Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 15th, 2012
Good morning!
I know it’s only Thursday, but hey what the heck – Wonderful Women Of The World deserve recognition any day of the week.
Social Butterfly: Love it. Thank you for posting. As usual we are playing the same thoughts.
Here’s a write About Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Women of the World Summit. Clinton is no doubt a girls girl… and a Wonderful Woman Of The World. Thank you Hillary for all that you do.
HILLARY CLINTON: EXTREMISTS ‘WANT TO CONTROL’ WOMEN AND THEIR HEALTH DECISIONS
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s speech at the Women of the World Summit on Monday in New York City stopped short of actually naming and pointing to the Catholic Church and others opposed to the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate. That being said, she did have plenty to say about “extremists” and their battle against women both in America and beyond.
While speaking about the U.S.’s responsibility to be a role model for women and girls across the world, Clinton transitioned from sharing a story about a Tunisian woman to railing on about issues “here at home” that women are facing. Additionally, she seemed to equate those embroiled in this home-front debacle with extremism — although she stopped short of saying it explicitly.
Clinton’s words began innocuously, as she spoke about an encounter she had at a recent town hall meeting in Tunis, Tunisia. She said that an Islamic woman stood up and shared her personal experience working with the U.S. and the surprise that many had at her willingness to collaborate with the West (and vice-versa).
Then, Clinton told the audience, ”I told her that, in America, in Tunisia, anywhere in the world, women should have the right to make their own choices about what they wear…how they worship…the causes that they support.” These words led Clinton to make statements about extremists who are trying to strip away women’s rights across the world.
“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn‘t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They all want to control women,” Clinton proclaimed. “They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies.” [Emphasis added]
And she wasn’t done there.
“Yes, it is hard to believe but even here at home we have to stand up for women’s rights and we have to reject efforts to marginalize any one of us, because America has to set an example for the entire world,” she said.
Watch Clinton’s words, below:
While the secretary of state was clearly choosing her words carefully and speaking very generally, it seemed as though she was referring to the debate over religious freedom and the contraceptive mandate here in America. Politico’s Burns & Haberman was hesitant to attribute the comments to the current contraceptive debate, writing:
Without specifying which policy issues, exactly, she was referring to, Clinton said the United States has to be a “model” for how governments treat women. [...]
It’s not an explicitly 2012-related comment. But it comes at a moment when Democrats are trying hard to brand the GOP as an anti-woman party, and when the president’s campaign works to cement a huge gender gap in place for the fall campaign. And the gentle politicking by both Clintons underscores what powerful assets the could be in the fall, if they end up coming off the bench in a more aggressive way for Obama and their party.
Daily Beast editor Tina Brown appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” where she discussed Clinton‘s speech and its application to women’s rights in America being “rolled back.” Here, too, Brown was vague, but it seemed as though she was referencing recent sociopolitical dialogue. Watch her comments, below:
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March 15th, 2012 at 9:53 am
…and Hillary could not have spoken more to the point for American and ALL women in a more timely and effective way if she’d tried, right on.
I cannot wait to watch women follow up on this point, bc rethug or dem that is not a statement you can deny. So whether you like Fluke or not, like abortion or not, just be for other women making their own choices, not you (holding some moral high ground you expect everyone to buy into) or men deciding what is best for women.
Thanks for posting both, Misch.
Luv, Zen Lill
March 15th, 2012 at 10:10 am
BEWARE OF HEALTH-CARE WORKERS WEARING GLOVES
When people see their doctors wearing latex or vinyl gloves, they breathe a sigh of relief — because that’s a signal that the doctor’s hands are clean.
But a new report — one that the researcher himself calls “incredible and creepy” — is proving otherwise.
The report shows that a disturbingly high percentage of doctors and nurses who wear gloves tend to have worse hand hygiene than those who don’t!
In the largest study of its kind, researchers in England set out to investigate whether gloves are being used properly and whether hands are being disinfected properly, based on guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Before I tell you about the study, consider these two essential points — first, gloves do stop the transmission of many germs, but they’re not impenetrable — some germs can get through the material…
and, second, there is evidence that when a doctor is removing gloves, germs can splatter from the just-used gloves — onto the doctor, the patient or even the next pair of gloves to be worn.
