via The New York Times, August 26, 2012.
“Pussy Riot are our kind of girls: feminist activists in masks making trouble,” Kathe Kollwitz and Frida Kahlo, pseudonymous Guerrilla Girls, wrote in an e-mail. “But,” they added, “we live in a very different culture where art is not as dangerous, and we can pretty much do what we want...
One really inspiring thing about Pussy Riot is that they always make it clear that their actions are political and feminist,” the Guerrilla Girls wrote. “The world needs more feminist masked avengers. We urge everyone to make trouble, each in her own way.”
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
New 'back alley abortions' in US as restrictions are increased
From the Rachel Maddow Show.
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Monday, August 20, 2012
"Legitimate rape" and the one-sex system
Todd Akin, Republican candidate for the Missouri Senate seat, revived this medieval theory about rape and conception over this past weekend. Vanessa Hoggie gives this old, discredited, but still-alive-in-some-medieval-circles theory a thorough look, on The Guardian's blog.
This was a long-lived legal argument. Samuel Farr's Elements of Medical Jurisprudence contained the same idea as late as 1814:
"For without an excitation of lust, or the enjoyment of pleasure in the venereal act, no conception can probably take place. So that if an absolute rape were to be perpetrated, it is not likely she would become pregnant."
This was a long-lived legal argument. Samuel Farr's Elements of Medical Jurisprudence contained the same idea as late as 1814:
"For without an excitation of lust, or the enjoyment of pleasure in the venereal act, no conception can probably take place. So that if an absolute rape were to be perpetrated, it is not likely she would become pregnant."
Friday, August 17, 2012
Fifth Annual Gayness Cure Walk
From The Onion:
raising funds and awareness to help cure, and eliminate,
the "debilitating psychosexual disease" of gayness.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Coffee and the housewife job of the fifties (plus a stewardess asks you to fly her)
Housewife discovers the mountain and gets to keep her job.
"Your coffee, sir!"
"he's always crabbing about my coffee, I could cry."
"I'm Maggie, fly me."
"Your coffee, sir!"
"he's always crabbing about my coffee, I could cry."
"I'm Maggie, fly me."
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
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