By Christine Gutierrez-Boswell
The War on Women is still going on this week [sarcasm] and will continue to maintain a grip on us as long as there are misogynistic buttholes in the world trying to silence women with their pea-brained minds and bulging egos. There is so much news I can barely wrap my mind around it all; not because it is new, because it is the same recycled malarkey. As a matter of fact the word "news" means "new stories never heard before." Therefore, I think we should call it "second harvest" because we are eating the same stuff we just ate but with a different flavor…the sh*tty kind.
To keep things moving and in the interest of keeping words to a minimum I am handing out headlines as succinctly as possible, with limited commentary.
Great article on "things women couldn't do before 1970..."
http://msmagazine.com/...
But I would like to add that women of Color couldn't do a whole lot more than just get a credit card.
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#Saytheirnames
Sandra Bland died in my Native state of Texas. She should not have been incarcerated at all, much less have died. She isn't the only one:
Articles on Women of Color who have died in police custody recently...and there have been FIVE:
http://www.theroot.com/...
http://www.theroot.com/...
http://kulturekritic.com/...
http://www.rawstory.com/...
And before some you less-informed think "well they were acting criminally" (aside from the obvious stupidity of that statement) let me remind you that some of the most notorious serial killers have been treated with the indignity of which these women were treated.
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In the Trump-Dump:
Ivana accused Donald Trump of raping her when they were still married:
http://jezebel.com/...
But his special counsel, Michael Cohen, disagrees (with every centimeter of his tiny dick) saying that raping a spouse "isn't possible" particularly (albeit erroneously both in statute and on moral grounds) since there is "very clear case law." Have fun defending that sh*t to every woman close to you, dumbass.
But THIS is "disgusting" according to Trump:
Pumping breast milk.
No. This is disgusting:
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
And this is disgusting:
Aaannd this is, too (and freaking hilarious):
http://www.politicususa.com/...
But what is ultimately disgusting is having so many beautiful women in your life who have given you generations of beautiful children, who will in turn give you more beautiful generations, and your sophomoric take on one of the most natural and wholesome acts a mother could try to give to their babies ruins it for you....
AND
For good measure, here is an article of “Dudes Who are Pretty Sure You Can’t Rape Your Wife.”
http://jezebel.com/...
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#StandwithPlannedParenthood
Here's the latest on that "accurate" (utter hors&@t) video circulating about Planned Parenthood.
The identity of some of those anti-choice operatives have been brought to light thanks to RH Reality Check's investigative reporter's, Sharona Coutts and Sofia Resnick:
http://rhrealitycheck.org/...
Therefore….
"California Attorney General Kamala Harris will review whether the group behind the Planned Parenthood attack videos violated any laws in making the deceitful recordings, which depict Planned Parenthood officials talking about the organization’s legal fetal tissue donation program."
And California also did this:
http://go.nationalpartnership.org/...
And to add a little flavor on that subject, read/listen to this:
http://skepchick.org/...
Therefore...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
PLUS:
ZERO violations found in investigation of Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence’s state:
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/...
But hey, in "WHO CARES?" news...
WHO CARES? if there are freaking ZERO VIOLATIONS FOUND and the video was HEAVILY EDITED…f@ck looking smart, let’s continue the collective and broken stupidity and politically grandstand on the the backs of the taxpayer and do this:
http://www.salon.com/...
Speaking of the collectively stupid, and since I live in Texas...
A new anti-choice hashtag is being used: http://www.texasobserver.org/... and rape kit guru and Texas State Representative Jody Laubenberg had this to say about the Planned Parenthood "scandal":
“This is no different than what happened in Nazi Germany, no different than during the experiments,” said Representative Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker, the author of House Bill 2, the sweeping anti-abortion law that has shuttered more than half the abortion clinics in Texas."
She really believes this? Considering her support from the likes of
Christian Coalition of America who was sued for racial discrimination and
Michael Quinn Sullivan who works for Breibart.com, I wonder if there might be time to tell her to shut up about Nazis and their experiments (racist annihilation) on the Jewish people. Considering she actually believes these PP videos are true, I can safely say she would have been the type to have believed all the propaganda against the Jewish people, used by the Nazis, in order to justify their systematic extermination.
Also, an oldie but still true, an article of the very "pro-life" Jody Laubenberg:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Therefore, I write:
Dear Conservative [religious wingnut] lawmakers of Texas,
The video was doctored. There is no story. You look stupid.
Signed,
A smart Texan who knows better than to believe in finding Sasquatch, turning water to wine, and now, finding a problem with Planned Parenthood so illegally crazy that I would hold the proverbial Salem Witch Trials over it...aka, publicly make what is obviously fiction into what some think are facts.
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AND WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT OF ABORTION:
The #NotoriousRBG lowers he boom on “choices” poor women have when it comes to abortion in states where all this anti-choice legislation is getting passed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
It’s true and here is additional proof:
Alabama has decided if a woman is in prison, or “forced to beg for permission to end a pregnancy,” then they will just terminate your rights as a person…ahem…parent and represent the rights of the fetus (a fetus that hasn’t a birth certificate, insurance, guarantees…nothing). And if it is a female fetus, consider this the best time of your “life” because this is the most representation and protection you will ever get from any conservative state. Read this:
http://feministing.com/...
What irony looks like in this next story:
http://www.slate.com/...
Considering the “Choose Life” crowd, for the most part, believes in guns and not feeding the poor or helping them at all with equal access to a quality “life” (and let’s not forget these asshats never rallied for any of the five females found dead in prisons, but will rally around a stupid flag and pretend that “All Lives Matter”) I think the license plate should read “Choose a Fetus, Kill the result.” I am so sick of their “Choose Life” lies.
And here is a great article by RH Reality Check about the anti-choice crowd’s perversion of the #BlackLivesMatter campaign:
http://rhrealitycheck.org/...
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From the “Deliverance” corner…
Hillbilly Huckabee has some transgendered fantasies I thought were only reserved for people who hate to brush:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/...
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THIS IS A GREAT PIECE by Amanda Marcotte over at SLATE:
http://www.slate.com/...
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The “Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act” is now Bipartisan (only after it has been introduced three times):
http://rhrealitycheck.org/...
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Meet Kshama Sawant, A very interesting socialist woman, I believe more important than Bernie Sanders:
http://mic.com/...
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This is AWESOME:
Look what hackers did to a “pro-Confederate” FB page:
http://www.rawstory.com/...
The reactions are priceless!
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ACTION ITEM:
https://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/...
And this:
HOLD THE DATE: ERA March in Washington D.C.
https://www.facebook.com/...
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And this is really cool…
Read Soraya Chemaly’s article on gender stereotypes and sexism and its connection to Algorithms and Robots:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
A Lost Feminist Documentary has resurfaced after 40 years and it is really cool! Take a look:
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/...
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And Last but not least…
In “Firsts” news:
Dr. Jen Welter has become the NFL’s first female coach. Congratulations Arizona Cardinals!
http://espn.go.com/...
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ONE LAST THOUGHT.....
And its one I loved. This commenter got her statement "memed" and it is on the mark:
So enough with the bull...let's get ERA ratified!
Have a great week!