So, yes, gloves reduce the spread of germs, but they don’t eliminate it — so health-care workers still should wash their hands with antibacterial soap or alcohol-
based hand sanitizer both before and after using gloves, according to WHO guidelines.
WHO recommends that doctors and nurses use gloves during what’s called “high-risk contact” with patients (when bodily fluids are involved) but not during other times of “low-risk contact.”
WHO also recommends that they use a new pair of gloves when switching patients.
When doctors and nurses don’t wear gloves, WHO recommends that they wash their hands or use alcohol-based hand sanitizer before and after seeing a patient.
A HANDY EXCUSE FOR WATCHING WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
After informing participants that they were taking part in a study on workplace efficiency (so they wouldn’t realize that their hand-hygiene habits were being evaluated),
the researchers logged 249 hours of covert observation of glove use and hand sanitation in 56 intensive and general care units in 15 hospitals throughout England and Wales.
There were two surprising results. The first finding was that gloves were not used 21% of the time when they were called for (during “high-risk contacts”) and were used 17% of the time when they weren’t needed (during “low-risk contacts”).
But it wasn’t just when gloves were worn that turned out to be troubling. Fifty percent of ungloved workers disregarded WHO’s hand disinfection recommendation.
And, surprisingly, glove-wearing health-care workers were even more unsanitary — 60% of them ignored that recommendation.
WHY IS THIS SO DANGEROUS?
It’s definitely not comforting to learn that many health-care workers aren’t doing everything that they should be doing to ensure that their hands are clean.
So to find out more, I called the study’s lead author, Sheldon Stone, MD, a senior lecturer in the department of medicine and a physician in the stroke unit at the Royal Free Campus at University College London Medical School.
He told me that he undertook this research because he had suspicions that there might be a problem with sanitation among gloved health-care workers, but there was no large-scale research available on the topic.
His findings were published in December 2011 in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
One reason that Dr. Stone thinks that hands are often not cleaned if gloves are worn is that gloves may provide the doctors and nurses with a false sense of security —
they may figure that if they’re wearing gloves, it’s a proper substitute for hand hygiene. Patients may think this way, too — so the behavior goes on.
In order to protect yourself as a patient, you might simply have to ask — and insist, if necessary — that a doctor or nurse wash his hands or use an alcohol-based sanitizer in front of you, regardless of whether or not he’s about to put on gloves.
Dr. Stone acknowledged that it can be difficult for a patient to do this — “It’s like asking a pilot if he is sober,” he said.
“But it’s an important question to ask.” And I agree. After all, finding the gumption to ask that one simple question could save you from a serious medical consequence.
Source(s):
Sheldon Stone, MD, general physician for older people (GPOP), a senior lecturer in the department of medicine, and director of the stroke unit at the Royal Free Campus at University College London Medical School in England.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:13 am
I think I saw this link on your blog but it is worth repeating if not.
GOP war on women.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjAMRgpoug&feature=player_embedded
March 15th, 2012 at 10:20 am
On the one-year anniversary of the uprisings in Syria, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the armed resistance is not able to mount a credible military threat to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, senior U.S. intelligence officials told HuffPost’s David Wood and Josh Hersh. Syria’s army remains firmly in control, the officials say.
That assessment underlies the Obama administration’s reluctance to become more actively involved in the uprising against Assad that began on March 15, 2011.
After a year of sporadic and inconclusive violence against the regime, the White House has flatly ruled out providing arms to the opposition and instead is focusing on coordinating international pressure against the Assad regime and providing humanitarian relief.
The White House has authorized providing medical supplies and nonlethal equipment to civilian Syrian groups that would transport the supplies, according to a source close to the administration’s deliberations on Syria.
But the failure of the armed opposition to take advantage of defections from the Syrian armed forces or coordinate its actions into a meaningful security challenge of the regime appears to leave the United States and other critics of the regime without a long-term strategy for ousting Assad.
