“feminism is a cancer” he typed, vaping and chugging mountain dew “it’s killing us men.” The microwave dinged, his taquitos were ready
a. this white dude doesn’t know about Chicana feminism
or
b. this white dude thinks microwaved taquitos are Mexican food
(via mensrightsactivism)
“feminism is a cancer” he typed, vaping and chugging mountain dew “it’s killing us men.” The microwave dinged, his taquitos were ready
It has become accepted orthodoxy in establishment circles to view Trump as an authoritarian race-baiter who would present a major threat to the world if elected in November.
While this characterization is certainly well founded, it ignores the fact that Clinton is also dangerous to world stability. And unlike Trump, she has the blood on her hands to prove it.
The oh-so chivalric attempts to use the safety of white European women like myself as a justification for racist violence and hostility and to deny other human beings the basic right to refuge is particularly tiresome when women in Europe have never been safe from sexual violence, regardless of the movement of migrants. Anti-Muslim and anti-refugee advocates claim to enjoy gallantly confronting “difficult questions,” so here’s one: Why won’t we admit that many of the faults we ascribe to other cultures are equally a part of our own?
In recent months, anti-immigrant rhetoric has spiked across the country—and in local and national politics. After the Paris attacks, more than two-dozen Republican governors said they don’t want Syrian refugees in their states. And Donald Trump said that if he were president he would kick all Syrian refugees out of the country; Ted Cruz said Muslims should be sent to “majority-Muslim countries,” but that Christians should be provided with a safe haven in the United States. Cruz made his comments about Christians while speaking at a middle school.
During that same month, harassment and violence against Muslims—and Sikhs who wear turbans or Indian women who wear headscarves and are mistaken for being Muslim—tripled, according to data from California State University’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. A passenger shot a Muslim taxi driver in Pennsylvania after asking him about ISIS. A pregnant Muslim woman was assaulted in Southern California. In Florida, someone shot several bullets into the home of a Muslim family.
Jennifer Pierce, a University of Minnesota sociologist, found that the expectations for emotional labor in the legal profession apply to women working in every part of the field. In other words, while male attorneys—generally speaking—are allowed and even expected to be aggressive and domineering, that does not extend to female attorneys, who are frequently penalized if they attempt to conform to these emotional norms. Meanwhile, female legal secretaries described expectations that they would be deferential and caretaking towards (mostly male) attorneys, but male secretaries were not subject to the same norms. Thus, even when women worked in male-dominated positions, the emotional expectations deemed “appropriately” feminine still applied in ways that made it more difficult for women to do their jobs. Once again, the hidden component of this work renders it less visible but no less taxing.
White and black Floridians wear their seat belts at roughly the same rates. One would think, then, that black drivers are about as likely to get ticketed by police officers for not wearing a seatbelt as white drivers.
Nope. According to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union, police in Florida were nearly twice as likely in 2014 to stop and ticket black drivers for seat belt violations — and that may be an underestimate, since at least one county with a history of racial disparities in seat belt citations stopped reporting its stats altogether.
(Source: vox.com)
Ever since Roe was handed down, and especially in the past five years, states have passed more than a thousand laws that restrict women’s access to abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Two of these laws in particular are facing a huge Supreme Court challenge in March because they have closed about half of Texas’s abortion clinics.
Reproductive rights advocates argue that for all practical purposes, these kinds of state laws have chipped away at Roe’s constitutional guarantee of abortion rights for women.
Here’s the thing, though: It’s not just the states. The Supreme Court has also chipped away at abortion rights since Roe. A series of decisions over the past four decades has weakened the standards by which the Court has to judge state laws that restrict abortion. These decisions have set the stage for laws like the ones in Texas — and the Texas case will be a major test of just how much damage these decisions have actually done to Roe.
Trump’s fans tend to express little regard for political norms. They cheer at his most outlandish statements. O’Reilly asked Trump if he meant it when he said that he would “take out” the family members of terrorists. He didn’t believe that Trump would “put out hits on women and children” if he were elected. Trump replied, “I would do pretty severe stuff.” The Mesa crowd erupted in applause. “Yeah, baby!” a man near me yelled. I had never previously been to a political event at which people cheered for the murder of women and children.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Kansas state Sen. Mitch Holmes, a Republican from St. John and chair of the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee, included a rule in the committee’s code of conduct that says witnesses must present themselves in “professional attire.”
But he only got specific on what “professional attire” meant for women. “For ladies, low-cut necklines and mini-skirts are inappropriate,” the rule says.
Holmes told the Capital-Journal’s Tim Carpenter that he felt the need to clarify this because he’d seen women dress provocatively in the Capitol. But he didn’t lay out any specifics for men.
“Holmes said he considered stipulating men had to wear suit and tie when addressing his Senate committee, but decided males didn’t need supplemental instruction on how to look professional,” Carpenter wrote.