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March 24 2012
via Georgia Republican Compares Women to Cows, Pigs, And Chickens | ThinkProgress: State Rep. Terry England was speaking in favor of HB 954, which makes it illegal to obtain an abortion after 20 weeks even if the woman is known to be carrying a stillborn fetus or the baby is otherwise not expected to live to term.
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just how fucking removed from reality do you have to be?
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just how fucking removed from reality do you have to be?
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October 17 2011
June 17 2011
White Male Bloggers Want Everything But the Burden of Oppression - COLORLINES
In the media business, we frequently use the maxim “three makes a trend.” So far I haven’t heard about another white heterosexual man passing as, say, a Syrian lesbian or deaf lesbian mother of two, but I’m sure one will emerge in the next 10 minutes. In the meantime—for you folks who have been too busy being a member of a systematically oppressed group—allow me to recap.
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what's the big deal, right? everyone knows lesbians aren't real.
article also has an embed of the guardian's webcam interview with tom mcmaster.
via feminist hulk twitter with the brilliant phrasing "THE HALLUCINOGENIC MOLD ON THE UNDERSIDE OF CULTURAL PRIVILEGE".
April 15 2011
March 19 2010
Dutch outrage as US general blames gay soldiers for Srebrenica - Times Online
A retired American general has blamed the UN's historic failure to protect the Bosnian "safe haven" of Srebrenica on the fact that there were openly gay soldiers in the Dutch peacekeeping battalion assigned to it.
March 14 2010
“ On Monday afternoon, a controversial Utah bill that charges pregnant women and girls with murder for having miscarriages caused by "intentional or knowing" acts, was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert.[...]— Utah Governor Signs Controversial Law Charging Women and Girls With Murder for Miscarriages | | AlterNet
Dr. Adams says Utah’s legislation is extreme, but not unexpected.
“Nothing really surprises me anymore,” he said. “What saddens me is the fact that no one wants to defend abortion, not even the women who have one. We’re not even teaching our kids how to be responsible so they won’t get pregnant or get STDs."
Ironically, just three days after Utah’s House and Senate overwhelmingly passed Rep. Wimmer’s Criminal Homicide and Abortion Amendments bill, the Senate refused to even debate legislation that would have allowed teachers to provide comprehensive sex education to students who had their parent’s permission. Current state law says teachers can’t advocate or endorse the use of contraceptive methods or devices, according to Bird. ”
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January 29 2010
“ A reader writes, "Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. They banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia, and in spite of the fact this is a normal breast size for many adult women. Presumably small breasted women taking photographs of themselves will now be guilty of creating simulated child pornography, to say nothing of the message this sends to women with modestly sized chests or those who favour them. Australia has also banned pornographic depictions of female ejaculation, a normal orgasmic sexual response in many women, with censors branding it as 'abhorrent.'" ”— Australian censor board demands large-breasted porn-stars
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January 16 2010
Rush Limbaugh tells America not to donate to Haiti
if only someone found a way to harness all the rage this asshat induces and turn it into energy, he could easily provide the power for a middle-sized, second world country
November 22 2009
“— Ausländerhatz in Italien: Weihnachten nur für Weiße - taz.deDas heißt, nach der von der Regierung Berlusconi ebenfalls beschlossenen Einführung des Tatbestandes "illegale Einwanderung", dass er von einem Tag zum anderen zum Kriminellen wird.
<!-- start smarty/article_rectangle.tmpl --> <!-- end smarty/article_rectangle.tmpl -->Auf diese "Kriminellen" macht jetzt die Lega-Nord-Kommunalverwaltung in Coccaglio Hatz. Claudio Abiendi, örtlicher Dezernent für Sicherheit, findet den Titel "White Christmas" völlig in Ordnung. Weihnachten sei schließlich ein Fest "der christlichen Tradition, ein Fest unserer Identität, und nicht ein Fest der Aufnahme".
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ontd_political: Scorsese, Allen, Aronofsky & others join "FREE POLANSKI" petition
List of people who signed the petition. Most unexpected name: Pedro Almodovar. (Terry Gilliam a close second.)
brb, *not* bying DVDs.
November 01 2009
“ Parents have been banned from supervising their children in public playgrounds, because they have not undergone criminal record checks.— Council bans parents from play areas - TelegraphOnly council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence.
The Watford Borough Council policy has been attacked as insulting and a disgrace by furious relatives who say they are being labelled as potential paedophiles.
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This is completely legit: Everyone who has children must like them more than what is considered healthy to be able to tolerate them 24/7. Right?
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September 08 2008
“ Books (then) Mayor Sarah Palin tried to remove from Wasilla library. When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired. This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board.— the Free - Can we say Censorship... Hello Mr. Regan.
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Blubber by Judy Blume
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Christine by Stephen King
- Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Cujo by Stephen King
- Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
- Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
- Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Decameron by Boccaccio
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
- Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
- Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Forever by Judy Blume
- Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
- Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Have to Go by Robert Munsch
- Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Impressions edited by Jack Booth
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
- My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- My House by Nikki Giovanni
- My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
- Night Chills by Dean Koontz
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
- Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
- Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
- Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
- Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
- Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Bastard by John Jakes
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
- The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
- The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
- The Living Bible by William C. Bower
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
- Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
- Editorial Staff
- Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween
- Symbols by Edna Barth
I'm *so* not surprised to see Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale on that list. Sarah Palin is to feminism what Minnie Mouse is to astrophysics. ”
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