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• Open Thread–5/20/2013

  
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  Yesterday, I intended to nap during the day, but I could not.  They were doing maintenance on the building all afternoon and evening, causing the power to go out over and over again.  Each time it does, it sets off an alarm on my O2 system that wakes me up, so I could not sleep [...]
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• Right-Wing Radio Host Wants to Shoot Hillary Clinton in Her Vagina

  
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  It’s pretty clear that Republicans are taking shots at Hillary Clinton in lieu of her possible presidential run in 2016. I know it’s only 2013 and we’re a long way away from the next presidential election. But, when you’ve lost two election cycles back to back as Republicans have, to a black guy with a ...
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• Street Harassment: It’s Not a Compliment

  
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  It’s spring. As temperatures continue to rise, I’m impelled to think about the crude comments women are assailed by, as they walk down the street in the summer finery they waited all season to wear. Street harassment is a daily occurrence experienced by women  all over the world  who navigate open, shared ...
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• Yahoo Increases Maternity Leave, but U.S. Still Hates Working Moms

  
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  A common refrain to explain the disparity of pay between women and men is that women leave to have babies. These babies grow up to be children, causing more stresses on women in terms of childcare and work/life balance (because apparently only women are supposed to juggle these things). Many women choose career paths ...
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• [round-up] Monday feminist round-up (20th May 2013)

  
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  All else this week, then. - Think Progress updates on US college campuses which are starting to combat high rates of rape, and rape culture, on campus . It’s not so many, alas. - Bitch has got an interesting piece on women-only comedy spaces . - sianandcrookedrib discusses the shaming of single mothers on ...
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• [link] Teenage pregnancies won’t be stopped by shaming young mothers

  
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  On commentisfree : Teenage pregnancy. The term still sends terror shooting through my veins, even now, seven years clear of my teens. It hung over me like a sceptre, whispering: “Whatever you do, don’t get yourself pregnant.” It was the worst thing. The end of everything. This idea, that teenage pregnancy ...
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• Women, Not Things

  
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  In the context of the brutal raping and murder last year of a 23-year old women on a bus to the disgusting rape of a 5-year girl more recently in India, the Wall Street Journal (17 May 2013) has an article on "To Wed Your Rapist, or Not: Indian Women on Trial." It is an eye-opening article about the prejudices ...
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• Women Role in Development of Pakistani Rural Communities

  
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  Women are playing a major role for the developmental changein rural communities in Pakistan. But unfortunately their work is not regardedas productive, organized and documented all over the world.... For More Details, Please Visit:www.PakistanHotline.com
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• Sunday Reads: You got the stuff?

  
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  Good Morning! Oh yeah…I got the stuff! Plenty of things for you today, so much that I have decided to break this post up into two…one for the morning…one for the early afternoon. First some headlines: Police Say Officer Mistakenly Killed Hofstra Student in Hostage Standoff A 21-year-old Hofstra ...
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• Do One Million Babies Need To Die On The Day They Are Born?

  
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  More than one million babies worldwide die on the day they are born according to Save the Childrens 14th annual State of the Worlds Mothers Report.
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• British Attorney: Who Will Think of the Pedophiles?

  
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  If you don’t live in England, you may not have been following it, but there’s a roiling scandal over pedophilia in the media, entertainment industry and even the government. It began with the revelation that the late Jimmy Savile, a beloved BBC television personality, had repeatedly raped and molested girls over ...
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• [quote] Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot

  
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  Précis: you think it’s a compliment, we think it’s threatening, intrusive, demeaning, humiliating, and enforcing of everything that’s wrong with patriarchal culture – that our bodies are not our own. “ Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on ...
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• WOMENS RITES

  
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  by Tricia Knoll Image: A Mama’s Day E-card available from Strong Families The crossword puzzle clue for 2 down required a word for women’s rites leader. I couldn’t parse any cross-current lines. I combed through suffragettes and freedom fighters. Sojourner, Amelia, Victoria, Abigail, ...
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• [image] Brave’s Merida Gets a Disney Make-Over

  
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  Click on the image for larger. In 2006, The Walt Disney Company bought the computer-animated feature film powerhouse Pixar.  This makes the lead of their most recent movie, Brave (2012), not just a princess, but a Disney Princess. Merida is having a royal coronation at the Magic Kingdom this morning . For her ...
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• Knockout: Riham Said exposes Muslim "cleric"

  
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  In what is quickly becoming a viral video, we are here presented with another professing Muslim woman, like the gutsy Pakistani actress Veena Malik , confronting another Mohammedan "cleric" with his own hypocrisy, and that of the "religion" he represents.  Riham Said is a presenter (Americans use the term "host") on ...
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• Islam is a Vile Evil Cult: Seven Scum Jailed - Muslim Sex Slavery Gang

  
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  Each time we sleep with a houri (heavenly virgins) we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected (Muslims in heaven) never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world ...Each chosen Muslim will marry seventy houris, besides ...
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• Mother of Gina DeJesus Forgives Ariel Castro

  
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  Ariel Castro is currently in jail pending an $8,000,000 bond for the alleged kidnapping, rape, and torture of three Cleveland women. As the sordid details of his treatment of his victims trickle out in the wake of their rescue. I think we can all agree that Castro is a piece of shit. Yes, any man who would kidnap, ...
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• Womens Sports in the Gulf

  
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  Earlier this week, I meant to blog about Saudi Arabias decision to allow girls sports in private schools, but was busy with the usual end of semester rush.  Today, however, AP reports on the growing trend of womens sports teams in the Gulf states: As part of a new initiative launching sports leagues for women, ...
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• [image] Not just a girl…

  
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  These images are fantastic. The whole idea is fantastic. “ [...] so let’s set aside the Barbie Dolls and the Disney Princesses for just a moment, and let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be. [ Rest , jaimemoorephotography.] Tagged: discrimination , equality , feminism , sexism , sociology ...
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• Making Immigration Reform Real: Meet My Immigrant Mom

  
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  Now is the time to make sure Congress and the world know why our mothers matter.
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