Post-Homophobic America

[Content Note: Homophobia.]We've heard that people reside in a publish-racial America, which we reside in a publish-feminist America. This stuff aren't true, regardless of the insistence that they're expressed by fortunate people committed to the concept racism and misogyny aren't Real Concerns any longer.We hear less that people reside in a publish-homophobic America, a minimum of such explicit terms, but there's some notion that come with the growing support for and legalisation of same-sex marriage the equality fight is basically won. This really is partially a direct result marriage equality getting been situated because the Final Frontier in equality through the most fortunate people from the queer community, and mainly a direct result straight people whose privilege inoculates them in the scope of methods homophobia plays out with techniques apart from legal inequities.Today, I've read these 3 tales:1. Niners CB States Freely Gay Gamers Wouldn't Be Welcomed around the Team:Bay Area 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver makes inflammatory comments regarding homosexuality in football only a couple of days before Super Bowl XLVII.Shock jock Artie Lange revealed he'd questioned Culliver at media day Tuesday and broadcast a segment on his reveal that evening, in which the player was adamant that any gay gamers wouldn't be welcome around the team."I do not perform the gay men guy," stated Culliver, whose Niners take part in the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. "I do not do this. No, we do not got no gay people around the team, they gotta wake up from here when they do."Can not be with this sweet stuff. Nah…can't be…in the locker room guy. Nah."When quizzed by Lange whether any homosexual sports athletes will have to keep their sexuality a secret in football, Culliver responded: "Yeah, emerge ten years later next.Inch2. Tennessee 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Now Requires Instructors to share with Parents if The Youngster is Gay: Tennessee's so-known as 'Don't Say Gay' bill died using the adjournment from the condition set up this past year. However the is through back — with new, harsher needs.The balance, SB 234, still bars Tennessee instructors from talking about any part of "non-heterosexual" sexuality with children in grades K-8. However the latest iteration includes a provision needing instructors or advisors to share with the mother and father of some students who identify themselves as LGBT. Condition Sen. Stacey Campfield (R), who written the balance to begin with and again introduced it this time around, calls out students who may be "in danger,Inch but leaves the interpretation of this behavior towards the teacher.3. Facebook Customers Mount Campaign in order to save 'Gay Dog' from Being Put Lower by Tennessee Kill Shelter: This healthy male American Bulldog mix is scheduled to become put lower later today in the Rabies Control shelter in Jackson, Tennesee."Not bc he's mean or bc he tears some misconception,Inch states a Facebook user [who pays regular appointments with the kill shelter searching for dogs to save]. No: "Because his owner states he's gay."Based on the [Facebooker], this unloved pooch was declined while he was discovered "hunched [over]" another male dog."His owner put him away bc he refuses to possess a 'gay' dog!" she creates. "Don't allow this gorgeous dog die [because] his owner is unaware of normal dog behavior!"That's just stuff I have read today.Equality is often treated as some kind of race having a definitive endpoint marked with a single achievement. Equality for African People in america was declared upon the Emancipation Proclamation, upon the passage from the Civil Privileges Act, upon the election from the nation's first black leader. Equality for ladies was declared upon women getting the authority to election, upon the passage of Roe v. Wade, upon Geraldine Ferraro's appointment to some national ticket.Social justice does not work by doing this.This is an ongoing procedure for altering the culture, including although not restricted to significant legal changes. But marriage equality doesn't safeguard gay sports athletes in locker rooms, or gay kids in public places schools, or bigotry that manifests in harmful, oppressive, and/or absurd ways, like rejecting "gay dogs." It is a enticing idea that certain little bit of legislation, or three bits, or ten, can mark an endpoint to institutional oppression. But culture changes avoid the stroke of the pen. That can take a fuckload of teaspoons.

