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Afghan wife killed for bearing girl

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:11 PM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)

An Afghan woman has been strangled, apparently by her husband, upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he had hoped for, police say. It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in t …

afghanistan, world-news, violence-against-women, womens-rights, femicide, sexual-slavery

Bill would legalize prejudice | SeacoastOnline.com

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:54 AM EST (SeacoastOnline.com)

According to House Bill 1264, sponsored by Rep. Jerry Bergevin, R-Manchester, wedding-related businesses could turn away engaged gay couples.

discrimination, gay-marriage, religion, civil-rights, same-sex-marriage, inter-racial-marriage, inter-faith-marriage

Rape is worse when it happens to men, reports the New York Times | Radfem Hub

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:26 AM EST ()

Recently, the New York Times reported that rape is worse when it happens to men than when it happens to women.“There is no arena in which rape takes place between men and women that it does not take place between men and men[.]“Like women, men who are raped feel vio …

health, new-york-times, patriarchy, womens-sexuality, rape-is-worse-when-men-are-raped

'Angry Brides' Takes on India's Dowry Culture - India Real Time - WSJ

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:59 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

“We wanted to raise awareness about the ills of dowry, a tradition that is still very closely related with marriage,” said Ram Bhamidi, head of online marketing at Shaadi.com, a popular website that helps individuals and their families find a suitable partner. Mr.

world-news, india, angry-birds, bride-burning, angry-brides, dowry-deaths, game-app-as-social-message

Fun-Hating Legislator Proposes Ban on Eating Aborted Human Fetuses

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:33 PM EST (Jezebel: Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women. Without Airbrushing.)

Let's take a moment today to salute a brave American hero. A man who saw through the amoral haze of today's society and who had the courage to stand up for what's right, even in the face of an unstoppable tide of modernity and vice. That man is Oklahoma legislator Ralph Shortey.

politics, stem-cell-research, pepsi-cola, aborted-fetus, oklahoma-legislator-ralph-shortey

Newt Gingrich, Israel Export Development Council, shariah law protester David Yerushalmi and arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:27 PM EST ()

The meeting was reportedly to see if Soghanalian could try to solicit, via a $10 million payment, the influence of her then-husband, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to do anything about the U.S.

politics, newt-gingrich, speaker-of-the-house, arms-dealer-sarkis-soghanalian, cia-director-woolsey-now-serves-as-a-national-security-adviser-to-gingrichs-presidential-campaign, israel-export-development-council, shariah-law-protester-david-yerushalmi

Just say no (to awful sex) | WEEKEND | Yale Daily News

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:24 AM EST ()

Guys at Yale are bad in bed. I know Yale has taught us to discuss issues with nuance and complexity, but I feel really comfortable with this blanket statement: Guys at Yale are bad in bed. Like, really bad. Like, I’d-laugh-if-I-weren’t-crying bad.

health, no-sex, bad-sex, sex-culture, hook-up-sex, sex-communication

Santorum Trashes Public Colleges, Then Stumps at One | Mother Jones

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:46 PM EST (MotherJones.com)

Speaking at one of the state's premier public universities—rocked by fiscal shortfalls and a Republican-dominated state government that's gutted the humanities—Santorum's message on education was notably different than just one day prior.

politics, god, gay-rights, rick-santorum, college-cuts, college-indoctrination, college-tuitition, cp-ege

Vesica Pisces

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:28 PM EST ()

The Vesica Pisces is easily one of the most profound geometrical images of ancient and modern times. (5/31/05) It is, for example, considered to be an integral part of the Ark of the Covenant, as described and shown figuratively by ka-gold's version of the Vesica Pisces.

religion, god, goddess, sacred-feminine, vesica-pisces, vesica-pistis

Sidesaddles and suffragettes - the fight to ride and vote | Horsetalk - equestrian feature articles

Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:40 PM EST ()

In an age when many women take their political freedoms for granted, they would do well to recall that for nearly a thousand years their mounted ancestors enjoyed neither political nor equestrian equality.One piece of equipment, the sidesaddle, represented this social, politica …

history, suffragettes, royal-heirs, royal-hymens, sidesaddles

Study Suggests Those Voting in Churches Could Be Swayed to Favoring Certain Ballot Issues | TheBlaze.com

Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:09 AM EST ()

Polling places often include schools, churches and some other public buildings. A growing body of research states that the location of where you cast you vote could be influencing those decisions to an extent, a factor called “priming.”

politics, schools, churches, polling-places, affect-voting-choices, religious-polling-places

Sluts and sweethearts | Life and style | The Guardian

Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:54 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Sexist words are multiplying. Women! Dare you approach the Pyramid of Egregiousness? This is the new chart that's been put together by women's groups in the US to classify the hate words used against us, from bad to worse to really quite stinkingly repulsive.

health, sexism, feminist-use-of-internet, name-it-change-it, sexist-words

The Morning Spew » Woman Beats Intruder With Bedpost – Knocks Him Out Cold!

