Sunday, February 7, 2016

Day 37: Snatch the Bitch

A menu for a restaurant. It has a black and white photo of a woman walking down a pathway with a bunch of men around her and all staring at her or leaning forward towards her. The woman looks like she wants to cry.

More from Chris Rock on sexism and racism in Hollywood. "He also said that Hollywood producers are often vocally disappointed when a black actress is cast. ““I’ve never done a movie, any movie, the silliest movie, where someone, some studio person, hasn’t gone, ‘Does the girl have to be black?’” Rock said. “It happens every time.”"

Chris Rock continues. “I think everything I’ve ever done has had a significant role for a black or brown woman. I refuse not to. I’ve never gone into battle without a black woman, you know, a movie battle. With Tichina Arnold in Everybody Hates Chris, I had to fight for Tichina. I’m not even going to tell you who the network wanted. She’s literally as good as Tina Fey or Julia Louis-Dreyfus or any of these chicks. They’re like, ‘Tichina who?’”

Chris Rock speaks out about the Hollywood pay gap only being discussed with white women. “Everybody’s talking about Jennifer Lawrence. Talk to Gabrielle Union. If you want to hear stories, talk to Nia Long. Talk to Kerry Washington. They would love to get to Jennifer Lawrence’s place, or just be treated with the same amount of respect.”

DeCoutere's lawyer speaks about what's important to remember: “This is and remains a trial about Mr. Ghomeshi’s conduct. What Lucy did or how she felt in the aftermath does not change that essential fact. It’s telling that the defence did not accuse her of dishonesty regarding the objective facts of the assault itself. She maintains her allegations and remains resolute in her decision to come forward. And please be reminded, when these allegations against Mr. Ghomeshi first began to surface, he himself admitted that he does enjoy and engage in violence for sexual pleasure. Violence against women is not about the behaviour of the women; it is not about how they cope with an assault, or the details they commit to memory in the aftermath any more than it is about what they wore or how much they had to drink. Lucy wants survivors of violence to know that what they do in the aftermath in no way changes the truth. There is no right or wrong way to cope or react or move forward with your life. Thank you."


A new analysis by the Population Research Center at the University of Texas confirms the actions of a geriatric (and gerrymandered) Republican government have, once again, impacted millions of working people.

By defunding Planned Parenthood in 2013, and driving up the price of contraception, Texas stripped working class women of access to affordable birth control. The researchers, unsurprisingly, correlated the state’s intervention with a steep drop in the number of women with low incomes getting hormone injections or using intra-uterine devices. They also noted a rise in births covered by Medicaid, indicating low income women are having more children.

"Snatch the b*tch out her car through the window, she screamin’ / I body slam her onto the cement, until the concrete gave and created a sinkhole / Bury this stink h* in it, then paid to have the street re-paved."

"B*tches ain't sh*t but h*es and tricks / L*ck on these n*ts and s*ck the d*ck / Get the f*ck after you're done / And I hops in my ride to make a quick run." I mean, if that doesn't scream misogyny... I honestly don't know what does.

Guns 'N Roses were a serious force of the '80s with their hit album, Appetite for Destruction. However, as The Guardian pointed out, when looking back at the album today, "the misogyny is just infantile posturing." And with the lyrics in this song like "Turn around b*tch I got a use for you / Besides you ain't got nothin' better to do / And I'm bored" there's really no getting around the issue with this one. 

"Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it." Yep, that is actually a sample of some of the words used in this song. And, as expected, it sparked major controversy regarding the song's overall promotion of date rape culture.

Ain't No Fun by Snoop Dog.


"It's alright, I'm not dangerous / When you're mine, I'll be generous / You're irreplaceable; Collectible / Just like fine China." While I do understand what he was attempting to go for here, it is never OK to think of a woman as a possession.

"In fact, as one Her Campus writer pointed out, "Part of Taylor Swift’s shtick is to slut-shame in her lyrics. In “Better Than Revenge," she takes a swipe at a girl who apparently stole her boyfriend, “She’s an actress/But she’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress.” Shaming your romantic opponent for being sexual is not OK, Taylor."

"I got 99 problems and b*tch ain't one" to "I got 99 problems and a b*tch ain't one / She's all 99 of 'em; I need a machine gun." I don't think I need to explain this one. Why, Eminem? Just... Why?

