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.
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 that abortion is related to an increased risk of breast cancer, which has been disproven multiple times by many reputable sources, including the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Fetuses do not begin to feel pain until at least 24 weeks, or possibly even 35-37 weeks. The studies these laws are supposedly based on are usually outdated, poorly constructed, biased, or all of the above.
New Hampshire residents, contact your senators and demand that they stop wasting your time and money.
New Hampshire, what happened to “Live Free or Die”? I am disappoint.
Oh Christ, I just wanted you to fuck me and then I became greedy, I wanted you to love me (2009) by Tracey Emin
Each generation, girls of good breeding, blessed with clear, wide-set eyes, and high, untroubled foreheads, will make a startling discovery, usually in their 15th or 17th or 19th years. They will discover the ancient secret that when you are young and beautiful, you don’t need hair.
And so they will shave it, or cut it artlessly at home ‘til patches of lily-white skull show through, and they will often become a little bit insufferable for a while, because now they are not only beautiful, but also suffused with the energy and giddy sense of power that comes from saying “no” to normative female beauty standards (and also being really punk rock).
And we, the best friends with zits and no confidence and who seriously suspect that our heads are severely misshapen underneath our hair, because a boy we liked touched the top of our heads once, and said that he could feel a weird flat plane, “like Kansas” there, will instinctually know that we can never be so brave, that we still need our hair to hide behind, that sometimes it’s the only curtain between us and the real, painful world, and we will silently long and kick ourselves for not being as courageous as the truly beautiful.
sarah art school emily carr university vancouver bc leeta harding 1995.
I always say this but: HER COMMENTARY! HER COMMENTARY! LOVE IT!
(via askepticandafeminist)
“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 our children, just as you told us the story about the Little Red Riding Hood or Goldilocks. Can you imagine that someone could accuse you of breaking the law in this way? We cannot, either.”—
‘We, the Web Kids,’ The Atlantic (via somethingchanged)
Here’s another picture of F. Scott Fitzgerald in drag.
Hot damn.
what?! so much win
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Invisible Women: The Military’s Not-So-Secret Gender Problem
Yesterday, we posted a link to a jarring GOOD magazine infographic with the title “Female soldiers more likely to be raped by their own troops than killed by enemy fire.” The response was huge…and it got us thinking.
(Source: Mother Jones)
