Saturday, February 13, 2010

Links of Interest

Pro-choicers are preventing unplanned pregnancies. Anti-choicers are causing it - Jessica Valenti. I love this woman.

Youth unemployment is rising, even for youth with college degrees, and especially for young black and latino americans. These recessionary lows could have long-term effects on the potential earning power of an entire generation of young workers.

Whoops, so I guess the first female president of Costa Rica really doesn't like women. She's against abortion, the morning after pill and same sex marriage. Oh noez. Having a vagina doesn't mean you are not a part of the patriarchy.

Alexis Hutchinson will only be discharged instead of court martialed for refusing deployment on the grounds that her son would be left uncared for. Again, can you say more punishment for women who are single mothers? As Samhita at Feministing said Amazing, if she left her child with no care, she would be demonized as a neglectful mother. She stays with her child to care for him and now she was lying and using him as a ploy to get out of her job. You are hearing the same familiar tones of racialized narratives around working class motherhood that play out over and over in stories about motherhood."

The hate crimes bill is supposedly a conspiracy to eradicate the Christian faith. So, a bill that says it is a crime to kill someone because they are homeless or gay is going to destroy the Christian faith? How? Is it a big part of the Sunday celebrations to gather the congregation, and find some gays and homeless people to hunt? Hmm. How inconsiderate of us LGBT peeps to ruin your fun. Sorry, we didn't mean it. Please, continue discriminating against us, beating us, and killing us.

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