Showing posts with label Women's Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women's Issues. Show all posts
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Ms. Foundation for Women releases ‘Taylor Swift’ video
Lyrics:
It felt like a perfect day
To pass the VAWA
Protect women in danger, uh uh, uh uh
Who the hell would vote against that, nothing would be stranger
Oh wait I found a few guys, uh uh, uh uh
Thuuuune, Sessions, Barrasso, Boozman, Coburn, Cornyn, Enzi.
Cruz, Graham, Hatch, Grassley, Inhofe, Paul and Johanns.
Lee, Scott, Johnson, Mconnell, Risch, Roberts, Rubio.
And Blunt.
Uh oh, I'm telling you, that there were 22
Senators who voted against, protecting me and you
They didn't wanna include, immigrants, natives and gays
Ur jerks in 22 ways, my minds exploding there were: 22, 22
A note to the House of Reps, this should be easy.
Here just look at me. Just say: Yea
22 if it were up me, you'd lose your senate seat
Wouldn't date you even if, you were a Kennedy
Thuuuune, Sessions, Barrasso, Boozman, Coburn, Cornyn, Enzi.
Cruz, Graham, Hatch, Grassley, Inhofe, Paul and Johanns.
Lee, Scott, Johnson, Mconnell, Risch, Roberts, Rubio.
And Blunt.
Uh oh, I don't know about you, but I bet 22
Senators will feel the burn from, from saying no to
A bill that passes each year, you made it crystal clear
You are a woman's worst fear, I shed a single tear for: 22, 22, 22, 22.
It feels like crazy town
What were you thinking
It feels like crazy town
Were you just drinking?
It feels like crazy town
You all are bad news, for women's issues, we just don't want you.
Change.org Petition: http://chn.ge/YzAHCG
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Organization petitions Obama to uphold the right for women to go topless
GoTopless, a Las Vegas-based organization dedicated to attaining women's rights to go bare-chested, today announced that it is petitioning the Obama administration to have that right recognized nationally. The petition has been launched this week ahead of International GoTopless Day on August 26, a date chosen to coincide with Women's Equality Day, which commemorates the attainment of women's voting rights on August 26, 1920.
GoTopless President Nadine Gary stated, via a release, “Any state or local law making it illegal for a woman to go topless is unconstitutional, but most people don't know that. That's why we're taking the issue of topless rights to the top by demanding the president's attention to this issue. A woman's right to go topless falls under the 14th Amendment's gender equality provision, and nobody knows that better than President Obama. He taught constitutional law."
According to GoTopless, rigid morality codes of mainstream religions are the primary source of topless inequality directed against women, and mustn't be allowed to override the Constitution, according to GoTopless. In conjunction with the petition, GoTopless has issued a letter directly to President Obama in an effort to obtain his support.
Gary stated that topless rights are now where men's were a century ago. “People forget it wasn't acceptable for men to bare their chests until 1933. Even men's bathing suits had to include a top. Clark Gable exposed his chest in the 1934 movie 'It Happened One Night,' and it caused a national scandal. Today, nobody thinks a thing of it when a man takes his shirt off. Now it's women's turn.” Gary added, “The Constitution is very clear about separation of church and state.”
GoTopless was founded in 2007 by Rael, spiritual leader of the International Raelian Movement, after he heard of a New York City case in which a woman arrested for going topless sued for wrongful arrest and won significant damages. The New York woman’s right was upheld, but GoTopless believes that it shouldn't have been necessary for her to prove it.
New York has been a legally topless state for women since 1992, but frequently the police either don't know the law or ignore it. To view the letter to President Obama, please click HERE and for more information on the GoTopless petition, please click HERE.
Open Letter to President Obama From GoTopless
Dear President Obama,
My name is Lara Terstenjak and I am the director of
GoTopless, a women’s rights organization that claims women’s constitutional
right to go topless in public on the basis of gender equality. You once taught Constitutional Law at the
University of Chicago, so you, of all people, are most aware that our claim is
legitimate and that women in America are currently denied their constitutional
rights under double-standard laws that force them to cover their chests in
public while men don’t have to do this.
Therefore, unless these laws are changed, the only
constitutional way to resolve this issue is to apply the solution offered by
Rael, founder of GoTopless, fervent human rights activist and spiritual leader
of the International Raelian Movement. His position is simple: “Men must be
forced to hide their chests if women are forced to hide theirs.” A few years
ago, while you were vacationing in Hawaii, a topless picture of you appeared in
the media. Mr. President, how would you like being legally forced to hide your
chest on a nice, warm beach day? According to the Constitution, this is what
will need to happen if U.S. laws refuse to acknowledge a woman’s right to
freely go topless in public. Gender equality means “all or none.” One of the
major arguments against women going topless is that the sight of a woman’s bare
breast causes children psychological trauma, or even endangers them (the latter
accusation was actually made in the official statement of a New York City
police officer who wrongfully arrested Moira Johnston who was walking legally
topless in public on May 28, 2012). That is complete nonsense. The fact that
millions of European children routinely see topless women on European beaches
and experience no ill effects from it proves that the female toplessness in
public is completely harmless for children unless they are first made to feel
that there is something inherently bad about it. It is only when parents are
culturally conditioned to be upset by the sight of a woman’s breast that
children can be traumatized, for such parents convey fear, shame and other
negative emotions.
