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We’re all free to choose

By Melissa | Published: August 26, 2012

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Also tagged abortion, Children, choice, freedom, Motherhood, Pregnancy, reproductive health, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

Tweet A SYTYCB Entry Until this week, it would never have crossed my mind that the words “legitimate” and “rape” could be combined into one neat little psychotic statement. Silly me! I should have known better. After all, we’re living in a country where politicians are trying to take away women’s access to basic health [...]

Also tagged Health care, rape, Reproductive Rights, So You Think You Can Blog, SYTYCB, Todd Akin, war on women, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

The Right of Women to Protest

By Winter Trabex | Published: August 15, 2012

TweetAs near as I can tell, the ultimate goal of feminism is the removal of all patriarchal boundaries that work to restrict individual choice with regards to gender. All genders are supposed to be equal, the feminist will say, and we utilize the ballot box as a means of securing our own liberty. Of course, [...]

Also tagged Feminism, human rights, Politics, protest, voting, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

I DO want to have it all, starting with what women in 178 other countries have

By Lyla Cicero | Published: July 1, 2012

TweetOriginally Appeared on Rolereboot.org. Iceland, Germany, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Czhech Republic, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Ecuador, and a total of 178 countries have federally mandated paid maternity leave. Fifty of these countries offer leave to fathers. (Yes, they all should!) The United States has no federally mandated paid parental leave. [...]

Also tagged Anne-Marie Slaughter, breadwinner, Equally Shared Parenting, family policy, father involvement, Having it All, men and childcare, men and housework, mothers right, paid parental leave, Stay at home dads, stay at home moms, Women's Rights, Work-life balance, working moms | Leave a comment

Modern day witch hunts, courtesy of the GOP

By lisakerr | Published: March 15, 2012

Tweet“Having a female body was the factor most likely to render one vulnerable to being called a witch…the truth about the majority of persons accused of [witchcraft]: old, unattractive, disliked, and FEMALE.” Witchcraze: A New History of European Witch Hunts by Anne Llewellyn Barstow The past few months the GOP has waged a war on women that [...]