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April 30, 2015
Military rescues more women, girls from Boko Haram
Nigerian troops have rescued about 160 more hostages from Boko Harams Sambisa Forest stronghold, the army said on Thursday, taking the total number liberated this week alone to nearly 500.
The numbers underlined the scale of the tactic of mass abduction used by the militants, who according to Amnesty International have seized about 2,000 women and girls since the start of last year.
Amnestys Africa director for research and advocacy, Netsanet Belay, said the rescues were a cause for celebration but he warned: This is just the tip of the iceberg.
There are thousands more women and girls, and men and boys, who have been abducted by Boko Haram, he said in a statement.
Female former hostages have described being subjected to forced labour, sexual and psychological abuse as well as having to fight on the frontline alongside the rebels.
The first release of 200 girls and 93 women was announced on Tuesday, raising hopes that some of the 219 girls snatched from their school in Chibok in April last year were among them.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/military-rescues-more-women-girls-from-boko-haram/#sthash.OZ4F8Ary.dpuf
The numbers underlined the scale of the tactic of mass abduction used by the militants, who according to Amnesty International have seized about 2,000 women and girls since the start of last year.
Amnestys Africa director for research and advocacy, Netsanet Belay, said the rescues were a cause for celebration but he warned: This is just the tip of the iceberg.
There are thousands more women and girls, and men and boys, who have been abducted by Boko Haram, he said in a statement.
Female former hostages have described being subjected to forced labour, sexual and psychological abuse as well as having to fight on the frontline alongside the rebels.
The first release of 200 girls and 93 women was announced on Tuesday, raising hopes that some of the 219 girls snatched from their school in Chibok in April last year were among them.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/military-rescues-more-women-girls-from-boko-haram/#sthash.OZ4F8Ary.dpuf
April 26, 2015
http://defamer.gawker.com/these-are-the-jokes-that-caused-actors-to-walk-off-adam-1699990455
These Are the Jokes That Caused Actors To Walk Off Adam Sandler's Set
I should say, I depise Sandler movies--to the point I cringe and leave the room. A lot of people love him--I get that. I've never been angry before--irritated yes, but what the fuck was he trying to do here?
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The version of the script we have is dated December 7, 2012, so its possible, if not likely, that some revisions have been made. But several of the examples cited as offensive by the Native actors who walked off the set are present in, and confirmed by, this script.
The films main character, presumably played by Sandler, is Tommy (also called Three Knives), a white man who was given up by his family and raised by Native Americans. He is married to a Native American woman namedwait for itSmoking Fox, and the movie follows the two of them as Tommy battles a group of men called the Left-Eye Gang.
The scenes that caused the Native actors to leave the set appear to happen within the first 15 minutes or so of the film. Extra Loren Anthony, who spoke to Indian Country Today, described a scene involving a character named Beavers Breath as being particularly irritating to the extras:
One thing that really offended a lot of people was that there was a female character called Beavers breath. One character says Hey, Beavers Breath. And the Native woman says, How did you know my name?
The films main character, presumably played by Sandler, is Tommy (also called Three Knives), a white man who was given up by his family and raised by Native Americans. He is married to a Native American woman namedwait for itSmoking Fox, and the movie follows the two of them as Tommy battles a group of men called the Left-Eye Gang.
The scenes that caused the Native actors to leave the set appear to happen within the first 15 minutes or so of the film. Extra Loren Anthony, who spoke to Indian Country Today, described a scene involving a character named Beavers Breath as being particularly irritating to the extras:
One thing that really offended a lot of people was that there was a female character called Beavers breath. One character says Hey, Beavers Breath. And the Native woman says, How did you know my name?
http://defamer.gawker.com/these-are-the-jokes-that-caused-actors-to-walk-off-adam-1699990455
April 20, 2015
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/04/20/in-some-states-access-to-abortion-care-is-expanding/
In Some States, Access to Abortion Care Is Expanding
Kirke was a student at the time she became pregnant and didnt have much money. She didnt want to tell her mother and ask for financial help, so she had to empty her checking account to scrounge together enough money to pay for the procedure. Ultimately, she had to forgo anesthesia because she couldnt afford it.
