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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Breaking: Mitt Romney is still a jerk 7 months ago · View
So what gifts did you get in recompense for your vote? I got an overwhelming feeling of satisfaction. Oh, and the privilege of smirking at every “Romney/Ryan” bumper sticker I see for the next four years.
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post 5 ways the Republican party has magically removed women from the abortion debate 9 months, 3 weeks ago · View
And of course let us not forget the classic:
6. We should punish the rapist, not the baby!
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Bad-ass of the Day: Outing crisis pregnancy centers 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
And what information do they offer on abortion?
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Olympic sexism study: Male athletes have skill and female athletes have luck 12 months ago · View
But there’s a point at which it becomes bizarre: I’m thinking of the (tennis) US Open a few years ago during which NBC repeated during the afternoon the same match they’d broadcast live in the morning — because this match included Serena Williams, but none of the afternoon matches had an American player. The assumption, [...]
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Big Recall Election in Wisconsin Today! 1 year ago · View
Ed Schulz reported last night that some Wisconsin voters who signed the recall petition have received “robocalls” falsely assuring them that since they’d signed the petition, they didn’t need to vote in the recall election.
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Judge rules pharmacists can refuse to sell emergency contraception 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Is it generally within the power of government to force particular businesses to sell a particular product? Like, could the state government of Utah pass a law saying that all bookstores must offer Mitt Romney’s latest book for sale, and that would be legally binding on some hypothetical independent feminist bookstore, or would that also be [...]
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Vintage sexism: We’re just protecting you ladies from “the burden of politics” 2 years, 5 months ago · View
Mine is the “but-what-if-everybody” variant of slippery-slope: “If every single person on the planet, without a single exception, engaged in activity X to the exclusion of all others, it would have allegedly undesirable result Y. Therefore, even a single individual’s personal preference for activity X must be discouraged if not forbidden by law. This of [...]
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Comic about discussions of sexism on the internet provokes anti-feminist backlash, proves its own point 2 years, 7 months ago · View
(Oops, I hit Report Comment by mistake — mods, please ignore!) “Ignore them”? Isn’t that what victims of vicious bullying are always told: “Just ignore them and they’ll leave you alone”? What’s next, v? “Why don’t you just tease them back?” is popular in such situations. And there’s always the classic “They’re only teasing you because [...]
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Law and Order SVU brings attention to rape kit backlog 2 years, 8 months ago · View
This episode is to be rebroadcast on Saturday the 9th, and then again on Tuesday the 12th on USA.
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Hollywood Feminism 101 2 years, 10 months ago · View
“For a long time I had been neuter, not a woman at all but One Of The Boys, because if you walk into a gathering of men, professionally or otherwise, you might as well be wearing a sandwich board that says: LOOK! I HAVE TITS! there is this giggling and this chuckling and this reddening [...]
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post Smile, Baby, Smile – And While You’re at it, Bring Me a Beer 2 years, 11 months ago · View
Some time ago I followed a fascinating discussion of the “Smile!” phenomenon on Turtle’s old “Brats” forum: I wish I’d archived it. A number of posters compared the “Smile!” command — “Your expression displeases me. I order you to assume a more satisfactory facial expression.” — to the “cakewalk” on Southern plantations, where selected slaves [...]
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Susan C Mitchell commented on the blog post America’s Obsession with Weight: Health Care System Edition 2 years, 11 months ago · View
A: That should read “… being overweight can cause health problems”, of course.
B: How’s that for a rant?
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Susan C Mitchell became a registered member 2 years, 11 months ago · View
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Susan C Mitchell wrote a new blog post: Same-sex partnership benefits to Federal employees 4 years ago · View
Wednesday afternoon, President Obama will sign a memorandum authorizing health-care and other benefits for same-sex partners of Federal employees.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31396079/ns/politics-white_house/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/obama.same.sex.benefits/index.html
Rachel’s take: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#31396563





