Women and enlightened men know misogyny is baked into the media’s coverage of presidential elections. While Trump’s 2016 win was the result of a combination of forces, one of those forces was media bias.
That isn’t merely the opinion of this writer; there is data proving Trump got preferential treatment, be it from the volume of newspaper articles and live streaming of his campaign events to giving him free passes when he incited hatred and violence or when he just told ordinary lies.
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.
The idea was to illustrate how guys would feel knowing that girls would ultimately be responsible for policies that directly affected them.
This is the guy who wants to criminalize abortion, defund Planned Parenthood, and repeal the same health care law that has given millions of women access to free contraceptives.
Currently, Maryland and 30 other states afford rapists full parental rights under the law.
The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women's reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.
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.
For Williamson, facts are a "metaphysical dodge" and zygotes are people simply because he says so
Another day, another new low reached by bottom-scraping conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. In this instance, Limbaugh justified rape culture by telling men that no really means yes.
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
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."
So today, on this tragic Saturday when a very disturbed young man went on a murdering rampage against the "beautiful" women archetype he felt rejected by, I'm wondering if we can finally talk about the systemic problem of violence against women in the United States.
It is the right to choose their reproductive health that women are most likely under attack from Republicans whose latest assault is restricting abortion coverage in private health care plans.
The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC's assistance to continue.
With no religious, economic, and scientific justification for denying women the right to choose their reproductive health, it is obvious the Republican's goal is exerting control over women.
Republicans typically oppose women's equality as a matter of course, their non-stop attacks on Planned Parenthood are based on their allegiance to evangelical Christians.
Fox News viewers responded to the idea that real men don't rape with racial epithets and death threats.
President Obama said today while signing the Violence Against Women Act, "I promise you this - not just as your President, but as a son, as a husband, as a father - I'm going to keep at it."
People actually willing to vocally support reproductive rights have become less and less common owing to the success of stigmatization
It's not just the Sandy bill. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and John Boehner (R-OH) also killed legislation that would help protect 30 million American women's lives.
Women will have their revenge at the ballot box this Fall. And we'll enjoy the spectacle of the GOP's mystified Wednesday morning quarterbacking when it's all over.
It's Audrey Hepburn's birthday today. Not only was she an Academy Award winning actress who become a legend, but she was a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner for her humanitarian work around the globe.
Rallies were held in 55 cities today to unite against the war on women. Here are some photos shared with us from today.
We are told Mitt Romney cares about "moms" because he thinks being a mom is a job. However, in January, Mr Etch A Sketch said poor women needed to "go to work" outside of the home in order to have dignity.
Rush needs to stop getting so hung up on feminism allegedly stealing his masculinity, and take a lesson in manhood from President Obama.
The Republican Party has gone to war with the Girl Scouts, accusing them training girls to be radicalized, anti-religious baby-killing feminazis
Rush Limbaugh claims the advertiser boycott isn’t hurting him, but today on his show he did a Female Appeasement Apologist Tour, of course without apologizing.
Shut Up Barbie might remind you of Sarah Palin in her most immediate qualities: she, too, is sexy and cuddles up to big daddy for approval and attention but the super cool thing about Shut Up Barbie is that she isn’t ignorant! Yes, Shut Up Barbie comes with a book and she can talk well at parties. In other words, she’s the perfect companion for liberal men. She’s cute, she’s sassy, she’s smart, but she knows when to shut up.
You might not know it, but there’s a quiet war going on this election season. It's being waged in state law and through Tea Party candidates and Republicans. It’s a war against American women.
Blind folds, hidden cameras, boats, a sex tape machine, pornographic magazines, champagne and strawberries....sounds like one of those cheesy porns they consume in the Bible Belt on Sundays, but no.....this is a the "CNN Caper", a Right Wing Activist Plan. It's politics, Tea Party Style.
It's sort of a dirty little secret that in America, an intimate partner killed approximately 33% of female murder victims and more than 600 women every day are sexually assaulted. And what about the "conservatives" who claim to oppose Islam over the way women are treated don't seem to give a good hoot what goes on here, in their own country? Here, where women are supposed to be free.
While the poor Right is all over the place trying to find a meme to stick to Michelle Obama -- one day a gangster Marxist the next Marie Antoinette (as the media called both Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton) -- the main stream media gnaws away at any notion of feminine independence by criticizing her for leaving the President by himself on his birthday. Bad girl.
This week’s winners of the Patriarchy Award: Sharron Angle and David Vitter. Sharron Angle announced that she’s against abortion even when a girl is raped by her own father, and indeed, the Mama Grizzly Conservative suggests that said rape victims make “lemonade out of lemons”. But hold on to your outrage, my friends, because the compassionate conservatives also bring us David Vitter, who appointed a man who was found GUILTY of stabbing his girlfriend to be in charge of women’s issues.
The Right Wing is revealing both the dearth of their values as well as the utter emptiness in their opposition to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan by focusing on her looks. This is on par with the Republican Party’s oppression of women platform, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise, and yet the fact that they are so graceless as to come out with the hideously appalling criticisms they did is still shocking.
