We live in a culture that is more comfortable asking rape victims “why did you let yourself get raped?” than asking their attackers “why did you rape?” After a Toronto cop’s remark seemed to put the responsibility for rape on how a victim dressed, it lit a fuse of anger that has spread around the globe.

Slutwalk. “Because We’ve Had Enough”

It’s coming to Kansas City today, and maybe to your city next.

Oh, the things you learn over at Teh Corner! We are schooled for example in the intricate diplomatic protocols of correct deference involved when the leaders of foreign client nations greet the democratically elected President of the United States: Benjamin Netanyahu. (See also. Hehs and indeeds for all!)

Republicans are not against contraception. Republicans merely oppose women having access to contraception, because when women have sex and don’t have a baby, Jesus sends down a matronly angel to scold them until they cry.

An army of One Hundred Thousand Phantom Whores stands poised to assault Dallas! The alarm bells reached peak decibel in November, when Dallas Police Sergeant Louis Felini told… The Dallas Morning News that between 50,000 and 100,000 prostitutes could descend on the metroplex for the Super Bowl. The call to outrage had sounded. His estimate [...]

What matters to young women? Are we feminists? What do we care about? How are these things different in different areas of the country? These are the issues addressed by 26-year-old Nona Willis Aronowitz and her childhood friend, Emma Bee Bernstein in their new paperback Girldrive. The two authors drove across the country and interviewed 200 young women, along with some of the mothers of their interviewees, and the mothers of Second and Third Wave Feminism.

Apparently, in the Federal penal system, wearing the wrong bra gets an attorney excluded from meeting with her client.

Ombudsman Andy Alexander of the Washington Post wondered this morning why women readers are abandoning the newspaper even faster than men.

Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill: “President Obama Breaks Faith with Women”

A French video response from GayClic readers to the Stevie Bee Bishop’s “Big Fat Gay Collab” on the International Day Against Homophobia, May 17, 2009. Also an appropriate song for those 64 D’s who voted for the Stupak Amendment. And the Party of No GOP. Music: Fuck You by Lily Allen. Totally not safe for work.

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Why do health insurance companies hate women?