Women's Voices

 

21 February 2021

 

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Inmates at Auckland women's prison were forced to strip in front of male guards, pepper sprayed in their cells, placed in solitary for months. 68% of the inmates are Māori, making them the most incarcerated group of indigenous women on earth. ...

February 21st @ 10:44 pm |

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Labor accused PM Scott Morrison of leading a “don’t ask, don’t tell” culture & being part of the cover-up of an alleged rape after two more women have come forward with allegations of sexual assault by the same Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins ...

February 21st @ 10:35 pm |

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"Teenagers and youngsters, addicted to pornography, are more prone to commit crimes. Child psychologists also opined that minors who frequently watch porn behave aggressively and tend to show abnormal characteristics such as anger, sadism, ...

February 21st @ 9:40 pm |

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The main logical problem with the argument that *all* trans women are killed just for "being trans" (besides being demonstrably false) is how it suggests that if they believably "pass" as women they would be safe from male violence. ...

February 21st @ 9:29 pm |

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A pack of three condoms costs $4.40 — three times Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage of $1.50. Birth control pills cost more than twice as much, while an IUD can cost more than $40 — more than 25 times the minimum wage. That does not include a doctor’s ...

February 21st @ 1:28 pm |

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American beauty blogger James Charles posed as a pregnant woman as part of attempting to experience what "24 hours being pregnant" feels like. There is seemingly no aspect of womanhood that men are unwilling to appropriate or sexualize. ...

February 21st @ 1:12 pm |

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A Taiwanese transgender influencer is claiming to have undergone a uterus transplant and become pregnant. A reputable obstetrician responded by saying "based on medical common sense, I just have one comment, I wish you the best, but don't talk ...

February 21st @ 10:16 am |

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"[My wife] Lindsey fell pregnant in 2016 and gave birth to our little girl, Raelee. There was a fair amount of jealousy felt, as I was envious at how close Lindsey was able to be to Raelee during the pregnancy." They have since separated. ...

February 21st @ 10:00 am |

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A man named Aidan created a robot in the image of a woman, named Ai-Da, designed to create "self-portrait[s] without a self." The intent is social commentary on technology; yet as usual, women seem to be relegated to mere vehicles for men's thought ...

February 21st @ 9:38 am |

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Russia's right-wing misogynist "Male State" movement is targeting feminist activists by leaking their private information in Telegram groups. This has resulted in women receiving targeted threats of violence intended to prevent them from ...

February 21st @ 9:19 am |

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RT @ripx4nutmeg: The SNP has introduced a new definition of 'transphobia' which means activists could be kicked out of the party if they say that a man (who says he's a woman) is a biological male. One SNP campaigner said: "This is deeply intolerant" ...

February 21st @ 3:43 am |

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The threat against @carmencalvo_ is part of a growing global trend of threatening women who refuse to be reduced to a stereotype. During last year's Women's March in Spain, among other threats, a sign that read: "There are girls with pen*ses... and ...

February 21st @ 3:00 am |

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This is the statement that was signed by @carmencalvo_ "Sex is a biological fact. Women are neither an identity nor an essence. Women are killed for being born female. If we deny sex, the inequality on the basis of this biological fact is also ...

February 21st @ 12:49 am |

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"Bring Back Our Girls," due to be published early next month, will reveal the reality of life for the more than 200 women from the school in Chibok, who were kept as hostages in one of the most infamous mass abductions of recent decades. ...

February 21st @ 12:03 am |