First some good news: misogynist Scott Yenor got enough blowback as trustee at the University of West Florida he quit the job.
Blake Lively sued Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment. He counter-sued and lost.
A class-action suit brought by fetuses went nowhere.
“A Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law, according to a newly released federal investigation.”
The GOP wants to block Affordable Care Act funding from states that allow abortion coverage.
“The whole ‘biologically hardwired’ narrative is also reductive, leaving little room for a more nuanced and rigorous conversation about the way we socialize boys, the constant invisible messages we send them about who and what they should be in the world, and the growing body of research that looks at the effect this might be having on their behavior and performance.”
West Virginia law says you can’t prosecute women for abortions. So hey, prosecute them for miscarrying.
Fox News, your source for stupid gender policing. And more stupid.
Under the current budget bill’s provisions, receiving SNAP food aid is tougher for single parents.
Women were more likely than men (57 percent to 43 percent) to receive what the researchers termed “vague praise”—feedback not tied to any actual business outcome (“You had a great year”). Men were more likely to receive praise connected to their actual contribution to the company.” — from a discussion about bias in the workplace.
“Earlier this month authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras while looking for a woman who they said had a self-administered abortion, including cameras in states where abortion is legal”
“In fact, what is generally harder to see for a random journalist or member of the public, is that between his MA degree in 2015 and his enrollment at McGill, all the positions Stone held were the result of his ideological commitments, not his expertise.” — a look at how one pronatalist got sanewashed into a legitimate thinker.
Why the lines at women’s bathrooms are still so damn long.
Redefining feminine qualities as manly doesn’t solve gender stereotyping.
“They are trying to destroy you. You mean nothing to them, but you get in the way of their narrative. If I can offer you anything, it’s that this is not about you. Your story, everything that happened to you, it has now been subsumed in something much bigger. But no less evil—a word I use sparingly but deliberately.” — from a Kristin Kobes duMez post about a recently deceased SBC-abuse survivor.
The new federal directive for E/Rs dealing with pregnant women is that rather than prioritize the mother’s health, the fetus is just as important.
