The blog is 10 years old, this FB page is brand new! Here's the FAQ Round-up page on the blog, which gives quicklinks to the existing FAQs. This post will stay sticky at the top of this page.
https://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/the-f…/faq-roundup/
Make your #WomensMarch memories matter to future historians - tips from an archival researcher: https://twitter.com/LJH1969/status/822914647896494080
Make your #WomensMarch memories matter to future historians - tips from an archival researcher: https://twitter.com/LJH1969/status/822914647896494080
Phishers are getting trickier, folks #security #email
https://www.wordfence.com/…/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-uri/
Celebrating all the New Zealand suffragettes who campaigned for women to be able to vote. 123 years ago today #worldwomen17 #keepthemomentumgoing www.worldwomen.org.nz
Solidarity and Activism Starter Kit - excellent resource from the blog associated with SIUE* Women's Studies Program.
* For those of us unfamiliar with the multitude of USA academic institutional abbreviations, that's Southern Illinois University's Edwardsville campus.
Sharing: PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT "PRO-LIFE" RHETORIC ON LATE TERM ABORTIONS.
Women don't have late term abortions because they just suddenly change their mind about having a baby. Critical complications sadly arise in the last months of pregnancy which endanger women's lives, such that continuing the pregnancy will only result in the death of both mother and foetus. These are not easy decisions, these are tragedies for the parents hoping and planning for _much-wanted_ children.
The only thing that banning late-term abortions will do is mean that pregnant women will die, and their foetuses with them, potentially leaving their existing children motherless. Do those maternal deaths & orphaned children truly sound like a "pro-life" solution?
I HAD A LATE TERM ABORTION. IT IS NOTHING LIKE DESCRIBED BY TRUMP. PLEASE DON'T BASE YOUR VOTE ON THE FEAR MONGERING HE IS DOING. PLEASE READ MY EXPERIENCE:
I h...ad to have a late term abortion. It was the worst moment in my life. What made it even worse was the State of Utah had made it illegal.
I had one dead twin. The other had severe Spina Bifida. It was so bad that his brain had developed outside his head, and his spine was open clear to the lumbar level. There was ZERO hope, and no medical miracle that could save him. Our dreams were shattered. These twins were from IVF. I was forty, and there would be no more pregnancies.
I lay on the hospital floor, bawling hysterically, for twelve hours, waiting for an ethics committee of the health care corporation to decide my case justified what had to be done. My health was in danger due to the dead fetus. My husband and I consulted our LDS Bishop, who assured me I needed to do what I had to do, that it was even within LDS guidelines to do so. He reminded me I had six kids (a blended family) at home who needed their mother to live.
The abortion was terrible. It was done very gently, by Caesarean section, leaving the babies in their amniotic sacs. The living baby passed very quickly.
It was horrific. I think it even affected my dear physician, as he had never had to end a pregnancy before. I developed PTSD for which I had to be treated for years, mostly because of the fact I had to have it at all.
No woman should have to have the state have a say in the most painful decision she will ever make. Nobody is tearing babies apart in late term. They are humanely done, only in situations where there is a non-viable or severely defective fetus and/or the mother's health is at risk.
Since I posted this, many have said "That wasn't an abortion." Yes, it was. In simple terms and in this case, "Abortion" means "to remove a fetus from the uterus." "Abortion" is not a specific procedural method. Even a miscarriage is called a "Spontaneous Abortion."
Others have said, "Your situation wasn't typical." Yes, it was very typical. Women don't have abortions in late term for convenience. There are outliers, to be sure. But my case, one of medical necessity, is typical.
And still others have pasted drawings of Partial Birth Abortions or horrible photos of aborted babies. Partial Birth Abortions have been banned in this country for over a decade.
Please support candidates who support free will and the autonomy of our individual bodies, and not those who use sensationalized terms to get votes. And for those who post nasty, mean comments, I am a real person with real feelings. Just scroll on by.
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"Pussy" is not the word that angers....
"Grab" is the word that angers.
Lewd is not the problem.
Sexual assault is the problem.
Protecting Women is not the solution.
Giving Women Equal Treatment and Full Bodily Agency is the solution.
Quote Author: Jean Henry
7 Seminal Moments In The History Of International Feminism
Implicit gender (and other subconscious) bias is old news and supported by extremely robust repeated datasets over decades in the social sciences, but people keep acting surprised and defensive whenever social scientists (or readers of social science works) mention them. There's a gaping hole in our general education there.
http://www.theestablishment.co/…/the-disturbing-science-be…/
Yep.
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[transcript] "You think getting friend zoned is bad, imagine your creepy male friend thinking you owe them sex."
"Unfounded" is where police officers put rape reports to die. This is super important, thanks Katie Baker: When Detectives Dismiss Rape Reports Before Investig...ating Them
"Across the country, some police departments claim a vast number of rape reports are false. A BuzzFeed News investigation into a year of “unfounded” rapes in Baltimore County reveals that detectives often don’t investigate them at all — even when the man had been arrested for rape before."
Gender stereotypes/bias have consequences beyond human interactions.
[ENVIRONMENT/GENDER]
Literal toxic masculinity.
"Researchers have known for decades that women tend to beat men on environmental metrics. They generally use le...ss fuel and energy. They eat less meat. They're more concerned about climate change.
James Wilkie, a business professor at the University of Notre Dame, wanted to understand what drives this gender eco-friendliness gap. After years of exploring psychological bias, he and his colleagues developed a theory.
'Men’s resistance may stem in part from a prevalent association between the concepts of greenness and femininity and a corresponding stereotype (held by both men and women) that green consumers are feminine,' they assert this month in the Journal of Consumer Research. 'As a result of this stereotype, men may be motivated to avoid or even oppose green behaviors in order to safeguard their gender identity.'"
[Photo description: Two side-by-side drawings. On the left, a frowning male figurehead with smokestacks on the top of its head, spewing smoke. On the right, a smiling female figurehead with a bike, solar panels, a recycling bag, a tree and a flower on the top of its head.]
Etiquette guideline from Captain Awkward: people give off social signals all the time as to whether they are open to interaction with others right this minute. Learn to read the signals and respect their meaning.
* ObWhyIsThisFeminist: because interrupting strangers in public is a very gendered behaviour. Generally, when men are wearing headphones in public (or reading, or busy with an electronic device), both men and women notice and are unlikely to interrupt them to ask the...m anything trivial. Nobody writes indignant or plaintive posts on blogs or reddit etc about how this limits their social interactions with men. But every few months posts appear that are written by men bewailing the prevalence of women wearing headphones and how hard this makes it for them to strike up conversations with the cute ones.
Afficher la suiteNews - Student Activism at USyd:
"Protesters Interrupt Sydney Uni Open Day, Criticizing Handling of Sexual Assault Cases
FEMALE and male students carrying mattresses with messages condemning campus rape, have crashed the Sydney University open day, storming a lecture promoting the University to parents of prospective students."
...via Nina Funnell
