Google Translate Thinks Women “Should” Be Doing House Chores. Belvedere Vodka Unveils Horrific Ad Acting Out Rape Scene. S Magazine Winter 2011: Is the ‘F’ word co-opted by conservatives & consumerist media? Where are real icons & core values? On The Issues Magazine, Winter 2011, considers feminist icons, feminist values and feminist cons. Next Chapter in the 'Republican War Against Women' by Tanya Melich Republican women have become a not-so-subtle weapon for breaking apart the Democratic coalition, grounded in the women's vote, that gave Democrats control of the House and Senate in 2006 and 2008 and made Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House.
This year for the first time since 1982, Democrats did not have a voting advantage with women. Men supported Republicans by a margin of 12 percent and women by one percent. This month's mid-term elections were a watershed for women's electoral politics. In fact, national Republican strategists have finally decided that electing women, especially women of color, brings power to the party. Numbers do not tell the whole story. The Real Story Midterm Election Scorecard Will Palin run for President? Frank Rich: The GOP’s Problem With Women. At the time, back in January in New Hampshire, it didn’t seem like that big a deal, certainly nothing to rival previous debate flash points like “9-9-9” and “Oops!” But in retrospect it may have been one of the more fateful twists of the Republican presidential campaign.
The exchange was prompted by George Stephanopoulos, who seemingly out of nowhere asked Mitt Romney if he shared Rick Santorum’s view that “states have the right to ban contraception.” Romney stiffened, as he is wont to do, and took the tone of a men’s club factotum tut-tutting a member for violating the dress code.
“George, this is an unusual topic that you’re raising,” he said. Afterward, Romney’s spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom accused Stephanopoulos of asking “the oddest question in a debate this year” and of having “a strange obsession with contraception.” As we know now, Santorum, flaky though he may sound, is not some outlier in his party or in its presidential field. Chuck Winder, Idaho Lawmaker, Suggests Women Use Rape As Excuse For Abortions. The sponsor of an Idaho mandatory ultrasound bill, state Sen.
Chuck Winder, made some highly controversial comments Monday during his closing arguments, suggesting women might falsely use rape as an excuse to obtain an abortion. Just before the Idaho's Senate passed the bill, which requires woman to have an ultrasound prior to obtaining an abortion, opponents of the bill pointed out that it makes no exception for rape victims, incest victims or women in medical emergencies. Winder, a Republican from Boise, responded to those concerns by raising the question of whether women understand when they have been raped. “Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," Winder said on the Senate floor.
Women reported 84,767 "forcible rapes" in the United States in 2010, according to the FBI's most recent Uniform Crime Report; the figure does not include statutory rape, incest or any other kind of rape that falls outside the FBI's narrow definition of the crime. Also on HuffPost: Lori Sokol: No Country for Weak Women.
While the Republican War on Women continues to try to turn back the clock on women's rights by threatening to stop funding Planned Parenthood, supporting the Blunt Amendment, and attempting to enforce Trans Vaginal Ultrasounds on pregnant women, just to name a few, one can't help but wonder why we are the only minority group that is repeatedly targeted by others without fear of their losing their jobs, or of having their reputations ruined. Rather, some political candidates are actually adopting these prejudicial pledges as platforms to become our next President. So, why the continual backlash? The answer is quite simple, really.
Women represent the only minority group that doesn't include any men as its members. Think about it. Every other group classified as a minority in the U.S. -- African American, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, homosexual, etc. -- includes men, and men hold the majority of power over women in this paternalistic society.
Soraya Chemaly: 10 Reasons the Rest of the World Thinks the U.S. Is Nuts. This week the Georgia State Legislature debated a bill in the House that would make it necessary for some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until they "naturally" go into labor. In arguing for this bill Representative Terry England described his empathy for pregnant cows and pigs in the same situation. I have a question for Terry England, Sam Brownback, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and too many others: I have three daughters, two of them twins.
If one of my twins had been stillborn would you have made me carry her to term, thereby endangering both the other twin and me? Or, would you have insisted that the state order a mandatory fetal extraction of the living twin fetus from my womb so that I could continue to carry the stillborn one to term and possibly die myself? My family is curious and since you believe my uterus is your public property, I am, too. Mr. The right to life. Mr. By not trusting me, you force me to trust you. I gestate humans, you do not. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.