Promoted from Comments

[Content Note: Cultural misogyny and gender essentialism.]Shaker AnnaAnastasia in comments with an Observation (About Tokenism), distributed to her permission:That we're mysterious, that we're an impenetrable and unrelatable monolith, our communication and interaction with one another in tangible existence is really inscrutable it cannot possible be deciphered and reproducedAnd you realize what is a strange consequence of the for me personally like a lady? That as lengthy when i can remember, I have been intimidated when participating in relationships with females (in groups a treadmill-to-one) because I have internalized that they are inscrutable, despite the fact that I'm one.Even from elementary school, girl-only slumber parties felt like check-lists - did we fresh paint our nails? Check. Consume a pint of frozen treats? Check. Call boys? Check. I did not know whether I loved individuals things, and that i certainly did not understand how to suggest doing stuff that were coded as less "girly" like digging within the dirt. I simply understood the script, because that is what The trainer told us women do, and so i performed along. In college, I felt much more comfortable residing in an assorted-gender unit than Used to do after i resided within an all-female unit, due to the fact I figured there is a script for living exclusively along with other women. (Even today, I do not quite understand what I was expecting, that I was expecting something.)To this day, I can not let you know the amount of occasions that the female friend or buddies have requested me to visit shopping, in order to the films, in order to spend time, as humans frequently do, and that i become nervous and question how you can "act" with another lady. I personally use "act" deliberately, since it seems like an action: I stand outdoors myself and question how several women would act in cases like this. Don't let select the "girly" romantic comedy, or will she be disappointed if We highly recommend the action movie, because women don't watch individuals (even when I actually do)? Let's say I wish to shop inside a record store, not really a lingerie store? Is the fact that strange, like a lady, to locate more interesting? Absolutely not, however it does not stop me from feeling awkward. Being with several mixed gender buddies is really much simpler for me personally.I you know what I am saying is the fact that we reside in a really screwed-up patriarchy when like a lady, I have psychologically put myself becoming men scriptwriter who does not believe he understands how to illustrate associations between women, despite the fact that the script I am writing is my very own existence like a lady.I connect with mtss is a lot. One thing that designed a difference for me personally is feminism (SHOCKING I Understand) and extremely internalizing the matter that women aren't a monolith. Lots of things i thought was an clumsiness in getting together with other women and ladies for several years really was just being buddies with females who did not share my (allegedly unfeminine) interests.

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

R. Dean Taylor: "Indiana Wants Me"

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by designs.Suggested Reading through:Lyle: President's Appointment Energy CurbedAviva: CNN Anchor Methods Opponent of ladies in Combat to Endorse Racial Segregation [Content Note for misogyny and racism.]Erica: VictoryPaul: Obama's Second Chance: The Reelected Leader Has Gun Law as well as Global Warming in the Sights [Note: Should you read completely towards the very finish, you will notice a familiar title waxing repetitive about Obama as being a more powerful ally on reproductive privileges. GEE WHO Can It Be?!Pleased Place: If Downton Abbey Happened Positioned on Facebook: Season 3, Episode 3 [Content Note for the similar biases based in the episode.]And from Flyover Feminism's Roe Week [content note for fight against agency for the below posts]:Nicole Clark: Keeping the Belief within the Professional Choice MovementRobin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo: Kansas: "Notify Your Conscience Become Your Guide"Lily Bolourian: Roe v. Wade Anniversary: Why I'm Not Satisfied After 40 YearsAlicia Walters: Regulating Black Motherhood of all the AngleARROW: An Overview from the Condition of Abortion Over the Asian RegionLeave your links and proposals in comments...

Buh-Bye

Via Taegan Goddard: "Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) 'will announce today that he's shedding intends to run for any third term in 2014, a choice sure to trigger an avalanche of Republican candidates who'll aim to replace him,' the Atlanta Journal-Metabolic rate reviews."Not again. Don't go.' ' just kidding. Good riddance, Chambliss.

