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Guest post by Lenora Davis [Note: Trigger warning for rape.] I can’t remember what was worse: the denial or the guilt. For months I walked around numb, refusing to acknowledge what had happened, refusing to give it a name, to refer to it, because once I said it, it would become real. The day that he raped me was the worst day of my life. He dehumanized me, he made me feel little and helpless and vulnerable.
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For today, we don't even have the right to enjoy our homes, our private spaces, without fearing violence, rape, or worse. And when we dare to point that out, we are not merely dismissed, we are punished.
So many of us are still having to say, "That's life."
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GOP is so horrific and prolific regarding their misogynistic rape stance that (so far) there are THREE charts required.
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"The abuse and exploitation of vulnerable women and girls in all its forms is nothing less than a national tragedy, and it must stop," Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson said late Tuesday. "Our focus is to establish the best way to get the answers we all want so urgently. We are not ruling out any options to get those answers as quickly as possible."
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Jeanene Louden along with co-pilot Debilyn Molineaux will interview Maura Conlon-McIvor, PhD and Sara Saltee on Caring Economics. Together they are co-facilitators for the Caring Economy Leadership Program, which prepares grassroots leaders from around the world to speak out for a more equitable, sustainable, and successful economic system – a system that acknowledges that the work of caring for people and the planet is the essential foundation of economic success. The Caring Economy model emerges from decades of research on the difference between “dominator” and “partnership” values and shows how those values are at work in our current economic system and what they tell us about new potentials. Is the work of care “external” to our economy or is it the foundation of our economy and the lynchpin of both high quality life experiences and sustainable economic success? What is the real wealth of our nation? If we want to grow those things which most contribute to human welfare and human development, why do our key measures of economic health (like the GNP/GDP) leave out those things entirely? Caring Economics makes the case for accelerating change in the direction of partnership values and offers Leadership training through a 7-session online course which prepares leaders from around the world to engage others in a new conversation about economics. You can join the conversation by calling in at (646) 929-2495, Thursday at noon PT.
by SORAYA CHEMALY, The Huffington Post Dear Girls, You are powerful beyond words, because you threaten to unravel the control of corrupt men who abuse their authority. In the United States last week there were people who wouldn't let boys play a baseball championship final because a girlwas on the opposing team. She'd already had to sit out two games because of their demands. Why? Did she, a competitive athlete and a member of her team, choose to? Was she being good and respectful when she acceded to their demands? Why were they not asked to forfeit their games? What messages were sent to her and her teammates? This is not complicated. It sent the wrong messages. Confusing messages. Incoherent messages. You need to know that she should have been allowed to play and not have had to sit out two games. These people, and others like them, all over the world, led exclusively by religious men, are scared of you and will not let you be. You worry them constantly. If you were not powerful, they would not take you so seriously and they take you very, very seriously. You should, too. You can set the world on fire. [MORE]
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Kathryn Hall-Trujillo worked for the state of California from 1976 to 1991 as a public health administrator, and during that time, noticed that families often struggled to pay for the care of infants born with serious health problems. When she realized that pregnancy care for expectant mothers would cost less than 0.01 percent of the funds used to stabilize a sick infant, she created Birthing Project USA -- a nonprofit organization that improves birth outcomes by recruiting and training community volunteers to provide guidance, education and social support to pregnant and parenting teens and women.
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Scott A. Lukas, a college professor, began the Gender Ads Project, a website that analyzes women's roles in advertising in 2002. Now there's nearly 4,000 examples on the site.
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The ACLU won a round this week in its court challenge to a Kansas law passed during the 2011 legislative session. There are a few court challenges being waged in Kansas and the cost of these challenges continues to rise. ...
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by COURTNEY MARTIN, TEDtalks Blogger Courtney Martin examines the perennially loaded word "feminism." In a personal and heartfelt talk, she describes the three paradoxes that define her generation's quest to define the term for themselves.
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by ANNE LLEWELLYN BARSTOW, RH Reality Check "Having a female body was the factor most likely to render one vulnerable to being called a witch...the truth about the majority of persons accused of [witchcraft]: old, unattractive, disliked, and FEMALE" — Witchcraze: A New History of European Witch Hunts by Anne Llewellyn Barstow The past few months the GOP has waged a war on women that places them firmly in bed with religious lobbyists, treating women like they are subhuman all in the name of patriarchal religion. Bah humbug.
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by DAVID PESCHEK, The Quietus David Peschek spends ten minutes with Annie Lennox and discusses HIV, Africa, International Women's Day, celebrity culture and why an Evening Standard columnist "should be ashamed of herself". [MORE]
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By MARIA INGOLD (FilmFlex Movies), Computer Weekly.com
What seems clear to me is that there are three challenges for getting women into technology. One – generate enough interest in technology to learn about it. Two – enter into the work environment. And three – stay and advance in it through to CTO/CIO at board level.
