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janestarzIt's not so much the sex nor the cycling that gets me sighing. Die puny humans (I so love Warren Ellis' blog) reported this today (stolen shamelessly for a good cause):
"The Bush administration has stripped information on a range of women's issues from government Web sites, apparently in pursuit of a political agenda, researchers reported on Wednesday.
"Vital information is being deleted, buried, distorted and has otherwise gone missing from government Web sites and publications," Linda Basch, president of the National Council for Research on Women, said in a telephone interview. "Taken cumulatively, this has an enormously negative effect on women and girls."
A council report said the missing information fell into four categories: women's health; their economic status; objective scientific data; and information aimed at protecting women and girls and helping them advance.
The deletions and alterations appear to hew to a political agenda, rather than providing the nonpartisan, unbiased data that has been the tradition of U.S. government reports...
...a fact sheet from the Centers of Disease Control that focused on the advantages of using condoms to prevent sexually transmitted disease; it was revised in December 2002 to say evidence on condoms' effectiveness in curbing these diseases was inconclusive.
...The National Cancer Institute's Web site was changed in 2002 to say studies linking abortion and breast cancer were inconsistent..."
(Bold text my artistic woman freedom. What the fuck does he think he's doing?!?)
Original news story here
Please let people open their minds. Like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ginmar once quoted:
"The thing is, I'm getting really, really tired of having to justify feminism by explaining how it also benefits men. And that, believe it or not, is the point of this article. What I'm angry about is not the genuine male enquirers who honestly wonder why “nobody complains about the stereotyping of men” (and they do exist, I replied to several of them), it's the anti-feminist men who attack us for daring to get involved in a movement which aims to improve the lives of women.
What this is really about is men accusing feminists of sexism and hypocrisy unless they can prove that they spend exactly half of their time, energy, and resources on campaigning on behalf of men. What this is really about is that if feminism only improves the lives of women, it has no value or importance. What this is really about is that feminism only has value if it works on behalf of men and improves the lives of men. What this is really about is anti-feminist men being threatened by women working for women. What they're really saying is that to talk about women, to focus on women, to point out that something affects women badly; all of this is of no importance or value. It's classic, really – because men are not always the focus of attention of feminism, these anti-feminists can't stand it. "
Ginmar herself, an American woman currently stationed in Iraq, writes about the real side of the war, and she said "about feminism---how, if it's not focuses on making mens' lives better, it's somehow sexist."
Deep down there's a feminist in me.
"The Bush administration has stripped information on a range of women's issues from government Web sites, apparently in pursuit of a political agenda, researchers reported on Wednesday.
"Vital information is being deleted, buried, distorted and has otherwise gone missing from government Web sites and publications," Linda Basch, president of the National Council for Research on Women, said in a telephone interview. "Taken cumulatively, this has an enormously negative effect on women and girls."
A council report said the missing information fell into four categories: women's health; their economic status; objective scientific data; and information aimed at protecting women and girls and helping them advance.
The deletions and alterations appear to hew to a political agenda, rather than providing the nonpartisan, unbiased data that has been the tradition of U.S. government reports...
...a fact sheet from the Centers of Disease Control that focused on the advantages of using condoms to prevent sexually transmitted disease; it was revised in December 2002 to say evidence on condoms' effectiveness in curbing these diseases was inconclusive.
...The National Cancer Institute's Web site was changed in 2002 to say studies linking abortion and breast cancer were inconsistent..."
(Bold text my artistic woman freedom. What the fuck does he think he's doing?!?)
Original news story here
Please let people open their minds. Like
ginmar once quoted:"The thing is, I'm getting really, really tired of having to justify feminism by explaining how it also benefits men. And that, believe it or not, is the point of this article. What I'm angry about is not the genuine male enquirers who honestly wonder why “nobody complains about the stereotyping of men” (and they do exist, I replied to several of them), it's the anti-feminist men who attack us for daring to get involved in a movement which aims to improve the lives of women.
What this is really about is men accusing feminists of sexism and hypocrisy unless they can prove that they spend exactly half of their time, energy, and resources on campaigning on behalf of men. What this is really about is that if feminism only improves the lives of women, it has no value or importance. What this is really about is that feminism only has value if it works on behalf of men and improves the lives of men. What this is really about is anti-feminist men being threatened by women working for women. What they're really saying is that to talk about women, to focus on women, to point out that something affects women badly; all of this is of no importance or value. It's classic, really – because men are not always the focus of attention of feminism, these anti-feminists can't stand it. "
Ginmar herself, an American woman currently stationed in Iraq, writes about the real side of the war, and she said "about feminism---how, if it's not focuses on making mens' lives better, it's somehow sexist."
Deep down there's a feminist in me.