Today in Fat Hatred

[Content Note: Body fat hate misogyny heterocentrism.]Erica Barnett emails, that we am discussing with permission:A genuine jewel in the WSJ: "Mixed-Weight Couples Report More Conflict." [Presently entitled: "Stop 'Do I Look Body fat?'"]Accurate translation: Douchebag dudes who say such things as, "I suppose you are certainly one of individuals individuals who looks better in clothes" justifiably piss off female partners. Try not to worry, there is a happy ending: If women just count calories and slim down, their partners will discover them attractive again! (The "study," for example it had been, incorporated just 43 hetero couples and just found "elevated conflict" once the lady was body fat and also the guy was critical.)The content is filled with awesome stuff, like: "Even individuals who aren't overweight can obsess regarding their appearance (sadly, these mostly are usually women)."Sadly, that's incorrect. Literally, I am unable to think about just one guy I understand well who has not, on multiple occasions, stated something in my experience denigrating and/or fretting about his appearance. It's more socially acceptable, as far as that it's expected, for ladies to openly "obsess" regarding their looks, but it's flatly false that males don't share this eminently human response to residing in a vicious culture of judgment that encourages shameless body regulating.The main difference isn't that males do not have body issues, but that:1. Many of us are socialized to see women's physiques as public property, and therefore women are disproportionately exposed to critique on any failure to adapt to some kyriarchal beauty standard.2. Males (especially males who partner with females) are urged to police their partners' physiques for beauty, while women (especially ladies who partner with males) are urged to police their partners' physiques for health. A guy should be accountable for ensuring his wife does not "let herself go," while a lady should be accountable for ensuring her husband eats his veggies.3. Males who're joined with females are judged by their partners' appearance a lot more than ladies who are joined with males. A guy having a body fat/unattractive wife is judged in most types of ways in which a lady having a body fat/unattractive husband is not. He, using the body fat/unattractive wife, should have a problem with him. He, using the more appealing wife, should be quite a great guy and is not she lucky!These aren't absolutes. But there's an entire world at play here that describes why, exactly, it is just the couples using the body fat spouses and demanding husbands who experience "elevated conflict." And just what underwrites that critique to begin with.

Ladies

I'll also miss this...Which isn't to state we'll never see Hillary Clinton employed in another capacity with First Lady Michelle Obama (or perhaps Leader Obama), but, you realize, I am and feel sentimental once we prepare to leave behind Clinton as Secretary of Condition.

Coercive Patriotism

If you have look at this blog for a while, you might recall that i'm from the ritual rote recitation from the Pledge of Allegiance in public places schools. In a nutshell: I don't accept is as true should happen. Ever. I've not transformed my estimation it's "a propagandic type of subtle brainwashing when children are created to pledge themselves to [the flag, the nation] inside a ritual manner."Which means you just know that i'm, we could say, under pleased to discover this new suggested legislation in Arizona--HB 2467--that will need students to swear an oath to God to uphold the Metabolic rate and defend the nation to allow them to graduate. Indeed, you heard right:Starting within the 2013‑2014 school year, Additionally to fulfilling the path of study and assessment needs recommended within this chapter, before a pupil is permitted to finish a public senior high school within this condition, the main or mind teacher from the school shall verify on paper the pupil has recited the next oath:I, _________, do solemnly swear which i will support and defend the Metabolic rate from the U . s . States against all opponents, foreign and domestic, which i will bear true belief and allegiance towards the same which i take this obligation freely, with no mental reservation or reason for evasion which I'll well and faithfully discharge these responsibilities So assist me to God.A Lot WRONG. If your public school student has satisfied other graduation needs, they shouldn't be needed to swear a fucking oath to protect the nation to be able to obtain diploma. No. Just NO. Also, as this is a compelled oath to be able to finish senior high school (and most probably keep existence), it can't naturally be "taken freely without reservation". It will likely be pushed, not given of freewill as you might when, say, chosen to office or joining the military. And "So assist me to God"? Um, exactly what the fuck now? Which god would that be? Anyway, not a chance, public school students cannot and cannot have no choice but attract any deity. Ever.When I stated within my publish concerning the Pledge, there is not anything naturally wrong with pledging your personal allegiance to particular country but it ought to be done of a person's own freedom. Additionally, there are nothing naturally wrong with promising to uphold and defend the metabolic rate of the country, either. There is a whole fucking lot wrong with compelling students to do this to be able to obtain senior high school diploma. It's blind, arrogant nationalism to coerce oaths of "loyalty" to country from kids to be able to finish senior high school.

Random Nerd Nostalgia: Batwoman's Judo Style

I love to believe that the editors had some vague memory of ju-jutsu suffragettes. but I am not relying on it.