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I always knew this was the longest revolution, one that would take a century or more to unfold. It's upended most of our lives, and significantly improved so many of them. Nothing will ever be the same. Yet there's still such a long way to go. I doubt I'll see full gender equality in my lifetime. By Ruth Rosen, a former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California at Davis and a Scholar in Residence at U.C. Berkeley. She is the author, most recently, of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America.
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On December 6 1989, a 25 year old man named Marc Lépine entered a classroom at École Polytechnique university in Montreal, and wielding a legally obtained Mini-14 rifle and carrying a hunting knife, and opened fire in two classrooms before turning the rifle on himself. Claiming he was “fighting feminism”, he separated the men from the women, and systematically began shooting people, specifically targeting women, leaving 14 women dead and 10 women and 4 men critically wounded. Apparently, he had left behind a suicide note in which he blamed feminism for ruining his life, and listing 19 women he considered to be feminists and whom he wished to kill. A number of the survivors later committed suicide because of the horrible nature of this crime, and the scars it left on their lives. [MORE]
BUT FIRST, WE MUST REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER, OR THE LAW WILL NOT FOLLOW OUR HEARTS, AND WOMEN WILL BE PROPERTY, AVAILABLE FOR LEGITIMATE ABUSE. - jkl
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By Guest Contributor Sayantani DasGupta Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
I just saw the most problematic image on Facebook.
To me, this photo represents how blithely and blindly women from the Global North allow ourselves to be used as (actual and metaphorical) weapons of war against women from the Global South. In fact, that offensive caption isn’t significantly different from comments I’ve been hearing this week like, “These are countries where women have very little value."
[Click the headline to read more.]
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Today, in honor of the Olympics, in honor of the strong, skilled, and powerful US female gymnastic team, Proctor & Gamble’s official beauty Twitter account tweeted a kick in the groin to the gymnasts -- and all women really.
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One of the original dancers at a world famous jazz club in which some of the biggest names in music have performed has died.
[Peace be with you, my sister. jkl]
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by DEANNA, Kitch-Slapped Given all the ruckus about breast feeding in public (something which relegated me to the isolation of many a stuffy room, even during family gatherings), I consider the right to bare breasts right up there with the right to bear arms. So meet crusader and an activist Moira Johnston, aka The East Village Topless Lady, who is working to spread the all-important message that it is legal for women to be topless — at least in New York City, since 1992. [MORE]
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"As long as we tolerate being saturated by media that depicts female success as tied inextricably to the ability to attract a man and produce offspring […] we leave room for the notion that women are above all procreative vehicles."
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by ALLISON BEATTIE, MICHELLE BURROWS, KATE GADSDEN, and SARAH KENDRICKBY, The Chronicle, Duke University
Identify yourself as a feminist today and many people will immediately assume you are a man-hating, bra-burning, whiny liberal. Perhaps a certain charming radio talk show host will label you as a “Feminazi” or “slut.” Even among more moderate crowds, feminism is still seen as too radical, too uncomfortable or simply unnecessary. Feminism is both misunderstood and denigrated regularly right here on Duke’s campus.
We, the 16 women of Professor Rachel Seidman’s course Women in the Public Sphere, have decided to fight back against these popular misconceptions surrounding the feminist movement. [MORE]
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by RACHEL MADDOW via RH Reality Check
Rachel Maddow reviews recent headlines of violence and intimidation at Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin and traces the extremist anti-abortion, anti-contraception roots of unpopular Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. [MORE] [One reason why I love Rachel Maddow; she talks about issues that most do not. DD]
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by LYNN PERIL, Ms. Magazine Blog "...By 1964, the year in which the last season of Mad Men took place, women had been involved in American advertising for generations. Mathilde C. Weil opened the M.C. Weil Agency in 1880. Helen Lansdowne was an experienced copywriter when Stanley Resor of the J. Walter Thompson agency hired her in 1907. She took over the Woodbury Facial Soap account in 1910 and conceived the campaign “A Skin You Love to Touch,” featuring illustrations of men chastely touching women that are widely considered to be the first use of sex appeal in advertising. Eight years after the campaign was launched, sales had increased 1000 percent. By that time, Helen Lansdowne had married Stanley Resor, and was in charge of JWT’s all-female Women’s Editorial Department. Ms. Resor and her team were wildly successful: In 1918, they were responsible for over half of JWT’s billings..."
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The Limbaugh controversy is a perfect example of the complexities of reappropriating, or renouncing, the slur.
by TRACY CLARK-FLORY, AlterNet
Until now, reclaiming the word “slut” never appealed to me. I fully supported the message of SlutWalk — that women don’t ask to be raped by dressing a certain way — but I had no interest in applying the slur to myself. But this Limbaugh thing has me singing a different tune. [MORE]
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by JENNIFER LUDDENRnpr.org Liza Mundy's The Richer Sex is like a fantastical trip through the looking glass into a future few of us dared imagine, but which Mundy forcefully illustrates is already well under way. Forget gender parity. Mundy culls a broad range of research to lay out how women are fast overtaking men in today's economy, a shift that is happening worldwide. [MORE]
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