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This piece was written just about eleven years ago for the group blog Feminisms .
by rserven
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on Sat Aug 11, 2018 at 10:00 AM PDT
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I don't have time to write multiple diaries this week, but there are some important things that I wanted to put out there for people to take action on - and there was an odd story that I heard on ...
by Elise
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on Wed Mar 25, 2009 at 08:45 PM PDT
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The North Dakota House has passed a “personhood” bill that ...
by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
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on Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 07:11 PM PST
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I can hardly keep track of what women are supposed to do these days. Abortion is evil. And yet, "This woman could ...
by Elise
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on Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 08:32 PM PST
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Note: Femlaw took on this topic in a Feminisms diary just a few weeks ago, Feminisms: ...
by Elise
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on Wed Jan 28, 2009 at 07:05 PM PST
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Recently, sex with blow-up dolls has caught the fancy of some ...
by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
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on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 06:48 PM PST
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I've been buying a lot of magazines lately - stuff to read at work mostly, since I'm not able to access most internet sites from work due to privacy issues. Anyway, I typically get Oprah's magazine -
by Elise
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on Wed Dec 10, 2008 at 07:33 PM PST
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More often than not, when there's a discussion about women and work it revolves around mommy-war type arguments. Are women hurting their children by working? Are women hurting themselves and their ...
by Elise
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on Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 07:23 PM PST
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This edition of feminisms is inspired by this [post http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/11/21/the-aussies-have-it-right/#comments] at Feministe which discusses "awards" given out in ...
by Unstable Isotope
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on Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 07:01 PM PST
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For the last two weeks I've written Feminisms diaries about the dangers of Crisis Pregnancy Centers. You can read the first ...
by Elise
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on Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 07:34 PM PST
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Last week I wrote about election results for women - the good, the bad, and the ugly. I also wrote about the need to take our election-related excitement and direct our energy and attention to new (...
by Elise
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on Wed Nov 12, 2008 at 06:38 PM PST
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Well, it's over. I don't want to do a postmortem of the primary (long over), and I definitely don't want to write about Sarah Palin, but I would like to talk about how some of the issues and ...
by Elise
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on Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 07:11 PM PST
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The prevalence of sexual harassment in the US is so widespread that it belittles the fact that the right to be free of sexual harassment is ...
by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
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on Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 06:47 PM PDT
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I am often tempted to say that I wasn't a girly girl when I was a kid. But as Pea (my niece) climbs ever further into the ages that I can actually remember fairly clearly, I begin to recall details ...
by tryptamine
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on Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 05:38 PM PDT
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So I decided pretty late tonight (as you can probably tell) that I would write a Feminisms diary. I honestly just realized that it was even Wednesday. And while Feminisms diaries don't have ...
by tryptamine
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on Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 09:46 PM PDT
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Many commentators are rightly horrified that a current Presidential candidate might equate rape with pleasure. The account of John McCain's 1986 rape "joke" calls into question his attitudes toward ...
by Femlaw
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on Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 07:01 PM PDT
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So last night, I saw a commercial on tv that shows a child looking in a closet for something, and then yelling "Mom, where's my _____?", than the husband looking for something elsewhere in the ...
by Super Grover
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on Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 10:11 AM PDT
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In the 1970’s the nation struggled with the concept and the reality of women athletes. As women entered sports in greater numbers, particularly after the enactment of Title IX, they didn’
by sobermom
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on Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 07:03 PM PDT
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"We've come a long way baby." This was a slogan used by a cigarette company to sell cigarettes to women. I do agree with this sentiment. I think things have changed for the better for women in my ...
by Unstable Isotope
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on Wed May 28, 2008 at 06:45 PM PDT
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Whenever there is a diary that tries to understand the differences in voting behavior as a generational issue I find myself jumping in with a comment: Count Me Out. I started writing this diary to ...
by sarakandel
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on Sat May 17, 2008 at 05:33 PM PDT
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