I've written about this six times before.The comment period for the proposed Health and Human Services rule closes on the 25th, so if you haven't written in yet, you need to do so now. No, I don't give a fuck how tired of politics you are. It's an email. It won't break your legs or render you impotent ( Read more... )

Nice. Real nice.I'm going to have fucking nightmares about this shit ( Read more... )

I'm really tired of making this post.

For all y'all who thought, "Well, I'll do something when it becomes official," it has become official, and it is time to get off your fucking ass:

The Bush administration officially proposes conscience rule for doctors who don't want to do their fucking jobs.This does not just apply to doctors -- surgeons, ( Read more... )

Original Poster: I'm tolerant of most opinions, but I just can't respect pro-lifers.

Me: Right there with you. But, then, why should I? They have no respect for me as a woman.

Random Person: Speaking as a pro-life woman over here - it's not that we have no respect for women. We just place a life, or potential for life, above comfort. Does that ( Read more... )

So, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt still doesn't want to acknowledge that denying women access to birth control and abortion based on "conscience" is a morally reprehensible act.

His first clarification was little better. He doesn't plan on redefining contraception as abortion, but he does plan on letting any dumbfuck with an ( Read more... )

You know, my opinion of modern "fine art" aside, this is an interesting article. It discusses the disparity in price between men's art and women's art. The most telling quote is this one, from a first-rate sexist pigfucker named Brian Sewell who is, predictably, both male and not an artist. Just a critic. And a cack-brained one, too.

"The art ( Read more... )

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary

ACTION: Proposed Rule

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services proposes to promulgate regulations to ensure that, in accordance with the Church Amendments (42 U.S.C. § 300a-7), Public Health Service (PHS) Act §245 (42 U.S.C. § 238n), and the Weldon ( Read more... )

Two quick notes that will make you pull your hair and scream.

First, via Feministing, there's this asshole. Colorado Representative Larry Liston called pregnant teenagers "sluts":

Liston used the derogatory term during a Republican caucus lunch on health care to express his view that unmarried teen parents are sexually promiscuous and to ( Read more... )

A good number of you have probably already read the latest round of articles in news services, feminist blogs and trade journals about the "sudden" interest in female genital mutilation - excuse me, plastic pussy surgery - right here in America ( Read more... )

I really don't want to be serious today, I feel far too silly and cheerful, but this demands an honest response of some sort. So here it is, expanded from my original response.

celticmist pointed her friends to this entry, in Hanne Blank's journal, about sexual assault, and the wall of silence that surrounds it. Go read it. It's short, but it cuts to the ( Read more... )