By contrast, in Libya last year, a relatively well-organized and armed opposition eventually drew Western military support, and the country’s strongman, Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed last fall.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:22 am
I got told last night that I had tiny vampire teeth. I thought of you immediately.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:43 am
Priceless!
Virginia residents, mainly women, have recently staged several creative demonstrations over the past months, in response to certain Senate and House bills.
Starting yesterday, activists took to Facebook to begin posting their frustration–in the form of personal updates. The posts were tongue-in-cheek posts detailing anatomical happenings, asking questions and thanking Virginia Senate Republican caucus chairman Ryan McDouglefor his concern of women’s health and rights.
McDougle might have applied partisan pressure to help push through controversial legislation like the now-tabled personhood and the so-called ultrasound abortion bills, but today he received some pressure of his own, on his Facebook page.
Whoever manages McDougle’s Facebook page quickly began removing the posts, but a user of political blogging site Daily Kos managed to first snatch some screen shots.
Those who posted said they did so since male legislators intended to empower women to make personal health decisions, and since the legislators seemed to demonstrate such knowledge of and concern for the female anatomy.
Posters said it would follow that the lawmakers should also receive detailed updates on the current anatomical happenings of their bodies, or their girlfriends and spouses bodies
Among the more brilliant posts?
You know, Senator, I’ve wished all my life that a man would know more about my own vaginal issues than I do, and now you’re here! So here it goes, during my last period, I had to use the Super tampons because I had some chunky blood issues. You know, that pesky uterus and all. Maybe you could tell my uterus that all the blood will ooze out in its own time, and not to rush itself into shooting clots out every month. Also, I find it very inconvenient that I wake up in a pool of my own blood on the first and second days of my period. Maybe you can help a sister out?
Senator McDougle, I am almost 49 and STILL menstruating with no sign of slowing down! Frankly, I’ve had enough of this inconvenience- the cost of pads and pain reliever and all the mess- well YOU know how it is. You’re an expert on this lady stuff. I was going to ask my gynocologist [sic] about this issue, but since you know so much about women’s reproductive health, I figured I’d just stop by your Facebook page and ask you. So, when will I finally go through the change? My mister and I want to donate the money we spend on birth control to the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project to help women pay for those unfunded government mandated ultrasounds.
Hey, since you’re so interested in my health, I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been really horny lately because I’m ovulating. But don’t worry, I won’t engage in dangerous heterosexual sex that could result in a pregnancy. This is because I”m a really fat and hairy Lesbian and I plan on having sex with women for the rest of my life, the really butch dykey kind. The current object of my affections, and the central character in the majority of the sexual fantasies at the moment, is Alison Bechdel (pictured below). Thanks for showing me the light in regards to my own sexual health, in affirming that having sex with men in [sic] more trouble than it’s worth. The fact that women are sexier anyway, it just a happy coincidence.
Hi senator. I seem to be irregular and my cramping is pretty bad- so bad that I can’t sleep at night or get anything done. Imagine being repeatedly kicked in the crotch for hours, but move the pain up to the whole lower abdomen, because that’s the only way I can describe it to someone who doesn’t have a uterus that can cramp so badly that it restricts blood flow to surrounding tissues. I thought you would be concerned.
Hey senator! just a quick hello to let you know that I’m currently ovulating! my vaginal discharge is thick and sticky and smells acidic (probably all the garlic i’ve been eating!) if you want to note that in the charts you must be keeping on me and my vulva. i’ll let you know how i’m doing next week!
F’g hilarious!
/SB
March 15th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Social Butterfly, loving it. I’d like to send my period experiences to the asshole.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:31 am
I don’t get it. Who are these women supporting men who are proposing completely archaic laws and restrictions that will take the United States back to the 50′s – no birth control? Eliminating Planned Parenthood?
Lucy
March 15th, 2012 at 11:37 am
All Republicans are sexual perverts. “You have to be diddled by a stick to have a vaginal ultra-sound if you are seeking an abortion.” Do they have special sick doctors who will perform those perverted acts??
March 15th, 2012 at 11:40 am
I can see an employer telling an insurance company not to cover birth control (although I disagree with companies doing that) but making women show that they have a medical condition in order to get the pills? Ridiculous!
