[Updated] Why the Girl Scouts kick the Boy Scouts’ ass
With the news that The Boy Scouts of America is toying with ending its discriminatory policy against GBT (and presumably L) people, I can’t help but compare them to The Girl Scouts. In fairness, I must admit up front that I am an alum of the organization. But that’s not enough to completely cloud what…
Feminist Files: If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention
Make it rain: Today is the fourth anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. But we still don’t have a Paycheck Fairness Act, which would give Ledbetter the teeth to go after wage discrimination. And just a reminder, women are still working more than 100 days into the following year to equal what a…
Hillary Clinton: Did I stutter?
Maybe Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn’t say, “Did I stutter?” in so many words. But the intention behind her words was pretty clear in her Congressional testimony on the Benghazi attacks. Check out this clip and see if you can spot the subliminal — What the fuck?! — moment: Yeah… Just in case you…
Donate it: Because its not doing you any good as a paperweight
While I continue to recuperate from the Flu-pocalypse, I happened upon my old cell phone. (A lemon that a certain phone company that shall go unnamed had the balls to sell me even though it was defective and when I went back to get my money back, they told me they knew the bluetooth didn’t…
A look at Roe at 40
I wrote a series of posts in anticipation of the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade on Tuesday, Jan. 22. What is the state of Roe today? What is our legacy? These questions and more are examined in the links below. 40 Years of Roe: Choice in a Post-choice Era Abortion and Maternal Instinct People…
Abortion and the maternal instinct
When it comes to Roe, I always circle back to access. My mom was in high school when she got pregnant with me in 1976. She contemplated abortion but there were many hurdles, just three years after the Roe decision, in her small, rural Midwest town. (I wrote about it in a post a few…
40 Years of Roe: Choice in a post-choice era
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision handed down on Jan. 22, 2013. The case validated a woman’s right to privacy, a right guaranteed by the due process clause within the 14th Amendment. Perhaps it is no accident that it is the 14th Amendment — the very…
NV State of State: That’s just pillow talk, baby
I couldn’t help laughing during Gov. Brian Sandoval’s State of the State address tonight. They say hindsight is 20/20, but it damn near felt like Gov. Sunny had bought rose-colored glasses when he talked about the last session of the Legislature. All that talk about bipartisan work to get Nevada back on its feet, it…
Celebrate Roe with Planned Parenthood
From our friends at Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada: Join PPSN in commemorating the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade! January 22nd, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. In commemoration of this important event, Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada will be holding a wonderful and engaging panel of speakers…
The Sin City Siren 