Women Dressed As Binders Protest At OhioGOP HQ

Tiffany Ricci, an AFSCME organizer, provided TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro these photos of her “own personal little afternoon project” of women gathered in front the Ohio Republican Party headquarters on Wednesday dressed as binders protesting Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” remark during the presidential debate at Hofstra Tuesday night.

It’s “pretty clear which candidate has real solutions that inspire progress and which can only inspire a Halloween costume,” Ricci said.

Wow. The Ohio Republican Party actually has a sign on their building? Even the Republicans in Texas don’t do that.

More implications of what it’s like to be a woman in America.

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[image: infographic with facts such as “27.5% of black women were living below the poverty line in 2009”, 27.4% for hispanic women, 13.5% for white women, and “in 2010, 31.6% of households headed by single women were poor compared to 15.8% of households headed by single men”].

The Marianas Plank

The Republican Party Platform includes a plank that denies workers in the Marianas Islands a minimum wage.  Why should the Republican Party care so much about denying workers a minimum wage in this tiny Pacific territory?  The answer, as documented by Bill Moyers, will leave you in disgust…

From the article:

What the fuck? Are you seriously trying to post this as something pro-feminist?

1. “Women’s work”. Must I comment? Seriously, how can you call yourself a feminist and believe that there actually is such a thing as “women’s work” in this day and age. Women have the same rights as men and the only thing holding us back is stupidity like this that stunts a woman’s ability. 

2.  Why is the privileged women the only white woman on display? Do white people not struggle? Are all Hispanic’s ”despised immigrants” cleaning up after the white people or being sad and poor and thought much less of? 

3. Since when is cleaning up after yourself when you’re poor considered ‘idleness’?

1. No, you are wrong. Of course women have the same ability as men to work on the same jobs. However, there is no denying that even when doing "traditional" jobs, the works of underprivileged women are treated as inferior to men works unless it specifically upholds a white patriarchal model (which means white motherhood is considered pure and desirable while WoC are treated as lowly.)

2. White privilege plays a huge role in sexist portrayal of housework. Think of how the media glorifies single middle class white mothers while degrading single working WoC as "irresponsible", "welfare queens" or "sex crazed" for being mothers. And what makes you think that "despised immigrant" is automatically Latina? She could easily be Filipina. That said, there are plenty of cases where the work that immigrant house cleaners are treated as inferior to white women's work.  

3. It's always been. Our society tells use that mothers who work at home are "lazy", and it almost always plays into sexist racist stereotypes. 

It's a feminist issue because it involves the interplay of sexism and racism. 

It’s really interesting to me to hear all of these white, cis, heterosexual republicans lament about how “great” America “used to be.” For anyone who doesn’t fit into one of those categories, the past was a really shitty time. At no prior point in time was it “better” to be a PoC, a woman, or a LGBT person. For us, this is the best time in history. America, while it’s not as good as it could be, has gotten a hell of a lot better than it was.

ALL OF THIS.

This is pretty much the most disgusting statistic I have ever seen in my entire life.

Holy shit.

what the actual fuck. 

“I didn’t come from your rib, you came from my uterus”

Slutwalk São Paulo, 26 May 2012 (see gallery at the link, article in Portuguese)

Live Action isn’t very good at being sneaky about their “stings.” Planned Parenthood knew what they were doing weeks ago.

I just don’t know how you can claim to be working in people’s best interests when your primary strategy is (badly) lying to them.

If you have to lie in order to scare or manipulate people into supporting your ideology, there is something wrong with your ideology. 

You shouldn’t have to ignore or deny reality in order to justify something and when you lie that’s exactly what you’re doing.

I’ve never had to make up lies or force myself to believe logically ridiculous things in order to justify why I am pro-choice. I’ve never had to co-opt things like slavery or the Holocaust to justify why I’m pro-choice.

The bottom line is that people will die (along with their fetuses) from illegal abortions if it is illegal. You either want pregnant people to die or you don’t. It’s not about fetuses, they die either way.

Love,

Rabble

Every Planned Parenthood should have Lila Rose’s photo up next to the door with “DO NOT LET THIS PERSON IN!!!” written on it. I went to college with Lila Rose. Her first “sting” was an expose where she went to the student health center and told the nurse she was pregnant, and the nurse - gasp! - told her about abortion as an option. She wrote a whole expose and self-published a newspaper called The Advocate (no, she didn’t know about the gay publication, and I guess didn’t care because I know people told her, including me) to tell the public about the horrible nurse who tried to make her kill her baby.

The worst part? THAT WAS MY NURSE. At my alma mater you had a special ‘team’ of health care specialists at the medical center, and the nurse Lila Rose targeted was the one who swabbed my decks* every year. Of course the school didn’t fire the nurse. At my next appointment, I asked her about it. She sighed heavily. I don’t remember exactly what she said, but it was along the lines of “this girl doesn’t know what she’s doing.”

So yeah. FUCK Lila Rose and her anti-woman pro-fetus agenda and her stupid sting videos that never accomplish anything because GUESS WHAT Planned Parenthood is not an abortion mill.

*PAP smear jokes!

Signal boost. Pro-lifers are horribly dishonest people.

Sad but true Abortion has killed 14 million black babies since 1970.

Somehow this was considered to be a racist billboard and taken down even though what they’re saying is true.

It’s racist because it frames the Black community, and black women* in particular, as violent and dangerous. Are the people who made the billboard concerned about the black community or are they just playing on stereotypes of POC in order to achieve their ends? They are attempting to elicit sympathy and concern for black children while simultaneously vilifying black women (and other people who are able to get pregnant). That’s why it’s racist.

Another problem with this billboard is that it makes it seem as if black women* are being somehow targeted for abortion services. This is ridiculous. It’s true that in the US black women* are disproportionately represented when it comes to abortion. But what anti-abortion advocates either haven’t seemed to figure out (or hope that the general public isn’t able to figure out) is that there is an important intervening variable they’re ignoring: economic status. People with lower socioeconomic status and less stable financial situations are more likely to choose abortion due to the fact that they are unable to afford a(nother) pregnancy or child.

Is there racism involved here? Certainly. And though it may be reflected in the racial and ethnic breakdown abortion rates, it would be an incorrect conclusion to label the existence of safe, legal abortion as the problem. The problem lies in the institutional and systemic racism that keeps black people (and black women especially) in poverty. Of course it’s sad when a person has to terminate an otherwise wanted pregnancy because they can’t afford it or afford to take care of the resulting child. But the way to fix this is not by diverting attention from the real problem by creating a false enemy out of abortion— it’s by attacking the systems and institutions that cause a person to be lacking financial resources in the first place. This includes attacking institutional and systemic racism, misogyny, ciscentrism, and transphobia.

side note: I can’t find the article at the moment, but there’s an interview with the mom of the girl in the picture where she says she was upset that her daughter’s image was being used in this way.

Pro-lifers only care about POC while in the womb. I bet these people are against contraception, against welfare, against affirmative action, against sex education, against anything that would help POC lift the curtains of oppression.

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The whole idea that abortion cause psychological harm to the mother is a myth. But pro-lifer aren't known for telling the truth. 

Please sign this Change.org petition to help free Bei Bei Shuai. From the website:

-Jess

All I can say is that "pro-life" is anti-women, pro-patriarchy, and ultimately pro-death.

Abolish Human Abortion

Semantics are fun.

Somebody go collect that defective motherfucker.

Hey, black people, how do you feel when white anti-choicers equate your ancestors with fetuses?