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...this sentiment from Quesada manages to both insult all of Marvel’s female characters and all actresses everywhere in one fell swoop. But even more impressive is the fact that less than two weeks ago a movie debuted that is destroying box office records everywhere AND getting huge critical and fan acclaim.  A movie with a large ensemble cast, that stars, in part, one of Marvel’s greatest female superheroes, and one of Hollywood’s hottest young actresses, and this character and performance are also getting huge kudos.  I speak of course of The Avengers, and Black Widow, and Scarlett Johansson. ...




Yes…Marvel, can you please give me a job in your Public Relations department stat. Because this is not fucking rocket science.

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Internets, I am ANNOYED, because there are people out there having Wrong Opinions about Black Widow and it is gross and sexist and damaging my calm. 

There seems to be this attitude that Black Widow's entire purpose in the Avengers film is to be a sex object. ...is saying a hell of a lot more about how you see women than it is about Natasha's role in the film.

...As a quick list of her accomplishments, Natasha is absolutely crucial to the success of the Avengers Initiative because she: ...[spoilers]

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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.

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Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday introduced a bill aimed at better protecting pregnant women from workplace discrimination...

...protect pregnant women from being unnecessarily forced out of jobs or denied reasonable adjustments that would allow them to keep working. For example, they said some employers deny women simple job modifications such as carrying a water bottle or using a stool when working at a cash register. In several cases, women have been fired for making such requests.

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...my new neighbor wanders over with a beer in hand, and tells me I shouldn't be disrespecting my man by doing hte yard work. I should be prepping the food for him to grill for tonight's dinner while he mows.

I shrugged and said I didn't have a man. So he says maybe my father should do the lawn while I cook him dinner. I said I didn't have a father. So he says my brother should be mowing while I feed him and his family. I said my brother was in the ICU and I doubted his doctor would approve of him mowing should he ever live to leave it. So he hesitatnly asks if I have a son.

So I tell him, "Yes, They're in Afghanistan fighting for the right for men like you to go around insulting their mama while she goes about her business." ...

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Today the Women’s Media Center releases a new Media Guide for its Name It. Change It. Project, which works to identify, prevent and end sexist media coverage of women candidates and politicians. The Women’s Media Center’s Media Guide to Gender Neutral Coverage of Women Candidates + Politicians (click to download) shows members of the media how to avoid injecting sexism into their own coverage and how to spot sexism in other’s.

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As secretary of state, Clinton is supposed to stay out of domestic politics. But this was a moment pregnant with possibility, a titanic clash of the Inevitable (Hillary) and the Indefensible (Republican cavemen).

The attempt by Republican men to wrestle American women back into chastity belts has not only breathed life into President Obama, it has roused and riled Hillary. And that could turn out to be the most dangerous thing the wildly self-destructive G.O.P. leaders have done.

In some kind of insane bout of mass misogyny, Republicans are hounding out the women voters — including Republicans and independents — who helped them gain control of the House in 2010.

Senator Olympia Snowe, who’s fed up and leaving Congress, told The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty that “it feels as if we are going back to another era,” warning that Republicans could drive women into Democratic arms.

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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.

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Given that Aspirin is not a contraceptive, Friess seems to be suggesting that women keep the pill between their knees in order to ensure they legs stay closed to prevent having sex. Conspicuously, Friess doesn’t put the same burden on men.

Friess’ general attitude seems consistent with the candidate he supports. Santorum personally opposes contraception, has pledged to lecture women on the dangers of birth control if elected president, and thinks states have the right to outlaw it.

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A recent paper by Julia Becker and Stephen Wright details even more of the insidious ways that benevolent sexism might be harmful for both women and social activism. In a series of experiments, women were exposed to statements that either illustrated hostile sexism (e.g. “Women are too easily offended”) or benevolent sexism (e.g. “Women have a way of caring that men are not capable of in the same way.”) The results are quite discouraging; when the women read statements illustrating benevolent sexism, they were less willing to engage in anti-sexist collective action, such as signing a petition, participating in a rally, or generally “acting against sexism.” Not only that, but this effect was partially mediated by the fact that women who were exposed to benevolent sexism were more likely to think that there are many advantages to being a woman and were also more likely to engage in system justification, a process by which people justify the status quo and believe that there are no longer problems facing disadvantaged groups (such as women) in modern day society. Furthermore, women who were exposed to hostile sexism actually displayed the opposite effect – they were more likely to intend to engage in collective action, and more willing to fight against sexism in their everyday lives.

