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#Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of #pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.
#Abortion #Pregnancy #Women #Mothers #Families #RoeVWade #Health #HealthCare
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica’s Report on Amber Thurman, Candi Miller Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outside individuals.”ProPublica
Black Women Talk Tech: Carving Our Path To Entrepreneurial Success
" Despite representing just 3% of the tech workforce and receiving only 0.1% of venture capital funding, Black women are rapidly emerging as leading entrepreneurs.
According to a 2021 report, there is no comparable Statistics Canada data on Black women entrepreneurs in Canada and limited information on their profiles. The study says the existing research “highlights the barriers that Black women entrepreneurs experience while operating and growing their businesses, namely: access to financing, cost of borrowing, and access to equity or capital.”
According to The Business Development Bank of Canada, access to capital is the greatest hurdle for Black entrepreneurs with 82% self-financing their business from personal savings, and with 44% of Black entrepreneurs not being able to pay themselves from their business. "
"Despite legal setbacks and systemic barriers, Black women are proving that they can and will overcome. With the ongoing efforts of Esosa and Regina through BWTT, the community of Black female entrepreneurs is not only surviving but thriving. As they prepare to take their mission to Toronto, the impact of their work will continue to grow, helping more Black women break through barriers and build successful tech ventures. "
"Misogyny was so core to his campaign and that appealed to many people and I guess didn’t bother enough other people (including many women) for it to be the winning message of the day. That’s a hard thing to know about your fellow citizens."
~ Emily Tamkin
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #women #future
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"Margaret Atwood’s 'The Handmaid’s Tale,' a novel set in a totalitarian society, has shot to the top of Amazon’s bestselling books list following Donald Trump’s reelection."
~ Erika Tulfo
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #women #future
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Iraq to lower the ‘age of consent’ for girls to nine
A new law proposed by ultra conservative Shia Muslim parties seeks to strip women and girls of their rights
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#news #politics #Iraq #women #rights #ageofconsent #international #Muslim
I'm not content warning this, it's just a #woman in her underwear. Also, that would be irony
This is #Tehran’s Islamic Azad University on Nov 2
She was assaulted by #Iran's #morality #police because her #hijab was "improper"
So she just stripped
She was arrested and I don't think it will go well for her. Iran's weak, insecure, moronic hangups over #women's clothing is vicious cruel and violent. They kill women for showing their hair. It's all so fucking stupid
My heart is filled!!! ❤️ just got home from the Snohomish, WA #womensmarch and I feel hopeful.
We. Cannot. Go. Back.
"And so women are treated as hate objects, of course, in that discourse, and that discourse has become mainstream and is certainly a key part of the Republican Party today."
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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(continued from /10) "that the women’s only place is in making babies to replace the race essentially; that they shouldn’t have a voice within the white supremacist community; and that feminism itself is part of the problem and part of the reason why this 'great replacement theory' is working."
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/11
"One of the really interesting things in the research that I’ve done on the neo-Nazi community, white supremacist community, is the way that they linked anti-feminism to their neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideals. If you go back to Daily Stormer in 2014, 2015, they’re saying arguments about anti-feminism as being essential to understanding white supremacy;" (continued in /11)
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/10
"There’s a really smart researcher on authoritarianism, Karen Stenner, and she had retweeted that—what she said was, Pay attention to how he says the word women. And if you listen to it, it’s really interesting because of so much visceral anger and hatred just dripping off of his tongue as he says the word women. That’s very indicative of Trump’s approach to women in general."
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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"Despite best practices, despite all of the consultants opinions, Donald Trump is fearlessly being misogynistic. I don’t know if that message is going to convince any women to vote for him, but it certainly will resonate with men."
~ Jennifer Mercieca
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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Brutal New Ad Nukes Trump—With His Own Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Women
As Kamala Harris hits Trump hard over his misogyny, a scholar of political communications explains how Harris is tapping into a level of cultural energy among women we are underestimating.The New Republic
“'It’s really hard to know that there are men out there who want to vote against reproductive rights, even though they shouldn’t have a say in it at all,' Casey, who voted for Harris, said. She doesn’t think she could date someone who doesn’t share her views again. 'As a political science major, I made a decision that I don’t want to put myself in that position.'”
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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"People are saying this is the Abortion Election. I believe it is the Female Personhood Election. ...
A vote for Republicans is a vote to deny women female personhood."
~ Andra Watkins
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/13
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Recap: The Republican War on Women
Female personhood is on the ballot (Scroll to the end to listen)Andra Watkins (How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life)
"The media have obsessed over Black people and Latinos turned off by Harris and various other #Demsindisarray narratives. The enthusiasm of women for Harris is a storyline that has been entirely unexplored."
~ Michael Tomasky
Hmm. Wonder why that would be? What is it about the media (and who owns and controls the media?) that would cause the media to ignore this? (/s)
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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Men are hopeless, but don’t worry: Women will save America. As usual.
Fighting Words. What got me...newsletter.tnr.com
"THE 'GENDER GAP' MATH IS UNDER-APPRECIATED in coverage of the race. More women will likely show up to vote than they did in 2020, and they will be supporting Harris more than they did Biden four years ago. Trump may be making gains with men. But he’s going to have to turn out a lot more of them if he wants to keep up."
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/15
"Because what Trump has to offer men is permission to hate women. Those women.
And the terms of that hate are not 'Women are taking away our precious cultural ideas about manhood!'. It’s pretty much 'Women are taking our jobs and our social power, women are doing better at most of what we have done, women are—without any malice or plan—unveiling the many cases where men have risen to the top on nothing more than mediocrity & a pair of testicles.'"
