I haven’t read Newsweek in years (shlock!) but this week NARAL pointed out an interesting article about how younger voters are becoming lukewarm on abortion rights. No one even turns out to a pro-choice protest anymore, it seems, while pro-lifers are going around invigorating the grassroots youth. From the piece: via March 21, 2010, will […]
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
Daily Mail Not Tardy For The Party Ladies, may I introduce Laura Hall. Feminist Icon. The 20-year-old has become the first person to be banned from buying or drinking alcohol anywhere in England. According to the Daily Fail Mail: She has been convicted of a series of public order offenses, and had flouted bans from […]
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This Way For Fun!
Hey ladies! It’s spring time, and you know what that means. It’s time to intricately groom your shame cave so that boys will like you. Luckily, our friends at Cosmo (seriously, click that link. Today’s featured video is “Would You Do Him Outside?”) have worked up a handy stencil kit: Cosmo via Jezebel Pube Cookies! […]
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Things That Should Not Be News
Above the law. You cannot file a restraining order against the police. Even if you feel that they will interfere with your plans to murder a bunch people at a women’s clinic. They will, in fact, restrain you from doing so. Via the Dallas Morning News: On Friday morning, [Erlyndon Joseph] Lo went to the […]
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“It just so happens that soon after creating Stacey, her cat became diabetic.”
EW covers the release of Ann M. Martin’s Babysitters Club prequel The Summer Before, which “[delves] into the lives of the original four baby-sitters before the club started.”
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The Sweetest Movie About Teaching the Basics of Menstruation to a Young Girl with Down Syndrome You Will Ever See
This instructional video has been a legendary showstopper on the “found footage” circuit for at least a decade, but thanks to Videogum, I know it’s now on YouTube. And oh yeah: This is probably ever-so-slightly NSFW. (There’s a reason they showed these types of films only to gender-segregated audiences in darkened lunchrooms.)
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What Does Healthcare Mean for the Ladies?
YAY healthcare reform passed! Reproductive health issues were one of the most divisive issues of the debate, so my question after the bill’s passage is: what does healthcare reform actually mean for me, a lady? Feministing has a solid bullet point list of what will actually change thanks to the healthcare overhaul. Two changes that […]
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Lilith Fair Announces (Some) Portland Show Details
Hello ladies. Remember that excellent list of potential artists that will perform in Portland (technically the Amphitheatre at Clark County) as part of the rebooted Lilith Fair tour? Well, the actual performers on the July 2nd show are a bit lackluster. Sure, they are big names—Sheryl Crow, Sugarland, Sarah McLachlan—but there isn’t a lot of […]
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Want an Abortion? You Must Stare at this Ultrasound!
Can’t we all just get along? Gah! Just a quick, depressing update from the front lines of the fight over abortion rights (in case you thought Iowa was the only crazy state): West Virginia and Oklahoma moved forward laws this afternoon requiring or encouraging women who want abortions to get ultrasounds first. This sounds like […]
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Valentine’s Day, 23,000 STD Tests and You.
That’s right: 23,000 STD tests. In 2009, the Portland and SW Washington branches of Planned Parenthood gave locals 23,000 STD tests. This year, they’ll be able to do many more. After a planning and construction process plagued by protesters, Planned Parenthood’s new NE Portland headquarters finally opens this Valentine’s Day. “Valentine’s Day is a day […]
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Old Spice Bodywash? I WANT YOUR SMELL.
I don’t get bodywash. I don’t get why it’s any different from soap, and I don’t get why it’s called “bodywash.” However, in about 42 words I will stop what I’m writing, run down to the Fred Meyer and pick up some Old Spice Bodywash, and it’s only because THIS COMMERCIAL CRACKED MY SHIT UP. […]