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Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Opening Statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Gun Violence

Changing Your Name at Marriage? "That Only Works For Women."

Once we have talked about formerly about this blog, the choice to change a person's title--or otherwise--upon marriage is fraught with many different cultural baggage. Individuals have a myriad of top reasons to achieve this, or otherwise. However, if you are a guy, the condition of Florida figures that the reason is fraud. Which enables you to a criminal: Lazaro Dinh was released a brand new license after showing his marriage license at his local Department of motor vehicles office and having to pay a $20 fee, just like recently married women are needed to complete once they adopt their husband's title. "It had been easy. Once the government items you a brand new passport you work you are fine," he stated. At least a year later Dinh received instructions from Florida's Department of motor vehicles last December accusing him of "acquiring a driving license by fraud," and counseling him that his license could be suspended in the finish from the month. Ironically, it had been addressed to Lazaro Dinh. "I believed it was an error,Inch he stated. However when he known as the condition Department of motor vehicles office in Tallahassee he stated he was told he needed to visit court first to be able to change his title legally, a procedure that can take several several weeks and it has a $400 filing fee. As he described he was altering his title because of marriage, he was told 'that only works best for women,'" he stated. WHISKEY. TANGO. FOXTROT. I'd say more, but my mental abilities are stuck around the "boggle" function.

Downton Abbey Open Thread

"Whoops."[Spoilers are telling secrets downstairs herein. And there is a large spoiler now, so continue but be careful!Welp, you actually whoopsed up this time around, The almighty Whoops! Even Lady Valium takes rage pills by having an I'd Rather Not Call At Your STUPID FACE chaser. Here's what happens as a fortunate, classist wanker who sanctimoniously demands that the fancy-pants city physician have to know much more about everything compared to humble village physician who's been dealing with your kids their whole lives: Your daughter dies. RIP Sybil.Despite the fact that I understand that ladies die in giving birth, which is essentially only a cleaning soap opera which will always mistreat its figures to create Points, I had been still angry in the show for killing Sybil mainly to underscore The almighty Whoops' already-apparent character defects and make more dramatic conflict. Actually, I had been so angry which i wasn't even particularly moved by her death—until they cut to Thomas crying.That actually got me—Thomas telling Mrs. Hughes that Sybil was among the couple of individuals who had ever treated him with kindness. The heartstrings! These were formally tugged.In other news, Anna met with Bates plus they determined how you can prove he's innocent of killing his ex-wife. Something something gaolmumble from a guard and inmate, who are likely to thwart the program, for reasons I haven't yet discern. I suppose existence will get pretty boring at Grey Gaol, and you will too ruin someone's existence to help keep yourself entertained!Ethyl began for Mrs. Crowley and burned the fuck out of a body organ meat soufflé. "Sorry, Mrs. Crowley! I had been trained in the Whoops Institute of Cooking at Whoopston Abbey!"—Ethyl.Matthew met by having an attorney about how exactly The almighty Whoops is garbage at running the estate. Mary got mad at him, because she needs to occupy the ass-covering slack on her father once the Dowager Countess is not around. Ladies, I have to professionally disagree along with you. It's his fault. He's a mismanager of epic proportions, and that he must retire for the night.And him the hell from Edith before he crushes what bit of self-esteem she handles to retain underneath the weight of his haughty contempt!Ugh this person.In a single vibrant place of excellent news: Matthew's dick is still effective!Talk about.[Please go to discuss everything Downton Abbey, only with the 4th episode of Season 3. Do not share things from later within the season, despite a spoiler warning, because I have reached mod the thread, which requires reading through everything. So be kind, if you are elsewhere on the planet in which the whole season has broadcast.]

Today in Fat Hatred

[Content Note: Body fat hate misogyny heterocentrism.]Erica Barnett emails, that we am discussing with permission:A genuine jewel in the WSJ: "Mixed-Weight Couples Report More Conflict." [Presently entitled: "Stop 'Do I Look Body fat?'"]Accurate translation: Douchebag dudes who say such things as, "I suppose you are certainly one of individuals individuals who looks better in clothes" justifiably piss off female partners. Try not to worry, there is a happy ending: If women just count calories and slim down, their partners will discover them attractive again! (The "study," for example it had been, incorporated just 43 hetero couples and just found "elevated conflict" once the lady was body fat and also the guy was critical.)The content is filled with awesome stuff, like: "Even individuals who aren't overweight can obsess regarding their appearance (sadly, these mostly are usually women)."Sadly, that's incorrect. Literally, I am unable to think about just one guy I understand well who has not, on multiple occasions, stated something in my experience denigrating and/or fretting about his appearance. It's more socially acceptable, as far as that it's expected, for ladies to openly "obsess" regarding their looks, but it's flatly false that males don't share this eminently human response to residing in a vicious culture of judgment that encourages shameless body regulating.The main difference isn't that males do not have body issues, but that:1. Many of us are socialized to see women's physiques as public property, and therefore women are disproportionately exposed to critique on any failure to adapt to some kyriarchal beauty standard.2. Males (especially males who partner with females) are urged to police their partners' physiques for beauty, while women (especially ladies who partner with males) are urged to police their partners' physiques for health. A guy should be accountable for ensuring his wife does not "let herself go," while a lady should be accountable for ensuring her husband eats his veggies.3. Males who're joined with females are judged by their partners' appearance a lot more than ladies who are joined with males. A guy having a body fat/unattractive wife is judged in most types of ways in which a lady having a body fat/unattractive husband is not. He, using the body fat/unattractive wife, should have a problem with him. He, using the more appealing wife, should be quite a great guy and is not she lucky!These aren't absolutes. But there's an entire world at play here that describes why, exactly, it is just the couples using the body fat spouses and demanding husbands who experience "elevated conflict." And just what underwrites that critique to begin with.

