June 2012
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Men Rule Media Coverage of Women’s News
In media coverage of women’s issues such as abortion, birth control, and Planned Parenthood, men are doing most of the talking, a new study has found. Men are quoted around five times more than women in these stories, according to the research group The 4th Estate, which has been studying election coverage for the past six months.
May 2012
Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
salvadorian:
John and Mary meet. What happens next? If you want a happy ending, try A.
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John and Mary fall in love and get married. They both have worthwhile and remunerative jobs which they find stimulating and challenging. They buy a charming house. Real estate values go up. Eventually, when they can afford live-in help, they have two children, to whom they are devoted. The children turn...
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vampireswillbutthurtyou:
hEY BATTER BATTER HEY BATTER BATTER SWINNNNNG
I’VE GOT TO JUST DO MY THING
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queenrickon:
petition for kanye to join one direction
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April 2012
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Here’s a window into a tragedy within the American military: For every soldier...
– New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof • In an opinion piece on the death of soldiers after they return home. A few other key stats — more former soldiers have committed suicide after returning home than died in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq combined, being a veteran doubles the risk of suicide,...
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Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some...
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Audre Lorde (via queergiftedblack)
Flawless.
(via thesexuneducated)
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March 2012
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New Hampshire House Passes 20 Week Ban, 24 Hour... →
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by Robin Marty
The New Hampshire state House has turned into an “all abortion, all the time” legislative session, as it voted this week to pass bills on “informed consent,” a 24 hour wait period prior to an abortion, and a 20 week ban based on the unproven claim of fetal pain.
The informed consent bill originally required doctors to tell their patients...
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britta-rivera:
BEST GLEE MOMENT EVER.
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theatlantic:
“we do not want to pay for our memories. The films that remind us of our childhood, the music that accompanied us ten years ago: in the external memory network these are simply memories. Remembering them, exchanging them, and developing them is to us something as natural as the memory of ‘Casablanca’ is to you. We find online the films that we watched as children and we show them to...
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