s “The Daily Telegraph” :
The loudest [...]
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Alesa Mackool commented on the blog post In budget fight, pro-choice organizations get played again 2 years, 1 month ago · View
Blergh. I’m angry at the folks on the anti-choice Right, but I’m so much more angry at the people who were supposed to be on my team. That whole, “John, I will give you D.C. abortion,” thing is infuriating on so many levels to me as a D.C. woman. I haven’t stopped fuming and ranting about this [...]
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Alesa Mackool wrote a new blog post: Dispatches from under the bus 2 years, 1 month ago · View
As a D.C. taxpayer with a uterus, I’m used to being ignored. Friday’s budget (or)deal was especially repulsive though, as once again, those of us in the District were robbed of rights held dear by those in every other jurisdiction. (Mayor Vincent Gray and several D.C. Council members were arrested Monday while protesting this longtime policy [...]
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Alesa Mackool became a registered member 2 years, 1 month ago · View