Daily Dose of Cute

Jack and Potter share some fluffy love

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by designs.Suggested Reading through:Lyle: President's Appointment Energy CurbedAviva: CNN Anchor Methods Opponent of ladies in Combat to Endorse Racial Segregation [Content Note for misogyny and racism.]Erica: VictoryPaul: Obama's Second Chance: The Reelected Leader Has Gun Law as well as Global Warming in the Sights [Note: Should you read completely towards the very finish, you will notice a familiar title waxing repetitive about Obama as being a more powerful ally on reproductive privileges. GEE WHO Can It Be?!Pleased Place: If Downton Abbey Happened Positioned on Facebook: Season 3, Episode 3 [Content Note for the similar biases based in the episode.]And from Flyover Feminism's Roe Week [content note for fight against agency for the below posts]:Nicole Clark: Keeping the Belief within the Professional Choice MovementRobin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo: Kansas: "Notify Your Conscience Become Your Guide"Lily Bolourian: Roe v. Wade Anniversary: Why I'm Not Satisfied After 40 YearsAlicia Walters: Regulating Black Motherhood of all the AngleARROW: An Overview from the Condition of Abortion Over the Asian RegionLeave your links and proposals in comments...

Open Thread

Located with a baby giraffe.

Take Your Boobs to the White House Watch

The main one glitch within the Bring Your Breasts towards the Whitened House, Hillary Clinton! campaign is the fact that V . P . Joe Biden wants the presidency, too. ' ' did I only say glitch? I meant the very best Factor EVER because without Joe Biden's presidential ambitions, the way the press have the ability to wind back around towards the narrative that Hillary Clinton is attempting to steal the presidency from the guy who warrants it?!So allow the the horserace begin!ABC News—Clinton Accepted Biden: Of two potential Democratic successors to Obama, you have a obvious advantage in personal recognition: Hillary Clinton, whose favorability rating surpasses Joe Biden's with a hefty 19 percentage points within the latest ABC News/Washington Publish poll....Clinton is accepted Biden across groups – particularly, in partisan terms, among independents. She's seen more positively compared to v . p . by 13 and 17 points among Dems and Republicans, correspondingly, but by 23 points among independents, 65 % versus. 42 percent for Biden. This gap reflects both more negative opinions of Biden and greater indecision about him.Clinton's intensity advantage is obvious among partisans too. Six in 10 of her very own party's supporters see her strongly positively, while 44 percent let them know of Biden. Politico—Joe Biden 'Intoxicated' by 2016 Run: Joe Biden summoned a lot more than 200 Democratic associates towards the vice presidential residence Sunday evening to talk concerning the 2012 triumph — however, many walked away convinced his rising 2016 ambitions were the actual intent from the lengthy, intimate evening...."He's consuming the concept, and it is impossible to not be consuming the concept,Inch stated a Democrat near to the Whitened House. And also the intoxication is hardly new. Authorities focusing on the Obama-Biden campaign this past year were struck because when the v . p . always appeared to possess one eye on the run, including strongly relationship the president’s contributor. Obama aides sometimes needed to positively steer Biden to places where he was needed — like Pennsylvania — while he stored asking to become used to Iowa, Nh along with other early states....Biden, based on numerous advisors and Dems who've talked to him in recent several weeks, really wants to run, or at best be situated to operate, assuming he decides to drag the trigger. Biden has expressed a obvious feeling of emergency, convinced the Democratic area is going to be defined rapidly — which it could perfectly come lower to some private talk to Hillary Clinton about who should finish what Obama began.And, you realize, whether Hillary Clinton really wants to run. THAT LITTLE Factor.Even when she does not, Biden may face other competitors. Including the Democratic Party Establishment. They need to want him to operate. And I am not too sure they'll, considering that his original choice for the veep slot was apparently predicated on Biden's assertion he will make way after his vice-presidency. Party politics could be ugly business, and also the Democratic Establishment includes a large little bit of leverage within the political way forward for his boy, Love Biden—Iraq veteran, current Attorney General from the condition of Delaware, and emerging presence around the cable news shows. Because of the choice to step aside for an additional candidate, in return for his son's appointment to all of us Attorney General, or run and risk tanking his son's trajectory, he may all of a sudden find themself less passionate in regards to a presidential run in the end.It matters whether Clinton really wants to run. Additionally, it matters if the party wants Biden to operate, if she does not.