Now a mother of two girls, Kirke says shes already anticipating the body-image issues her daughters will face, but hopes they wont still be fighting for adequate reproductive care and the right to make decisions about their own bodies. I would love if, when theyre older the political issues surrounding their bodies were not there anymore, she says. I would hate to see them having to fight for rights.
The good news is that access to abortion is actually expanding in some states. For most legislators, the goal is to prevent situations such as Kirkes, where women cant afford the care they need and have to make do with subpar options or forgo treatment altogether.
Though more anti-choice bills were enacted around the country between 2011 and 2013 than in the previous decade, legislators in states like Washington and Oregon have proposed bills that would require insurance providers to cover abortions as they would any other type of reproductive care. Said Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, in a statement:
Since 1976, millions of women in America who qualify for public insurance have endured government-sanctioned discrimination in access to abortion services. But there is a strong and growing movement underway to eliminate this disparity
Now a mother of two girls, Kirke says shes already anticipating the body-image issues her daughters will face, but hopes they wont still be fighting for adequate reproductive care and the right to make decisions about their own bodies. I would love if, when theyre older the political issues surrounding their bodies were not there anymore, she says. I would hate to see them having to fight for rights.
The good news is that access to abortion is actually expanding in some states. For most legislators, the goal is to prevent situations such as Kirkes, where women cant afford the care they need and have to make do with subpar options or forgo treatment altogether.
Though more anti-choice bills were enacted around the country between 2011 and 2013 than in the previous decade, legislators in states like Washington and Oregon have proposed bills that would require insurance providers to cover abortions as they would any other type of reproductive care. Said Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, in a statement:
Since 1976, millions of women in America who qualify for public insurance have endured government-sanctioned discrimination in access to abortion services. But there is a strong and growing movement underway to eliminate this disparity
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/04/20/in-some-states-access-to-abortion-care-is-expanding/
April 19, 2015
http://ruralhealthcaucus.com/rural-women-in-latin-america-define-their-own-kind-of-feminism/
Rural Women in Latin America Define Their Own Kind of Feminism
EZEIZA, Argentina , Apr 16 2015 (IPS) - Rural organisations in Latin America are working on defining their own concept of feminism, one that takes into account alternative economic models as well as their own concerns and viewpoints, which are not always in line with those of women in urban areas.
Gregoria Chávez, an older farmer from the northwest Argentine province of Santiago del Estero, said feminism must include the struggles and support of our fellow farmers in defending the land.
Until recently, feminism was an alien concept for her. But like so many other women farmers around Latin America, she is now a leader in the battles in her province against the spread of monoculture soy production and the displacement of small farmers.
I think women are important in the countryside because they are braver than men, she told IPS. Im not afraid of anything. I always tell my compañeras that without courage we wont gain a thing.
Gregoria Chávez, an older farmer from the northwest Argentine province of Santiago del Estero, said feminism must include the struggles and support of our fellow farmers in defending the land.
Until recently, feminism was an alien concept for her. But like so many other women farmers around Latin America, she is now a leader in the battles in her province against the spread of monoculture soy production and the displacement of small farmers.
I think women are important in the countryside because they are braver than men, she told IPS. Im not afraid of anything. I always tell my compañeras that without courage we wont gain a thing.
http://ruralhealthcaucus.com/rural-women-in-latin-america-define-their-own-kind-of-feminism/
April 16, 2015
Ok I never do this but
These are my two youngest granddaughters. (Except the baby!)My daughter said "guess which one dressed herself today?"
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April 15, 2015
https://medium.com/@NewStatesman/nice-try-maajid-nawaz-but-you-didn-t-go-to-a-lapdancing-club-because-you-re-a-feminist-54df59fd0e56
Nice try, Maajid Nawaz, but you didn’t go to a lapdancing club because you’re a feminist
Lets play a round of the worlds worst game: Can You Be a Feminist and
? The rules, laid down by generations of opinion writers, are that you find a thing and then bloviate airily about whether that thing is compatible with being a feminist. There are some reliable old standbys to start with: CYBAF and wear high heels? (Yes.) CYBAF and a stay-at-home mum? (Yes.) This is easy. Lets do a harder one. CYBAF and a man? Well Id hope so, but if Im absolutely honest the number of men Ive met who are actually feminist is dwarfed by the number of men who call themselves feminist and then use this as cover to act like a perfect horses arse towards women. Try this: CYBAF, and a man, and go to a lapdancing club, and get handsy with the dancers? We have a winner. GAME OVER, ruptured irony gland stopped play, no one can ever play CYBAF again.
