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Wow, box doesn't like regulations that make abortion clinic more safe make, by making them have
higher medical standards...Interesting...

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Stop Fawning Over Male Feminists
Cassandra Leveille's avatar image By Cassandra Leveille  19 hours ago 13 COMMENTS  |  1590 SHARES
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If you've been immersed in the feminist sphere of the Internet for a while, you know how this goes already. An attractive, heterosexual male celebrity declares himself a feminist. Like clockwork, the feminist blogosphere whips itself up into a lather to heap praise upon this "evolved" man.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's admission into the feminist fold last week is only one of the most recent examples of men celebrated for taking on the mantle of feminism and making the cause "look good." Other recent examples include John Legend, as well as more questionable mentions like Robin Thicke who defended his controversial song "Blurred Lines" as the beginning of a "feminist movement." We are far too eager to heap praise on men just for claiming the label "feminist," even if they don't follow through with action to challenge the larger sexist culture.

Our tendency to take men at their word, instead of examining their actions and history, allows them to dodge accountability. Perhaps the most famous example of this is the enabling of self-proclaimed "male feminist" Hugo Schwyzer, despite his constant silencing of feminists of color who brought up his history of abuse. As a white heterosexual man, his narrative of redemption was simply accepted at face value by liberal white feminists. Only when revelations broke that he had been sleeping with his students and had no credentials to teach gender studies was he finally discredited by the white feminist blogosphere.

Even when men have carved off their own spaces to explore feminist politics, these attempts have turned sour. In her investigation of the Good Men Project, PolicyMic pundit Liz Hall Magill examined how the Good Men Project transformed from a space to discuss positive performances of masculinity to a hotbed of rape apologism. The GMP's downturn even inspired a parody Twitter account:



As Minh Nguyen observed in a guest blog for the author Kiese Laymon's website, Cold Drank, self-declared "liberal" men seem to be very good at chattering off platitudes that seem vaguely feminist because they see it as a passcode to get laid. Nguyen writes:

But confusingly, misogynists are sometimes men who speak softly and eat vegan and say "a woman's sexual freedom is an essential component to her liberation. So come here." It's a tricky world out there. And while I'd prefer a critical approach to gender from men I elect, read and even bed, in my experience, the so-called feminist men I've met deep down have not been less antagonistic or bigoted toward women. What I see over and over again is misogyny in sheep's clothing, and at this point, I would rather see wolves as wolves.

Of course there are male feminists who are well-intentioned and just as deeply feminist as any female devoted to the movement, but we could do well to be more skeptical of our immediate cultural adulation of men who do nothing more than proclaim to be feminists. As much as we may idealistically wish for men to understand that gender roles are restricting for them as well, far too many men are comfortable with the status quo from which they considerably benefit. Heterosexual men who have internalized feminist politics are, sadly, few and far in between. We still live in a society where we're more likely to be mansplained at than listened to.    



Liberal white feminists' overwhelming focus on recruiting heterosexual men who refuse to interrogate their privilege ends up centering feminism on men's approval of us. We need to have spaces where we can address the needs of our movement without falling into the patterns of ceding space in conversations to men. We need to continue working toward a feminist praxis that includes an active engagement with the ways we replicate oppression by privileging white men's voices and perspectives over the voices of women of color.

Our activist energy is a precious resource, and we could be channeling it towards issues more deserving of our attention. And if there are men who earnestly want to help work toward addressing these issues with us? Great! But recruiting men just so feminism can have a larger head count? That's something that should be left in 2013.

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So the pill is the only form of birth control to box and only PP can save the day
LMAO and again nobody shut down PP, you could of donated to keep them open but you didn't.

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This isn't the end of the fall out from Huckster's idiotic words as he isn't backing down
over what he said. With candidates like Todd (Legitimate Rape) Akin and
Richard Mourdock (Conception Via Rape Is God's Will) defining how most of the GOP feels
about women's rights, it's not surprising to see RNC Chairman Reince Priebus bring this up
in his speech today.

