Womanism
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- Having sex doesn't make you a slut and speaking out for women's health care certainly doesn't. Standing up for your rights doesn't mean someone gets to rhetorically rip your top off in hopes to send you running from the public square in shamed humiliation, a cautionary tale for any woman who dares forget her place.
- ...Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard.
- It is the male gaze — the way men look at women — that needs to be desexualized, not women in public.
- This is America, and we don’t restrict our battles over people’s sex lives to 11 months a year
- As we celebrate the defeat of this extremist legislation, it's important to remember the lessons of Mississippi going forward: that Personhood lost -- in large part -- due to highly effective messaging that framed the measure as what it actually was -- government overreach trampling on what should be personal decisions.
- Pretending yet again that young women are nonsexual creatures in need of protection from foul sexual influences is an effective strategy for appeasing one segment of the American public. But denying what appears to be the strongest kind of scientific consensus may do more reputational harm than political good.
- [T]here's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as ‘pro-life’ but aren't in the movement. …[S]aying you're ‘pro-life’ is more about marking you as a member of a tribe, pledging fealty to your faith or to your identity as a ‘conservative,’ for a lot of people.