Roe at 40

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the united states Top Court decision that legalized abortion.Use of legal abortion countrywide is progressively harder, as anti-choicers nick away in the right guaranteed by Roe, trying to render the choice a hollow statute and make up a situation for countless ladies and trans* and/or genderqueer males by which abortion is technically legal but functionally inaccessible.This tactic is within direct contravention from the will from the majority. A brand new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that the majority of USians "believe abortion ought to be legal in most or many instancesInch which "seven in 10 participants oppose Roe v. Wade being overturned."The idea that the majority of the united states really wants to limit use of abortion and/or criminalize it altogether is flatly false.In search of a genuine national conversation about abortion, the Guttmacher Institute has come up with an accumulation of infographics "that distill an abundance of information into five pictures about abortion within the U . s . States today." I'm discussing all of them with permission.U.S. ladies who have abortions:Abortion within the U.S. is becoming concentrated among poor women:Racial & ethnic differences in libido final results:How can women purchase abortions?Obstacles to abortion access:In the inauguration address, Leader Obama stated: "We're in keeping with our creed whenever a young girl born in to the bleakest poverty recognizes that she's exactly the same opportunity to succeed as others, because she's a united states she's free, and she or he is equal, not only to your eyes of God but additionally within our own."The promise towards the nation's women and ladies we have exactly the same opportunity to succeed his or her male cohorts, that we're free, which we're equal, cannot and should never be satisfied as lengthy as women and folks with uteri aren't given agency over their very own physiques. Treatments for our reproduction, over when and when we decide to breed, is a vital bit of girls' and women's chance, freedom, and equality.This will be significant for fortunate women, also it becomes progressively crucial for women whose details have multiple points of marginalization, the prejudices against any one of which are utilized to justify less use of health care: Women of color, poor women, women with disabilities, body fat women, migrant women—which is neither an extensive nor mutually exclusive list.There's no trickle-lower feminism. The denial of use of abortion isn't fought equally, and (re)building use of abortion across the nation doesn't have a universal strategy. It's a legal problem it's an economic problem it's a social problem it's a cultural problem it's a religious problem it's an educational problem it's a justice problem. We should concern ourselves using its all facets, to satisfy the country's promise to the women and ladies.40 years after Roe, what we should learn more clearly than ever before is the fact that Roe continues to be necessary, which Roe isn't enough.

Prepare the Fainting Couches

[Content Note: Terrorism violence.]Hayes Brown at Think Progress—New Study Highlights Threat from Far Right-Wing Groups within the U . s . States:New research from the think tank attached to the West Point Military Academy highlights the threat of violent far-right actions within the U . s . States, resulting in the final outcome that, while diverse in within their causes, they're similar within their utilization of violence to attain their aims.West Point's Combatting Terrorism Center began as a direct consequence from the Sept. 11 attacks, and it has mainly focused its research on worldwide terrorist risks. Entitled "Competitors in the Sidelines: Understanding America's Violent Far-Right," this new report rather appears to be the danger that domestic groups pose towards the U.S. Wearing down such groups into three groups — the Racist/Whitened Supremacy Movement, the Anti-Federalist Movement, and also the Christian Fundamentalist Movement — enables the research to look at the backdrop ideologies and techniques of every subset completely, in opposition to lumping them altogether since many research has.Each one of the types within the study represent competing ideological sights, without them prone to cooperate in achieving their aims. The probabilities that all these groups uses violence also varies. The things they share, however, is really a utilization of violence against their selected targets — whether it is minority races or abortion treatment centers — to highlight and stress their given ideology. Naturally, conservatives happen to be refuting the research with great comebacks like: "The $64,000 dollar real question is when will the Combating Terrorism Center publish their study real left-wing terrorists such as the Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and also the Weather Subterranean?"That rhetorical is nearly TOO perfect.I'm not sure what else I'm able to say about rightwing eliminationist violence which i haven't already stated fully a million occasions. Deficiencies in empathy permitted to fester unchallenged will in the end be a violent urge. We can't indulge this toxic intolerance with stories of "each side get their extremists" as it were more.

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Jack

Cool Goals

Yesterday, I just read this unique article [CN: racism] about how exactly, and that i quote the headline, "Val Kilmer's goal would be to become his generation's prominent Mark Twain impersonator." Sure. Clearly. Awesome goal, bro.It helped me think about how, after i would be a wee child with a much more pronounced lisp than I've now, I thought about being "the world'th foremotht softball bat exthpert." And, hey, I am only 38—there's certainly still time. I believed most of us most likely have awesome goals we want to talk about. Like how Deeky really wants to become the favourite part of Google image search having a dildo alongside his face. Or how, when the whole softball bat expert factor does not exercise, I wish to own my generation's most coveted assortment of Abe Vigoda paraphernalia. I'm so jealous of Ray and Eric.What I am saying is: Have some fun creating silly goals in comments.

