From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Obama is charismatic, but this is a bit much

by Cara March 31, 2008

I don’t think there are many people, with any candidate preference, who would argue that Obama is not incredibly engaging and likable. Whether you want to vote for the guy or not, let’s face it; he has charisma. But watch the NY Times turn “Obama is charming” into “Obama makes women giggle and swoon and [...]

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It’s Not Just A Dream: Responsible Reporting on Sexual Assault

by Cara March 31, 2008

I spend a lot of time writing about rape apologism and really irresponsible coverage of sexual assault in the media. I also regularly find myself asking people to write letters to editors, criticizing the common victim-blaming, women-are-liars approach to articles about rape. And so, when responsible and honest reporting actually happens, I think that I [...]

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Hey, asshole

by Cara March 29, 2008

You want to know what was definitely not a reason for my posting about the Sharpton/NAACP debacle? So that conservative assholes could use it as fodder to apologize for the white rapists, call the victims of that crime drunk sluts with “humper’s remorse,” use Sharpton as some kind of bizarre comparison to Obama’s Reverend Wright, [...]

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Updates and Things

by Cara March 29, 2008

A few stories I’ve recently blogged about have some updates: Yesterday, I wrote about a woman who was forced to undergo a painful process of removing her nipple piercings before she could board a plan, apparently for the amusement of the male security officers. The TSA has responded to the situation: The TSA said Friday [...]

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Bad Ass Women’s Activist of the Week: When Ordinary Women Refuse to Accept Absue of Authority Edition

by Cara March 28, 2008

Think it was bad when Southwest Airlines started kicking women off of their planes for dressing “inappropriately?” Well they’ve apparently got nothing on the Transportation Security Administration. They recently forced female traveler Mandi Hamlin to remove her nipple piercings before allowing her to board a plane — even though she offered to show her piercings [...]

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Significant Numbers of Irish Blame Women for Rape

by Cara March 27, 2008

A lot of what I’ve been writing about lately seems to fall under the category of wholly unsurprising and yet still utterly depressing. Here’s another one for the files: Just like in the good old U.S. of A. (and Australia), a new poll shows that in Ireland, large numbers of citizens think that women are [...]

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Bush Official: Doctor’s Right to Withold Information Greater Than Patient’s Right to Receive It

by Cara March 26, 2008

Surprise, surprise: the Bush Administration thinks that Ob/Gyns should not only have the right to deny women basic medical care like abortion, emergency contraception or regular old birth control, but they should also be able to refuse to provide a referral to another doctor for these services. Last Friday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary [...]

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Feminists Judge Beauty Differently

by Cara March 25, 2008

When I saw the headline Feminists More Open-Minded on Weight, I expected an article on the fat-acceptance movement (which the Times had reported on fairly recently). But no, this time, feminist open-mindedness on weight has apparently been proven! I’ll say up front that I did not pay $30 to read the study in full, but [...]

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Al Sharpton and the NAACP Support Dunbar Village Rapists

by Cara March 24, 2008

This is important. Do you remember the Dunbar Village rape case? I’m not sure how you could forget; this is the case where a woman was gang raped by 10 men in her own home for over three hours, forced to have sex with her own 12-year-old son and survived an attempt to light both [...]

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The Oppression Olympics Continue

by Cara March 24, 2008

UPDATE: The Washington Post happens to have an interesting article today on this very subject. It’s actually more intelligent than you might expect, though be forewarned that some of the quotes are really obnoxious and precisely what I rail against here. — I can’t say that Geraldine Ferraro should have quit while she was ahead, [...]

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