Ivanka Trump has been presented as an advocate of working moms, yet under the latest Republican healthcare bill, she might not have full coverage or could face higher premiums due to the postpartum depression she revealed on The Dr. Oz Show.
During the deal/not deal “Nancy and Chuck” made with Trump, Leader Pelosi had to ask, “Do women get to talk around here?”
Everyone, not just women, should watch this Rachel Maddow Hillary Clinton clip. It should be discussed as much as Clinton’s emails were, because it is actually much more important to more people’s lives than the non-existent email scandal was. But it won’t be. So savor this.
DeVos claimed the guidelines do not do enough to address the due process rights of those accused of sexual assault and that the victims of sexual assault, those accused and colleges all lose under the current system.
Kellyanne Conway equated criticism of her – the woman standing by the man who is taking away women’s medical rights even though he himself took full advantage of the sexual revolution- with undercutting modern feminism.
Republican strategist and former White House communications director Nicolle Wallace laid down some harsh truth in response to Donald Trump’s attacks on Mika Brzezinski, saying Trump needs to apologize and Republicans need to demand a retraction.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders took the Trump road of responding to reporters about the President’s deranged tweets attacking MSNBC TV host Mika Brzezinski by whining about why the press wasn’t outraged about Mika’s behavior.
The Republican Party has become the party of Archie Bunker enablers, little men lacking courage and morality, appeasing the lowest functioning among us, who just so happens to be their President right now.
North Carolina Republican Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr cut off Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) during the Senate Intel hearing Wednesday with remarkably obvious sexism that was picked up by men and women alike, prompting Senator Elizabeth Warren to make a public show of solidarity telling Harris to “Keep fighting, Kamala!”
Trumpcare takes us back to the days before Obamacare, when rape and abuse victims were afraid to report the crime because they didn’t want to lose their health insurance.
Who does that help? It helps the criminal.
Ivanka Trump is the Pepsi of Feminism. She’s using feminist anger and energy to try to market her products, herself, and her father the p*ssy grabber.
As Republicans passed a law to allow defunding of Planned Parenthood on a state basis, a new study from Guttmacher found that publicly funded contraceptive services prevented 628,600 abortions in 2015.
Fox News has paid $65 million to get men who harass women to kindly leave. This serves as an incentive to keep harassing women.
The woman who is supposed to be President Trump’s “in” with women is not so much. Especially among millennial women. They really, really disapprove of Ivanka.
This bill wasn’t written with the intent to protect or govern on the side of the woman. It was written to save fetuses.
Mere days after proclaiming April to be sexual assault and awareness month, and claiming he was recommitting “ourselves” to fighting it, President Trump defended Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who reportedly settled five lawsuits over claims of sexual harassment.
Pundits and strategists who keep blaming Hillary Clinton for losing while ignoring the impact of Russian interference display a willful blindness that can only be accounted for by a particularly strong emotional bias teetering on hysteria.
Senator Elizabeth Warren isn’t buying President Trump’s lame attempt at pretending to support women. “Talk is cheap, put your money where your mouth is.”
Women love to be told to smile by random men, it’s part of their freedom marches.
So Donald Trump’s best election buddy Russian President Vladimir Putin took International Women’s Day to remind men that they should support women so women could do important things, like “smile more often.”
Donald Trump’s twitter account managed to squeeze out a few bland sounding words of mild support for women on A Day Without Women and International Women’s Day, but the empty words only serve to highlight his predatory, grotesque presence in women’s lives.
“There is zero part of me that understands why a rapist or someone who got someone pregnant against their will, maybe incest, would have any right in that decision.â€
After attending President Trump’s inauguration and being interviewed on Fox News, an elected New Jersey Republican official asked on his Facebook Page, “Just asking, will the women’s protest be over in time for them to cook dinner?”
Attendance has already drowned the Tea Party’s total attendance from April of 2009. Here’s a glimpse around the country of your brothers and sisters, marching for justice – this list is by no means comprehensive, but it shows that people are awake, impassioned, and engaged around the country.
An estimate of the turnout for the Women’s March has been upgraded from to 500,000 people, which is double the people Trump’s inaugural drew.
A Spirit Airline flight attendant gives a rocking shout out to the “nasty” women on board who are heading to the Women’s March on Washington, including a perfect ending, “Watch out for your fellow sisters. Just remember, we don’t take no ish from no man.”
Donald Trump uses sexual shaming and humiliation of women as simplistic revenge for the slightest felt spurn. A newly surfaced video via Ryan Grim shows the Trump Humiliation game in action, which I walk everyone through from the POV of the woman.
Maybe if you haven’t lived in the South this would escape your notice. But I have and it didn’t.
Republican Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) called himself a genteel Southern gentleman while agreeing with Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman”, saying sometimes a “lady needs to be told when she’s being nasty.”
Donald Trump doesn’t respect women at all. He doesn’t even respect their right to live.
During Wednesday night’s final presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace asked Republican Donald Trump about the many accusations of sexual assault various vetted women have come forward with. In response, Trump said nobody respects women more than he does. Fact check: False. Big league.
