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Hustler’s sex negativity once again reasserts itself
I just want to ditto everything Lindsay says here about Hustler’s idiotic attempt to “defend” reproductive rights by making crass sex jokes about silencing S.E. Cupp with sex. I like to make fun of Cupp’s obvious play-acting at being a fantasy sex kitten for the easily aroused and rather slow-witted…
First woman to command Royal Navy warship takes helm
Four hundred and fifty years after the founding of the modern Royal Navy, a woman will take command of a major British warship on Tuesday for the first time. Women have captained smaller vessels, likesuch as minesweepers, but not the large frigates and destroyers, which are regarded as the bulwarks…
Maddow: Democrats did not make up the ‘war on women’
On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow cataloged a slew of recent Republican bills that aim to roll back women’s access to contraception and abortion. “Slap an anti-abortion label on it and apparently this year’s model of Republican lawmaker will automatically vote for it,” she quipped. Not surprisingly,…
What’s at stake for women if SCOTUS strikes down health reform.
Ok so here’s some really disturbing information of which I was unaware: The Center for American Progress is reporting that if the Supreme Court strikes down or guts health care reform — women will suffer disproportionately. Through a practice known as gender rating, women pay $1 billion more in premiums than men…
The wage gap and the problem of “choice” feminism
I’m guessing most of you have seen the video of Alex Castellanos trying to win an argument on “Meet the Press” with Rachel Maddow by all but saying, “It’s so cute when you ladies have opinions like you were people. Now go make me a sandwich.” No, seriously, he said,…
Bachmann: Women ‘can make their own choices for… their own bodies’
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who wants to outlaw abortion and restrict coverage of female contraception, on Sunday insisted that Republican members of Congress “want women to have their own choices.” During a Sunday interview on NBC, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) spoke out against a Republican effort to allow employers to…
Biden: The ‘war on women’ is real
Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday night said the Republican-led “war on women” was real, claiming their view on birth control would take the United States back to the 1950s. “I think the war on women is real,” he told MSNBC host Ed Schultz. “And look, I’ll tell you when…
Reince Priebus Doubles Down on the ‘War on Caterpillars’ Rhetoric
Ladies? The GOP thinks we’re stupid: On Wednesday, MSNBC host Thomas Roberts gave Priebus a chance to revise his remarks. “I’m not going to walk back,” the RNC chairman insisted. “I’ll double down on it. This war on women is a fiction that the Democrats have created. And the real…
Nikki Haley: ‘There is no war on women. Women are doing well.’
Oh, Nikki. Just… no. Not again. From Think Progress: HALEY: This is a president that is trying to create distractions. There is no war on women. Women are doing well. What are you doing, Nikki? We talked about this already. For the love of cheese — stop talking out loud. I…
Cleaver: ‘Wrong’ for Dems to accuse GOP of ‘war on women’
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), the chairman of the congressional Black Caucus, condemned some in his party’s claim Sunday morning that the GOP is waging a “war on women.” Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Cleaver originally criticized conservative evangelical activist Ralph Reed’s claim that President Barack Obama was waging…
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