The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet
A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right. Read more at The Atlantic
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Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pronatalist machine – opinion
This month, the Trump administration renewed its attacks on Title X, the federal reproductive health program that provides birth control to an estimated 2 million low-income Americans. In the White House’s proposed budget, funding for the program was eliminated altogether. Then, the Title X administrators at the Department of Health and Human Services announced new … Read more
Why was a Florida woman forced to have a C-section?
Doyley may be a Black woman living in a red state, but her experience of medical coercion didn’t only happen because of her race (although the statistics clearly show her Blackness probably contributed greatly to why she wasn’t listened to). It’s also a sign of just how far the government plans to go in stripping … Read more
Why MAGA men actually loathe tradwives
But once again, the tradwife pitch has been revealed as a lie. A new study published in Psychology of Women Quarterly shows that young men who favor the trad lifestyle don’t honor and cherish tradwives — they hold them in contempt. After surveying nearly 600 men aged 18 to 29, researchers expected to find that … Read more
The Unspeakable, Enabled
It’s beyond clear that the technologies being imposed upon us exaggerate and enable tendencies that used to be unspeakable. They normalize abuse, and they have already normalized gendered hatred. These compulsions come from the same place as the impulse to punish Renee Nicole Good for protesting, for not bending to patriarchal authority. Read more at … Read more
Why are so many Americans worried about falling birth rates?
“We’re seeing the confluence of a purported concern about birth rates being used to advance an agenda, which is really about exercising control over women’s bodies, over gender roles, over women’s role in public life,” Matsui said. Read more at 19th News
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote – opinion – Moira Donegan
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional Read more at The Guardian
Anti-Feminist Media Is Trying to Make Young Women Turn on Birth Control
But we’ve seen far less attention paid to how young women are also being radicalized in digital spaces, similarly lured by seemingly apolitical content — about celebrity gossip, “natural” birth control, “clean girl” aesthetics, and dating — only to eventually be persuaded that our rights to abortion, contraception, even to vote or own bank accounts, … Read more
Why is Child Marriage Legal In So Many States?
“This is based on my observation, but legislators simply do not prioritize girls’ issues,” she says. Passing the laws “costs nothing and harms no one, except predators who prey on children. The only thing I can think of is misogyny, rather than this organized pushback that you would think would be the reason that 34 … Read more
RFK, Jr. Tylenol attack, plus attack on mifepristone – news round-up
RFK Jr. Finally Gets Around to Bringing His War on Medical Science to Abortion But lawsuits aren’t enough for the increasingly antsy anti-abortion movement: Their allies control the White House, after all. Why not just use the machinery of the administration to restrict mifepristone out of accessibility? Kennedy is finally responding. By leaning on the … Read more