Photo of the Day

Leader Obama's new official portrait for his second term. Picture by, of course, Pete Souza/The Whitened House. H/T to Jordan.

I Don't Even

[Content Note: Rape apolgia.]Daming Sanusi, an applicant for that Indonesian Top Court, includes a fascinating platform of rank rape apologia:In reaction to some question [throughout a parliamentary commission hearing to find out if he would be a fit for that top court] about if the dying penalty ought to be used in rape cases, Daming apparently stated, "Consideration must be taken completely for that imposition of dying penalty for any rapist because inside a rape situation both rapist and also the victim appreciate it.InchI do not have what. I Do Not Have THE FUCKING WORDS.Later, he apologized but was adamant he'd been joking.Because the furor increased, Daming released an apology, acknowledging that his words were "unmanageable.InchInside a news conference, he stated he was nervous within the session while watching congress making the comment like a joke."I made the remark without recognizing it may harm individuals feeling," Antara reported him as saying.It should be amazing to reside a existence so insulated in the facts of sexual violence you have no clue that saying children want to be raped may be problematic.So that as contemptible when i find this statement, I am not pissed off because my own fee-costs are hurt. I am pissed off because someone who's assigned with justice does not understand literally the very first factor about rape.[H/T to Shaker Ventureforth.]

Obama's Address & Proposals Re: Gun Reform

Leader Obama just finished his address on gun reform, where he and V . P . Joe Biden introduced their plans targeted at stopping gun violence in america. I'll set up video and transcript the moment they become available. A complete transcript from the President's and Vice President's remarks can be obtained here.Meanwhile, listed here are the primary objectives from the President's plan:1. Close criminal record check loopholes to help keep guns from harmful hands2. Prohibit military-style assault weapons and-capacity magazines3. Make schools safer and4. Increase use of mental health services.The Leader takes an extensive approach here, suggesting needed background inspections for those public gun sales (at this time, 40% of guns are bought at gun shows or on the internet, without mandatory background inspections) advocating private retailers to market via licensed sellers to facilitate background inspections, even when they are not mandatory strengthening condition confirming of crooks and individuals with mental illness combined with more powerful recommendations regarding what comprises needed confirming strengthening gun monitoring marketing safe gun possession, together with a campaign to inspire storing guns securely reinstating the 1994 Assault Weapons Prohibit including its high-capacity clip prohibit asking Congress to criminalize the possession and change in armor-piercing ammunition, the purchase which has already been illegal elevated funding for police, for varsity counseling, for safe school programs, and research into gun violence and growing use of mental health services for individuals who can't afford it.Following, their email list of Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions the Leader expects to consider has signed:1. Problem a Presidential Memorandum to want federal agencies to create relevant data open to the government criminal record check system.2. Address unnecessary legal obstacles, particularly relevant towards the Medical Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that could prevent states from making information open to the backdrop check system.3. Improve incentives for states to talk about information using the criminal record check system.4. Direct the lawyer General to examine groups of people prohibited from getting a gun to make certain harmful individuals are not sliding with the cracks.5. Propose rulemaking to provide police force the opportunity to operate a full criminal record check with an individual before coming back a grabbed gun.6. Create a letter from ATF to government licensed gun sellers supplying guidance regarding how to run background inspections web hosting retailers.7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun possession campaign.8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).9. Problem a Presidential Memorandum to want federal police force to follow guns retrieved in criminal research.10. To produce DOJ report examining info on lost and stolen guns making it broadly open to police force.11. Nominate an ATF director.12. Provide police force, first responders, and college authorities with training for active shooter situations.13. Maximize enforcement efforts to avoid gun violence and prosecute gun crime.14. Problem a Presidential Memorandum pointing the Cdc to check out the causes and protection against gun violence.15. Direct the lawyer General to problem a study around the availability and many effective utilization of new gun safety technologies and challenge the non-public sector to build up innovative technologies.16. Clarify the Affordable Care Act doesn't stop doctors asking their sufferers about guns within their houses.17. To produce letter to healthcare companies making clear that no federal law forbids them from confirming risks of violence to police force government bodies.18. Provide incentives for schools to employ school resource officials.19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of greater education.20. To produce letter to condition health authorities making clear the scope of mental health services that State medicaid programs plans must take care of.21. Finalize rules making clear essential health advantages and parity needs within ACA trades.22. Invest in finalizing mental health parity rules.23. Launch a national dialogue brought by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.I've Ideas Relating To This. I am sure you need to do, too. Let us discuss all of them in comments!