I once had a policy that wouldn’t cover birth control pills for contraception; I was taking them for a medical issue similar to the ones mentioned, and the Dr. had to write “for therapeutic use only-not for contraception” to get insurance to pay-it seems like something like this should be sufficient instead of making a woman drag her health conditions and medical history into the workplace.
On a different note, you’d think that allowing insurance to cover preventative measures would be far cheaper than the costs associated with childbirth, maternity leave, and a new addition to the insurance policy (that is, if you look at it from an economic standpoint.)
The lines between religion and personal rights are getting far too blurred these days.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:43 am
Did some research and found that this entire debate has ALREADY been decided by the Supreme Court in the Reversal of Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (No. 88-1213) 307 Or. 68, 763 P.2d 146
“A law does not suddenly become unconstitutional because someone raises a religious objection to it.
Scalia explained that “the right of free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a ‘valid and neutral law of general applicability on the ground that the law proscribes (or prescribes) conduct that his religion prescribes (or proscribes).
’” In other words, so long as a law does not single out people of faith for inferior treatment, they have to follow they same laws as everyone else. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0494_0872_ZO.html
March 15th, 2012 at 11:44 am
I thought Republicans didn’t believe in big government. This sounds like pretty big government intrusion to me. I support freedom of religion but I also support freedom FROM religion.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:46 am
You people are attempting to force those with morals to accept laws written by those without.
What about freedom from government intrusion into personal matters such as when someone is forced to support something they religiously object to?
Cindy
March 15th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Cathy,
Republicans aren’t the only sexual perverts. Did anyone else read about the 2-week-old boy whose death was attributable to “ritual circumcision by oral suction?” WTF? Yup, apparently this is a real practice. Gross pedophiles!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/nyregion/infants-death-renews-debate-over-a-circumcision-ritual.html
March 15th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Howie, I just rechecked your data. i really would like to meet your confident. If we could arrange something I would greatly appreciate it. You would be making a great contribution to science.
Hery
March 15th, 2012 at 8:38 pm
My friends and myself think that we are at a tipping point in the US with politics and women’s rights right now. There’s no way the GOP is not going down. They are going to implode. The recent congressional hearings on women’s health with no women representing looks just like RJ Reynolds testifying on tobacco safety. There is a GOP war on women!
1) Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t yet. Shocker.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain “victims.”
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country. (Surprised here? Look at the Susan G. Komen debacle.)
10) And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can’t make this stuff up).
Lisa #3 today was spot on. Protest at moveon.org: http://front.moveon.org/the-gop-overlooked-one-thing-when-they-started-this-war-on-women/
Be the solution, not the problem! Inactivity is no activity.
/SB
March 15th, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Help make history by electing the most women to the U.S. Senate ever [Get involved at (win with women 2012 dot com)]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o2BWEr2S43U#!
VOTE FEMME!
/SB
March 15th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/user/AULvids?v=soou-cD6WDc
March 15th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
SB, if I were you I wouldn’t bet against the ignorance of the average american white woman and the RCC. Together they got Santorum elected in Alabama and Mississippi.
They can surely get less demonstrative republican candidates elected.
Tom
March 15th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Republicans cannot defetus!
March 15th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
Jena, actually the “con” is your group using a woman’s voice to convince other women that republican men are concerned with the religious or moral conscious of americans and one of them is a female.
Republican men are only concerned about using religion to tell women what they can do with their bodies when it comes to health care.
Interesting in your argument is the quote about government telling the people what to do. Yet you are backing a government telling women they have to allow an employer to determine the type of access they can have to medical care.
Interesting you are supporting government telling women that they must submit to an invasive instrument inserted in their vaginas before they can have an abortion.
Interesting you are supporting government telling doctors that if telling a woman something about her health that could result in her choosing an abortion it would be against the law to give her that information.
I guess you are really saying that government shouldn’t interfere in the lives of others UNLESS government is doing it to enforce YOUR moral or religious beliefs.
