HEY READ THIS THING! It’s all about the psychotic but funny legislation that is coming to pass in our “great” nation, just in the last two years. We are wacky and racist and sexist and sad. Hooray! [TPM Livewire]
Archive for the ‘Sexist’ Category
Posted in Lawmaking, Politicking, Racisms, Sexist, Sicknesses, The End of the World, tagged fun with laws, take that normal people!, USA! on 04/29/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Oklahoma Takes Women’s Rights Back A Century
Posted in Ladies, Lawmaking, Sexist, Sicknesses, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged ban everything, jesus h. christ, madness, Oklahoma! abortion rights, states to avoid on 04/28/2010 | Leave a Comment »
What the FUCK is going on in this country? Yesterday, the Oklahoma Legislature went ahead and overrode the governor’s vetoes, and passed two of the strictest abortions measure to date (or, since Roe v. Wade, anyway). The first measure requires not only that women undergo an ultrasound, but that doctors set up the monitor so [...]
Muslim Clerics Declare War On Women Who Have The Nerve To Uhh Be Capable Of Tanning
Posted in Religion, Sexist, The End of the World, Traveling to the Foreigns, tagged atheism for the win!, ban everything, Islam, sure why not on 04/28/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Iran’s Islamic leadership continues its fear mongering campaign this week, threatening to arrest women who are suntanned and “who look like walking mannequins,” whatever the fuck that means. Clerics are denouncing the women for violating the spirit of Islamic laws by dressing fashionably rather than wearing the headscarves and shape shrouding cloaks the religion demands [...]
Posted in Prisons, Sexist, Sicknesses, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged abortion rights or lackthereof, Utah on 03/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: Remember that sweeping miscarriage statue in Utah that we posted about earlier this week? Well, the good news is the bill has been withdrawn and revised by the sponsor, Rep. Carl D. Wimmer (R), who removed the very controversial clause that would have allowed prosecution of “reckless” acts by women under the state’s criminal [...]
Utah Hopes To Criminalize Miscarriages
Posted in Prisons, Sexist, Sicknesses, Terrorisms, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged anti-abortion, anti-women, disgusting human beings, Utah, wtf on 02/24/2010 | 1 Comment »
A bill passed by the Utah House and Senate this week – and currently waiting the governor’s signature – will make it a crime for a woman to have a miscarriage, and make induced abortion a crime in some instances. The supposed purpose of the bill is to charge a woman with criminal homicide for [...]
Okay So Here’s Some Random Tennessee Mayor Going Full Cracker Wingnut On Obama…
Posted in Animals, Racisms, Sexist, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged Facebook, rancid cocksuckers, Russell Wiseman, Wingnuts on 12/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
…FOR BEING A DIRTY MUSLIM WHO HATES THE BABY JESUS AND THE CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR?? Let’s let him tell it, shall we? Ladies and gents, we present, Russell Wiseman! From Commercial Appeal dot com: In the opinion of Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan [...]
New Oklahoma (Anti)Abortion Law
Posted in Lawmaking, Politicking, Sexist, Wingnuts, tagged abortion rights or lackthereof, oklahoma on 10/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
As of Nov. 1st, a new provision on Oklahoma’s abortion laws will require, among other restrictions and requirements, an official record and reporting system of all abortions occurring within the state. Worse, these records will be made accessible to the public on a website as of March 1st, available for any and everyone to view. [...]
Gay Men Hunted/Executed In Iraq, Revisited
Posted in Sexist, Terrorisms, The End of the World, Traveling to the Foreigns, World News, tagged gay men executed, Iraq on 10/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »
HEY in August we wrote about a certain cresting atrocity in Iraq; gay men attacked and murdered at alarming rates. Well, New York Magazine is rerporting further on this calamity, profiling the efforts of a group of New Yorkers who are attempting to “shepherd [these men] to safety.” Give it a read. [NY Mag: The [...]
Salem Goes Global
Posted in Sexist, The End of the World, Weirdnesses, World News, tagged madness, The End of the World, witch trials on 09/24/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently, it’s 1692. Or it might as well be, according to human rights experts, who report that the murder and persecution of women and children accused of being witches is spreading around the world. Killings and violence against alleged witch women – often elderly – are becoming common in events in countries ranging from India [...]
UK Advances Parenting Rights for Lesbians
Posted in Lawmaking, Politicking, Sexist, Traveling to the Foreigns, World News, tagged gay rights, Health, international law, making babies, parenting, politics, progress, same sex couples, The UK on 09/01/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A law change in England and Wales will now allow women in same-sex relationships to register both their names on the birth certificate of a child conceived as a result of fertility treatment. Female couples not in a civil partnership but receiving fertility treatment may also both be registered. The law is a great step [...]
