January 2011
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Watchprogressivefriends:
The Hail Storm From Hell
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Dinner Conversation
lgbtlaughs:
Me: I first started thinking about sex in 7th grade.
Step-mom: You obviously haven’t had a proper rearing. [joking]
Me: I think I learned everything I know about sex by reading fanfiction. Specifically gay sex. Specifically gay sex between men.
Dad: Which brings us back to “a proper rearing.”
(Submitted by communaut)
A 12-year-long investigation shows that childbirth... →
The Danish study included 365,550 teenagers and women who had an abortion or first-time delivery between 1995 and 2007. None had a history of psychiatric problems that required hospitalization. Through various national registries, researchers were able to track mental health counseling at a hospital or outpatient facility before and after an abortion or delivery.
During the study period,...
In Tunisia, Women Play Equal Role In Revolution →
“Just look at how Tunisian women stood side-by-side with Tunisian men,” he says. “They came out to the streets to protest in headscarves. They came out in miniskirts. It doesn’t matter. They were there.”
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Unpopular Opinion: Getting all of your news from...
on-a-bridge:
Frontline PBS
The Economist
BBC World News
Foreign Affairs
Reuters
Try these— try all of them, if possible, because you should never let one source monopolize your flow of information. You won’t regret it.
“Olbermann left the way all my men have: abruptly and with no explanation, but...”
– source, the onion. (via latara)
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“The conversation on Muslim women usually revolves around our head scarves and...”
– Let me, a Muslim feminist, confuse you
Mona Eltahawy, once again, in an un-quotable piece (one of those to copy/paste the entire thing, you know) making an eloquent and passionate case about her feminism as a Muslim woman. Should you choose to read it, prepare to have every stereotype about Muslim...
“I blame the individual for the first 10 bullets. I blame the law for the last 21...”
– Lawrence O’Donnell, during a very much heated debate with Rep. Trent Franks (R - AZ), regarding high-capacity clips and the Tucson shooting, on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. Rep. Franks is the Congressman who somewhat famously said, “I wish there had been one more gun there that day in the...