Hence it is okay by you for government to pass laws that allow employers and others to decide what kind of access a woman can have to health care, but not okay for government to guarantee her the right to health care.
And you attempt to convince us that you are a woman. My question is which one of those male senators that met to decide a woman’s right to health care we all witnessed on TV are you?
And aren’t you the party that is against being in drag?
Alycedale
March 15th, 2012 at 9:59 pm
You sluts that want to fuck and get free devices to prevent pregnancies or to have the right to end the life you have in your uterus because one of those devices failed is evil.
You will rot in hell.
Roger
March 15th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
The President proposes the budget for the government to the US Congress. Congress may change the budget, but it rarely appropriates more than what the President requests.[15]
Economist Mike Kimel notes that the five former Democratic Presidents (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Harry S. Truman) all reduced public debt as a share of GDP, while the last four Republican Presidents (George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford) all oversaw an increase in the country’s indebtedness..
frm wiki
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/the-chart-that-should-accompany-all-discussions-of-the-debt-ceiling/242484/
March 15th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
As for Obama’s stress test by his base, well, it was inevitable, in light of all that has transpired over the past three years. But the result was pretty much a foregone conclusion.
Yes, the left felt hurt and abandoned because of certain actions by the WH, and they had to have their grieving time period. But they have since realized that governing and campaigning tend to be light years apart most of the time, and have therefore decidedly come to the only logical conclusion we know:
In November 2012, the alternative to Obama WOULD be unthinkable.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
We Irish are fucked up by the Catholic Church. It seems that so are you americans.
Women in that church get on their knees and apparently never get up. The only question is how much dick they will have to suck before the men allow them to get up and wipe their things before they wipe their own mouths.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Americans and non-Americans alike have learned this about Barack Obama:
If you want to get this President’s time, attention and energy, make sure he knows you dislike him (Dislike can be anything from lazy ridicule to active hatred.).
The best way to be ignored by this President is to support him.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Understanding Republicans is simple:
Their hatred of Obama has nothing to do with Obama’s positions. They are against him because he is black, and he is black.
The Republicans presume that it is their inalienable right to be in power, to rule. They will say and do anything to return to power if they are removed from it.
That’s really the whole story on Republicans.
Rose
March 15th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
The Abrahamic religion has been humanity’s curse for millenia now. Let’s just unwind this judaism thing, and along the way, pull the rug out from under Allah and the catholic Jesus.
We’d all be better off for it. You too.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Planned Parenthood, ‘Obamacare’, Social Security, Medicare, FEMA, food stamps, oh yeah – I’m sure Romney and the other Republicans would LIKE to get rid of a LOT of things.
And, I wonder exactly WHO all the “savings” would be passed down to? The taxpayers? The retired? The elderly and the poor? Umm, somehow….I think not.
THE NEW GOP AMERICA: “DOG-EAT-DOG”, and the Survival of the Fittest, forever. Social Darwinists, all these guys.
Give these guys the keys to everything, and in 10 years this country will look like Somalia, but with a VERY wealthy top 1%.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Michelle, my first introduction to your blog was about two years ago. I was told that you had the best ball-busting blog on the net.
It is certainly true that many women on this blog pull no punches when it comes to their opinions. But it is equally true that you allow any man to express himself without any censorship by you.
Fair is what this blog is about.
I will never vote for anyone that wants to take a woman’s right of choice. As a man…this is not my decision ….its hers.
Chris
March 15th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Hafa adai.
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“We Are Guåhan” Launches “Not One More Acre” Initiative
Guam – The Department of Defense controls almost 36,000 acres on Guam – more than ¼ of the entire island – and it wants more.
After being sued by We Are Guåhan, the Guam Preservation Trust and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, DoD conceded that a Supplemental EIS was needed. Today, We Are Guåhan launched a “Not One More Acre” initiative to encourage participation in the upcoming scoping meetings, scoping period and Supplemental EIS process.
“In addition to cultural impacts, an increase in traffic, safety concerns and an increase in noise, our community needs to be aware that every single option that DoD has identified requires the acquisition of more land,” said We Are Guåhan member Cara Flores-Mays.