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:24 PM EST ()

Victoria Jones said she was undressing to take a shower on Jan. 13 when she saw a man approaching her down her hallway.The wooden bedpost was the first thing Jones said she saw.She reached for it, and when the man got near her, “I nailed him,” she said.

odd-news, intruder, bedpost, knocked-cold, victoria-jones

State of the Union 2012 | The White House

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:20 PM EST (Welcome to the White House)

If you choose to watch the online-only enhanced version of President Obama’s third State of the Union Address, you’ll be able to see charts, stats and data that helped inform President Obama’s policy decisions as he delivers his speech to the nation Come to W …

politics, state-of-the-union-address, online-resources, online-discussions

Arkansas Democrat's cat killed, painted with word "liberal"

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:28 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

A cat belonging to an Arkansas Democratic campaign manager was found dead on Sunday night with the word "Liberal" spray-painted across its side, the campaign manager said.

politics, arkansas, cat-killed, cat-tortured, democtratic-campaign-chairman, libera-painted-on-it, liberal-painted-on-it

'Don't You Have Some Sense of Balance?': Gingrich Slams Fox Panel for Asking About Ethics Docs | Video | TheBlaze.com

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:08 PM EST ()

Newt Gingrich had a contentious Fox News interview Saturday morning, at one point accusing the “Fox & Friends Weekend“ hosts of lacking ”balance” when they asked him about releasing documents related to his ethics investigation.

politics, fox-news, newt-gingrich, faux-noise, fair-and-balanced

Religious institutions' health plans must offer birth control - latimes.com

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:51 PM EST (The L.A. Times)

Reporting from Washington— The Obama administration announced Friday that it would give Catholic hospitals and other religious institutions an extra year to comply with a new requirement that most health plans provide contraceptive benefits at no cost to their members. T …

health, health-insurance, catholic-church, birth-control, catholic-hospitals, religious-exemptions

Canada for President (satire)

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:10 PM EST ()

If you have been watching the elections -- and we've seen you watching -- maybe you've noticed the long, slow descent into rhetorical chaos, the doomed glares on the faces of voters, the parade of candidates that resembles an all-chimp revue of CATS.We love you, America.

politics, gop, canada, humor, presidential-candidates, kickstarter

Scarborough: Conservatives Want Brokered Convention - Meaning neither Romney nor Gingrich would be the nominee

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:43 PM EST (Arts & Living from Newser)

Joe Scarborough today made the case that conservatives are happy Newt Gingrich is surging again—not because they want him to be the nominee but because they think he can prolong the fight against Mitt Romney, trigger a brokered convention, and let a different savior swoop …

politics, conservatives, mitt-romney, newt-gingrich, mitch-daniels, joe-scarborough, brokered-convention

Rand Paul in Pat-Down Standoff With TSA in Nashville - ABC News

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:43 AM EST (ABC News)

Sen. Rand Paul told his communications director this morning he was being detained by TSA in Nashville.@moirabagley, the Twitter account associated with Paul staffer Moira Bagley tweeted around 10 a.m., ET, “Just got a call from @senrandpaul.

politics, tsa, rand-paul, detained, airport-security, pat-downs

Chris Christie: Gingrich 'Has Been an Embarrassment to the Party' | Video | TheBlaze.com

Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:35 PM EST ()

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday Newt Gingrich’s past actions have been “an embarrassment” to the Republican Party and a reason why he should not get the GOP nomination for president.

politics, gingrich, fined, investigated, embarassment, forced-to-resign, chris-chritie, past-is-prologue

The invention of the heterosexual - LGBT - Salon.com

Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:36 PM EST (Salon.com)

“Heterosexual” was actually coined in a letter at the same time as the word “homosexual,” [in the mid-19thcentury], by an Austro-Hungarian journalist named Károly Mária Kertbeny.

health, homosexual, heterosexual, darwinian-social-constructs, normative-psychiatry

Why is the Republican field so weak? - Ted Frier - Open Salon

Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:29 PM EST (Salon.com)