Downton Abbey Open Thread

Oh, Lady Edith. Sigh.[Spoilers are telling secrets downstairs herein.]Oh the goings-on at Downton now! The almighty Whoops and Lady Valium go ahead and take whole gang on the have a picnic to visit consider the hovel, through which I am talking about More compact CASTLE, they're going to have to reside in if Matthew does not throw his silly concepts within the garbage and bail them out to allow them to keep Downton. It's all regulated very depressing for everybody, particularly when they realize a home is so small they'll most likely just have eight staff. OH THE HUMANITY!Fortunately, Lady Mary is Around The Situation, and she or he reads instructions meant for Matthew from dead Lavinia's dead father, and finds out that The almighty Lavinio totes understood about how exactly Matthew broke his dying daughter's heart, and that he is certainly okay by using it. Lady Mary also verifies that radical scullery sister Daisy mailed the letter for Lavinia, and informs Matthew about it. She then informs him if he finds another excuse to not spend his new fortune saving Downton, she'll break Bates from gaol to murder him. "He's doing time, might as well perform a crime!"Matthew relents plus they totes write out, and Matthew offers to share what's promising after Lady Edith's wedding, while he does not wish to steal her thunder.' ' LADY EDITH Does not Have THUNDER! Never using the thunder, that certain. Obviously Mister Shaun Daniels leaves Lady Edith in the altar, LITERALLY In The ALTAR, if there's a worst factor to occur, it is going to occur to Lady Edith.Nevertheless, if a person explained they loved me because they would like to make wiping my ass their "life's work," I'd leave them in the altar, too.Meanwhile, DOWNSTAIRS, Thomas continues to be conniving and smirky. O'Brien will certainly be feeding him towards the hounds every day now. Mrs. Hughes is cancer-free yay! and Mr. Carson totes includes a crush on her behalf no doy. Carson's in this jolly mood, he'll even allow the footmen talk shit about Mister Shaun Daniels But Simply THIS ONCE!Anna interviews some mean lady who calls her a trollop. And also the maid who were built with a baby with someone I can not even remember is constantly on the play coy with Isobel, who only really wants to help All Of The Hookers. Who certainly don't want to understand needlepoint but would really like a sandwich, thankyouverymuch.And, back upstairs again, the Dowager Countess states something pithy. Oh snap!Please go to discuss everything Downton Abbey, only with the second episode of Season 3. Do not share things from later within the season, despite a spoiler warning, because I have reached mod the thread, which requires reading through everything. So be kind, if you are elsewhere on the planet in which the whole season has broadcast.

Monday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by owls.Suggested Reading through:Jess: Daily Gun Violence in america: The month of january twelfth and thirteenth EditionMichael: I Had Been A Misogynist Comedian [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of discussion of rape jokes along with other violent misogynist jokes.]Megan: Zero Dark Thirty Boosts Questions about Gender and Torture, Gives Very Difficult AnswersRagen: But How About REALLY Body fat People [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion of body fat prejudice and the body regulating.]18MR: What Goes On Whenever You Make Asians "Asian"? [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion and imagery of racism.]Andrew: Illinois Business Leaders: Marriage Equality Makes CentsHelen: Sex & DisabilitySteve: Lost Boy Stored Warm by DogsNick: Not Quite The Way I Remember ItLeave your links and proposals in comments...

There's Something About Critics

[Content Note: Misogyny.]To begin with, I am pleased to are convinced that since i have started my passionate campaign of liking Zooey Deschanel from spite, we're now close friends and that we have superfun vegan picnics with this kitten buddies at Unicorn Park every Tuesday. I understand you're far too busy to become jealous, because you are investing all of your time getting coffee using the guest lecturer at the college, Professor James Franco, so things are great for people.Zooey Deschanel, actress, singer, activist, and never whatsoever my pal,but certainly a person who appears pretty neato and never inside a sarcastic way.Anyway!Case an ideal story in Entertainment Weekly—and below generally is the whole story—about Zooey Deschanel:Critic asks Zooey Deschanel to describe her nameby James Hibberd[picture of Zooey Deschanel shrugging and searching perplexed]Something about Zooey Deschanel throws off TV experts. Finally year's press tour panel on her Fox hit New Girl, a reporter desired to know when did she understand that she's "adorable."This time around in the semi-annual event, she was requested to describe her title. Which was the issue — can she "explain her title." Like it is a riddle. Or perhaps a trick she's tugging."My title?" the actress responded, confused. "My name or my surname?"Critic: "Both.""My title on the program?InchThe critic described (… kind of … not necessarily): "Zooey. Zooey Deschanel.""I had been named after [the J.D. Salinger novel] Franny and Zooey," she stated. "My surname is French."And her surname is French.With this finally settled, her fellow panelists along with other reporters congratulated.Now, clearly, James Hibberd, author of the piece, is along the side of the kitten picnics, because YES LIKE HER Title Is Really A RIDDLE Or Perhaps A TRICK SHE'S Tugging. But James Hibbard! Maybe start rather using the observation that there are "something" concerning the dingalings who request these dipshit questions, like the truth that they are possibly being misogynistic (I add "possibly" only since i can totally suppose Goran Visnjic continues to be requested to describe his title fully a million occasions) and certainly being less than professional and will not be asked to the picnics ever, except those with the bugs.It could appear just like a small factor, to make certain the culprit for such foolery is positioned squarely around the fools, but it is these tiny problems, such as the unfortunate if unintentional implication that there are something Zooey Deschanel does to result in industry experts to condescend to her, that equal to produce a culture by which women, especially ladies who are cool and silly and cute, are summarily ignored as unserious, even when they're also wise and gifted and fierce.Which the summary dismissals are their very own fault.

