Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed
- Words Matter
- Read ‘Em
- It's not "sex," it's rape
- Michelle Obama, woman of limited ambitions?
- Louisiana: unarmed, black, 73-year-old cancer survivor shot dead by police
- How did he get away with it for so long?
- FGM There Is A Price To Speaking Out
- Another Anonymous Man Reveals What Lies Behind Excuses About Injustice Toward Rape Victims
- Almost half of Boston teens surveyed blame Rihanna for Chris Brown attack
- Target Women: Barbie
- Women, wait your turn, says EHRC?
March 17, 2009 – more Othering of PWD
March 17, 2009 – Links round up on Shapely Prose
March 17, 2009 – more rape apologism dissected
March 17, 2009 – Raise your hand if your/your partner’s ambitious career comes nowhere close to a “modest” salary of US273,618?
March 17, 2009 – utterly appalling
March 17, 2009 – how the institutionalised distrust of rape victims aids rapists
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March 17, 2009 – quote: “It seems to me that when there is economic gain to be made i.e oil, or precious metals we give little concern for local customs or traditions; it is only when it comes to the most vulnerable that we assert that we don’t have the moral authority to interfere.”
March 17, 2009 – dissection of a highly distorted view of the “innocent until proven guilty” principle of jurisprudence.
March 17, 2009 – More evidence that people DO blame women for violence against them.
March 17, 2009 – Barbie turns 50 and Sarah Haskins responds
March 17, 2009 – Should women wait, yet again, for equal pay for equal work, this time because of the financial crisis?
Categories: linkfest
The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
Hoyden About Town 
Th at “Women, Wait Your Turn” thing is so reminding me of what’s going on here. They basically made Equal Pay for Equal Work a “negotiating issue” with unions instead of a “human rights tribunal claim”. Our so-called left-wing liberals (see: currently trying to court the evangelical vote, although this is new – I voted for them in the past) keep arguing that they have to support the budget because otherwise the budget won’t be passed and it will be THE END OF THE WORLD (even though this budget is doing nothing for women, for working families, for childcare, for any of the things the Liberals said they stood for when they ran in the last election) and are arguing if we don’t like it we should vote them into a majority next time because THEN THEY’LL FIX IT FOR US.
*sobs*