Women’s Equality Day

Ninety years ago today the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote.  Back then, our grandmothers dreamed this would finally give equality to their daughters, but instead, the gains have been largely illusionary.  Newsweek runs down how very far we still have to go. I’m ashamed to say that [...]

Oh yes ….

…We who are raised to shame for the moist orchard between our thighs must wish we were as certain of our beauty. p. 55 Available Light by Marge Piercy Found in Jeff Hess’ electronic chapbook. It’s a synergy of awareness that brings me to this poetry excerpt posted on Have Coffee Will Write.  As I’ve [...]

“Iceland PM weds partner as gay marriage legalized”

Congratulations, Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir and writer Jonina Leosdottir. I’m looking forward to the day when the headline will just be “Iceland PM weds.”

What price a woman’s life?

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, head of the Phoenix Diocese of the Roman Catholic Chursh has spoken.  The life of a pregnant woman is of less importance than that of the 11 week old clump of cells growing in her uterus.   Stating that “the end doesn’t justify the means,” he confirmed the automatic excommunication of Sister [...]

Next up, Sudan on the Human Rights Commission

Iran has been placed on the UN Commission on the Status of Women. I suppose if the status of women includes beating them in the streets for not covering their bodies, and stoning them to death for adultery, then by all means this is a good decision. The UN is rapidly loosing any credibility it [...]

Because if they’re not 14 and virginal, women’s bodies are just Teh Icky

1st Annual Vaginal Rejuvenation Awareness Day Vaginal-Surgery.info announces date for Vaginal Rejuvenation Awareness Day. Online PR News – 20-April-2010 – Vaginal-Surgery.info is thrilled to announce the 1st Annual Vaginal Rejuvenation Awareness Day will take place on Friday, April 30th, 2010. It has been estimated that 30 million American women suffer from symptoms of vaginal relaxation [...]

100 years ago in Kansas

Note the limiter “especially if she were the head of the house.”  A married woman remained under the assumed dominion of her husband for another fifty years. Via Boing Boing, via Scott Westerfeld

Quote of the week

From Alan Colmes: “You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal,” he said of same-sex marriage. “That would be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let’s go ahead and accommodate those who want who use drugs. There are some people [...]

Everything I needed to know about women I learned from Hollywood

From Hollywood.com: If recent — for the sake of brevity, we’ll define “recent” as the last 12 months — Hollywood’s studio films were my sole source of information data set, what would they teach me about women? I would basically learn that women are indecisive, weak-willed, too forgiving of infidelity, allergic to more than two layers of clothing, [...]

Because they have decided not to continue the pregnancy. Period.

From Fox4 KC: // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ /* */ (function(){ var tickercontent = []; tickercontent.push(‘Kansas City Events Calendar’);tickercontent.push(‘Working for You: Today\’s Jobs’); return new TT.VerticalTicker(tickercontent,”div.bn-ticker-4914″,{pausetime : parseInt(’2′)}); })(); /* */ // ]]> JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A state senator wants Missouri to collect information from women about why they choose to have [...]

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