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Should female athletes have to prove they are women?
Indian sprinter Dutee Chand recently secured the right to compete as a woman, even though her natural level of testosterone may exceed international track and field regulations for female athletes.
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Torvalds 2.0: Patricia Torvalds on computing, college, feminism, and increasing diversity in tech
Patricia Torvalds isn't the Torvalds name that pops up in Linux and open source circles. Yet. Patricia tells us how she got into computing and her interest in feminist issues, and she talks about why the lack of diversity in tech is a mistake. (And she was raised not to make excuses for mistakes.)
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The Big Secret of Abortion: Women Already Know How It Works
When asked, in an interview with the National Review, what one question he would ask Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, Daleiden replied, “I would ask her if she knows abortion the way Planned Parenthood providers know abortion.” Proud millennial David Daleiden wants to make sure that 57-year-old Cecile Richards, who has given birth to three children and publicly discussed her own abortion, really understands what abortion is.
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Here's the Science Behind Your Sexist Thermostat
Research illustrates why men prefer cooler temperatures - and how that's a problem for mixed gender offices and other environments.
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Louisiana warned about cutting Planned Parenthood, WSJ reports
Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to eliminate funding Sept. 2
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The GOP’s contempt for women
Trump’s ugly bombast is a distraction from a far more serious problem for the GOP. Three years after Romney lost the women’s vote by a double-digit margin, in part because of his support for defunding Planned Parenthood, the presidential debates last week made clear Republicans have only become more disrespectful toward women’s bodies, more deranged in their hatred of Planned Parenthood and more dismissive of female voters.
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State inquiries into Planned Parenthood turn up no evidence of wrongdoing
Healthcare organization appears to be weathering investigations launched after the release of a series of ‘sting’ videos by anti-abortion activists
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Feminists In Mexico Are Being Warned To Be Quiet Or Be Killed
Nadia Vera, 32, a proud feminist and social activist, was murdered in her flat in Mexico City along with four other women last month. Three of them, including Vera and her journalist friend Rubén Espinosa (both pictured above), were allegedly raped and tortured before being shot in the head. Many believe they were targeted because they dared to demand equal rights for women across the country, attending protests, staging plays and writing politically charged poems.
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Let’s give Saudi Arabia the world’s tiniest gold star for finally allowing women to vote
Now that the repressive hereditary monarchy allows women the narrowest possible right to vote, here are some other empty reforms the kingdom might consider.
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The N.H. Prep School Student's Case Was Riddled With Rape Myths
Whether or not Labrie actually forced himself on the girl, the defense was able to successfully tap into two major rape myths that are widespread despite having little to no real world evidence to support them: That women reclassify consensual sex as “rape” in order to preserve their reputations and that rape victims always act traumatized and freak out at the mere sight of their rapist after the fact.
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D.C. Judge Says Employers Can Exercise “Moral” Objections to Birth Control Coverage
March for Life is trying to frame their objections to affordable contraception in terms of abortion, making the same tedious and utterly false argument that some kinds of contraception are equivalent to abortion. "It opposes methods of contraception that it says can amount to abortion, including hormonal products, intrauterine devices and emergency contraceptives," the New York Times reports.
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The 'Dear Fat People' video is tired, cruel and lazy – but I still fight for the woman who made it
Canadian comedian Nicole Arbour thinks she’s ‘hella brave’ for telling fat people to eat less and exercise more. Here’s my message for any woman who agrees with her …
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Anti-Choicers Are Trying to Convince Us That Reproductive Care Isn't a Legitimate Need—and the Media Is Helping
Two of the major anti-Planned Parenthood talking points, which anti-choicers have disseminated through mainstream media, are about advancing the idea that any sexual health services that aren't about making babies doesn't count as real health care.
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Mothers Need “Safe Havens.” But They Need So Much More.
From a harm reduction standpoint, safe haven laws are an ideal way to prevent infant death and mistreatment without ignoring the reality that some mothers, for one reason or another, won’t consider formal adoption or parenthood viable options. But a recent book by Laury Oaks, chair of the feminist studies department at University of California–Santa Barbara, argues that they fall short of true reproductive justice.
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Robert Reich and the Economics of Planned Parenthood
The Republican attack on Planned Parenthood is not only immoral, it is expensive.
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Circumcision Is a Feminist Issue (And Here Are 5 Reasons Not to Do It to Your Child)
Circumcision is a common practice in the United States – but should it be? Here, hilarious vlogger Justin Dennis tells us why this is a feminist issue – and why we should think twice before circumcising our kids.
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We Found Some Actual Feminazis—as in Feminist Nazis
The feminazi is a beloved oxymoronic portmanteau, but we wanted to know if real self-identified feminist Nazis actually exist. Through white supremacist forums and high water, we set out in search of the mythical beasts.
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UN Wants To Censor Internet To Save Feminists' Feelings
In a report released yesterday, entitled “Cyber Violence Against Women And Girls: A Global Wake-up Call,” UN Women, the group behind last year’s risible “He for She” campaign, called on governments to use their “licensing prerogative” to ensure that “telecoms and search engines” are only “allowed to connect with the public” if they “supervise content and its dissemination.”
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Conservatives stoop to fearmongering again with latest niqab appeal
Why as a feminist I support Zunera Ishaq
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Rep. Carolyn Maloney Slams GOP Attack on Planned Parenthood President’s Salary
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards testifying today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform... committee chair Jason Chaffetz (a Utah Republican) took a shot specifically at Richards' salary
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