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August 8th 2008 16:48
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How many political bloggers out there are women? Give it a good guess. 100? 200? 300? Would you believe more than 500 women are blogging politics? The Political Voices of Women is celebrating this week that their list finally topped the 500 mark. Visit the site to catch a glimpse at some of those amazing women who are proving politics is certainly not a men's game. And if you're not added to the list be sure to speak up and get yourself on board.


I can't wait to pass the 1000 mark!
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Hillary McCain
It seems the old "Hillary supporters are turning to McCain" story is still alive and well. It's one that, frankly, I cannot understand.

An article on Winning Women over at BlogHer discussed how some women are not happy with Obama and many of the sexist tactics that the media played during the campaign. And so the story goes that feeling snubbed and upset these women are turning to Mccain for presidential comfort. Which is a pretty classic example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.


One quote that is picked out for the article attempts to show just that.

I think we also have a great discomfort with the misogyny that was expressed by the media during the entire election and the deafening silence by the DNC and the Barack campaign in the face of such denigration of women generally.

And so the alternative is supposed to be McCain? Discomfort with the misogyny in one campaign means handing over your vote to the guy who outright hates women and wants to suppress their rights? Wha? What do you think he's going to do, other than say 'There, there honey. Now you just sit back and let us menfolk take care of things for you now." I'm sorry, but voting McCain is a slap to the face of Hillary and everything her platform stood for.

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Still No Male Birth Control

August 7th 2008 10:48
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Sex has been one of the most effective, long standing weapons against women. Because women bear the brunt of pregnancy and childbirth, and too often the child raising as well, holding sexual activity and the possibility of pregnancy over women makes for a good means of suppression. Even with the liberating effect that hormonal birth control has given women there is still the pressure that the weight of obtaining and using said birth control rests entirely on the woman's shoulders. It's this part that makes "pro-lifers" so giddy at the thought of reducing a woman's ability to obtain and use birth control.

You can almost be certain that sort of mindset was at least partially to blame for the nonexistence of male birth control. TIME has a great article discussing how close we were to having more sexual equality by giving men more options in preventing pregnancies as well.

If even a small percentage of sexually active men agreed to try a new method of birth control, that would amount to a colossal number of potential consumers. That's why Thompson doesn't believe the drug industry's hesitance to develop male hormonal birth control is merely about money. "The biggest hurdle that I've encountered in trying to share this information is a sort of knee-jerk reaction that men aren't interested in these kinds of contraceptives and that women won't trust them to take them," she says. "Neither of those assertions are supported by the data."

As long as the risk of pregnancy lays on the shoulders of women alone then there is still a bargaining chip, something to hold against women to make a point. A subtle "Be careful or we'll take your birth control away" would be ruined if that same threat also applied to men as well. As many of the research companies were nearing breakthrough they were halted, and contraception continued to be a "women's issue".

Indeed, many men say they are open to trying new forms of birth control. In a 2005 global survey conducted by Schering of 9,000 men ages 18 to 50, 55% expressed an interest in a "new male fertility control," and roughly 40% of the American respondents who said they would be interested in new male contraceptives further said they would be willing to use an implant or receive regular injections to control their fertility.

Unfortunately it's not these men who are getting the Big Pharm companies taking notice, it's these men.

Any man that would take a pill to stop sperm production should have his balls stripped off and be immediately classified as a full-blown eunuch (or gay). No sane woman wants a man who would take a male pill.

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Sellin' The Wife For Votes

August 5th 2008 19:50
Cindy McCain Sturgis
I'm not a biker but even I know about Sturgis and the sort of things that can go on there. If you're not familiar Sturgis is a huge biker rally that happens once a year where bikers from all over the country get together, show off their bikes, socialize, and do a few things that bikers have a bad reputation for doing. Such as the Buffalo Chip "beauty" contest. A contest McCain joked about encouraging his wife to enter.

Because flashing her tits and bouncing around on stage is what the First lady should have on her resume


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When I Am Old I Shall Wear Purple

August 5th 2008 14:14
And sing Sex Pistols songs.

