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I’ve noticed that all the old claptrap is being flung around again, with great vigor and enthusiasm — you know, how feminists are all man-haters because we’re too ugly and “unfeminine” to catch a man, that we’re all devil-worshippers practicing witchcraft, or lecherous lesbians who lure ‘good’ women from the Path of Righteousness, while “real women” are oh-so-happy “to honor and obey” their menfolk, and accept that their only worth is as “hosts” for alien lifeforms babies (sorry, I’ve read too much scifi) — that claptrap.
So this month, I decided to use quotes from women with wickedly sharp minds and pens as segment headers.
RESISTING THE PATRIARCHY
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- Indian Women Struggle for Justice in Muzaffarnagar Gang Rape Trial Under New Law: www.dnaindia.com/…
- Lisa Fierstein, Andrew Puzder’s ex-wife, says she was abused: Oprah Show full text — www.politico.com/…
WOMEN’S HEALTH and ABORTION RIGHTS
- Texas State Senator breaks table trying to gavel down woman speaking against extreme anti-abortion bills, reported by Kossack wagetwe: — www.dailykos.com/…
- Alternate Facts: They’re Coming After Birth Control too: abortion and birth control are ‘the same thing’ — www.salon.com/…
- Washington DC — Tom Price, new Secretary of Health and Human Services,doesn’t believe making contraceptives unaffordable will hurt women: www.salon.com/…
- Oklahoma Lawmakers want to require women to get sexual partner’s approval before abortion, telling women their bodies are just "hosts": theintercept.com/…
- Nationwide Threats and Violence — Women’s Clinics Report Anti-Abortion Violence Rising Fast: www.nbcnews.com/…
- The Gates Foundation promises to make contraception available to millions of Women — www.patheos.com/…
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- FRANCE: Police Claim “Accidental” Sodomy - Riots ensue — www.upi.com/…
- NETHERLANDS: Dutch Lead Effort to Replace Family Planning Funds Cut by Trump, Joined by Seven Other Countries — af.reuters.com/…
- CHINA: Chinese Activists Fighting for Women in China — from the US: www.nytimes.com/…
IMMIGRATION BAN AND OTHER TRUMPISMS THAT IMPACT WOMEN
- Trump’s New Definition of Dangerous Criminal: Mexican Woman with 2 American Kids deported over fake social security number used in 2008 — www.upi.com/…
- What Trump Has Signed So Far — Not All Directly Against Women, But Women Are Also Citizens: www.cnn.com/...
WORTH THE READ
- Maybe You Should Just Be Single: single is better than being the magic girlfriend of a child-man — www.newstatesman.com/…
- Hasidic Rabbi Comes Out as Trans: 'Gender began punching me in the face' — www.haaretz.com/…
ARTS AND CULTURE
RAISE YOUR VOICE, SIGN YOUR NAME
- The Permission Bill in Oklahoma is an ALEC prototype, so this is just the beginning: Sign this petition to say NO to paternal consent laws and attacks on reproductive freedom — actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/…
To This Week’s Contributors Whose Stories Aren’t Here:
I ran out of time — it’s been a really insane week.
If I didn’t include your story, that’s the only reason — everybody sent great material — please add yours in the Comments. Thank you!
And one final quote that absolutely refutes the Patriarchy’s claptrap: