January 2009

Jerry Lewis To Be Presented With Humanitarian Award

by Cara January 12, 2009

Jerry Lewis, a veteran comedian and host of the annual Labor Day telethon that raises money for research into cures for muscular dystrophy, is scheduled to be honored with a special award at this year’s Oscar ceremony.  It’s called the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and is intended to honor those who make great charitable contributions.  [...]

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Arrests Made in Gang Rape Hate Crime

by Cara January 9, 2009

For those who have not yet heard, there’s an update in the case of the lesbian woman who was gang-raped in a suspected hate crime in the San Francisco Bay area.  All four of the suspects in the case have been arrested. Two men and two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a [...]

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Final Yoko Post is Up

by Cara January 7, 2009

Yesterday, the final post in my Yoko Ono series went up accidentally for about 10 minutes. It’s up for real now, but I’m getting word that the post activated (to a blank screen) in many RSS feeds yesterday and is not reactivating today with the updated and available content. If this is the case for [...]

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Yoko Ono: A Feminist Analysis (Addendum: Just Like Starting Over)

by Cara January 7, 2009

Introduction: Oh Yoko! Part One: The Ballad of John and Yoko Part Two: Don’t Let Me Down Part Three: Woman A few months ago, I finally joined Facebook. Knowing that Yoko Ono has stayed technologically up to speed, I wanted to see if she had a page (it’s here), and ended up perusing “groups” with [...]

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Illegal Abortion in the Era After Roe vs. Wade

by Cara January 6, 2009

Think that illegal abortion is a thing of the past in post-Roe vs. Wade America?  Well thankfully, it is far less common.  But if you thought the practice was eradicated, you were sadly both very naive and very mistaken. The pills were misoprostol, a prescription drug that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration [...]

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Combating Teen Dating Violence

by Cara January 5, 2009

The NY Times has a really interesting article on teen dating violence, and the measures that have been taken recently to prevent and assist in the problem: Texas recently adopted a law that requires school districts to define dating violence in school safety codes, after the 2003 stabbing death of Ortralla Mosley, 15, in a [...]

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Yoko Ono: A Feminist Analysis (Part Three: Woman)

by Cara January 3, 2009

Introduction: Oh Yoko! Part One: The Ballad of John and Yoko Part Two: Don’t Let Me Down I don’t know if John Lennon ever loved his first wife Cynthia or not, but I do know that by all accounts except for Cynthia’s own, he didn’t want to marry her. He got her pregnant. John married [...]

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Woman Who “Did Not Want to Have Sex” Arrested for Biting Penis

by Cara January 2, 2009

A man’s penis was in his wife’s mouth for the purpose of oral sex.  Which doesn’t sound so unusual. Except that she bit it. Hard. He beat her over the head, and she kept biting. When she finally let go, she punched him. And now she has been arrested and charged with battery. Why would [...]

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