Donald Trump’s overt misogyny and sexism draw attention to the motive and meaning of the Republican Party’s policies designed to control and punish women for their independence.
In her first interview since the second presidential debate, Hillary Clinton spoke for so many women who were enraged by Donald Trump’s menacing skulking behind her when she said that Trump “stalked” her while on stage.
Guys, everything is explained! Donald Trump and his crew think it’s normal to brag about sexually assaulting a woman! So that explains sort of everything about the Republican Party and it’s all starting to make sense now.
Romney could barely contain his disgust over Donald Trump’s comments, tweeting, “Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America’s face to the world.”
Republicans should be hoping the media doesn’t focus on the “it†comment Donald Trump made, speaking of Arianne Zucker, the woman who was charged with meeting him, “It looks good.â€
Donald Trump keeps threatening to bring up Bill Clinton’s affairs, but Trump called Paul Jones a “loser” and said that the public would have forgiven Clinton if only he had had an affair with a “really beautiful woman” instead of Monica Lewinsky.
The idea was to illustrate how guys would feel knowing that girls would ultimately be responsible for policies that directly affected them.
Fox host Andrea Tantaros is challenging Fox News’ claims that they didn’t know about the sexual harassment claims against Fox News Chief Roger Ailes.
President Barack Obama, the president who has done more for women than any previous president in recent history, penned a beautiful ode to feminism in Glamour Magazine.
Fox News star Megyn Kelly sighed Tuesday in response to Donald Trump Jr.’s claim that unlike the ladies at Fox News, Ivanka Trump wouldn’t let herself be subjected to sexual harassment because she is a strong, powerful woman.
Secretary Hillary Clinton called SCOTUS’ Texas decision a victory for women across America but pointed out that the fight is far from over, “In Texas and across the country, a woman’s constitutional right to make her own health decisions is under attack. In the first three months of 2016, states introduced more than 400 measures restricting access to abortion.”
Oklahoma evangelical Republicans force doctors to give patients deceptive and unscientific advice just to keep their medical licenses.
Missouri Republicans approved a personhood amendment to the state constitution that would remove abortion exemptions in the case of rape, incest or if the life of the mother is at risk.
The archbishop’s complaint reveals the Church’s patriarchal mindset that women, young or old, are the clergy’s property to control
According to a new poll, when voters were informed about the religious Republican drive to ban access to legal abortion in the states, they were “disgusted and angry” and two-thirds of voters want Republicans stopped in their tracks.
The Reproductive Fact ACT that forces faith-based crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to stop lying and stop posing as medical providers.
Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society admits what she opposes is “sex for recreation, sex for mere pleasure”
A brand-spanking new report conducted and released by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, a noted research group out of the University of Texas, Austin, the state’s anti-abortion laws are hurting women and prohibiting from making their own reproductive health choices which is, after all, the goal of evangelical Republicans.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) shamed Republicans by pointing out that without Planned Parenthood abortion rates would rise approx 40%.
Women today are living out The Handmaid’s Tale, where faulty “birthing vessels” are prosecuted for failing to perform as a birthing vessel.
Arson was ruled the cause of a fire that burned a Planned Parenthood health center early Friday morning in Pullman, Washington.
If history is any indication, law enforcement had better take the increase in death threats against abortion providers very seriously
A government shutdown may work well for Republicans going into a general election – two years ago their 16-day shutdown paid huge dividends
Secretary Clinton laid it on the line today at a rally in Ohio when she likened Republican’s policies on women to those of terrorists’ treatment of women.
The Republicans are circling the wagons to get rid of Trump and they scored bonus points for putting on a very public show of caring about misogyny. Unfortunately, they only care about misogyny when it’s aimed at a Republican woman by a man they want to get rid of, which is to say they don’t care at all,
The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
Republicans have no ideas or plans for real problems, so they’ve invented a new problem in order to look like they’re doing something and naturally that new problem is women’s liberty.
A yearlong investigation into crisis pregnancy centers reveals a network of anti-abortion, anti-birth control, and anti-sex extremists that is not only funded with your tax dollars, but is often the only option.
According to the Catholic justices’ ruling, the Obama Administration ‘must’ provide an accommodation for “religious” for-profit corporations and on Friday, President Obama did just that in response to the High Court’s decision. In fact, what President Obama did was effectively neuter the Hobby Lobby ruling and ensure that all women, even those employed by ‘religious corporations,’ will still have birth control covered at no cost to them; even if their evangelical employers object and refuse to provide it.
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
If Republicans continue to ignore working women, and Hillary Clinton becomes the 2016 Democratic nominee, the GOP will be in world of hurt.
A Georgia woman has been illegally arrested and had her constitutional rights violated after a social worker told police officers that she terminated her pregnancy by taking abortion pills.
You might have thought it was bad enough that 2016 Republican presidential candidate and Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker is going to sign a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks with no exceptions for incest or life of the mother. But it gets worse.