The organization’s initiative includes the launch of http://www.notonemoreacre.com, a website dedicated to information related to the Supplemental EIS such as maps of the 5 alternatives at Pågat and Fena that DoD is considering for the site of its firing range complex.
Despite being required by law to consider all “reasonable alternatives,” DoD has eliminated every single site for firing ranges except for two: Pågat and Fena aka “Naval Magazine.”
“DoD is still considering taking Pågat and building a firing range complex there,” continued Flores-Mays. “DoD has just added Fena and the surrounding area as another option.”
We Are Guåhan is also encouraging people to sign its petition opposing the acquisition of any additional land on Guam. “DoD’s current footprint is bigger than Umatac, Merizo, Inarajan and Talofofo combined,” said Flores-Mays. “Whether it is 100 acres or 2,000 acres, DoD does not need any more land.”
For more information visit: http://www.notonemoreacre.com
March 16th, 2012 at 5:53 am
MJ:
What do you believe humans should believe in?
What would bring people hope and faith during troubling times?
Are we capable of governing ourselves without some kind of guidelines to follow? I do no think so.
Mystery Man
March 16th, 2012 at 7:56 am
http://www.alternet.org/visions/154144/why_patriarchal_men_are_utterly_petrified_of_birth_control__and_why_well_still_be_fighting_about_it_100_years_from_now?page=entire
a perfect ‘in the nutshell’ version of this stupid GOP contraception debacle
Luv, Zen Lill
March 16th, 2012 at 8:45 am
…and while we’re sharing links, this one is the other reason men want to contain women : ) don’t allow it LOL, enjoy your anatomy.
They can make it political and we can fix that by posting things for women who read here to act on, and yes, I am speaking to the mostly GOP women who read here, vote for your gender, please.
http://www.jacquelinehellyer.com/_blog/The_Tantra_Fusion_Blog/post/Female_Bodies_Are_Sexual_Pleasure_Machines/
Given the content of the previous link I posted and the content of this one, clearly – men are jealous and freaked out. They’ll get over it.
It’s not about Roger’s version of (non)reality, it is about having the right to choose.
Roger, men never have to explain their sexual choices (or the quantity) or get called names for deciding who they want to have sex with, they don’t risk pregnancy that might put a wrench in the workings of their professional lives, and most importantly and most clearly – they all like to have sex and not have to reproduce with every woman they sleep with – so why is it so out of order for the women that are choosing to remain single (or married) and not wanting children to get what they need to prevent such an occurrence from happening? It serves both parties agendas really.
& health insurance is not free, so most women are paying for that privilege also. Free/donation only is for women of low income and is as it should be, are you suggesting that men/women without a certain income refrain from their biology and not have sex, ever? That’s ridiculous and people can try to legislate whatever they want but human biology and hormones are what wars start over, you cannot make stupid statements like you did and assume that it is all females at fault. (read above link)
It is childish and idiotic to call out women as the ‘sluts’ when a man is usually (though women are looking better and better if attitudes like yours prevail, this is of no offense to our resident lesbians, I love you all) the other half enjoying the moment, and they make no bones about wanting more than one woman. (I’ll cite Glenn, who feels perfectly justified cheating but would divorce his wife if she did it). C’mon, please – grow up.
Luv, Zen Lill
March 17th, 2012 at 11:48 am
This is my first time writing in and I just have to say that you ladies are so right. I love the way It is a take no prisoners and stand up for your rights, type of blog. I support women all the way, and those repugs want to control everybody about everything. They want to have all the wealth and kill off the sick and poor.
So what do they do? They take away funds from every social program and funds needed to run this country for the people and they give tax cuts to the rich, to the banks, and to their cronies. The American People need to REVOLT.
Ever since the Bush Klan held power, this nation has gone to hell in a handbasket, they are all quilty of crimes against Humanity. War criminals and you and I are under attack. Voting won’t help, they have that rigged and locked in. We need to fight back, I would like to see all those repugs taken by the spacemen and disected. They have destroyed the quality of life for millions. What would motivate them to do this, and who says they have the right? Why are we waiting to act? God help us from these greedy vermin.
Simon