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Category: Women’s Rights

  • Mentrual Ms. Pacman on Family Guy

    Finally! After a 2-day wait it is on YouTube:

  • Best Pro-Choice Slogan Ever

    Keep Your Bush Off My Muff

  • Women Break Through Glass Ceiling in Drug Cartels

    You’ve come a long way baby: Challenging the stereotype of macho Mexico, women are moving into positions of power in male-dominated drug cartels but in the process suffering gruesome deaths in turf wars among traffickers. Corrupt female police officers have proved adept at recruiting teams of attractive, well-dressed women to smuggle drugs past border guards […]

  • Controlling the Language of Abortion

    From Alternet: [T]he travesty of language around abortion is so pervasive that even Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the decision for the court’s majority, in addition to using the inaccurate term “partial birth abortion,” also referred to the “abortion doctor” repeatedly in the ruling. Why did he not simply refer to doctors as “doctors,” or “ob/gyns”? […]

  • Iranian Lesbian Blogger Faces Her Faith

    (via Frostpaw) Let me tell you something. I really believe in God, Mohammed, and Ali. I believe in some of the prayers like “Ayatolkorsi”, “Naade Ali”, “Va En Yakad” and so on. And I say these prayers whenever I’m going out of the house. But I also believe there are some rules that are getting […]

  • Toys R Us to Sell Rapist Action Figure from Grindhouse

    I don’t fully believe it yet: Apparently Quentin Tarantino’s character from the new Grindhouse movie Planet Terror, Rapist Number One, is being made into a toy and sold at Toys R Us stores across the country. Seriously. Garance doesn’t buy that the doll will be widely avaiable, and thinks that this is “a manufactured outrage […]

  • Saudi Newscaster Buthayna Nasser Does an On-Air Takedown

    This rocks. Saudi newscaster Buthayna Nasser does a live-TV takedown when a fundamentalist man tells her that she shouldn’t be allowed to be shown on television. (via Feministing)

  • Young Gay Women Co-Opt Hip Hop Misogyny for Lesbian Courtships

    via Salon via Village Voice: Siya, a 20-year-old rapper, says that’s standard fare for “AGs” — or “aggressive” lesbians: “It’s a property thing.” The “bitches ain’t shit,” crotch-grabbing swagger of some mainstream rappers has been adopted within this particular lesbian subculture, according to the Voice. AGs employ rappers’ typical chest-thumping declarations of manliness: Baggy pants, […]

  • India Gov't Requires Women Employees to Disclose Menstrual Cycle

    The questions at the root of the controversy are on page 58 of the new appraisal forms for the current year issued by the federal Ministry for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Women officers must write down their "detailed menstrual history and history of LMP [last menstrual period] including date of last confinement [maternity leave]," […]

  • Quiverfull Movement Reminds Us Women Are Baby Factories for Jeebus

    (via Feministing) Quiverfull parents try to have upwards of six children. They home-school their families, attend fundamentalist churches and follow biblical guidelines of male headship–"Father knows best"–and female submissiveness. They refuse any attempt to regulate pregnancy. Yes, ladies your womb is a weapon! I wonder what Nancy Pelosi is wearing today…