“This is the 29th time in four months that Congress has tried to restrict abortion, which is outrageous,” Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, charged after Republicans passed yet another assault on women’s rights.
Kansas’ religious Republicans are so intent on proving they will go to any length to protect a fetus that they passed legislation for the National Right To Life movement outlawing a medical procedure to ban abortions at 14 weeks after fertilization.
A shot was fired at the rape culture Tuesday, as a private sector company, MOKO Social Media, stepped up to the plate by donating $100,000 to Detroit’s Wayne Country Prosecutor’s Office (Michigan) in order to help investigate a shameful backlog of rape kits.
This week a story in Georgia illustrates just how dangerous religious tyranny posing as religious freedom can be to the health of women.
The GOP’s poor imitation of the Paycheck Fairness Act, is more about optics than about substance, as reflected in Deb Fischer’s statement on the proposed law.
Republican strategist Ana Navarro blasted Hillary Clinton for supposedly playing up her female candidacy.
The mainstream media has already said volumes about the future of Rolling Stone’s UVA story as a case study of how not to cover a story in journalism classes.
One day people will wake up and wonder why they can no longer get the pill in their state, let alone an abortion. They can thank a Republican for the RFRA.
The Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking Act creates a fund for victims and provides grants to help local governments create programs that will benefit victims and prosecute human traffickers.
Nothing compares to Republicans when they wander into that deep mystery of women’s reproductive health, especially if it means understanding a woman’s anatomy and how it functions.
Patricia Arquette brought down the house during tonight’s Academy Awards with a rallying cry for equal wages and rights for women during her acceptance speech.
Revenge pornographers remind us that for all its benefits, the internet is full of dangers that can be as devastating and more than those we see in real life.
How do we handle all the love that Republicans show women?
Currently, Maryland and 30 other states afford rapists full parental rights under the law.
Saying no to Jindal’s God can get you killed, yet once upon a time, there was a woman who dared talk back to a white male missionary, and live
With thousands of abortion protesters swarming the city in their annual March for Life, Republicans muscled broadened abortion restrictions through the House on Thursday after a GOP rebellion forced leaders into an awkward retreat.
Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women’s reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
Jeb Bush said, “If someone wants to run a campaign about 90s nostalgia, it’s not going to be very successful.”
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians intent on using the government to control and subvert women’s rights.
Most of what passes for newspapers these days are embarrassingly partisan rags and feature, above all else, totally irresponsible right-wing opinion detritus hardly worth a second glance. U.S. dailies are little more than Republican propaganda sheets.
On Friday, Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) called NASCAR out on their hypocrisy, charging that they only seem to enforce the rules when the misconduct is caught on camera. She asked the organization, “How is it that NASCAR can take action when a reporter is threatened, and not when a woman is physically assaulted?”
For years Republicans have been telling women we don’t care about equal pay, but a new poll proves they are wrong. Again.
In which Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan’s pattern of transferring power over a woman’s private choices to the government becomes a campaign issue.
The legal battle over reproductive rights is back at the Supreme Court.
Kevin Williamson’s article, titled ‘Five Reasons Why You’re Too Dumb To Vote,’ claimed that the first reason someone would be too dumb to vote is if they got their voting advice from Lena Dunham.
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) disagreed with the San Francisco 49ers’ (her home team) decision to let defensive end Ray McDonald play Sunday even though he is being investigated for physically attacking his pregnant fiancee after being arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence.
In a much needed victory for women in Texas, a Federal Court struck down the Lone Star State’s version of a TRAP law.
Karl Rove and other Republicans needed to commission a poll to tell them that women see Republicans as “intolerant,” “lacking in compassion,” and “stuck in the past.”
If you watched Beyonce Knowles’ performance at the VMA’s last night, you knew this was coming. She used the platform to sell feminism to her fans.
Greg Abbott tried to claim that Wendy Davis’ ad accusing him of siding with a corporation over a rape victim was “gutter politics”, but PolitiFact finds it mostly true.
On Monday, Federal Court Judge Myron Thomas ruled Alabama’s sham women’s health law, AL HB27, is unconstitutional.
If we don’t need to be guided by 150-year-old ideas about women, why do we need to be guided by 150-year-old ideas about gender and 3,000-year-old ideas about the cosmos itself?
Todd Akin, the Republican Party’s “poster child” for misogyny, thinks he has found a way to attack Hillary Clinton for the party. His brilliant scheme involves blaming her because rape isn’t taken seriously.
A panel of kick butt women rocked the DC Working Families Summit, with refreshing candor. It was moderated by Mika Brzenzinski, and included Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Dr. Judith Rodin, Katherine Phillips, Debra Lee and Gloria Steinem
Heraclitus of Ephesus realized in the sixth century BCE, the only constant in the universe is change. Why can’t modern Republicans?
The Washington Post had an epic disaster of a column today, in which they managed to blame women for violence against women “One way to end violence against women? Stop taking lovers and get married.”
George Will attacks college campuses for rape prevention efforts, mocking them as political correctness gone too far.
