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From ‘We Saw Your Boobs’ to ‘Abortion Barbie’: The Year in Sexism
For the fairer sex, 2013 brought its share of slut-shaming, rape-excusing, abortion-denying, boob-obsessing and all-round double-standard misogynist boorishness. Hey, now!
February: A global audience enjoyed Seth MacFarlane performing a frat boy song and dance routine called “We Saw Your Boobs” at the Academy Awards. Meanwhile, the 2013 Oscar nominees included 140 men and 35 women. And through the year, Hollywood produced only one major movie, Heat, in which two named female characters talked to each other about something other than a man.
March: North Dakota, a state with the third largest male-to-female ratio in the nation, passed a law that effectively forces women to give birth if impregnated by outlawing all abortions after the six-week mark, when a fetal heartbeat is detectable but before many women know they are pregnant. Signing the bill, Gov. Jack Dalrymple, a Republican, crowed that it was “a legitimate attempt by a state legislature to discover the boundaries of Roe v. Wade.” On the upside, job opportunities for strippers and prostitutes have shot up thanks to the lopsided ratio and influx of horny, fracking roughnecks. Sex crimes are on the increase too.
April: In Kentucky, wax-figure U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and his staff were revealed to have schemed to paint Ashley Judd as “emotionally unbalanced” if she ran against the cadaverous senior senator from the Bluegrass State, one of the longest-serving forces of darkness on Capitol Hill. Ms. Judd bailed out of a run she was considering.
May: The murder conviction of quack abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell for scissoring viable fetuses to death propelled a new effort to demonize abortion generally. Even moderates like the Times’ Ross Douthat used the event to remind people how violent and gruesome late-term abortions are when performed by competent doctors, failing to note that childbirth itself is a violent and gruesome event too.
February: A global audience enjoyed Seth MacFarlane performing a frat boy song and dance routine called “We Saw Your Boobs” at the Academy Awards. Meanwhile, the 2013 Oscar nominees included 140 men and 35 women. And through the year, Hollywood produced only one major movie, Heat, in which two named female characters talked to each other about something other than a man.
March: North Dakota, a state with the third largest male-to-female ratio in the nation, passed a law that effectively forces women to give birth if impregnated by outlawing all abortions after the six-week mark, when a fetal heartbeat is detectable but before many women know they are pregnant. Signing the bill, Gov. Jack Dalrymple, a Republican, crowed that it was “a legitimate attempt by a state legislature to discover the boundaries of Roe v. Wade.” On the upside, job opportunities for strippers and prostitutes have shot up thanks to the lopsided ratio and influx of horny, fracking roughnecks. Sex crimes are on the increase too.
April: In Kentucky, wax-figure U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and his staff were revealed to have schemed to paint Ashley Judd as “emotionally unbalanced” if she ran against the cadaverous senior senator from the Bluegrass State, one of the longest-serving forces of darkness on Capitol Hill. Ms. Judd bailed out of a run she was considering.
May: The murder conviction of quack abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell for scissoring viable fetuses to death propelled a new effort to demonize abortion generally. Even moderates like the Times’ Ross Douthat used the event to remind people how violent and gruesome late-term abortions are when performed by competent doctors, failing to note that childbirth itself is a violent and gruesome event too.
Read more at http://observer.com/2013/12/from-we-saw-your-boobs-to-abortion-barbie-the-year-in-sexism/#ixzz2pFVebcSU
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when it comes to sexism. I had forgotten some of those examples, but reading them again just makes me angry again. "Abortion barbie"? Really? 
