In the weeks following the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s decision to lift a near 20 year ban prohibiting women from serving in combat, a wide gap has formed between those for and against this this equal opportunity measure. While many arguments have been brought up and counter argued from both positions, I’d like to highlight […]
Read More Call of Duty: Women in CombatThis week at ShoutOut!: shieldkt saw this on fbomb blog. This caught my attention because she thought it was so insane that somewhere else in the world is having worse trouble with eating disorders then the US. devystation says that Beyonce can get away with ALMOST anything…. ElFeminissto found this post on Secretary of Defense’s […]
Read More Links Round-UpMaybe it’s because I’ve been beyond stressed out lately. Maybe it’s because I haven’t slept much in the last week. Maybe it’s because I’m struggling to juggle a full-time job, a full course load, and still maintain some kind of social life. Whatever the reason is, I am sick and tired of being a feminist. […]
Read More Sick and Tired [TW: Racism, Rape, Homophobia]Hello ShoutOut readers. Today, I want to bust one myth that I had not really considered until it was brought up on a show that I had been watching. I was recently re-watching a few episodes of one of my favorite shows, Reba, where Reba’s teenage daughter, Cheyenne, gets pregnant at seventeen. Her principal tries […]
Read More Mythbusting Mondays: Women Must Think Safety of FirstI took WMST 200, Introduction to Women’s Studies, as an elective credit last semester. I knew from my social work classes that women and girls were a population I wanted to work with professionally and figured an intro class was the way to jump into the field. And it worked — here I am, writing for […]
Read More From Women’s Studies to Humanity Studies: Men and Abortion(Really incredible video, seen on feministing, giving more reasons why Planned Parenthood’s funding shouldn’t be cut). So this weekend I went home to attend DC’s Walk for Choice, a largescale response to the current attacks on women’s health and women’s rights. Rallies were held all round the country at the same time to signify that […]
Read More Myth-bustin’ Mondays: Young women don’t careWe have narrowly won a victory today. For those of you who don’t know, the “Smith Bill,” is an antiabortion GOP-backed House bill that was proposed by Republicans a few weeks ago. The bill proposed changing current abortion laws, which provides federal money for abortions in the case of life-threatening pregnancies or rape. The Smith […]
Read More Quickhit – All Rape is “Rape Rape”Hello, lovely readers! Before I introduce you to the first Bitchin’ Table of 2011 (whoop whoop!), I’d like to say a quick hi. My name is TrippingOnSunshine, I’m a new addition to ShoutOut!JMU, and I’m super pumped to be writing today’s post. I like feminism, feminist men, feminist women, feminist prose, feminist walks on the […]
Read More The Bitchin’ Table: Spanx a lot, say pregnant women everywhere
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