Thinkstock Hollering and grousing about garbage anti-choice legislation and its discontents is one of my preferred activities, and we should all do more of it, but there’s something uniquely appealing about hearing from John Oliver what reproductive rights advocates have been saying for years: That segment, from Last Week Tonight, succinctly describes the crisis facing […]
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Hillary Clinton’s Cough Was the Least Important Part of Her Speech Yesterday
Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons While we tolerate or even ~*admire*~ tears and messy hair in male politicians, the second a female candidate shows any vulnerability, she’s made into a joke. Yesterday, at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Hillary Clinton introduced a massive plan to combat systemic racial inequality. It was a […]
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How to Be Single Is Compelling Me to Write #squadgoals Even Though I Really Don’t Want To
HOW TO BE SINGLE Rebel Wilson: a hero, and an inspiration, to us all. How to Be Single opens with a voiceover about there being a right and wrong way to be single, which made me furrow my brow and go, “hrmmm.” Moments later, we meet our protagonist, Alice (Dakota Johnson), gazing out of a […]
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In Case You Missed It, One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Best Friends Has Died
Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, via Wikimedia Commons A certain corner of the internet is having a real “DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD” moment right now over the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his deeply unpleasant hardline conservative opinions on abortion and LGBT rights, among other […]
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It Must Be Election Season, Because We’ve Fallen into the “Young Women Are X” Trap
Thinkstock Gloria, I love you, but you’re bringing me down. When Gloria Steinem said that dumb thing about young women who support Bernie Sanders, I just kind of rolled my eyes, because 100 percent yes, Steinem is a luminary of the feminist movement, but she’s also old, and though she’s made some interesting shifts entering […]
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Sorry, CDC, But “Not Drinking” is Definitely Not a Form of Birth Control.
You’ve probably seen this delightful infographic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, right? You know, the one that says women shouldn’t drink if they’re not on birth control, because they might get accidentally pregnant? If you haven’t, and you haven’t yet met your quota today for the absurd, well, here you go: Centers […]
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Somewhere in Portland, An Anti-Choice Protester May Be Missing Their Sign
Thinkstock Pray to end the anti-choice movement. When I saw a tweet come up that mentioned Planned Parenthood, my heart immediately sank and I assumed the worst: that yet another clinic had been attacked (yes, I am a hardened woman, AND ALSO that shit is depressingly common). And then, my heart soared. Here’s @pdxalerts: Portland […]
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Barbie’s Now More Realistic-Looking, And It Only Took Mattel Forever!
Barbie got a redesign this week and tbh I’m not super feeling it. This is what new Barbie looks like: Mattel Available in “curvy,” “tall,” “petite,” or “original.” It’s objectively an improvement on the sentient fashion illo, right? And yet, while she looks so much better, this whole “all hail Mattel” internet parade grates. Back […]
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Broadly is Tracking All 44 Assault Allegations Against NFL Players
Broadly A LAMP? Really? UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH forever. It’s called “The Rapey Roster,” which certainly gets the point across (and, you know, reminds you you’re reading a blog owned by Vice). But what’s particularly smart about this critique of the league is that it straight-up lists facts ‘n’ numbers, which, taken together, provide names, faces, and concrete […]
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Can We Maybe Stop Asking Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton About Her Husband?
Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons That’s Jane Sanders on the right. Bernie wasn’t asked about her in last night’s debate. I’ve been a fan of Hillary since first grade (truly, you can fact-check this with my parents), and I think that a Bernie candidacy would be an unmitigated disaster for all the reasons he’s scoring […]
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Planned Parenthood Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Alleged Fabulists Who Accused Them Of Harvesting Baby Parts
David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. Among the charges the health care organization is leveling at the group that propagated rumors of baby parts harvesting: wire fraud, mail fraud, invasion of privacy, illegal secret recording and trespassing. From Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette’s press release, sent yesterday: Today, Planned Parenthood filed a […]
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Hillary Clinton Wants To Repeal Ban On Public Funding For Abortion
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons The Hyde Amendment is a garbage piece of legislation that systematically targets low-income women. Here’s Fusion: When asked if she would support congressional efforts to repeal the Hyde Amendment, Hillary Clinton wasted no time pondering her answer: “Yes.” “And actually I have for a very long time,” the Democratic frontrunner […]