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HHS' Office of Adolescent Health last month added an abstinence-only education curriculum to its list of 31 evidence-based pregnancy prevention programs that are eligible for federal funding...
Heritage Keepers does not include instruction on contraception, condoms, sexually transmitted infections or safe sexual behavior, according to Salon, which notes that the program's student manual states that "girls have a responsibility to wear modest clothing that doesn't invite lustful thoughts" ...
HHS spokesperson Mark Weber said Heritage Keeper has fulfilled the evidence-based criteria, "gone through a transparent, rigorous review process," and shown "demonstrated outcomes" of delaying sexual activity ...
[YES. GURLZ ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PUTTING THE WICKED THOUGHTS IN BOYS' HEADS. IT ARE SKIENCE FACT.
ALSO KEEPING KIDS IGNORANT IS TOTALLY A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO NEED THIS INFORMATION WHEN THEY GROW UP AND ANYWAY SCHOOL IS NOT SUPPOSED TO PREPARE THEM FOR ACTUAL ADULT LIFE LOLZORS.
-L]
In a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on April 30, more than a dozen major groups -- including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign -- asked the department to explain the decision. The program "ostracizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth; promotes heterosexual marriage as the only acceptable family structure; withholds life-saving information from sexually active youth; and uses fear-based messages to shame youth who have been sexually active and youth living in 'nontraditional' households," the letter said.
This debate has reached critical mass, and leaves me uncertain of my legal and moral status. Am I a person? An object? A ward of the state? A “prostitute”? (And if I’m the last of these, where do I drop off my W-2?) ...
Case No. 1: U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes
The Recap: Following a 10-week maternity leave, a three-year employee of a Houston debt collection agency filed a sex discrimination suit, alleging she was fired for asking permission to bring a breast pump to work. Hughes sided with the company, but added that the truth of the plaintiff’s claim was irrelevant.
Note to Governor McDonnell: Arresting women’s-rights activists won’t make your little problem go away.
This past week has been an absolute whirlwind of “What the….?!?” with ongoing attempts by Republicans to push back against women’s access to contraception and choice. If you’re catching up now, here’s some good reading: ...
[On the passage of the ultrasound requirement for women seeking abortions. -L]
No Virginia, it's not really about the fetus. It's all about the probe. Democrats had sought to allow doctors to use other imaging methods but Republicans insisted that doctors put an instrument inside the woman's vagina.
The Pentagon announced new rules last week easing the ban on women serving in combat. While conservatives like Rick Santorum are a little uneasy with the news, the announcement only formalizes military practices that were already taking place.
But Fox News contributor Liz Trotta’s commentary on the matter took the issue to a whole other level. She’s not really concerned about the “controversy” surrounding the Pentagon’s announcement. For Trotta, the issue is having “women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time.”
Clearly, being the victim of gay-bashing isn't a justification for statutory rape. But the defendant's case does shed some light on how groups of guys can police masculinity with horrifying consequences. We don't know the exact circumstances of the assault, but the defendant wouldn't be the first teenage boy to have sex — or participate in a rape — just to show he's a man.
The New York Times reports on a devastating new survey: ...
Given that the epidemic of violence against women in this country is even worse than previously thought, the release of this new data makes clear the urgency of reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.
And it also makes clear why the proposed funding cuts would be disastrous.
Rape within the US military has become so widespread that it is estimated that a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. ... The lawsuit, which includes three men and 25 women...who claim to have been subjected to sexual assaults while serving in the armed forces, blames former defence secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates for a culture of punishment against the women and men who report sex crimes and a failure to prosecute the offenders.
Since the lawsuit became public in February, 400 more have come forward, contacting attorney Susan Burke who is leading the case. ...
Whether or not the case goes to trial, it is still set to blow the lid on what has come to be regarded as the American military's dirty little secret.
..."Rape is a universal problem – it happens everywhere. But in other military systems it is regarded as a criminal offence, while in the US military, in many cases, it's considered simply a breach of good conduct. ..."
What You Can Do About It?
The goal of this year's 16 Days campaign is simple: to study, make known and help abolish the causes of violence against women. This year, the campaign's emphasis is challenging militarism.
This was inevitable. Elizabeth Warren is an outspoken woman who doesn't pull her punches.
KBR is taking advantage of a pet topic in the tort reform debate: Frivolous lawsuits. People taken to court for reasons of harassment, delay, and other schemes not actually related to the legal matters at hand can request compensation if the suit goes forward and they win. In a way, this is supposed to protect people like you and me; if someone takes me to court frivolously for the purpose of making a nuisance, and that person loses, I can potentially recover my legal expenses, which I shouldn't have had to pay because the suit shouldn't have gone forward in the first place.
KBR's deep pockets certainly financed its aggressive defense in the suit, and surely played a role in their eventual win. The demand for attorneys' fees is simply another twist of the knife, and it's a vicious one indeed. ...
At the same time, charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn are being dismissed, and narratives about victims who lie are flying thick and fast.
[Excellently pithy in a way that makes it difficult for me to pick out a quote. -L]
Schrodinger’s Rapist is not about “all men are rapists.”
It is not even about “all men are potential rapists.” All men are, in fact, potential rapists, in much the same sense as all women are potential rapists...
It is about “a very significant proportion of women will, when you approach them, be assessing whether you are going to be That Asshole...
The two bad guys are gone now, but the government wants to dig deeper — I think 26 dead children is adequate cause — but the church says no further inquiries are necessary.
...the continuing model of heterosexuality is based on the he's buying/she's selling model.
...I think that it underpins a lot of rape culture and creepy demands from so-called Nice Guys®, because [it] has the side consequence of convincing the public that men are entitled to partner sex. ...
Dating advice tends to get gendered along these lines. When women aren't getting any action, it's pretty much standard to tell them to look at themselves and see if they're charging too high a price for the product they have on offer.
...Sex is a social situation, and should be treated as one. But instead, it's treated like a market and so we all have to wonder if it's acceptable to pressure an unwilling person as long as that person isn't fighting back. ...
I actually would say that my ideal is a world where everyone is kind of selling a little, but no one is cast as a buyer.
"So, she may have misrepresented some facts about her past in her application for asylum in the United States. Big deal. She may have associations with suspected drug dealers. This means she wasn't the victim of an assault by DSK? A tape-recorded phone call between the housekeeper within a day of the alleged assault has her discussing benefits of pressing charges. Once again, this doesn't mean she wasn't the victim of an assault...."
The rush to judgment, first with DSK and now with the housekeeper, is an indictment of our obsessed and obsessive media.
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