Sex with sleeping woman was not rape because she wasn’t married, says US court Man’s conviction overturned because an arcane law from 1872 doesn’t protect unmarried women in such cases[...]
Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
November 25th, 2012 - 12:19 pm § in Misc.
Knowing when and to whom, your curtsy is due …
With snobbish predictability, the document says that Princess Kate, because she was born a commoner, must defer and curtsey to all ‘Blood Princesses’, including Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, when she is not in the presence of her husband William. If Kate is with William, then she assumes his [...]
October 24th, 2012 - 10:13 am § in Misc.
Women for Romney
Marco Rubio has explained the false premise of Obama’s signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act. The only women who can benefit from this are trial lawyers. If Obama really cared about women he would not have passed over Hillary Clinton as Vice President and would ahve, in a non partisan way, appoint[...]
October 24th, 2012 - 7:16 am § in Misc.
ROMNEYISMS: Shhhh … lets not talk about the R word (rape)
RAPE PREGNANCIES ‘SOMETHING THAT GOD INTENDED TO HAPPEN’ ’51st Vote’ To Repeal Obamacare ” Mitt Romney Of course Team Romney is unwilling to say if the current edition of Mitt, Romney 4.o, still endorses Mr. Murdock Mourdock. UPDATE: ROMNEY CAMP: THE AD CAN STAY &[...]
Romneyism: Paul Ryan insists he still has crazy views on abortion that his running mate finds ‘offensive
Ryan explains why he thinks women should be forced to give birth after rape. “Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” Romney said. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive.” […] “I have an entirely different view[...]
August 27th, 2012 - 10:46 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Another Republican Backs Forced Pregnancy
Tom Smith, Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, has endorsed forced pregnancy after rape. Smith said Monday at the Pennsylvania Press Club that that abortion should be banned without any exceptions, including for rape and incest victims.[...]
March 12th, 2012 - 10:44 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Times Turns Doonesbury to Editorial Page
The Seattle Times will run the strip in the national news section, rather than with other comics, said Executive Editor David Boardman. Boardman said the decision required much discussion, as well as research to verify that cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s take on the Texas law was essentially accur[...]
October 19th, 2011 - 5:28 pm § in Uncategorized
The Evolution of Rape?
Essay by PZ Myers at Pharyngula based on an article titled “Darwin’s Rape Whistle: Have women evolved to protect themselves from sexual assault?“, ….. The story is that women have evolved specific adaptive responses to the threat of rape. In support of this conclusion, the au[...]
September 22nd, 2011 - 8:03 am § in America
Should Miscarriage be a Crime?
Pregnant Women Who Lose Babies Face Criminal Charges In Mississippi, Alabama By Marie Diamond , Think Progress This year, the Georgia legislature considered a bill that would require women to prove their miscarriages “occurred naturally” and weren’t secret abortions. In a similar vein, the Gua[...]
When is Equality?
Rachel Kaufman is upset that only 27% of women choose to go into the sciences. The United States ranks 31st on the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index and is tied for 21st on Social Watch’s Gender Equity Index. Still, the test scores of U.S. high school girls have reached parity with those o[...]