Gunman shoots multiple people at Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
White U.S. Senator says terrorists “look more like me” than Middle Easterners, stating, “They are generally white males, who have shot up people in movie theaters and schools.”
Glosswitch on women’s reproductive rights. “It’s the whole ball game.”
“The trouble with reproductive choice isn’t that most of us are in mourning over embryos gone to waste. It’s that, if you really believe in it, you have to give people with uteruses the final say in who gets to be born, 100% of the time. That’s quite a big deal; men know it’s a big deal. After all, it means admitting that some people with uteruses can do something that no one with a penis ever can. Patriarchy, in seeking to establish paternity as the central social relationship, cannot allow for this. Instead we are meant to think that babies develop not with the help of the flesh and blood of the person who gestates them, but solely from men’s seed or, in our more progressive age, partly of his seed, partly of hers. As Barbara Katz Rothman points out, in such a system ‘children […] might as well have grown in the backyard.’ So why not treat women as mere potting soil?”
India’s marital rape crisis reaches “tragic proportions.”
Women share stories about what men do to them after their sexual advances are rejected.
Twenty-eight people on the lesbian culture artifacts that changed their lives.
Powerful twitter feed (#CountingDeadWomen) posts the names of women killed by men in the UK every five minutes.