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It’s 2015 and Congress Is Almost Entirely Made Up of White Christian Men
By feimineach / in #tumblr / January 9, 2015It's 2015 and Congress Is Almost Entirely Made Up of White Christian Men (alternet): While women comprise more than 50 percent of the U.S. population, they remain under-represented in the nation’s re...
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The 114th US Congress is 80% male and equally white
By feimineach / in #tumblr / January 7, 2015Pale, male and stale. On feministing via rhrealitycheck: Chart of the Day, from Feministing: the 114th US Congress is 80% male and equally white. (More charts on the links.) (Orig. reblogged o...
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Today in misogyny: the Creepy Misogynist Movement That’s Making Conservatives Even More Sexist
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / December 27, 2014This can warm the cockles of your hard on a cold Winter day. (Or, rather, terrify you to within an inch of your life.) American conservatives, fretting that they're not quite sexist enough, up the ant...
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On platitudes vs. policy when it comes to women and politics
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / February 5, 2014News came out today that Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In Foundation - which, as far as I can tell, espouses that women can overcome structural sexism in the workplace by speaking up more at meetings - will...
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US right wingers claim marriage solves poverty for women
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / January 18, 2014It’s the 1950s, in case you were wondering what happened there. On lip magazine: Bush administration press secretary, Ari Fleischer has proposed that marriage inequality is the cause of a hell of a l...
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How the GOP Became the ‘White Man’s Party’
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / January 13, 2014On alternetThe following is an excerpt from Ian Haney-López’s new book, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.” (Oxford...
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Abortion Is Not Like Slavery, So Stop Comparing the Two
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / November 13, 2013A strawman argument if ever I saw one (on RHRealityCheck): Anti-choice comparisons between slavery and abortion are nothing new. It is a canard so common that whenever I see it, my eye starts to twitc...
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Can Hillary Clinton win in 2016 on women’s rights? She seems to think so
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / August 16, 2013Do. It. You may have been encouraged to forget this small fact during her run for president in 2008, when her critics portrayed her as a crybaby, a ball-buster, a man-hating shrew and not man enough...
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Six Truly Unbelievable Ways Ohio Has Just Eviscerated Women’s Rights
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / July 2, 2013On alternet: The Republican Party continues to hack away at reproductive rights around the country--and Ohio is the latest place to be targeted by anti-abortion forces. Governor John Kasich signed th...
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Wendy Davis’ filibustering for abortion rights is a brave and great thing
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / June 26, 2013On commentisfree: It’s raining here, softly but firmly, and Wendy Davis is filibustering in Texas. She’s speaking in a low, quiet voice in the other tab, talking about admitting privileges, standing ...
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Afghan women’s struggle for their rights will not stop now
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / June 24, 2013On commentisfree: Read the media coverage of the Taliban's office in Qatar, and you could be forgiven for assuming that this is the first time that the group had entered diplomatic talks. Of course so...
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Conservatives Double Down on the War on Women
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / June 18, 2013On rhrealitycheck:With all the moaning and wailing at Fox News and other right-wing media outlets about the supposed unfairness about the phrase “war on women,” you’d think conservative politicians wo...
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Working Mothers Blamed For Low Literacy Rates
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / June 12, 2013More working-mother/ mothering-in-general shaming from the US. Because that never gets old. Bust: In today's feature of “How did these people get elected?” news, Governor Phil Bryant from Mississippi ...
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When a Doctor Wields a Bible: The Alarming Rise of Catholic Hospitals (US)
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / June 6, 2013On alternet: Across the U.S., religious healthcare corporations are absorbing once secular and independent hospitals and in the process imposing religious restrictions that pit standard medical pract...
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American Fascism: Ralph Nader Decries How Big Business Has Taken Control of the U.S. Government
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / June 6, 2013Democracy Now: Describing the United States as an "advanced Third World country," longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for a new mass movement to challenge th...
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Arrested for Your Politics in America? It’s Already Happening
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / February 20, 2013In the US, due process - one of the defining features of a democratic judicial process - continues to be badly bludgeoned: Obama fights tooth and nail to push through NDAA, which would allow indefini...
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Paul Ryan Wants Personhood for “One-Celled Human Embryos”
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / January 16, 2013Can I express my absolute relief, again, about the results of the November election? From rhrealitycheck: Are you ready to stand up for the rights of the "one-celled human embryos?" Well, Congress...
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2012: The Second-Worst Year for Abortion Rights Since Roe
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / January 13, 2013(Lest we forget that we take a lot of our lead in the UK on reproductive rights from the US.) From alternet: Think the so-called "War on Women" (really a war on everyone, since family planning, abort...
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2012: The Year of The War on Women
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / January 7, 20132012 was the year of the "war on women." From attacks on birth control access to atrociously phrased definitions of rape, womens rights and health rights took a beating from members of the GOP and at ...
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America’s White Male Problem
By feimineach / in #quickhits, #quickhits: link / January 7, 2013See also, the 2012 and on-going war on women. From: alternet The American political process is being hijacked by a reckless, whining dangerous gang of psychologically damaged white men who are f...
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