Home in The South: Notes of a Non-Native Daughter

So some U.S. liberals residing in blue states who question why progressive people could reside in the dreaded "Red-colored States." We will leave? Do you want to? Wouldn't our way of life be much better? And these aren't just any progressives, but wise ones who work with Rachel Maddow. Two great reactions originate from kchapmangibbons and also the wonderful scATX. I encourage you to definitely read both records. Particularly, they address the questions and also the presumptions in it get tedious, fast. I discovered myself nodding along in lots of places. Elsewhere however, I did not identify, because I am not came from here. However I am still at "home" here. "Home" is really a complicated concept. A lot of us was raised in houses where i was loved, but we still found leaving a relief. Others was raised in houses seeped in disappointment, yet we may have discovered there have been several things we skipped whenever we left. House is complicated like this. As grown ups, we come up with houses we are able to love, but that does not make sure they are perfect. For many people, the South isn't a place they are able to ever truly create a home, and that is okay. Personally, though, I am attempting to put lower some roots and grow within this Southern soil where I've been grown; I am not really a child from the U.S. South. I was raised in, and was formed by, the U.S. Area and Canadian Maritimes. (Yes, which means my accent stays out just like a sore thumb. Or possibly an unusual thumb-finger hybrid. I dunno). It isn't my culture nor my landscape, although you will find ways that I'm able to connect with both. I originate from rural places, from decades of maqui berry farmers and folks familiar with making their living in the atmosphere. And That I like individuals rural places. I love being outdoors, getting an outdoor, and that i love living somewhere where that does not mark me like a freak, but "just folks." Like every home, though, I've my complaints about this. Possibly Certainly I'll never get accustomed to the weather. Culturally, I am always likely to be marked apart in what my boss calls my "Canadian directness" to get to the stage of products. (My directness is bilingual, I suppose, having a fondness for curling and Tim Horton's.) I certainly will not ever get accustomed to the specific gendered and racinated ways in which patriarchy expresses itself here. But you will know? Aspects of patriarchy abound. Let us not really pretend that particular states or nations do not have patriarchal issues. At core, this is when my job is--my career. I have spent multiple years building associations with students, alumni, co-workers, and community. I do not drop individuals connections easily. My co-workers are mainly awesome, and then any academic recognizes that your department where people really get on may be worth the weight in gold. And albeit, tasks are tricky to find, even when I needed to depart. The vicissitudes from the academic market really are a matter for an additional publish, but short version: I understand people who reside in "blue states" who're frankly envious of my location. I have arrived at love the funky little corners of my city, where there's music and proper downtown parades and First Fridays as well as an awesome used book shop. I additionally love the historic sites and different cultures that surround me. Basically did not live here, would I've ever visited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's planning center? Eaten boiled peanuts? Partied on Beale Street? Seen in which the Trail of Tears started? Grown blackeyed peas and cushaw squash within my own garden? Maybe. But doubtful. I have made buddies and acquired family members. Even family. And I have lost a couple of, too. I miss my loved ones elsewhere If only I were nearer to my parents, my niece and nephew, and lots of other family members. However I determine if I moved, I'd also pain to see relatives here. You will find progressives here, too, people working their asses off to create a better world--and generally, my progressive buddies are native Southerners. Southern culture isn't my culture, however i realize that it doesn't axiomatically mean hateful, conservative culture. Exactly the same soil that nourishes bigotry also sprouts the seed products of generosity, social justice, and love. Could it be depressing to reside in a condition where gerrymandering guarantees GOP rule? Oh HELL yes. I am fed up with working for a condition whose dominant political party really wants to regulate my uterus, constantly pier my pay, and scorn me when I am unhappy about this. It's wearying. But guess what happens else is wearying? Individuals fellow progressives in blue states questioning why or the way i even exist. House is complicated. This really is my house, otherwise my native land. And That I love my complicated, imperfect home.

Open Thread

Located with a contrabassoon.

