OB-GYN shortage expected to get worse as medical students fear prosecution in states with abortion restrictions (www.cbsnews.com)
Why Losers Like Steven Crowder Hate No-Fault Divorce (www.youtube.com)
Rebecca Watson is the founder of the Skepchick Network, a collection of sites focused on science and critical thinking. She has written for outlets such as Slate, Popular Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. She's also the host of Quiz-o-tron, a rowdy, live quiz show that pits scientists against comedians. Asteroid...
Texas woman fatally shot by her boyfriend after traveling to Colorado to get abortion, police say (coloradosun.com)
Pregnant women held for months in one Alabama jail to protect fetuses from drugs (www.al.com)
Key Equal Rights Amendment activists long avoided tying it to abortion. A group of teenagers is changing that. (19thnews.org)
every single time (feddit.de)
Brides Are Suffocating Under the Weight of Tradition (jezebel.com)
A Texas woman is suing the prosecutors who charged her with murder after her self-induced abortion (www.cnn.com)
Alabama, Iran, or Saudi Arabia? Where abortion laws are better for women (www.haaretz.com)
Facebook bans ads for award-winning Votes for Women board game’s new Kickstarter, claims it is a “sensitive social issue” (boardgamewire.com)
When People Assume You’re Not In Charge Because You’re a Woman (hbr.org)
Archive link without paywall...
Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views (boingboing.net)
New research in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, from University of Kent researchers Louis Bachaud and Sarah Johns, explores how members of various manosphere communities (think Andrew Tate and his ilk) misuse research and concepts from evolutionary psychology to bolster their own misogynistic views.
230th anniversary of death of Olympe de Gouges, pioneer of feminism (upload.wikimedia.org)
Olympe de Gouges was a very early French feminist who was active during the French Revolution and was killed by Robbespierre during his reign of terror. She was particularly noteworthy because her activism could be regarded as an early form of intersectional feminism, because she fought not only for the rights of women, but also...
'They're just not enough': Students push to improve sexual assault prevention trainings for college men (19thnews.org)
Taking off the hijab: 'My dream was to wear what I wanted' (www.bbc.com)
Three Muslim women share their stories of removing their hijabs, despite facing fierce opposition.
How the patriarchy contributes to climate chaos [27:49] (www.youtube.com)
Shutting Down Feminist Frequency (feministfrequency.com)
The Best Way to Find Out If Someone Is a Trump Voter? Ask Them What They Think About Manhood. (www.politico.com)
Pretending to be deaf to avoid harassing men. (media.tech.lgbt)
Apparently there were angry men in the comments saying "they were just complimenting her." Disgusting.
The FBI Is Hunting a New Domestic Terror Threat: Abortion Rights Activists (theintercept.com)
“Pro-abortion terrorism is sweeping our nation,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., wrote in a column last June, lamenting that “only after the outcry from the pro-life community did the FBI announce an investigation” into Jane’s Revenge — a small group of activists that firebombed an anti-abortion pregnancy center on June 7,...
Since laws/police do a bad job at protecting women from their exbfs who are charged with abuse, does anyone object to allowing those specific women to carry weapons? In countries that ban weapons.
Canada: pepper spray, knives, baseball bat s for self defense r illegal....