The short answer is: Why would anyone with a reputation for seriousness risk that reputation trying to lead a party in which a significant block of the party's coalition just voted to support Rick Santorum for President?

politics, tea-party, evangelicals, gop-candidates, obama-as-adversary, weak-field, willingness-to-compromise

Republican Racism is an Air Raid Siren, Not a Dog Whistle - Chauncey DeVega - Open Salon

Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:23 PM EST (Salon.com)

On his MSNBC show Hardball, Chris Matthews called out Newt Gingrich and other Republicans for what he described as their "dog whistle" appeals to white racism during the South Carolina debate on Monday night

politics, south-carolina, chris-matthews, far-right, tea-party-racism, gop-racism, candidates-catering-to-prejudice

Chris Christie responds to female hecklers with offensive oral sex joke. [VIDEO]

Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:08 PM EST (Slate)

On Sunday, Jan. 8., New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was speaking at a Romney for President rally in New Hampshire when he was interrupted by some female hecklers.

politics, new-jersey, misogyny, sexual-slurs, governor-chris-christie, sexual-insults

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Comments & Feedback

Hi, Truth Seeker, I do remember Chrysalis. A great feminist publication that was far too short lived. I have not been able to find it online, but here are two links that discuss it or have articles about or from it:

here's a page that has archives of some great articles concerning feminism, including some from Chrysalis:

http://www.eastofborneo.org/archives

A second link page has an image of the table of contents for the first issue: Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture. Vol. 1, Issue 1 (1977) and a short summary about it. In the comments section are a couple of the feminists who were involved.
— Loretta Kemsley

Loretta, Thanks for the FR.

Do you by any chance remember the lesbian/feminist publication in the l970s called Chrysalis? I was wondering if there are any copies archived anywhere. I was too young when I first found the magazine to gain any insightful input, but would love to peruse through the pages now that I have a little maturity under my belt. If you are not old enough to remember-- no insult intended LOL. Just speculating on your age due to the depth of your convictions. Beliefs of that magnitude generally take time to gel.
— truthseeker57

Loretta, it is an honor. Love your comments and hope you have a wonderful new year.
— genevieveva

I'm surprised you added me. I do appreciate it. Happy New Year!
— Charmonium

Thank you for your wisdom and insight, Loretta. You are an incredible person!
— Hecate's Daughter

Thanks for the invitation. I accept with Honor. I respect what you are doing.
— FIGHTING FOR RIGHTS

I would consider being a friend to you an honor. I have enjoyed your steadfast leadership in the past and I am sure I will in the future. We may not always agree on issues but I respect you and your contribution to newsvine. I wish we had more like you out there.
— fight for freedom-2341533

Thank you for the friend invitation. Glady excepted.
— Radio Free America

Thanks for Friend invite - see you have some very interesting articles for me to read and catch up on.
— TERESA OLEARY

I am honored to have your friend request and I gladly accept.
— JM California

Loretta, I love all your seeds. Thank you for being on Newsvine. Keep it up, please.
— Pacific Apple

Sending you an invite to Vampires, Werewolves & Zombies. Thought you were already a member. It's just a fun, goofy group and I thought you might enjoy it. I also clipped an article of yours to the group. Hope you don't mind. Take care....
— Jerseygirl1978

My pleasure friend, I have enjoyed your comments!
— featheredserpent

Now you really interest me. I sent you a FR. Hope you accept it
— Jeremy-ward

Thank you so much for stopping by my seed and commenting, I really appreciate it.
— McSpocky

Happy New Year!
— McSpocky

I don't always agree with your basic premise regarding gender, but I can certainly perceive an honesty of motive and an eloquence that explodes into ones consciousness, demanding attention! I can only admire your obvious passion when articulating your ideals. I have a fifteen year old daughter and have forwarded your site on NV for her future reference; as a man, my delivery with regard to a fifteen year old girl sometimes needs work.

In the defense of the ascendancy of what is female in all of us there will be differences of opinion, but if the challenge is worthy, and the champions honorable, then the results will be of benefit to all!

Kindest Regards.
— AmericanConscience

Loretta,

I would like to use one of the photos from the Mule and Horse PowerPoint in a publication about Ocean Springs, MS. Please contact me!

Thanks,

Joyce
— Joyce-2585684

Hope you have a Happy Halloween! :)
— Jerseygirl1978

Very good food for thought. Fantastic seeds. Loretta, more men need to take your advise, if you know what I mean. Thanks for the friend invite and thanks for leaving your comment on the American being exported to Mexico. - Jim
— GrayTherapy