What’s more disturbing? Nigella Lawson being choked repeatedly in public…or nobody intervening? Is it just OK to abuse your spouse? (See and read more at http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigella-lawson-attacked-husband-see-1955564)
New Rick Perry Assholery…He Vetoes Equal Pay Bill
The bill, passed by the overwhelmingly conservative Texas legislature, would have brought Texas state law in line with the federal Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which makes it easier for women to sue employers over wage discrimination. - http://huff.to/14537Hk
“When any victim of sexual assault is forced to salute her attacker, clearly our system is broken.” ~ Sent. Kirsten Gillibrand
This is not new, but it’s hilarious. Have a happy period!
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Let me be clear: I don’t believe that previously non-raping audience members are going to take to the streets in a rape mob after hearing one rape joke. That’s an absurd and insulting mischaracterization. But I do believe that comedy’s current permissiveness around cavalier, cruel, victim-targeting rape jokes contributes to (that’s contributes—not causes) a culture of young men who don’t understand what it means to take this stuff seriously.
And how did they try and prove me wrong? How did they try to demonstrate that comedy, in general, doesn’t have issues with women? By threatening to rape and kill me, telling me I’m just bitter because I’m too fat to get raped, and suggesting that the debate would have been better if it had just been Jim raping me.
This isn’t just coming from anonymous trolls. Local comics — whom I know and work with — have told me to shut the fuck up. One hopes I’ll fall down a flight of stairs. (He later apologized—to my boyfriend, not me.)
"— LINDY WEST, writing on Jezebel, “If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Then Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats?” (via inothernews)
(via ladyfabulous)
Sexism’s Puzzling Stamina
Frank Bruni in @NYTimes today is a must read! http://nyti.ms/19iZ5km
There are American novelists, and then there are American women novelists – at least according to Wikipedia, where outrage has been building over the quiet categorisation of major names such as Harper Lee and Donna Tartt according to their gender.
Even though delayed marriage has improved women’s financial status and reduced the divorce rate, encouraging young marriage has suddenly become appealing to conservatives.
Why?
Three reasons: The increasing popularity of same-sex marriage, the escalating attacks on reproductive health care access, and rising consciousness of the role class plays in all of this.
(Personally, I’d add a fourth; that whole chastity thing. If you get married younger, you can throw away that purity ring.)
