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So What’s Different?

1 February 2008, 6:27 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Feminism, Links.

I saw the topic and thought, “Gosh, maybe I’ve missed some­thing obvi­ous. I’ve never been so good at this Girly-​​Girl thing. I should watch that.”

I watched it. I don’t feel enlightened.

Maybe it’s just been too long since I thought about this stuff, but what’s so dif­fer­ent about apply­ing make-​​up for 40-​​year-​​olds than it is for 20-​​year-​​olds? I get that people’s skin type might change, but that’s an indi­vid­ual thing. Where did this “no mas­cara on the bot­tom lashes” thing come from, and why?

Maybe some­one who reads women’s mag­a­zines or watches TV can give me a clue here.

(Yep, this is a very shal­low entry.)

It’s sex ed, really!

24 April 2007, 8:38 am. 2 Comments. Filed under Civil Rights, Feminism.
Graduate of Bush’s Abstinence-only Sex Education by Ann Telnaes

Aw, poor widdle terrorist!

11 December 2006, 9:27 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Civil Rights, Feminism, News.

I know you’re all torn up to hear that Eric Rudolph is mis­er­able in prison.1

“Using soli­tary con­fine­ment, Super­max is designed to inflict as much mis­ery and pain as is con­sti­tu­tion­ally per­mis­si­ble,” he wrote in a letter.

No, really? That’s part of that whole deter­rent fac­tor, ya know? Jail isn’t sup­posed to be a vaca­tion. Maybe you should have con­sid­ered the pos­si­bil­ity of los­ing a lit­tle time in the moun­tains before you took to being a bomber, Rudolph?

Of course, he still has his life to com­plain about, unlike some of his victims.

My real ques­tion, I sup­pose, is why is this news? What is our atten­tion being redi­rected away from?

1 http://​www​.ajc​.com/​h​p​/​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​/​s​h​a​r​e​d​-​g​e​n​/​a​p​/​N​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​/​E​r​i​c​_​R​u​d​o​l​p​h​.​h​t​m​l​?​c​x​n​t​n​i​d​=​a​m​n​1​2​1​1​06e

Planned Parenthood of Georgia Offers Free Emergency Contraception 12÷6÷06

4 December 2006, 10:20 am. 2 Comments. Filed under Civil Rights, Feminism, News, Sex.

From Planned Par­ent­hood of Geor­gia:

Free EC! Decem­ber 6, 2006!

We’re cel­e­brat­ing increased access to emer­gency con­tra­cep­tion (EC)!

EC can safely and effec­tively pre­vent preg­nancy if started within five days of unpro­tected sex. Every­one, regard­less of age, can get EC at Planned Par­ent­hood — and now, for peo­ple 18 and older, EC is avail­able over the counter. Stop by one of our five Geor­gia health cen­ters on Decem­ber 6, 2006, and receive FREE EC (one per per­son) to keep at home — just in case.

Planned Par­ent­hood of Geor­gia, Inc.
Atlanta ~ Lil­burn ~ Mari­etta ~ Augusta ~ Savannah

1 – 800-​​230-​​PLAN

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Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.

http://​www​.ppaction​.org/​j​o​i​n​-​f​o​r​w​a​r​d​.​h​t​m​l​?​d​o​m​a​i​n​=​p​p​g​a​&​a​m​p​;​r​=​x​1​1​e​r​3​n​1​S​SQw

If you received this mes­sage from a friend, you can sign up for
Planned Par­ent­hood of Geor­gia Action Cen­ter at:

http://​www​.ppaction​.org/​p​p​g​a​/​j​o​i​n​.​h​t​m​l​?​r​=​x​1​1​e​r​3​n​1​S​S​QwE

Have you bought emergency contraception?

17 November 2006, 10:44 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Civil Rights, Feminism, Health.

I just read about it at Sex in the Pub­lic Square. I haven’t thought about it before, but what she says makes sense. If you’re a sex­u­ally active adult who could tech­ni­cally con­ceive, but you don’t want to have a child right now, it’s a good thing to keep on hand.

I’d be inter­ested in hear­ing about your expe­ri­ences in buy­ing it OTC, if you do so. It isn’t an issue for us, so we don’t have a rea­son to buy any.

 

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