Rape. It’s been in the news a lot lately as the Republicans are trying to redefine it to chip away at abortion laws. It’s also in the news because Lara Logan, a journalist from CBS, was separated from her crew in Cairo and endured a sustained sexual assault. My fellow blogger over at ABL’s… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Gender Issues
I’m Just a Girl
OK. I got thoughts about feminism, being a woman, being girly, and related things, and I need to share them. They are pretty jumbled at this point, so bear with me as I untangle the threads. It started yesterday as I was sitting in my therapist’s room waiting for my appointment. I will get to… Continue Reading
Melancholy Expressed
I have been wrapped in melancholy today. It’s not the weather because I enjoy cool, rainy, drizzly days. In fact, they warm my soul, as contradictory as that sounds. It’s partly political. I have been avoiding the story about the woman who worked for Halliburton/KBR and was gang-raped by her coworkers while they were… Continue Reading
The More Things Change
As I have stated before, I missed the first wave of feminism as well as the second, the third, and apparently, the fourth (which may or may not be an actual wave). Most of my ideas about feminism and equality have come to me via experiences and discussions with other likeminded women. I have never… Continue Reading
Fuck Them (and Not in a Good Way)
I’m furious. I’m enraged. I’m weary. I’m horny, but that’s not going to be part of the post today. In the comments from my last post, whabs brings up the point that guilt is supposed to be a part of what it means to be a woman. I have learned that lesson all-too-well. I feel… Continue Reading
The Terrorists Have Won
Today, the news emerged that the clinic Dr. Tiller ran will be shut down for good. There are rumblings that one of the other doctors there wishes to carry on, but we will have to wait and see on that. For now, the clinic is closed, and the terrorists have won, and Ross Douthat, the… Continue Reading
I Matter
I matter. You matter. We all matter. Right now, though, I’m going to talk about the first one. Why? Because for far too long, I haven’t thought that I mattered. Not in a global sense (such as, where do I fit in this world). Not in a societal sense (such as, I am no benefit… Continue Reading
The Baser Side of Me
I’m still grieving. I have read many things in lefty blogs about Dr. Tiller’s murder, and I can’t seem to shake it. Partly because I was lulled into thinking that this kind of violence was in the past. Partly because I am just so damn discouraged at how the GOP still gets to define how… Continue Reading
She’s a Spicy Tamale!
And so it begins. Even before Sonia Sotomayor was picked by Obama as his first SCOTUS nominee, the monkeys started howling about how unfit she was. I blogged about the indignation here. In that entry, I deconstructed what racism feels like (as much as I could) and how white privilege is rampant and unexamined (by… Continue Reading
Let’s Hear It From the Grrls!
Update: After re-reading this entry, I realized that I was even more disjointed than I had thought. I added a segue paragraph in the middle. This is a continuation of the last post. There is something I’ve noticed about being female that has really come to fruition with the advent of the inter-webs. See,… Continue Reading