To coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday, the Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a paper titled Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry. The paper concerns the exploitation of mostly undocumented immigrant women who work in the U.S. food industry and is based upon interviews with 150 women. The women [...]
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Well, this is classy: The Republican website for a Minnesota Senate race posted a video, highlighting the latest reason you should vote for a GOP candidate this election cycle: Republican women are hot; Democrats are dogs. The YouTube clip shows photos of Republican women in flattering glamorized poses (frequently in bikinis), juxtaposed with purposely unflattering– [...]
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In March, the Women’s Rights section of change.org had an article about the decades-old pattern of male swim coaches molesting female swimmers. The article said that: A suit filed in California alleges that the the governing body of U.S. competitive swimming has failed to address widespread sexual abuse of young girls at swim clubs across [...]
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There’s a horrible story out of Israel that I somehow missed when it first hit the news a month ago. Today, Goel Ratzon, 60, was charged in a Tel Aviv court with having 23 wives and fathering 59 children. The charges were multiple counts of sexual assault, rape, sodomy and enslavement. The charge says that [...]
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A prison guard in Nassau County has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting at least 3 female inmates. According to this article, he was charged with: …three counts of rape, three counts of forcible touching, six counts of promoting prison contraband, 10 counts of sexual abuse and 35 counts of official misconduct… The officer [...]
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Yesterday on a flight to DC, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer apparently called a flight attendant “bitch,” under his breath. The flight attendant had asked him to turn off his cellphone, and when she turned around, he muttered the insult. He has since apologized. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was apparently seated next to Schumer at the [...]
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I have never blogged about . The Ft. Hood shootings were so tragic and it was, of course, being covered by all the news media. However, as I write below, there is one failure of the news media that has continued to bother me. Immediately after it became known that Hasan was a Muslim, there [...]
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Mike wrote an off-topic post a few days ago about Rep. Alan Grayson’s outbursts. At the time, his comments were mostly just silly and unproductive. But the latest news circling Capitol Hill is that Grayson called an aide to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke a “K Street whore.” A Grayson spokesperson is now defending his [...]
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Tracee Hamilton, a new sports columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a column today, following up on the Erin Andrews case, discussing stalking and victim-blaming. It’s a rather personal column, as she opens up about a stalker who followed her for years, instilling terror and helplessness in her for more years to follow. It’s a [...]
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According to Dept of Defense data, women are dismissed more often than men under the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. Although women make up only 14% of the military, they account for 36% of those dismissed under the policy. The branch with the greatest discrepancy is the Air Force. Although women make up approximately 20% [...]
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