Um

[Content Note: Guns violence terrorism.]James Yeager, Boss of Tactical Response and fucking terrorist, whose frightening tirade was yesterday's Quote during the day, has launched another video by which he clarifies he will not murder anybody unless of course it's "necessary.""I don't condone anybody carrying out any type of crimes up to any irritated assaults or killings, unless of course it's a necessity,Inch Yeager stated within the second video. "At this time there is no need.InchInchI've attracted my line within the sand: Not just one more inch," he stated.Yeager opened up the most recent video stating that he "most likely permitted my mouth to overrun my logic," and introduced he'd edted a few of the more heated comments from his previous video and reposted it. He then added: "However I don't, I do not retract any one of my claims."Yeager ongoing to obtain upset within the Obama administration's "tyranny" and spoken advised individuals to pack backpacks, get healthy, and cargo their guns. He stated that his first video had "accidentally put together an military … a quite formidable military." Swell.

Because Roman Cameo Oreo Cookie, That's Why

Is that this what you have been waiting for your existence? Since I know I've. From imgur, an Oreo created right into a cameo: I can not stop laughing after i see this. Not just due to your comments ought to to begin ("Eat tu, Brute?" LOL FOREVER!) however in sheer delight in the love and energy someone put in developing a Roman emperor's portrait on the sandwich cookie. (H/t my cousin AC, via Facebook.) ETA: The artist with this amazing image is Judith Klausner and you will find more wonderful cameos in the link. Because of Shakers babydyke and pbrim!

War Over the War on Women

[Content Note: Intersectional misogyny reproductive privileges ciscentrism. NB: Not just women require reproductive privileges, including use of abortion.]So, there is lots of chatter about how exactly Obama's second-term cabinet is searching pretty damn whitened and male, as Hillary Clinton has been changed by John Kerry, and also the whitened dudes who're departing are now being changed by other whitened dudes—Chuck Hagel to exchange Leon Panetta at Defense Jack Lew to exchange Timothy Geithner at Treasury. Hilda Solis' alternative at Labor is unknown, since she just introduced her resignation.You will find lots of personnel changes with any second term, and I am waiting to determine the way it all shakes out: Ultimately, the general diversity from the administration may increase, depending on how lower-level positions are staffed. But visible diversity is vital, and so i have real issues with an extremely whitened male cabinet, even in case the overall diversity enhances.(To my understanding, all the current whitened male nominees identify as cis, straight, and able-bodied, too.)Legitimate criticisms can and really should be produced in regards to a failure to rehearse significant diversity with this administration.Conservatives are, typically, not making legitimate criticisms. They're rather making plenty of specious and hypocritical arguments they would not direct at one that belongs to them candidates. My personal favorite of these is certainly Mike Huckabee accusing Obama of fighting their own "fight against women."Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee condemned the leader and Dems for his or her "fight against women" campaign rhetoric — watching that Obama's second term Cabinet will probably include couple of women."Now lots of individuals women who supported Obama are itching their heads, and they are saying, 'Whoa! Why there's a lot testosterone within the Obama Cabinet and thus little oestrogen?'" the Arkansas Republican stated on his radio program Wednesday. "If you appear around, many of these high-powered visits that he's making are whitened men."Obama guaranteed women "birth control methods and free abortions" to have their votes, but "never guaranteed women might have seats of significance while dining of energy," Huckabee stated."You remember back throughout the Democratic [National] Convention, how he accused the Republicans of fighting a fight against women? And lots of women should have thought it while he got 55 percent from the female election, Mitt Romney 44 percent," he stated."Give Them birth control methods and abortions. Try not to be worried about positions of authority. They should not be requesting may be,Inch the previous presidential candidate stated.To begin with, "female" isn't intended to be a noun unless of course the first is mentioning to animals. Next, if a person talks about males and ladies using "testosterone" and "oestrogen," one risks getting others infer that certain has wadded-up sponges filling the unused space in a person's brainpan. Third, free abortions? If perhaps.Again, the possible lack of female cabinet people is really a valid critique, however the way Huckabee attaches (in other words does not attach) it here to reproductive privileges is absurd, revealing the key reason why it's that ladies trust his party in lower amounts: Women need absolute treatments for their reproduction to be able to navigate work that qualifies them for positions of authority.Professional-choice advocacy is really a promise to women that they'll have the ability to fulfill their individual potentials. Significant inclusion of ladies is delivering on that advertise. They're inextricably linked, this stuff.Huckabee might want to reconsider sneering at Obama for neglecting to deliver around the promise to women and ladies, when his party fails consistently even to really make the promise whatsoever.