A day after Mike Huckabee’s controversial comments about women’s libidos, Republican
National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus implored Republicans to improve their “tone.”

“I’ve said many times before that the policies and principles of our party are sound,” Priebus
said in a Friday speech at the RNC winter meeting in Washington. “However, as we look
to grow the ranks of our party, we must all be very conscious of the tone and choice of
words we use to communicate those policies effectively.”

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According to the Guttmacher Institute, 58 percent of women on the pill are using it at least
partly for medical reasons. Some of those women are also using the pill for pregnancy prevention,
but about 1.5 million American women need birth control solely for medical reasons.
The reasons for needing the pill can range from regulating painful menstrual cycles, to preventing
cramps, to controlling acne, to treating endometriosis.

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered a Texas hospital to remove life support for
a pregnant, brain-dead woman whose family had argued that she would not want to be kept in that
condition.

Judge R. H. Wallace Jr. issued the ruling in the case of Marlise Munoz. John Peter Smith Hospital in
Fort Worth has been keeping Munoz on life support against her family's wishes. The judge gave the
hospital until 5 p.m. CST Monday to remove life support.

Munoz was 14 weeks pregnant when her husband found her unconscious Nov. 26, possibly due to
a blood clot. Both the hospital and the family agree that the fetus could not be born alive at this
point. However, John Peter Smith Hospital had argued that it had to protect the life of the unborn child.

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Life Support For Brain Dead Pregnant Woman To Be Removed

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The House of Representatives passed a bundle of abortion restrictions Tuesday that would dramatically
reduce the number of health insurance plans that cover the procedure. The vote was 227 to 188,
with one lawmaker voting present

The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7), sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), would
prohibit insurance plans sold in the new health care exchanges from covering abortion, and it would
eliminate tax benefits for small businesses that purchase insurance plans covering abortion. The bill
would also prevent the District of Columbia from using its own locally raised funds to subsidize abortion
care for low-income women.

Currently, more than 80 percent of private health insurance plans include abortion coverage.

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Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Christine Whitman told the Los Angeles Times
that the GOP has more work to do if it wants rectify what she described as a
"condescending attitude toward women."

"It's hard for me to phrase this politely: Sometimes Republicans think that just putting a woman up
front means somehow that women are going to feel good about the party," Whitman said. "It is not
about the messenger. It's about the message. And until we figure that one out -- while it's nice
that we have a woman as a spokesperson -- if the message itself doesn't get changed a bit, it's
not going to work."

Whitman, who is pro-choice, told the Times that her party would never consider her for the post-State
of the Union slot today.

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A former Republican congresswoman in Florida has left the GOP and joined the Democrats,
citing her former party’s increasing attacks on women and other minorities.
Ana Rivas Logan said:
“The GOP of today is not the party I joined. It’s not the party of my parents. It’s a party that
has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists.”
Rivas Logan explained that she felt she could not, in good conscience, continue carrying the
flag for the Republican Party as both a woman and an Hispanic-American. She dismissed the
modern Republican Party as nothing more than:
“a party that attacks women and minorities — and one that asked me, and my former Hispanic
Republican colleagues in the Florida legislature, to turn on their own people by supporting
extreme anti-immigrant policies.”

CPAC Confirmed Speakers List Includes 22 Men, 3 Women.  One of them is Sarah Palin (of course)
so the actual counnt is 22 men, 2 women and 1 BIMBO!  

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The schedule for next week's conference also includes a panel discussion called
"Why Conservatism is Right for Women: How Conservatives Should Talk About Life,
Prosperity & National Security."
Participants for that panel are not yet listed. The ACU announced Tuesday that it has added a
debate between conservative media personality Ann Coulter and The Daily Caller’s Mickey Kaus
to the lineup, which would mean at least one other woman will appear onstage at the conference.

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What GOP War On Women???

CPAC Confirmed Speakers List Includes 22 Men, 3 Women.  One of them is Sarah Palin (of course)
so the actual counnt is 22 men, 2 women and 1 BIMBO!