You can thank Maajid Nawaz, Liberal Democrat candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, for the demise of the worlds worst game. Last Friday, the Mail released CCTV footage of Nawaz Muslim moderate and (yes!) self-professed feminist in a lap-dancing club, receiving a private dance. Repeatedly, and contrary to the club policy, he puts his hands on the woman dancing for him. Club manager Jay Shah told the Mail that Nawaz was asking her to touch him and he was touching her . . . In general he was quite persistent with her, asking to take her out and for her number. Lets note that Shahs concern for the women working on his premises didnt seem to extend to actually ejecting the man breaking the rules, before we move on to enjoying Feminist Maajid Nawazs public response to these revelations.
Firstly, Feminist Maajid Nawaz tweeted a picture of his wife with the caption Dont ya wish your wifey. was. hot. like. mine? . Dont ya? Dont ya? But not satisfied with this salvo of patriarchy smashing, Feminist Maajid Nawaz released a statement on Facebook explaining that his lapdance was no contradiction with his feminism it was, if anything, a perfect expression of his feminism. After all, its not as if he killed anyone: In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women, or men for that matter, dance. Ah, theres that word: consensually. Nawaz, you see, is a choice feminist. My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
And if women choose to dance for men in an upholstered broom cupboard, for twenty pounds a go, by God Nawaz will fight for that right. In fact, hell even make the choice easier by supplying the twenty pounds himself! Thats how much of a feminist Feminist Maajid Nawaz is. What does the choice to work in a nightclub look like for the women who do it? Firstly, theyre usually not actually employed by the club: its standard for them to pay the club a fee, which they then need to make back before they can break even on their nights work. This incentivises women to tolerate rule-breakers as they compete with each other for business, and because the house has made its money either way, theres limited incentive for the bouncers to protect the women who work there from the grabby patrons.
You can thank Maajid Nawaz, Liberal Democrat candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, for the demise of the worlds worst game. Last Friday, the Mail released CCTV footage of Nawaz Muslim moderate and (yes!) self-professed feminist in a lap-dancing club, receiving a private dance. Repeatedly, and contrary to the club policy, he puts his hands on the woman dancing for him. Club manager Jay Shah told the Mail that Nawaz was asking her to touch him and he was touching her . . . In general he was quite persistent with her, asking to take her out and for her number. Lets note that Shahs concern for the women working on his premises didnt seem to extend to actually ejecting the man breaking the rules, before we move on to enjoying Feminist Maajid Nawazs public response to these revelations.
Firstly, Feminist Maajid Nawaz tweeted a picture of his wife with the caption Dont ya wish your wifey. was. hot. like. mine? . Dont ya? Dont ya? But not satisfied with this salvo of patriarchy smashing, Feminist Maajid Nawaz released a statement on Facebook explaining that his lapdance was no contradiction with his feminism it was, if anything, a perfect expression of his feminism. After all, its not as if he killed anyone: In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women, or men for that matter, dance. Ah, theres that word: consensually. Nawaz, you see, is a choice feminist. My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
And if women choose to dance for men in an upholstered broom cupboard, for twenty pounds a go, by God Nawaz will fight for that right. In fact, hell even make the choice easier by supplying the twenty pounds himself! Thats how much of a feminist Feminist Maajid Nawaz is. What does the choice to work in a nightclub look like for the women who do it? Firstly, theyre usually not actually employed by the club: its standard for them to pay the club a fee, which they then need to make back before they can break even on their nights work. This incentivises women to tolerate rule-breakers as they compete with each other for business, and because the house has made its money either way, theres limited incentive for the bouncers to protect the women who work there from the grabby patrons.
https://medium.com/@NewStatesman/nice-try-maajid-nawaz-but-you-didn-t-go-to-a-lapdancing-club-because-you-re-a-feminist-54df59fd0e56
April 14, 2015
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-challenged-banned-books-2014-20150413-story.html
The most banned and challenged books of 2014 (Excellent reading list)
The ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom today released its annual "Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books," based on over 300 reports of community members attempting to have literature removed from libraries and school curricula. The organization notes that "attempts to remove books by authors of color and books with themes about issues concerning communities of color are disproportionately challenged and banned."