The Parks and Rec Open Thread

"Tear up, 16! Emancipate some abs!"(Spoilers are stress-eating gummi male organs herein.)Penis hats! Molecular mixology! Babe Lincoln subsequently and also the Gettysburg Undress! Frozen treats mustache! Touchdown dance! Extra cream thirty sugars! Tweep! There have been an enjoyable experience reasons for this episode!And whooooooooooooops there have been lots of difficult reasons for this episode!1. I'm Formally Completed with nobody having the ability to understand why Gayle loves Jerry. Departing aside the gross implicit commentary that somebody who's body fat and wacky is axiomatically unlovable (by anybody who isn't themselves body fat and wacky, anyway), it simply does not even seem sensible with anything else we all know about Ben because the character continues to be written he could not imagine why Jerry is really a adorable guy. The authors are undermining their very own work to be able to keep creating a nasty joke at Jerry's expense.2. The body fat jokes. Gaming t-t shirts only are available in XXL. Paunch Hamburger. "Start drooling, fatties." You realize, inside a show whose primary figures eat waffles and meats like they are heading out of fashion, you'd think we're able to skip the tired trope about how exactly eating hamburgers makes people body fat.3. I loved the men's super fun and sweet rotating bachelor party concept. I didn't love the juxtaposition from the males getting fun as the women labored, especially since there is no frame that recommended work was an ideal party for Leslie, as has happened before. It was a real drag on her, or other people. I did not want that for Leslie, and that i did not like how Ann felt it had been failing on her behalf part, also it annoyed me out.4. The whole Wamapoke sub-plot. On one side, I loved the show addressed, pretty candidly, how municipality in states like Indiana have in the past oppressed, frequently strongly, native peoples, which many contemporary interactions continue to be appropriative and exploitative. However, I am unsure that type of commentary works inside a comedy show with ironic humor that appears the same as non-ironic humor ubiquitously made at Native Americans' expense. There is lots to tease out relating to this thread within the episode, and so do in internet marketing in comments.Anyway. Here are a few other activities Used to do like... "And anything that may be penis-formed, is going to be penis-formed." "I understand you stated no strippers, simply because they cause you to sad." "Correct." "Can One request if the entire establishment is really a practical joke of some type?Inch "I am simply not within the mood for historic nudity. Please, Mr. Leader, place your pants back on." "It is the lord's work you are doing, John. I would like four more portions of Lagavulin in liquid form." "The Zodiac Killer never confessed. Why must i?!Inch "Is the fact that a threat?" "Well, yes, I figured which was apparent."Discuss!

Prepare the Fainting Couches

[Content Note: Terrorism violence.]Hayes Brown at Think Progress—New Study Highlights Threat from Far Right-Wing Groups within the U . s . States:New research from the think tank attached to the West Point Military Academy highlights the threat of violent far-right actions within the U . s . States, resulting in the final outcome that, while diverse in within their causes, they're similar within their utilization of violence to attain their aims.West Point's Combatting Terrorism Center began as a direct consequence from the Sept. 11 attacks, and it has mainly focused its research on worldwide terrorist risks. Entitled "Competitors in the Sidelines: Understanding America's Violent Far-Right," this new report rather appears to be the danger that domestic groups pose towards the U.S. Wearing down such groups into three groups — the Racist/Whitened Supremacy Movement, the Anti-Federalist Movement, and also the Christian Fundamentalist Movement — enables the research to look at the backdrop ideologies and techniques of every subset completely, in opposition to lumping them altogether since many research has.Each one of the types within the study represent competing ideological sights, without them prone to cooperate in achieving their aims. The probabilities that all these groups uses violence also varies. The things they share, however, is really a utilization of violence against their selected targets — whether it is minority races or abortion treatment centers — to highlight and stress their given ideology. Naturally, conservatives happen to be refuting the research with great comebacks like: "The $64,000 dollar real question is when will the Combating Terrorism Center publish their study real left-wing terrorists such as the Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and also the Weather Subterranean?"That rhetorical is nearly TOO perfect.I'm not sure what else I'm able to say about rightwing eliminationist violence which i haven't already stated fully a million occasions. Deficiencies in empathy permitted to fester unchallenged will in the end be a violent urge. We can't indulge this toxic intolerance with stories of "each side get their extremists" as it were more.

Headline of the Day

Zac Efron Freaks Out after Being Captured pics of Near a range of Dildos.Happy Friday, everybody!

Quote of the Day

"I'm probably the most obstinate person you'll ever meet. I've got a streak of resistance within me which i think is exactly what has paid for for many of my success in existence. There's some personal have to persevere, to battle the battle. And when you simply try to be persistent about trying that you can do that which you set proper effort into.Inch—Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who furthermore noted that her personal determination was assisted by affirmative action, which "would be a door opener that transformed the path of my existence."Sotomayor would be the first Latina to manage the oath of office towards the US V . P ., when she swears in Vice president Joe Biden on Inauguration Day. Biden personally selected her.[H/T to Shaker Brunocerous.]