Question of the Day

What exactly are you presently reading through? Fiction, nonfiction, graphic books, technical manuals, whatever.

Open Thread

Located by blueberries.

Another Dude Concern Trolling Rape Activists

[Content Note: Sexual violence rape apologia rape culture.]Here's an ironic feature of rape culture: Among the key ways the rape culture remains safe and secure is as simple as media shops giving space to individuals (males, usually) that do not know probably the most fundamental details about sexual violence to wax imperious about rape culture.It takes place each time there's a significant rape situation in news reports. And, each time, untrue stories is distributed about rape and rape culture by pontificators who suppose everything there's to understand about rape and rape culture is really self-apparent that experts are unnecessary, irrelevant, nonexistent.It is among the great lies the rape culture informs about itself: There's no nuance that needs an experienced eye you will find no hidden particulars to become taunted out, no designs to become recognized by pros who spend their lives submerged within this ugly subject. Rather, anybody who requires a most general gander in the Problem of Rape finds everything there's to understand.And individuals general glancers self-hired experts don't even pause and take into account that the things they finish up knowing is what the rape culture want its allies to share.How else to describe this piece by Doug Saunders in Canada's Globe and Mail, that is situated as a bit of anti-rape advocacy, but nevertheless:1. Concern trolls (and unconditionally serves to undermine the credibility of) Western feminists who underline the extensive rape condition in India belongs to a worldwide rape culture.2. Indicates that it's irresponsible to recognize a worldwide rape culture. 3. Indicates that it's impossible for feminists to both identify a worldwide rape culture and concurrently identify and address the more knowledge about the way it manifests in India.4. Indicates the rape culture manifests globally across India (which isn't accurate).5. States that Western feminists who will not pick out India as totally unique—which could be colonialist, Othering, self-beating, and inaccurate—have "rushed to report that India's crisis wasn't particularly severe," disregarding that saying India's rape culture does not appear in a cultural vacuum and saying India's "rape crisis is not particularly severe" aren't remotely synonymous.6. Presents misleading figures to really make the (false) situation that India's rape culture is completely unique:In New Delhi this past year, there have been 635 rape cases introduced to the court, and just one led to a conviction. This is a conviction rate of .16 percent in contrast, British-speaking nations normally have rape conviction rates which is between 40 and 70 percent. Obviously, everything is really far worse than that, because very couple of rapes in India are ever reported.In america, invoice discounting inside a conservative unreported rape rate, no more than 3% of rapists ever serve each day in prison. Conviction rates are a bad way of measuring how rape-averse any town or condition is, simply because they only reflect the amount of installments of reported rapes that police thought contained enough evidence for arrest, and prosecutors thought contained enough evidence for prosecution, and juries (or defense lawyers encouraging deals) thought contained enough evidence for conviction. That is a vanishingly few actual occurrences of rape.If you are not really attempting to be the rape apologist, estimating conviction rates as though that's some type of definitive proof concerning the prevalence and cultural intolerance toward rape is An Awful Idea.7. States some real stupid shit about how exactly Western cultures regard sexual violence:Rape is really a terrible crime everywhere, also it most likely remains underprosecuted and all sorts of too commonplace and hidden in lots of places in the western world, so there's lots of space for activism. But, simply because that activism has been successful, rape is really a grotesque anomaly, globally acknowledged as a significant crime. That isn't true whatsoever in lots of areas of India.Rape most likely remains underprosecuted. Rape most likely remains commonplace and hidden. Rape is "globally recognized" like a "grotesque anomaly" along with a "serious crime." If perhaps.I can not overemphasize how catastrophically unhelpful (to place it nicely) it's for journalists covering rape to delicately get rid of something similar to, "Rape is most likely underreported." There's a mountain of evidence that rape is certainly underreported. You don't need to fucking guess.I additionally cannot overemphasize how profoundly irresponsible it's for journalists covering rape to say that rape is globally regarded as like a Terrible Factor. That's not the situation, as anybody knows that has ever meaningfully engaged with anti-rape advocacy in excess of 10-seconds.By no means mind the endless onslaught of rape apologists, tellers of rape jokes, customers of rape-appropriative language, as well as other jack-kicked enforcers from the rape culture seeking to subvert tries to treat rape using the importance it warrants. Let alone that calling something which happens (frequently multiple occasions) to one inch every six women an "anomaly" appears to point out its user lacks a functional understanding of the phrase "anomaly."The only real evidence one should realize that rape isn't "globally" known as a "terrible crime" is always that you will find rapists.And they don't solely build relationships the rape culture with functions of rape. They engage as sexual harassers. They engage as bullies. They engage as compulsive and chronic breachers of limitations. They engage as rape apologists.A number of them could even write articles for worldwide publication that aim to minimize rape in their own individual yards as nothing about which anybody ought to be very worried. That's not really a suggestion that Saunders is really a rapist it's a factual observation about how exactly foolish it's to think rapists are self-contained agents with no agenda that don't aim to influence public perception. They're authors they're legislators they're idol judges and police.No: Not everybody concurs that rape is really a terrible crime.Saunders concludes, incredibly: "Activism can work—but talk of the 'universal rape culture' only helps perpetuate the issue.InchTherefore it is individuals people who spend our way of life submerged in anti-rape advocacy who're the actual perpetrators from the rape culture. Well. For somebody who proposes to regard rape like a heinous crime, Saunders continues to be very generous to rapists.[H/T to Shaker stuckincarn. Contact the world and Mail here.]

