Exploring the Infinite
The Austin Chronicle From the page: By the numbers, this is what “pro-life” looks like: • 22: Texas clinics – providing preventive health care services to women – completely defunded • $19 million: Remaining annual state budget for family planning, down from $50 million • 60,000: Women whom the Department of State Health Services estimates can be served with that
via Daylight Atheism @ Big Think From the page: Whether it’s “Quiverfull”-style Christianity, Roman Catholicism as taught by the bishops, some branches of Mormonism and Islam, or ultra-Orthodox Judaism, one of the most consistent themes of fundamentalist religion is to deny women agency and control of their own bodies and coerce them to have as many children as possible. The
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From the page: “Ultimately, the claim that a fertilized egg is a person is an insult to rationality and morality. It is irrational to the point of absurdity to grant a microscopic clump of cells, a fertilized egg, the same legal and moral status as an actual person living and breathing in the world.” via National Humanist | Examiner.com Further
http://blackgenocide.org Stonefly‘s comment, “Pro-lifers trying to take another angle, and this one really pisses me off. Is a black woman’s right to chose qualitatively different? Lets talk a bout black feminism shall we? What do we suppose bell hooks has to say about all of this? Black genocide my ass.” Yeah, I’m outraged too.
First women elected to Kuwait parliament! • Fundamentalist groups lose ground in Kuwait polls • Four candidates returned in ‘sweeping victory for women’ “The victory marked the first time women have won parliamentary seats since given the right to vote and run for office in 2005. For the past 50 years Kuwait’s parliament has been the sole preserve of men.”
Alexis Bledel as Rosie the Riveter
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0786839198/ I saw this book at the bookstore the other day and it made me smile! Hooray for Grace!
via The New York Times I wouldn’t say this is news exactly, but I’ve noticed there has been a collective effort to publicize this type of tragic violence toward women recently. From the page: This month in Afghanistan, men on motorcycles threw acid on a group of girls who dared to attend school. One of the girls, a 17-year-old named
What if Barbie were a real woman? From the page: “Barbie’s body would have room for only half of a liver and only a few inches of intestines, as opposed to the usual 26 feet. The result: chronic diarrhea and death from malabsorption & malnutrition.” OK, that was funny. But seriously, if Barbie had a 39″ bust, she couldn’t fit
http://annenahm.com/?p=405 Why is it funny to read a woman’s dialogue with her Aunt Flo? I don’t know. It just is.
Warning: Adult content through and through. I mean, it's George Carlin. Do I really have to state that? (It’s funny because it’s true.)
http://www.everything2.com/e2node/Things%2520I%2520need%2520to%2520tell%2520my%2520teenaged%2520daughters%2520about%2520boys Great words of advise for those of us who have daughters.