I encourage you all to read http://www.feministe.us/blog/ everyday, but especially on Friday, when my story on voting will be featured. :)

I really really really hate it when people trivialize rape. I mean HATE it. I mean, sometimes I have to leave the situation entirely so as to not blow a gasket of anger-filled spew on to the offender. Sometimes, it's just stupid word choices: "forcible sex". Um, no. Rape. Sometimes it's a stupid joke, "And the upside is in Thailand, you don't just ( Read more... )

This started out as a reply to a post on feministing.com, but soon became a post of its own ( Read more... )

I just saw a news piece on Paris Hilton that lead into a piece on women's prisons. Now, instead of talking about important things, they talked about how these women were deprived of makeup, and how they make it from food items (chocolate for eyeshadow, etc). Okay, so as if this isn't bad enough, the reporter says, as a closer, "These women are just ( Read more... )

The parent company of the Snyders pharmacy that denied birth control to women in Montana is Canadian. I'm firing off an email to the owners, letting them know that I'll be boycotting their pharmacies until they require their pharmacists to fill all legal prescriptions ( Read more... )

In all the controversy (?) surrounding the new birth control pill Lybrel (wtf? seriously.), I read this,
My one worry is that a sort of stigma might become attached to women who choose to go on bleeding. Kind of like women who choose unmedicated, unhospitalized childbirth??
Bwuh? Choosing unmedicated unhospitalized childbirth is stigmatized? Where ( Read more... )

This just makes me sick.

Is it any fucking wonder that sexual assault victims are so leary (leery?) of reporting it? Good gods.

I have a good long thought process about this, but I can't seem to bring any of it into coherent writing. Suffice it to say, there's no justice for women. Never has been, won't be in my lifetime. GAH.

It is disrespectful and sexist to call Hilary Clinton "President Hilary" and every other candidate by "President Surname". I don't give a flying monkey's ass if there's already been a President Clinton. It doesn't matter because it would be perfectly obvious which Clinton you're referring to. If it really bugs you, call her "President Rodham- ( Read more... )

One of Canada's great feminists died. Doris Anderson was an amazing woman. Born in Alberta in 1921, raised until she was 8 by only her mother, and then by both her parents, she went to Teachers College, and then taught until she could put herself through University. She became a journalist. She worked her way up through the ranks of Chatelaine ( Read more... )

Women are no longer able to get tubal ligations at a Catholic-run hospital in Humboldt, Saskatchewan!Uhm, okay... WTF? This is a public hospital! And the only one in the area. This is seriously unethical. I'm sure the government won't let them get away with it for long. They'll either force them to do the procedures, or to pay for them to go to ( Read more... )