Are you cringing at the title of this post? Well… Good! You should be! Because the new GOP-led Congress is putting its full weight and attention right between your legs — looking for any way possible to take control of a woman’s reproductive rights! (Another working title for this post was, “Dr. HappyRape, or How…
Maybe we should thank Michael Moore for bailing out Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and essentially being a rape apologist. Maybe we should thank mainstream media feminists like Naomi Wolf for their sarcastic, dismissive remarks that have ignited such a firestorm in the online feminist world. In case you haven’t heard, the Wikileaks founder was accused…
As feminists have been saying all week, this business with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says a lot more about how we feel about rape than any government conspiracy ever contrived. The spin is mind-numbing! Conservatives want Assange’s head on a platter for leaking sensitive and classified US documents through his Wikileaks site. Meanwhile, many high-profile…
A new Guttmacher Institute report on teen pregnancy is out. Guess who’s No. 2? New Mexico had the highest teenage pregnancy rate (93 per 1,000), followed by Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Mississippi. The lowest rates were in New Hampshire (33), Vermont, Maine, Minnesota and North Dakota. And we top another side of this list, too:…
For the last part of this week’s back-to-school series (Part 1, Part 2) I want to talk about safety.There are many kinds of safety, so let’s do an over-view… Sexual Assault: It’s all fine and good to be feminists and know that it is unfair that women are targeted for violence more than men —…
Women hate sex. At least, that’s the prevailing “wisdom” handed out via jokes, beer commercials, sitcoms, movies, e-mail forwards and so on. Women hate sex. Therefore, to have sex with a woman, you must be trick, romance, manipulate, beg, etc. I have often found this “wisdom” to be a joke in itself. At best, this…
The local production of The Vagina Monologues is coming up in a week and The Sin City Siren is supporting this event. Now you can, too, by entering for a chance to win two tickets to one of the shows on Friday (April 9) or Saturday (April 10) night! (Of course, you can go without…
It’s too (suddenly) hot to think deep thoughts, so here’s a round-up of what has caught my eye: New push for expedited solar power plants in NV announced today. This makes me happy. I could write another post on disgraced Republican Senator John Ensign, but it seems more efficient to let the Gleaner do it.…
Today, we have guest contributor Annette Magnus, from Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada: Saturday is National HIV Testing Day and Planned Parenthood encourages you to take the first and most important step and get yourself tested. Here are some facts to make sure you are informed about HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). HIV is transmitted in…
Sorry for lack of personalization of posts. Still under the weather but don’t want to let this go unmentioned: PLANNED PARENTHOOD & MTV PRESENT the WORLD PREMIERE of PEDRO on APRIL 1 WHAT: Pedro: The Movie – MTV’s World Premiere In 1994, Pedro Zamora captured the hearts of millions as the first-ever openly gay,…
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