From the monthly archives:

August 2007

As if the truth about cosmetic surgery isn’t scary enough

by Cara August 31, 2007

So I found this to be pretty funny. A new study has just been released that supposedly “reveals why women have cosmetic surgery.”. Sounds exciting, huh? And, when you see the results, it also looks really scary! So scary, in fact, that even I was fooled until I stopped to read it a second time. [...]

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They’ve Only Just Begun

by Cara August 31, 2007

There’s no doubt about it: reproductive rights are currently undergoing widespread attack. If it’s not the Missouri attacks against Planned Parenthood, it’s the ongoing legislative and judicial attacks against Dr. Tiller in Kansas. And now, it’s the ire of anti-abortion protesters in Illinois. But no, putting together a 1,200 person protest in front of the [...]

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Missouri Contracts Anti-Abortion Group to Fight Planned Parenthood

by Cara August 30, 2007

I have been blogging about the new abortion clinic regulations in Missouri and how Planned Parenthood has been fighting them. The law they are challenging would force Planned Parenthood to undergo medically unnecessary renovations, possibly exceeding $2 million (the previously cited $600,000 was an outdated figure), and almost certainly shutting down two clinics indefinitely. Now, [...]

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So Tucker Carlson is a Gay-Basher

by Cara August 30, 2007

And when I say “gay-basher,” I don’t mean the “loves to verbally insult gays” type of gay-basher. I mean the “I physically assaulted a man who came onto me in a bathroom” type of gay-basher. Here’s the video: The key section starts at about 3:00. Essentially, Carlson claimed that he was once “bothered” in a [...]

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Website Threatening Abortion Providers is Challenged by Feds

by Cara August 29, 2007

The Justice Department has taken legal action to require a man who runs an anti-abortion website to take down and stop posting threats against clinic workers. One posting targeted a former clinician for the Philadelphia Women’s Center and featured the provider’s name, photo and address, stating that “while it does not sound good to say [...]

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Nothing like a little morning transphobia

by Cara August 29, 2007

It seems that I used my offensive remark of the week way too soon. Today, Slate’s William Saletan has a column titled “Sex-change Socialism: Taxpayer-funded genital mutilation”. Oh, but it gets worse. First, he leads in with a story about how new surgery can partially reverse FGM. Then, he goes from talking about the violent [...]

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Missouri Abortion Clinics Stay Open

by Cara August 28, 2007

. . . for now. A judge has temporarily blocked the new state abortion law that would require costly and medically unnecessary renovations. In his order, Smith warned both sides from reading too much into his ruling, saying “the state has a legitimate interest in regulating facilities that perform surgery, even if the facility in [...]

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Offensive Remark of the Week

by Cara August 28, 2007

This week’s offensive remark is definitely a tag-team effort. The sadly likely duo of Ted Nugent and Sean Hannity have really pulled this one out. It all started with some comments that known sexist, racist and all-around Republican asshole Ted Nugent made in concert. While holding two assault rifles on stage, he proudly declared: I [...]

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Heineken does not think very highly of you

by Cara August 27, 2007

At least, that’s my personal interpretation of this ad for the Heineken DraughtKeg: I found it via Bob Garfield at the Advertising Age. He calls this ad out for “portray[ing] a woman’s uterus as a beer keg” and being “arguably the most sexist beer commercial ever produced.” Unfortunately, he also second-guesses several times, and asks [...]

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On Sex Trafficking and Johns

by Cara August 27, 2007

Last week, I wrote a post about the issue of sex trafficking in Britain, which resulted in some interesting (if unoriginal and obnoxious) discussion about the extent to which exploitation and trafficking actually takes place in the prostitution industry. I have maintained that it is incredibly high. Sadly, a new story about British police raids [...]

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