A Woman Uprising

Embracing my feminine side,
and upset at you who has not.

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This is the sexiest hottest most smoking picture of all time. Via LA Times.

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“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for...”

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This is amazing truth. →

Everyone should read this. The uprising will not go away.

In the name of the moon, I will right wrong and triumph over evil…

For those who ever found rape jokes amusing. →

Because you’ve been around a rapist and probably didn’t know it.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Happy Birthday, Julia. You’re still an inspiration.

Today would have been Julia Child’s 99th birthday. Above: Julia Child on Fresh Air in 1989.

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We thought we could prevent other girls from dying. We appeared on 60 Minutes. The anti-choice crowd came after us. They followed us. There would be crowds of people with their fetuses in a bottle, and some would say that Becky didn’t die the way we said she did. They loosened the lug nuts on our car. In Arkansas, they shot a hole in the building where we were speaking. They cared more about a fetus than about my daughter. I thought, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody, because my daughter is dead and you can’t hurt me anymore.’

Karen Bell

Vance’s prosecutors are said to believe the Strauss-Kahn case could follow the same path, given disclosures that the housekeeper lied on immigration paperwork, lied on tax forms and lied about her income on a housing application.

Another woman may become a victim again - but of the judicial system.

Abortion Wars on NPR →

I’m going to say this from my loins. I’m sure you know of that area; you are assaulting it from every direction possible.

STOP FUCKING WITH MY RIGHTS.

It is none of your business what a woman decides to do with a pregnancy, especially when you try to tack anti-abortion measures to Korean trade agreements.

How dare you decide I have to view a sonogram if I want an abortion.

How dare you only allow 2 days to comply with new (and ridiculous) regulations.

How dare you pass the “heartbeat bill” and “fetal pain” laws when the fact is, a heartbeat doesn’t mean viability, there is no medical concensus on fetal pain, and you expect me to carry to term because you deem it morally best. Morals have nothing to do with your imposing decisions about my family planning.

I am disgusted by these pro-life radicals. I am disgusted by the state governments and by my fellow citizens for allowing such ridiculous events to pass.

“In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.” →

Ohio’s ”Heartbeat Bill” would be hilarious if it weren’t so upsetting to me as a woman. Explain to me how this is about women’s rights.

michellelegro:

This looks like a good book. Let’s buy it.

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We need to start this again.

Today, I began reading Part 4 of The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.

I just learned about a women’s army among the Fon of Dahomey in West Africa, now Benin - where only one scholarly work has ever been written about such women, Amazons of Black Sparta by Stanley B. Alpern, which you find on Amazon.com (haha?).

The army had not been defeated until 1892 because France sent in artillery, Foreign Legion, marine infantry, and cavalry…

I think we need to start this army up again.