Photo of the Day

In the Telegraph's Pictures during the day for 15 The month of january 2013: A lady cheetah sits on the top of the jeep in Maasai Mara, Kenya to make use of the Land Cruiser like a look-out publish. They climb the greatest point available, often a termite mound, to place their prey, however this clever cheetah am going to find food on her cubs that they thought nothing of jumping onto a moving Land Cruiser. Digital photographer David Lloyd was taking wildlife within the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya as he acquired the unpredicted hitch-walker. [David Lloyd / Barcroft Media]Beautiful.

Seeking Help for Midnight

[Content Note: Animal neglect.]Yesterday, Iain and that i delivered some donations—garbage bags, sponges, bleach, SOS pads—at the neighborhood humane society where we adopted Zelda (where I additionally adopted my late cat Jimmy). It had not been much, however it was what we should can afford, plus they were grateful for which we're able to give.In the end have there been, we spent a while using the dogs and felines located there. It's not a simple factor for either people, to determine creatures looking for houses to whom we can't do more, but that bit of cuddling and cooing and letting them know how lovely they're is some affection they would not have experienced otherwise, which feels worthwhile, despite the fact that it's so difficult to leave.I was both taken having a whitened Husky ironically named Night time, who had been so shy it required forever for among the workers—a wonderful, gentle, empathic, passionate youthful woman—to get him on the lead. He cowered and shook, but didn't have aggression. He was noticeably underweight and was deeply missing in socialization with humans. The one who dropped him off in the shelter reported as the reason behind abandonment that "he wouldn't do anything whatsoever.InchWe've got Night time around the lead and required him outdoors for any walk within the falling snow. His tail was hidden firmly between his legs, but he remained first at Iain's side, after which at mine, and gradually his tail started to unwind, then the relaxation of him. He would never know come, or heel, or sit. He cringed away in fright if anybody arrived at to touch him. Night time reminded me lots of Dudley, not so long ago.We required him in to the little dogpark the shelter lately built out back. He walked around, backwards and forwards, and that we didn't attempt to pet him or lead him to do anything whatsoever he didn't wish to accomplish. We just walked beside him and tell him there have been individuals who wouldn't hurt him.Eventually, we was. We allow the lead slack, and that he started to research us. He sniffed our hands, and that we offered closed fists. He decreased his mind and that we stroked his ears and the face. He wasn't sure whether he loved it, but he was pretty certain he did not hate it.Night time is a superb dog who'll not show well in the shelter and would profoundly take advantage of being fostered. Iain and that i seriously considered fostering him ourselves, but he's so shy yet he can not be correctly examined with felines or fences. I felt confident he'd be fine with felines, because he's so submissive, particularly in a home along with other cat-sincere dogs, with whom he'd be searching for behavior cues. But Huskies are well known escape artists, and that we have only a four-feet fence. For their own safety, we left him there.I released the term to individuals I understand in local animal save that there is your dog in great necessity of fostering. Most people I understand are, however, involved with greyhound and pitbull save. They are discussing the information—hopefully someone can save Night time.As we left, Iain moaned totally, "I'm not sure why I actually do this to myself." That I'm able to relate. It's difficult to feel so sad and helpless."We gave Night time an chance to spend some time with individuals who will not hurt him," I stated. "The next time he sees charge, he'll connect it that tiny bit more with higher things happening and become that tiny bit less unwilling to be leashed."Iain murmured his agreement. It's small consolation.He's already an excellent dog. I really hope someone sees exactly what a great pet he'll be, once he's given the opportunity to build his confidence via a trust-building routine inside a safe home.We went home and hugged the furry citizens soooooooo tight.

Daily Dose of Cute

Matilda demonstrates her capability to touch her nose together with her tongue.I keep declaring that it isn't that impressive for felines, but she will not listen.