How might this play out in a day-to-day context? Imagine that there’s an anti-woman policy being brought to a vote, such as a regulation that would make it easier for local businesses to fire pregnant women once they find out that they are expecting. If you are collecting signatures for a petition or trying to gather women to protest this policy and those women were recently exposed to a group of men making comments about the policy in question, it would be significantly easier to gain their support and vote down the policy if the men were commenting that pregnant women should be fired because they were dumb for getting pregnant in the first place. However, if they instead happened to mention that women are much more compassionate than men and make better stay-at-home parents as a result, these remarks might actually lead these women to be less likely to fight an objectively sexist policy.

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...hoo boy has there been a lot of terrible writing about female musicians in the past few weeks. The latest offender is the New York Times style magazine T's cover-worthy profile of Lana Del Rey, which manages to be offensive from its first sentence and somehow gets worse from there.

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Lego Friends paints “girl things” only slightly more progressively than most Bratz sets. Lego Friends is tacitly separate from the rest of the considerably diverse Lego universe (town and city, space,robots, pirates, trains, Vikings, castle, dinosaurs, undersea exploration, and wild west, not to mention licensed sets), and the mini-figures themselves are incompatible (in terms of the actual fastening joints of their hands and accessories).

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...expertise: it exists in the fields of race and gender studies & activism just like it exists in the fields of physics, sociology, politics, philosophy, biology and anthropology. ...If you're a progressive and you don't get that, you're not nearly as much of a progressive as you think.

"I'm not a physicist but.... I'm going to venture out here and explain the theory of relativity without reading any books about it or referring to the work of a single physicist. By the way, I suck at math."

...When the U.S. falls far behind in science education, and people lose sight of the meaning of the word "evolution," my guess is that most of you think that the best thing to do about it is improve American education, not change the definition of "evolution" so that it stops describing what it was invented to describe. And yet, many of the same people who believe it's a tragedy that the average American is so ignorant about science are totally cool with the fact that Americans are dangerously and aggressively ignorant about race.

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[DON'T read the whole thread. -L]

...I hate the phrase “pick your battles”, because that’s not what the person who says it actually means. They don’t mean that one should establish what battles they do and do not want to fight based on their own experiences, but that which battles are valid or not rely on the approval of the person saying “pick your battles”.

There’s also something in there that, if this were TVTropes, I would be tempted to call “Feminists Can’t Multitask”: the idea that a feminist cannot, for example, combat gender discrimination in the workplace and also call out subtle forms of sexism. The thing is, yes we can. Not only can we do both, but I think feminists do a damn good job of ascribing appropriate degrees of interest in both things. That’s why gender discrimination gets legislation and Subtly Sexist Bunnies get a “hey, isn’t this kinda sexist?” offhand remark.

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A question of who should be allowed access to a safe form of contraception is at its root a question of how badly we want to, or believe that we can, police young women’s sexuality. When Obama is talking about his daughters, we know he’s not really basing his opinion on an anxiety that they might suffer the adverse effects of drinking a whole jug of Pepto-Bismol or swallowing 50 Advil, things that any 11-year-old who walks into a CVS with a wad of cash could theoretically do. When he says that he wants to “apply common sense” to questions of young women’s access to emergency contraception, he is telegraphing his discomfort with the idea of young women’s sexual agency, or more simply, with the idea of them having sex lives at all. This discomfort might be comprehensible from an emotional, parental point of view. But these are not familial discussions; this is a public-health policy debate...

Why should we be asked to believe that Obama’s paternity imbues him with more moral authority on the subject of women’s health and reproductive lives...

What’s startling is the degree to which Obama seems not to have learned from any of his past gaffes, how no one seems to have told him – or told him in a way that he’s absorbed – that the best way to address a question of women’s health and rights is probably not by making it about his role as a father.

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...calling a guest—let alone a seated U.S. congresswoman who is one of a small number of Republican women to ever run for the Presidency—a “lying bitch” is both sexist and unfunny. It’s not even what one could legitimately call “snark,” which is generally understood to mean a sarcastic comment or snide remark. Calling a powerful woman a “bitch” because you don’t like her views or her attitude is pretty much standard issue sexism—just ask Hillary Clinton, for instance.

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In any other context, we would be shocked at the suggestion that an organization’s religious affiliation should take precedence over an individual’s health care needs. Unfortunately, we have become so accustomed to religious objections to women’s health needs that they can seem commonplace.

It is important to remember, however, that many laws — including those we consider core to America’s values — initially confronted religiously-grounded opposition.

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[Short post written by two men. Guess what they think about it? Yeah. -L]

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The harassment skeptics claim that harassment, like racism, used to exist but is now over. Twenty years ago, when charges were leveled at Clarence Thomas, supporters of the accused refused to take the accuser seriously. Now supporters of the accused refuse to take the accusation itself seriously. We have gone from not knowing what sexual harassment is to not believing it still happens. All in less than 20 years. ...

This isn’t just an effort to discredit Cain’s accusers. It’s an effort to dissuade women with genuine complaints from coming forward to report them.

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