"In 2013, Robin Thicke dominated the No. 1 spot on the iTunes with his hit song "Blurred Lines." However, as fun as the song was to dance to, lyrics such as "Okay, now he was close / Tried to domesticate ya / But you're an animal / Baby, it's in your nature" and more starting to spark a controversy on whether or not the song was actually promoting nonconsent. While Thicke did respond to the claims about the song, calling them "ridiculous" and saying that "Even very good girls have a little bad side. You just have to know how to pull it out of them," the lyrics and video remain questionable, at the very least."

"With machismo deeply rooted in Mexican culture, where women are constantly devalued and where ma herself had been in an abusive marriage, I didn’t expect her to immediately reduce women to objects of sexual desire. I mentally checked out for a bit, then glanced at the fork still jabbed in her potatoes and reminded her that her food was getting cold. “Ya se me quito el hambre,” she replied. “Me das asco.” I didn't need to hear that my sexual orientation was so “disgusting” that it ruined my mother’s appetite. In fact, that was the last thing I needed to hear."

Article on the treatment of bisexual people by the world. "Most people, especially women, who disclose their sexual orientation are hit with a barrage of questions and remarks, from curious outsiders who want to know what girl-on-girl sex is "really" like, to entitled, presumptuous men hoping to make their female homoeroticism dreams come true, to straight women expressing their interest in experimenting. Then, of course, there's the complete disbelief in bisexuality, sustained through comments like: "Are you more straight than you are gay?" "You're just not ready to come out as lesbian." "How long have you been confused?""

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same?" - Beyonce

"For a poor woman, deciding whether to get married or not will be a big part of shaping her economic future. For a wealthier woman, deciding whether to get married is a choice about independence, lifestyle, and, at times, "fighting the patriarchy." There's a cognitive dissonance in Ehrenreich's straight-up dismissal of the economic benefits of marriage, because the statistics tell an awkward truth: Financially, married women tend to fare much better than unmarried women."

"Taking a stand against patriarchy is much easier if you're well-educated, have a stable income, and live in a community where you could theoretically find an educated, employed man to marry. For poor, uneducated women, especially those who have kids, the question of whether to get married looks a lot different: It's the choice between raising children on one or two incomes, between having someone to help with household chores and child-rearing alone while working multiple jobs. "

"In a Wall Street Journal editorial this week, Bush administration press secretary Ari Fleischer wrote that "'marriage inequality' should be at the center of any discussion of why some Americans prosper and others don't." He cited statistics about the vast income disparities between single women and married women, regardless of race, and argued that these gaps would shrink if women stayed in school and waited until marriage to have kids. "

An article on wealth and the privilege of being able to leave an abusive situation. "Higher-income "single ladies" often push back against "patriarchy." But the statistics don't lie: Low-income, unmarried women face significant economic challenges when they stay single. "

On a woman murdered for rejecting a man. "This is what she gets for not giving the “nice guy” a chance."

"It's not that all men have terrorized women. It's that all women have been terrorized by men."

"It is vastly more common, yes, but it’s still not okay to generalize about men, just like it’s not okay to generalize about other subdivisions of society. Not all men, you know?"

A man comments: "all men? are we all rapist monsters?
if racial profiling is bad, shouldnt gender profiling also be bad?"

"Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will murder them."

During his confession, O’Kroley told the police “it was easy to kill” Nosal because “she had ruined my life.”

"O’Kroley waited for Nosal in the parking lot and shot her twice, first in the stomach and then in the head. “I killed Caroline and I’m about to kill myself. So don’t be surprised when I don’t respond anymore,” he texted a friend immediately after the murder. According to reports, O’Kroley never attempted the suicide but did attempt to kill the police officer who came to arrest him."

"On Tuesday, 24-year-old Caroline E. Nosal has the misfortune of becoming Madison, Wisconsin’s first homicide in 2016. Nosal was murdered by co-worker Christopher O’Kroley, 26, because she turned down his romantic advances."

Article on Kesha's recent victory. "Since suing Dr. Luke, Kesha has remained under contract to his label Kemosabe Records through Sony. Until now, she has been unable to record or release any new music with anyone else besides her alleged assailant, stalling out her career. Dr. Luke, for his part, filed a lawsuit against Kesha’s mother, Pebe Sebert, claiming that Sebert was trying to extort him and forced Kesha to break off contact with him and Kemosabe."