Quote of the Day

[Content Note: Rape apologia misogyny.]"In Missouri, Todd Akin…was requested with a local news source about rape and that he stated, 'Look, inside a legitimate rape situation'—and what he meant by legitimate rape only agreed to be look, someone know I had been raped: a scared-to-dying 15-year-old that becomes heavy-laden by her boyfriend after which needs to let her know parents, that's pretty tough and can on some occasion say, 'Hey, I had been raped.' That is what he meant as he stated legitimate rape versus non-legitimate rape. I do not find anything so horrible about this. However he continued and stated that in times of rape, of the legitimate rape, a ladies body has a method of shutting lower therefore the pregnancy wouldn't occur. He’s partially directly on that… I have shipped plenty of babies, and that i learn about this stuff. It is a fact. We tell infertile couples constantly which are getting trouble getting pregnant due to the lady not ovulation, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of vino. And do not be so tense and uptight because everything adrenaline may cause explore to ovulate.' So he was partly right wasn't he?"—Phil Gingrey, a Republican Congressman from Georgia. [Via Chloe.]Santorum. Akin. Walsh. Mourdock. Koster. And today Gingery. Exactly what a awesome club filled with awesome dudes!You realize, I have heard many people make use of the whole "a scared teenage girl will get pregnant and informs her parents it had been rape" chestnut, and that i just actually want to call major bullshit on that. I've known scared pregnant teenage women, buddies and family people, and none of them of these stated they were raped—because they wanted the fathers of the children to stay in their as well as their children's lives.I am not to imply it's rarely happened within the history around the globe, because Large PLANET, however the routine assertion that's a typical scenario just does not pass the smell test. No girl or lady who desires the participation of her child's father will say she was raped. And when she's saying she was raped, well, maybe that is because she was.

In The News

[Content note: Guns, gun violence]It's Thursday Once Again:More youthful People in america die earlier and reside in lesser health than their alternatives in other developed nations.Also: Influenza continues to be distributing very over the U . s . States.Exactly what a new physician discovered medical mistakes from her mother's dying.Liz Carmouche, the UFC's only freely gay athlete, is going to be brawling within the primary event this Winter.The Nation's Rifle Association has acquired a lot more than 100,000 new people because the Sandy Hook shooting. Gross.Also: The Whitened Home is weighing all available way to reform gun laws and regulations, including executive orders the Leader may problem. The Marine Corps has advised its legal staff that partners clubs operating on its installations must admit same-sex partners if they would like to stick to the bases.Dick Armey accidentally spoken some shit.Al Roker accidentally required a shit.Tasks are not growing quick enough to maintain potential labor force.Adorable Labradoodle mistaken for lion. Cute!

Quote of the Day

[Content Note: Guns violence terrorism.]"V . P . Biden is asking the Leader to bypass Congress and employ executive privilege—executive to prohibit assault rifles and also to impose more stringent gun control. Fuck that. I am suggesting when that occurs, it is going to spark a civil war, and I'm going to be glad to fireplace the very first shot. I am not setting up by using it. You should not endure it. And That I need whatever you patriots to begin considering what you are likely to do, load your damn magazines, make certain your rifle's clean, pack a backpack with a few food inside it, and prepare to battle. I am not fucking setting up with this particular. I'm not letting my country be ruled with a dictator. I am not letting anybody take my guns! Whether it goes 1 inch further, I am likely to start killing people."—James Yeager, Boss of Tactical Response, a business concentrating in weapons and tactical training, situated in Tennessee. Sounds reasonable.

Seen

[Image description: A stark billboard in western Maryland reading through "I miss hearing you say 'Merry Christmas' — Jesus."]Yeah, sure, that's certainly something Jesus could be bothered by. Not too stuff about how exactly we do not feed poor people or don't look after the sick or the way we use his title to warrant a myriad of bigotry. He's just pissed we are really not honoring his birthday. Right? There is certainly no Christmas this season, I am certain from it.

Open Thread

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Monday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by cheese.Suggested Reading through:Marcy: The Seduction of John Brennan's "Moral Rectitude"Paul Krugman: The Outdoors ManIndian Housewife: Father Wants the planet to understand Her Real Title [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of discussion of sexual violence.]Diana: Notre Dame Football Gamers Rape Cover-up: What's in news reports and just what Is not [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of discussion of sexual violence, rape culture, and self-harm.]FMF News: CA Rape Conviction Overturned Because Victim was Unmarried [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of an account from the incident of sexual violence in the center from the situation.]Ken: How Doctors DieJessica: Earning Money from Tragedy: Gun Show Attendance Is UpFannie: Still Searching For That "Feminist Echo Chamber" Andy: The Advocate Print Edition revisit Newsstands After Two-Year AbsenceRagen: Let's say I am Uncomfortable With My Weight [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of discussion of body image and diet.]crunkadelic: Django Unchained and Why Context MattersJorge: Django Unchained Figures Leading to Much More ControversyMy many thanks to Anna for including me within the Feministing Five this year! Great and humbling company. Go read all of them!Depart your links and proposals in comments...

