So let’s not get too excited about women getting to vote and run for office there in 2015, which, btw, isn’t exactly tomorrow.
Stand up and be counted on the following petitions:
Tell the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass the Access to Birth Control Act (H.R.2659/S.1415). This act requires that pharmacy employees provide a customer a contraceptive without delay if it is in stock, or immediately inform a customer if the contraceptive is not in stock, and either transfer the prescription to a pharmacy that has the contraceptive in stock or expedite the ordering of the contraceptive. It also ensures that pharmacy employees do not intimidate, threaten or harass customers requesting contraception.
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Tell the Department of Health and Human Services to protect women’s health and access to abortion coverage. Ensure that the Nelson abortion-coverage restrictions to the Affordable Care Act allow women to access insurance plans that offer full abortion coverage.
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Tell JCPenney and Forever21 to stop putting sexist clothing on their shelves. Forever 21 began offering for sale a shirt for girls emblazoned with the slogan “Allergic to Algebra” and JC Penney offered similar girls’ shirts with the slogan “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me.” Sexist slogans like these perpetuate the stereotype that women are innately bad at math or being pretty is more important than being smart. They also reinforce with boys the stereotype that they are innately better than girls when it comes to math or that a girl’s worth comes only from her looks.
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Fox News host Bill O’Reilly
Petition Fox News to employ some journalistic standards, just as a change of pace.
I love you Kenneth Cole.
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From The Nation:
Although teenagers in more progressive schools may learn how to slide a condom onto a banana, they rarely learn how to access birth control conveniently and affordably… At the end of a typical course, many students know that they can “go to the movies” or “play soccer” instead of having sex, but they do not know what to do in case their alternative activities plan falls through and the condom breaks… There is no significant difference in the rates of teenage sexuality in the United States compared to other similar, developed western countries. American teens are simply far less likely to use contraception. It is no surprise that the United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy and STI rates in the developed world.
From The Wall Street Journal:
Women smile more than men not because they are innately conciliatory, sociable, seductive or outgoing but because they are more likely to be in a subordinate position, socially or professionally, and because they are more likely to be doing the kind of jobs that require what sociologists call “emotion labor”: displaying pleasure, warmth and happiness.
From The Hathor Legacy:
The fact is, a small minority of people cope with rejection by lashing out in violence, and when those people are bigger and stronger than you, or have power over you, you can end up getting hurt. It is completely rational and sensible to think defensively when you’re in a situation full of unknowns. A man you don’t know may respond to your rejection with a friendly, “Well, couldn’t hurt to try, right?” or he may turn out to be a rapist who likes showing the bitchez they can’t reject him, or he may fall into that huge gray area in between.
This should explain two things to you: why women are often unclear in their rejections (“I’m busy/engaged/have a headache” rather than “No, I would never be interested in you”), and why women are creeped out by situations men think women should find flattering.
