"WHEN A JURY FOUND Donald Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll, it drove home one of the grosser features of our political era: No amount of contemptible behavior from Donald Trump toward women creates political problems for him with GOP primary voters. It didn’t in 2016 or 2020 and it isn’t now."
Today's top story: Clinics like Access Esperanza are a desperately needed lifeline in #Texas cities near the #border where the average income is less than $20,000 a year.
Patients “are being harmed in significant ways because care is being denied or delayed,” said Daniel Grossman, a professor at UCSF and the lead author of the report. “These laws are having a broader impact beyond people who are seeking abortion because they have an undesired pregnancy.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/16/ucsf-abortion-study/
"After greenlighting an abortion for a patient with a Caesarean scar ectopic pregnancy, one doctor described a situation where other colleagues who were necessary to safely complete the procedure were unwilling to help, saying they did not feel “legally protected.”
Some men in Japan have found a new outlet for their misogyny: harassing groups that help women. Their number one target is the group Colabo, which helps displaced girls in Tokyo. Here's how the harassment campaign started (and how you can help Colabo fight back). #unseenjapan#japan#women
On the 5th and 6th of June, the UK Government may be made to give back the right to retire at 60 to all those women who worked and paid their National Insurance.
Currently their pension payout is delayed until 66.
Did you know a campaign called ‘Back to 60 Movement’ has won the right to a Judicial Review and is taking the DWP to the High Court? They will attempt to get the 3.9 million women justice over non consultation in raising the pensionable age to 66 and above. #women
In my latest Women Advancing Together article, “The Social-Media Pissing Contest”, I discuss my recent experience on Mastodon in which a conversation among three women was taken over by four men and their seething egos. I relate that experience to published research on the topic of male dominance in small group interactions. #Gender#Women#SocialMedia
🎧 #Mood | #GraceJones has always been decades ahead, and not enough of us have heard her often-"subversive" messages. Thirty years ago, she made "Typical Male."
It's a continuing saga, of men with total domination,
Psycho, sexual, female manipulation,
Typical male thinks with his dick,
That's how he [?],
As a means of self-expression and fulfillment in a world of alienation,
And emptiness and [?]