The GOP is trying to pull off a magic trick. They are feverishly working to convince you they support women’s rights. Yesterday at a “Women for Mitt” rally, Ann Romney told women to “challenged women to ‘wake up’,” that Mitt Romney will be there for them, that he’s “attuned to their struggles.” In her warm [...]
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The Disturbing Symbolism of the GOP Convention
Like tens of millions of other people, I watched the Republican National Convention. During the week we were subjected to a new high in the political dangers of the narrow-casting of our media world and the debasement of public discourse, both of which were most startlingly demonstrated by Paul Ryan’s willingness deceive the American public [...]
Paul Ryan: Leading the Charge to Nullify Rape, Deepen Abortion Stigma
When news broke Sunday about Paul Ryan’s new comments about rape, I was just finishing a new post for the Independent Voter Network about the Todd Akin news cycle and what it showed us about media bias (and our own biases). Indeed, I was naive enough to think we had all learned something: One wonders [...]
Ryan And Rand: You’re Doing It Wrong
This post is originally published on The Sin City Siren and is cross-posted with permission. While I’ve been recuperating my bad back, the Romney campaign has gone all flibbidy-woo over Paul Ryan. I thought it might be my pain meds, but then I remembered I’m not taking any pain medication, so… this is reality. Paul [...]
Todd Akin: It’s Not a War on Women. It’s a War on Critical Thinking and Democracy.
In case you’ve been deep-sea diving in the Mariana Trench, yet another Republican Congressman unwittingly revealed his party’s contempt for and distrust of women. And he did it by illustrating how the “war on women” is part of a larger issue. What Todd Akin said and believes doesn’t just play into a media-catchy, election year “war on women” [...]
Protest Women As Sluts and Farm Animals
This upcoming Saturday, August 18th, thousands of protesters are converging on the Capitol in Washington, DC at a women’s rights rally. I have to ask, along with the organizers, We Are Woman, spokesperson Jessica DelBazlo, who wrote here last week: Why don’t more people know about this national march? The event is focused on the [...]