Posted in Being colonized, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, It's all connected, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Motherhood, Popular Culture, Pornography, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Health, You've got to be kidding on Jan 3rd, 2009
There’s lots of good stuff on the idiotic ban of photos of breastfeeding moms at Mothers for Women’s Lib. And I LOVE her title! HA. Facebook should grow up is right.
This kind of absurdity disgusts me. The world is filled with woman-hating, murderous, horrifying pornographic imagery and that’s a-okay with most people, don’t touch the [...]
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What remains of a family photo found in the burned family home. The smiling man was Sylvia Orza Pardo’s father.
UPDATE: Pardo intended to kill not only as many members of his ex-wife’s family as possible, but his mother and his ex-wife’s attorney as well. He was mad at his mother because she had recently expressed [...]
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“Christians” are not oppressed in the same way “Americans” are not oppressed in the same way “whites” are not oppressed — they are not oppressed if they are male. They are not oppressed unless they are female persons
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“Why so much hate?”
Some of you may recall Suki Falconberg’s post here on Women’s Space, The Padlocked Vagina, about rape and sexual assault as weapons of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tuesday 5,000 Congolese women took to the streets to demand justice.
KINSHASA - Several thousand Congolese women took to the streets of Kinshasa [...]
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Anne Pressly was only 26 years old when she was brutally murdered. She had been an anchorwoman for a television station in Arkansas. If you watch the videos about her life that can be found on Youtube, she comes across as a good and kind person, a lot of fun and funny, willing [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Internalized Misogyny, Love Between Women, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism on Nov 21st, 2008
I have been intending to write a post about the way so many feminists, leftists, liberals and progressives consummately misunderstand conservative Christianity and conservative Christian women in particular. I keep feeling overwhelmed by this writing project and so deciding against it. But given the across-the-board anger among women over the misogyny of the [...]
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Then there’s this guy.
His name is Roger Sweet and he is 60. He worked for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit for 30 years, just an everyday guy, probably went out for lunch and beer with coworkers, contributed to United Way, who knows. In all likelihood there was nothing remarkable about him.
There was [...]
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On Monday a French court struck down a ruling that allowed a Muslim man to annul his marriage because his wife was not a virgin, Benedicte Manier reports today.The case continues the legal battle over freedom of religion and women’s secular legal rights.
PARIS (WOMENSENEWS)–In a case that has sparked a national controversy here, [...]
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