Four of the books on the list are by writers of color: "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie, "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini.
Seven of the 10 books were challenged because they were "sexually explicit." Among those books are two that deal with child sexual assault: Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye" and "A Stolen Life," a memoir by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped, raped and held prisoner for 18 years by a Mendocino couple.
"Homosexuality" is listed as the reason two of the books were banned or challenged: Stephen Chbosky's perenially controversial "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" as well as "And Tango Makes Three," Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell's children's book about two male penguins who form a relationship and raise a chick together. The book is based on a true story.
Four of the books on the list are by writers of color: "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie, "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini.
Seven of the 10 books were challenged because they were "sexually explicit." Among those books are two that deal with child sexual assault: Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye" and "A Stolen Life," a memoir by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped, raped and held prisoner for 18 years by a Mendocino couple.
"Homosexuality" is listed as the reason two of the books were banned or challenged: Stephen Chbosky's perenially controversial "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" as well as "And Tango Makes Three," Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell's children's book about two male penguins who form a relationship and raise a chick together. The book is based on a true story.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-challenged-banned-books-2014-20150413-story.html
April 13, 2015
The funniest thing I've seen so far today, 6:08 am PST
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The day is yet young
April 12, 2015
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http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/04/11/in-creepy-reddit-megathread-thousands-of-women-recount-the-first-time-they-were-perved-on-by-a-grown-man/?fb_action_ids=10206433766633979&fb_action_types=news.publishes&fb_ref=pub-standard&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B638510866248809%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22news.publishes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%22pub-standard%22%5D
Thousands of women recount the first time they were perved on by a grown man
This is the reality. Thank you again, David Futrelle
In creepy Reddit megathread, thousands of women recount the first time they were perved on by a grown man
So theres a giant, growing, and extremely creepy megathread up on Reddit at the moment, and for once, the creepiness isnt coming from inside the Reddit. Well, less of the creepiness is coming from Reddit than you might expect.
Yesterday, you see, a Redditor known as BA_Baracus posted a couple of simple questions to AskReddit: Women of Reddit, when did you first notice that men were looking at you in a sexual way? How old were you and how did it make you feel?
This wasnt the first time hed posted a question to his fellow Redditors; hes posted a bunch, including People of reddit with eyes that point in different directions, which one of them is usually looking at me? and, er, Recent rape victims of Reddit, how did it happen, and what the hell were you doing in India? None of these questions got much of a response.
But this time, well, thousands of women of Reddit stepped forward to tell the horrifying yet in most cases completely unsurprising stories of the first time men started perving on them, in many cases before they were even teenagers.
Heres a sampling of some of their stories. TRIGGER WARNING for extreme fucking creepiness.
Age 8, followed to a department store changing room
So theres a giant, growing, and extremely creepy megathread up on Reddit at the moment, and for once, the creepiness isnt coming from inside the Reddit. Well, less of the creepiness is coming from Reddit than you might expect.
Yesterday, you see, a Redditor known as BA_Baracus posted a couple of simple questions to AskReddit: Women of Reddit, when did you first notice that men were looking at you in a sexual way? How old were you and how did it make you feel?
This wasnt the first time hed posted a question to his fellow Redditors; hes posted a bunch, including People of reddit with eyes that point in different directions, which one of them is usually looking at me? and, er, Recent rape victims of Reddit, how did it happen, and what the hell were you doing in India? None of these questions got much of a response.
But this time, well, thousands of women of Reddit stepped forward to tell the horrifying yet in most cases completely unsurprising stories of the first time men started perving on them, in many cases before they were even teenagers.
Heres a sampling of some of their stories. TRIGGER WARNING for extreme fucking creepiness.
Age 8, followed to a department store changing room
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http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/04/11/in-creepy-reddit-megathread-thousands-of-women-recount-the-first-time-they-were-perved-on-by-a-grown-man/?fb_action_ids=10206433766633979&fb_action_types=news.publishes&fb_ref=pub-standard&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B638510866248809%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22news.publishes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%22pub-standard%22%5D
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