"The most appalling thing is that no sexually assaulted woman without massive bleeding wounds would ever now call the Toronto police. Imagine enduring this day in an open courtroom full of the icy, the sympathetic, the lazily curious and the purely hateful."

"No, women will often curl up and blame themselves. What were you wearing, why were you walking and not in a cab, were you drinking, why didn’t you go out onto that Riverdale street where Ghomeshi then lived and scream for help?"

"Two complainants now have described how they tried to make the alleged attack go away. “I had so much guilt about negativity,” DeCoutere said. “I am a people-pleaser.” Oh Lucy, we get that. Most women are.
Marie Henein accused DeCoutere of betraying her feminine virtue by her communications and meetings with Ghomeshi. “Doesn’t change the fact of the matter,” DeCoutere said. “It would be like someone being assaulted by their husband and staying married to them.” It’s a familiar story."

Article on the Ghomeshi case: "Unless a victim has a pit crew — a big, loving family with maybe a lawyer in the mix and support at work — a woman has nowhere to turn if she is slapped and choked by a man who will, in this small country, be someone constantly re-encountered in the course of a career. She is left alone with her own thoughts."

A transgender man with Asperger’s who posted a touching viral video with his service dog last summer has been shot dead by police. The police said he came at them with a knife. He had called 911 asking for suicide help.

Gloria Steinem speaks on young feminists being drawn to Sanders' campaign. “Women are more for [Hillary Clinton] than men are...First of all, women get more radical as we get older, because we experience...Not to over-generalize, but...Men tend to get more conservative because they gain power as they age, women get more radical because they lose power as they age.
And, when you’re young, you’re thinking, where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie...”

On Manson's Lost Girls tv show. "t becomes obvious that the plot has all the makings of a standard Lifetime joint: charming older man takes advantage of vulnerable young women, brainwashing and abusing them to the point of committing heinous acts of murder. True story or no, it easily fits into Lifetime’s massive database of lurid films."

“So what’s the answer? Do women lie about rape? According to Joanne Archambault, a former sex crimes unit supervisor, the answer is fairly simple: “[False reports] are not a problem. They happen, but they’re not a problem.” Research has shown that only roughly 2 to 8 percent of rape reports are untrue, (for car thefts, another felony offense, that number is about 10 percent.) Two to 8 percent is a pretty small number to justify the climate of fear around false rape reports.”

The 519 Speaks out about the Ghomeshi trial. "The court of public opinion is all too real for survivors. While it is likely that perpetrators will continue their careers, albeit out from under the spotlight, survivors who bravely disclose their identities will always be questioned about whether or not the ‘claim’ was true. Further, the survivor will be penalized in various ways for having gone public; perhaps it’s not getting a job, or it’s their reputation being minimized to ‘accuser of rape’, or impacts on their social and romantic lives, etc."

A friend posts: "Encountered a man on my way home who was trying to encourage the men at my streetcar stop to riot against the TTC and publicly beat employees and other civil servants until the system worked for real men again."

Friend says something her boyfriend sent her hurt her feelings. He tells her she's over reacting and should get some sleep.

An article posted by a friend on Roosh V. A man comments: "His mother needs to step the fuck up!"

Mr Men & Little Miss.

A youtube newsshow talks about Black History Month and shows influential people helping make strides in equality. Bill Cosby is featured briefly in the slideshow.

Tweet: "If you believe your way of life is under threat from women gaining self-respect and power, there's probably something wrong with your way of life, quite frankly."

Mattel reveals Barbie doll of soccer celebrity Abby Wambach.

An article on female entrepreneurs. "Work, Sleep, Family, Fitness, or Friends. Pick 3." There is no have it all woman.

"As a birth worker, I witnessed an on call OB stand at the foot of the bed of a mama who's baby was crowning. He stated "I don't do fucking VBACs!" before placing two fingers in her vagina and forcefully and manually tearing her perineum." 

"Many women do not understand that they have the right to make decisions about their care, including the right to say “no.” Women have the right to informed consent: accurate information about the risks, benefits, and alternatives to a suggested course of treatment, procedure, or medication, and the ability to accept or refuse that suggestion."

Roosh V's legalize rape boys still plan on meeting, just not in a public space.

Video of a dad stalking his daughter and her boyfriend as they go on a date. Because a 'dad's gotta do what a dad's gotta do.'


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