GoTopless is very respectful of other people’s personal
preferences. If a woman decides she is more comfortable wearing a top instead
of going without one, we respect that choice. But this should be a woman’s
choice, not a legal requirement imposed in the name of someone else’s morality.
Puritanical morality has hijacked our legal system by ignoring our
constitution. Therefore, it is your duty under oath, Mr. President, to
“preserve, protect and defend” women’s constitutional rights, even if they
challenge the greatest American taboo – nudity – and even if they challenge
your own moral upbringing. My naked chest has the same constitutional right as
yours, Mr. President; it’s no more damaging or threatening or traumatizing to
others than yours is! Americans need to learn the difference between nudity and
sexuality, but the current repressive, unconstitutional laws in this country
are counterproductive. They lead to deviant behaviors and pathology, for what
is hidden and forbidden often becomes an obsession – sometimes a very dangerous
one.
President Obama, this August 26, you will be honoring
Women’s Equality Day, which commemorates the 92nd anniversary of the passing of
the 19th Amendment. Our organization selected August 26 as GoTopless Day to
honor and coincide with this same special date. For Women’s Equality Day, you
will be signing a letter praising and encouraging women for their efforts to
obtain equal rights, equal pay, equal job opportunities, etc. But one more area
of women’s rights urgently needs to be addressed. This year, the hundreds of
thousands of people who support topless rights ask that you act promptly and
officially recognize our struggle to establish women’s topless rights legally,
in accordance with the Constitution. We will soon present a petition to your
government to voice this demand, which can no longer be ignored. Mr. President,
if you give us legislative support, we are confident that legally topless women
will proudly celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Women’s Equality Day on
August 26, 2020. Thank you so much in advance for your prompt attention to this
matter that has been so long unjust and neglected!
Respectfully yours,
Lara Terstenjak
Director, GoTopless
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Monday, July 2, 2012
2011 edition of Child Trends' annual Facts
Despite Record Low U.S. Teen Birth Rate, State Teen Birth Rates Vary Widely--Repeat Teen Births Also Vary Across Cities
The 2011 edition of Child Trends' annual Facts at a Glance contains the latest national, state and city-level data on teen birth rates. Although teen birth rates in the United States have declined overall since the early 1990s and are currently at a historic low, teen birth rates vary widely across states, as do the percentages of teen births in large cities.
Nationally, birth rates for all teens decreased in 2009 to 39.1 births per 1,000 young women between the ages of 15 and 19. However, the latest state data on teen birth rates (from 2008) show wide variation:
--Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas have the highest teen birth rates (66 births for every 1,000 female teens ages 15-19; 64 births, 63 births respectively)
--New Hampshire has the lowest teen birth rate (19.8 births for every 1,000 female teens), followed closely by Massachusetts at 20 births per 1,000 female teens and Vermont at 21 births per 1,000 female teens.
The report, which is based primarily on Child Trends' analyses of data from the National Center for Health Statistics, also includes teen birth data for large cities, as well as data on repeat teen births – births that occur to teens who have already had a baby. Nationally, one in five teen births (19%) are repeat teen births. Teen birth data (from 2008) for 72 of the largest cities in the U.S. highlight differences in the percentage of teen births that are repeat births:
--Cincinnati, OH has the highest percentage of teen births that are repeat births (28% of all teen births in the city are repeat births), followed by Jackson, MS (27%), and Dallas, TX (26%).
--Boston, MA and Seattle, WA have the lowest percentage of teen births that are repeat births (12% of all teen births in each city are repeat births), followed by two cities at 13% (Virginia Beach, VA and New York, NY).
Report Includes City Level Data
“We highlight cities with high rates of repeat teen births because having a second teen birth further compounds educational, economic, health, and developmental challenges associated with teen childbearing,“ said co-author, Jennifer Manlove, Senior Research Scientist at Child Trends.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
10 Worst Ads For Women
In various forms, it is estimated
that each of us is exposed to 3000 advertisement messages per day. While many
are innocuous, many more send negative, over-sexualized and dangerous messages
about women and girls, to all who view.
Although personal responsibility
is a part of life and an argument can be had for simply turning the channel or
closing the page, advertising in print and on television are only pieces of the
multi-billion dollar ad market. Walk through any mall in the United States and
you’ll be inundated with unrealistic or demeaning portraits of women and girls.
Some advertisements go as far as portraying women as inanimate objects.
Perhaps we’re blowing all this
way out of proportion, after all we’re intelligent beings with the ability to
decipher the reality of women and girls from what is portrayed by the
advertising industry right? Internationally, $6.9 billion per year is spent on
advertising; quite literally, marketers are banking on the fact that we aren’t
that smart.
Please have a look at the top 10
offenders and leave your thoughts in the comment section below.
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