You’ve probably seen the news today that the Obama administration has (again) caved-in to the right (including, of course, the churches) by overruling its own Food and Drug Administration’s decision that emergency contraceptives be available over-the-counter to anyone, including teenagers 16 years old and younger. Thus, age restrictions will still be in place. Here is [...]
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Add this to the ridiculous things Herman Cain has said. In an interview in GQ, Cain says that “The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is.” Being a “manly” man, he is also against vegetables: “A manly man don’t want it piled high with vegetables! He would [...]
Filed under: Male Perspectives, Politics, Stereotyping | Tagged: Emasculate, Herman Cain, Manly, Pizza Toppings, Sissy | 1 Comment »
I always have a problem with Bill Maher. I almost always agree with what he says. And I thought his movie “Religulous” was hilarious. But I don’t like his “style” as a comedian and he sometimes is unnecessarily “anti” particular individuals. And his comments on women sometimes (often?) sound sexist. But, on his HBO show [...]
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I was doing a crossword puzzle recently and one of the questions was to name the person who said: A woman’s place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight. I didn’t know the answer, but it turned out that the speaker was former “first [...]
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Two days ago, I wrote about how Hillary Clinton, after promising last year that the United States would never “abandon” the women of Afghanistan, has said nothing about moves by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) that, in fact, are precisely abandoning the rights of Afghan women. Well, now, Clinton has said something, but, [...]
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In May 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the United States would never “abandon” the women of Afghanistan by allowing President Hamid Karzai to make any deals with the Taliban. Specifically, Clinton told three senior female Afghan officials that “we will not abandon you. . . . [I]t is essential that women’s rights [...]
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In April 2010, Newsweek had an article titled “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church” with the subtitle “The cause of the Catholic clergy’s sex-abuse scandal is no mystery: insular groups of men often do bad things. So why not break up the all-male club?” The article was strongly against the male officials of the [...]
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Right wingers such as Republican Congress members , “patriots,” and tea partiers have learned that it helps them with their “base” to use the words like “killing” and “killers” and “death.” For instance, they used “baby killer” to refer to abortion providers and, in particular, Bill O’Reilly and many others used “Tiller the Baby Killer” [...]
Filed under: Health, Politics, Violence | Tagged: Eric Cantor, Gabrielle Giffords, Loughner, Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act | Leave a Comment »
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