Meet the New Congress; Same as the Old Congress

It's now the entire year in our the almighty Jesus Johnson two 1000 and 13, and a lot of everything has transformed. Humans are immortal, all of us drive flying cars to the jobs in the robot factory, and Leader Lucy Liu has guaranteed lasting world peace. Only one factor hasn't transformed: The Republicans really are a total garbage nightmare.Adam Peck at Think Progress: With Millions Still Awaiting Sandy Relief, Republicans Reintroduce Obamacare Repeal.The 112th Congress gaveled to some close on Thursday mid-day without passing a relief package for sufferers of Hurricane Sandy or reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, but Repetition. Bachmann Wanted (R-MN) is not very worried about finishing what Republicans had left un-tied. Rather, at 12:00 PM she introduced the initial bit of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which states are actually busily applying.House Republicans have unsuccessfully chosen 33 occasions within the last 2 yrs to get rid of healthcare reform and wasted a minimum of 88 hrs and $50 million, while neglecting to pass just one bit of job creation legislation within the last session of Congress....Only at that rate, they may be on the right track to becoming less productive compared to least productive Congress in U.S. history.It's getting progressively difficult to keep in mind a period when Republicans were some thing than contemptible roadblocks to functional government.

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Milky Way Consists of A Minimum Of 100 Billion Planets, New Analysis Finds:The Milky Way consists of a minimum of 100 billion planets, or enough to possess one for every of their stars, and most of them could be able to support conditions favorable to existence, according to a different estimate from researchers in the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California (Caltech).That exact figure of 100 billion planets continues to be recommended by earlier, separate studies, however the new analysis corroborates the sooner amounts and might increase them, because it was carried out on one star system — Kepler 32 — which consists of five planets and it is situated some 1,000 many years from Earth among the patch of sky found between your constellations Cygnus and Lyra, where NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pointed.Actually, the brand new star census estimate, which came after researchers verified three from the five planets round the star Kepler 32, is just conservative, based on the Caltech astronomers who developed it after staring at the Kepler 32 system."There's room of these amounts to actually grow," stated Jonathan Quick, a Caltech astronomer who's charge author on the paper around the new findings, inside a phone interview with TPM. "They are not likely to shrink. Our calculation is totally new meaning that we're making the calculation of planets in compact systems round the most populous kind of stars within the universe." Carl Franzen's got more at TPM.

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Appreciate an execllent year, Shakers.Most of the contributing factors and mods already are on their own journeys and/or will be traveling in a few days, and people need a pleasant lengthy break, so we are removing in a few days, through New Year's Day. We'll return on Wednesday, The month of january 2, after which we'll resume your regularly scheduled abundance of incisive feminist commentary, political snark, popular culture deconstruction, cute things, and farts.Help you sooooooooooooooooon!

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by homemade candle lights.Suggested Reading through:WJAC: [Content Note: Violence guns] Four dead in Blair County, Pennsylvania, Shooting Three military InjuredPeter: The 2012 Top List Nobody Wants to see [Content Note: Violence neglect.]Imara: We Can Not Fix Our Economy Without Facing Whitened SupremacyNikole: No Sting: Feds Will not Go Undercover to Prove Housing DiscriminationAndy: Chuck Hagel Apologizes for 'Insensitive' Anti-Gay Remarks States He's Dedicated to Open Service, LGBT Military FamiliesJennifer: Indonesia Declaration Provides a Progressive Vision for World's YouthFMF News: Gender Gap Drastically Increases After MotherhoodAmantha: War Widows Struggle Under Patriarchal TraditionsLiving ~400lbs: "Exactly what is a project for a dangerously obese lady?"Emjb via Libby Anne: How Fetuses Are MadeFuck Yeah Parks and Rec: Flush TonesTDW: Gangnam Style Reaches ONE BILLION ViewsNick: There should have been minimalism for the reason that old silk hat they found. Leave your links and proposals in comments...