That's just what these rockin' Grannies did. Meet Jill McKay, the nearly 80 actress that belted out God Save the Queen to become the next Johnny Rotten. The band, made of four octogenarians, were true punk rockers in that none of them had played instruments before the audition. Or had even heard of the song. Rock on ladies, rock on


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RIP Angie Zapata

August 4th 2008 11:14
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Angie Zapata
There has been talk all weekend of the brutal murder of a woman in Colorado. The woman, Angie Zapata, was struck in the head repeatedly with a fire extinguisher by a man she had met online. The two had spent the day together and the man had stayed the night, though they did sleep in separate beds. Zapata's body was found by her sister, bloody and battered on her apartment floor


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Birth Control - Period Control?

August 3rd 2008 04:49
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Don't tell certain guys this, but birth control might not only be about stopping babies. It might, dare I say it, have something to do with hormones and certain female bodily functions


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scared woman
Let's play a game of Blame the Victim. I'll start: a woman goes out, has a few drinks, is feeling drunk, and suddenly a man comes along and rapes her. Who gets the blame? If you said the rapist you would be wrong.

More Rapes Linked To Young Women On Drinking Binges
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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
With the news getting grimmer and grimmer for women I decided I needed a little friendly reading to lift my moral. Luckily I found just the thing I needed, wrapped in a pretty pink cover, shouting at me from the shelf at my local book store. How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War On Sex

Do I even need to say how much you should buy this book and read it? Already a couple years old I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do. Why I didn't read a copy as soon as it was out is fuzzy to me. But now that I've gotten my hands on it I'm absorbing every page. Last night I took it with me grocery shopping and poured through the pages while my partner put whatever he wanted in the cart. I was too busy to worry abut food


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Bitches Ain't Shit

July 29th 2008 14:11
That would be the shorter version of what MRAs, or Men's Rights Activists, seem to think. These are the men who wring their hands and preach about father's rights, like the right to not pay child support yet have full access to their children. Because, you know, those chicks are just trying to suck the poor men dry and are blowing all their cash on themselves. Women that dare leave their men or stop being whatever the men want them to be to stick around are just out to hurt the poor menfolk and all the laws are there to help them.

Child Support

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Equality Now Calls For Help

July 29th 2008 11:30
Equality Now
Several sites have already mentioned this, but I thought it was important enough to deserve repeating for anyone who might have missed it. Equality Now has an Action Alert currently up asking for people to speak up and help an Iranian woman facing death by stoning from the actions forced on her by an abusive husband. It is the type of situation that should make those of us in more liberal areas stop and think, especially those who would rather us go back to being owned by our fathers/husbands.

Equality Now is urgently concerned about Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery who lost her final appeal for amnesty. Iranian women’s rights activists working on her case report that Kobra has exhausted all domestic legal remedies and that her execution by stoning could happen any time.

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New York Times Meet The BlogHer

July 27th 2008 07:30
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I have read many bloggers this weekend expressing anger and frustration over a certain article the New York Times decided to stick in Fashion & Style. The only rational seems to be that women = fashion, no matter what. That a large conference of female bloggers covering everything from gender to technology to marketing boils down to the sexy heels many were showing off. Because taking the time to dress nice automatically makes whatever a woman has to say pointless, right?

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Hey you! You’re a feminist!

July 24th 2008 19:06
This is a repost of an article I wrote for my old blog back in June 2007. I'm sharing it here in response to Morgan's post what has Feminism done for you lately?

I get Google alerts to my email for certain keywords I’ve selected. Feminism is one of these words, something that always brings me great information. This morning it brought me this post. It is a great post by a woman trying to work out being a feminist without the negative assumptions that comes with it. And you know there are so many negative assumptions, and some flat out absurdities, floating around about feminists. Like Hilary Duff thinking that feminists automatically are lesbians. Yes Virginia, there is a Santa. But not all feminists are man-hating, lesbians who don’t shave their legs and wear flannel shirts


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African American wedding
A good headline should pop out at you, and that is certainly what Black and single: Is marriage really for white people? did for me. Headline writers should jot this one down in their notebooks, this is the kind that makes people stop to read.

The story itself is part of the ongoing series on CNN called Black in America. Each show focuses on a different aspect of life, last night's show was about marriage. The first thing that stuck out, aside from the title, was the assumption that A) all black women are heterosexual, and B) all black women are looking to get married. Marriage is shown as the ideal, the answer to problems such as poverty and education


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