Meet the New Congress; Same as the Old Congress

It's now the entire year in our the almighty Jesus Johnson two 1000 and 13, and a lot of everything has transformed. Humans are immortal, all of us drive flying cars to the jobs in the robot factory, and Leader Lucy Liu has guaranteed lasting world peace. Only one factor hasn't transformed: The Republicans really are a total garbage nightmare.Adam Peck at Think Progress: With Millions Still Awaiting Sandy Relief, Republicans Reintroduce Obamacare Repeal.The 112th Congress gaveled to some close on Thursday mid-day without passing a relief package for sufferers of Hurricane Sandy or reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, but Repetition. Bachmann Wanted (R-MN) is not very worried about finishing what Republicans had left un-tied. Rather, at 12:00 PM she introduced the initial bit of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which states are actually busily applying.House Republicans have unsuccessfully chosen 33 occasions within the last 2 yrs to get rid of healthcare reform and wasted a minimum of 88 hrs and $50 million, while neglecting to pass just one bit of job creation legislation within the last session of Congress....Only at that rate, they may be on the right track to becoming less productive compared to least productive Congress in U.S. history.It's getting progressively difficult to keep in mind a period when Republicans were some thing than contemptible roadblocks to functional government.

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[Click to embiggen. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images.]The ladies from the 113th House of Reps: You will find 80 female people this session, 61 who are Dems.[Via.]

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Hillary Clinton Recovering

A week ago, Secretary of Condition Hillary Clinton was accepted towards the hospital to treat a bloodstream clot in her own mind, that is considered to happen to be triggered through the same fall that gave her a concussion earlier within the month, consequently of lack of fluids from the stomach virus.She's apparently receiving treatment with bloodstream thinners and it is expected to create a full recovery.She isn't upset with this bloodstream clot she's contemptuous.Naturally, since it is Hillary Clinton and since conservatives are garbage bad dreams, you will find no less than 37 different conspiracy ideas about what's REALLY wrong with Hillary Clinton. Because clearly she is not really looking for health care: She's just FAKING IT to prevent accountability on Benghazi.Making sense. Should there be one factor that Hillary Clinton is renowned for, it's staying away from tough fights and shirking responsibility.Anyway. My personal favorite conspiracy theory to date, that I am not connecting but I am sure you'll find it if you're like doing so, may be the one about Clinton's cascading down health issues as being a lengthy-disadvantage cover her getting experienced an airplane which was shot lower during a secret Iranian mission. That's pretty awesome.Get better soon, Secretary!And, as I am sure nobody could be more keen that i can get this to observation than Secretary Clinton herself: She's finding the best treatment possible, that she's access because she's government-provided health insurance is wealthy enough to pay for everything her health care plan doesn't. She attempted to secure that type of access to look after everybody, not so long ago. And unsuccessful due to resistance through the same number of crudsmudges who're accusing her of faking and/or misrepresenting her injuries now.Obviously.

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What exactly are your preferred and least favorite uses of the title in popular culture? Books, films, tv shows, tunes, comics, anything…My title is not really used enough to possess a lot of a solution for that one. Most likely probably the most well-known popular culture reference using i'm the Allman Brothers' "Melissa," which is not even really in regards to a girl named Melissa around it's about a rambling dude who fancies a woman named Melissa. Wev. I love Erykah Badu's version, though.Porno Graffiti in addition have a song known as [CN: strobe effect at link] "Melissa," which someone placed on a combination Compact disc for me personally once. I love the song, despite the fact that I've no clue how it is about since i have don't speak/read Japanese.Apart from that, it's pretty slim pickings. Melanie Mayron's character in Thirtysomething was named Melissa, the only recurring television character I'm able to recall, and that i can't think about a significant movie character named Melissa whatsoever. (Actually, the only person I'm able to think about is Jami Gertz's character in Twister, that is pretty pathetic, lol.)And So I don't genuinely have a popular. I will tell you my least favorite utilization of my title ever continues to be because the title of the trojan that made national head lines. Which was an enjoyable couple of days. Meh.