Sexism In Medical Care
Posted in Health, Sexist, tagged health care, poverty, sexism, women on 07/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a NY Times op-ed piece, Nicholas Kristof discusses maternal mortality, and the systematic inattention of our society towards reproductive health care, particularly when those who suffer and perish are impoverished, voiceless women (in this case, in Pakistan). He posits the following, which I’d like to make today’s thought for the day: “If men had [...]
Wall Street Journal Reporting On Cankles Now
Posted in Fashion, Science, Sexist, Sexytime, tagged cankles, dumb things, ignorant media, plastic surgery, professional journalism, sexism, wall street journal on 07/23/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The WSJ‘s Pulitzer-winning journalism team has decided to devote front page coverage to the LATEST! and VERY!IMPORTANT! problem area of women’s bodies… cankles! A cankle, for those of you who don’t know, is a fat ankle, the calf-ankle continuum, apparently only found on women. How does one define a “fat ankle” you ask? Who the [...]
Some Guy Named Michael Karolchyk Thinks Dr. Regina Benjamin Is Too Fat To Be Surgeon General
Posted in Health, Ladies, Politicking, Sexist, TeeVee, tagged Fox News, Health, ignorant media, Michael Karolchyk, prejudices, Regina Benjamin, sexism, surgeon general, too big to serve on 07/22/2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve tried to steer clear of the “controversy” surrounding Surgeon General nominee Dr. Regina Benjamin, as a means of undermining, or at least, not furthering or validating the insanity of arguments pertaining to her weight. Because I don’t see what a person’s weight, color or sex have to do with their mental ability, at all, [...]
What’s Amazon’s Problem, Exactly?!?
Posted in Internet, Media, Sexist, Video Games, tagged bad products, everything's on sale for a bit of profit, violence, women on 05/29/2009 | 2 Comments »
A while back I posted on the horrid rape simulation game that Amazon.com was selling… which they finally managed to ban. Now, in an effort to reaffirm their standing on my shit list, they’re selling another game involving (or rather, promoting) violence against women. “Stockholm: An Exploration of True Love” is a game that allows [...]
Fat Women Need Not Apply
Posted in Sexist, tagged legal system, plz nominate megan fox kthxbai, prejudices, the supreme court, they will eat ruth bader ginsberg on 05/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Justice may be blind, but that does not mean that it cannot discriminate against weight. Or medical conditions… Or suit colors. This is still America, after all. As the search for a female judge to replace David Souter’s seat in the Supreme Court heats up, some of this country’s deeply embedded misogyny comes to the [...]
I Am Man, Hear Me Conventionalize!
Posted in Media, Sexist, tagged dumb things on 04/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Although we don’t read Esquire too often here at CTJ (despite enjoying its covers), this month’s issue has an article by Tom Chiarella titled “What Is a Man?” that we just could not resist mocking highlighting. Some lovely, sparkly gems: “A man carries cash.” [Cuz he's too broke for a checking account.] “A man makes [...]
Indiana High School Doesn’t Allow Lesbian Student To Wear Tuxedo To The Prom
Posted in Education, Sexist on 03/12/2009 | 1 Comment »
A 17 year-old Lebanon High School student (Indianapolis) has sued the school district after her principal told her she would have to wear a dress to the prom on April 25th. What kind of crazy bullshit is that? Her lawyer, from the local ACLU, has “asked a federal court to issue an injunction that would [...]
Saudi Arabia News: 75 Year Old Syrian Woman To Receive 40 Lashes. Reasons Include: Not Doing Anything, Religious Insanity
Posted in Religion, Sexist, World News, tagged dumb things on 03/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »
HER ‘CRIME’ WAS HAVING TWO UNRELATED MEN IN HER HOUSE, (OF COURSE): The religious police entered the home of Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, to find gents Fahd and Hadian inside. Fahd said he had the right to be there because the woman had breast fed him as a child (jesusfuckingchrist) and Hadian was just his buddy, [...]
Dora Goes Skank
Posted in Marketing, Sexist, Toys, tagged advertising, dumb things on 03/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Look out world, Dora is growing up! Following the latest in a gross and bizarre doll makeover trend, Mattel will be releasing a new Dora doll this fall, described by the company’s marketers as having “a whole new fashionable look” aimed at appealing to tweens everywhere. The original Dora the Explorer is an adventurous, outdoorsy [...]