"So many of the feeder streams into Trumpism well up from springs of reaction to changes in the status of women. Dobbs has made it plain that anti-abortion sentiment is primarily about control of women. Its supporters are indifferent to women dying, women risking death, women enduring pregnancy after rape."
~ Timothy Burke
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/22
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Trump Essentials (5): It's The Gender, Stupid
Trump Has Cruelty and Malice For All, But It's Women That Are His IssueTimothy Burke (Eight by Seven)
"It seems that the men of MAGA feel as entitled to their wives’ votes as they do their reproductive rights."
~ Malcolm Ferguson
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/21
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MAGA Men Are Freaking Out Over Their Wives Secretly Voting for Harris
Fox News’s Jesse Watters is the latest to have a full-blown meltdown over the possibility of his wife voting for Kamala Harris.The New Republic
"FOX News has been losing their collective minds over the ad [by at Vote Common Good telling women they have a right to vote for whom they choose without their husbands instructing them] — accusing Harris of encouraging women to lie to their spouses and equating the wives who vote for Harris with those who commit adultery."
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
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Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice
Julia Roberts reminds us that In the Voting Booth women still have the right to choose. 🔴 Join our Vote Common Good Email List to be part of the Common Good...YouTube
"In the last two days, you may have noticed a strange uptick in right-wing commentators talking about Harris’s 'attack' on the 'sanctity of marriage.' There’s been a bit of a buzz about conservative white women voting for Harris secretly — breaking with their faith communities and perhaps even their husbands to cast a vote against Donald Trump."
~ Diana Butler Bass
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/19
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Halloween at The Cottage - Scary Witch Edition
On Jezebel, leading good wives astray, and gendercideDiana Butler Bass (The Cottage)
"He is the reason women in many states are being forced to have children against their will & cannot get treatment for their miscarriages. Every woman that dies or has her reproductive future decimated because of those laws is his fault. And he will make it worse because regardless of what he says now, he will absolutely use the Comstock laws to make it illegal to mail anything to do with abortion.
No one needs protection by him, but we sure as hell need protection from him."
"Donald Trump, mind you, has been found civilly responsible for rape. He has been accused by multiple women of rape (including his ex-wife Ivana), of sexual assault, of groping. He has bragged about grabbing women by the pussy without asking. He has bragged about being the reason Dobbs was overturned. Because he is the reason Dobbs was overturned."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/17
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Trump Once Again Excited To Do Things Whether The Woman Likes It Or Not
Sort of a consistent theme with this one, no?Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
"When Donald Trump gets pouty and shouty, his aides have a repertoire of ways to cheer him up, like telling him his crowds are the biggest, showing him flattering headlines from rightwing outlets, or watching videos of children being taken from their parents at the border in 2018. But to really help him feel better, there’s nothing like letting him sit in a big truck like a big boy!"
~ Doktor Zoom
Overcompensation much?
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Donald Trump Rode Around In A Big Garbage Truck, Vroom-Vroom!
No subtle metaphor there.Doktor Zoom (Wonkette)
Obeidallah focuses on what happened recently in Neptune, Florida, where a group of teens waving Trump flags gathered at an early voting site to harrass voters, with one teen, Caleb James Williams, pulling out a machete and brandishing it at two female voters.
And in South Carolina, a man has just verbally assaulted Black women working at the polls.
"This week we have seen two deeply alarming incidents of violence, threats and abuse directed by Donald Trump’s male supporters against women at polling locations. And tragically this will likely not be the last given a core theme of Trump’s “bro vote” strategy has been amplifying sexism and misogyny—as we saw again at his rallies this week."
~ Dean Obeidallah
"Jesse Watters said that he would consider his wife voting for Kamala Harris the same as if she was having an extramarital affair.
The Fox News co-host told panelists on The Five that if he discovered second wife, Emma DiGiovine, was secretly backing the vice president, it would be 'D-Day' for their marriage."
~ David Gardner
As Sean Craig reports, MAGA bros are freaking out because so many women are voting.
"Two of former president Donald Trump’s most prominent backers in the right wing influencer sphere [Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk] fretted Wednesday after early votingnumbers showed massive early turnout among women that could imperil their candidate’s path to victory."
#Trump #women #gender #abortion
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MAGA Bros Are Freaking Out Because So Many Women Are Voting
“Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes PA and it’s over,” tweeted right wing gadfly Mike Cernovich.Sean Craig (The Daily Beast)
"More than 60% of evangelical pastors (the vast majority of whom are men) plan to vote for a sexual predator on November 5. Roughly 80% of their congregants tell pollsters they plan to do the same. Religious people, and specifically church-attending men, are casting their ballots so that the Secretary of Education will report to someone who shouldn’t be allowed within 500 feet of a school."
#Trump #women #gender #evangelicals #SexualAbuse
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Kristin Du Mez looks at the reluctance of men in evangelical churches to speak out against sexual abuse of vulnerable people by pastors. It's almost always women who speak out about this, she notes. And she then looks at the choice of those same men to vote for a known, convicted sexual predator as president.
She writes,
"I get it. It puts church-going men in an awkward position."
#Trump #women #gender #evangelicals #SexualAbuse
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"Charlie [Kirk] is deeply concerned—he said yesterday in an interview with Megyn Kelly—that women may 'undermine their husbands' by letting them think they’re with them, side-by-side, seated comfortably on the Trump train."
William Kristol
#Trump #women #gender #abortion
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Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage
Team Trump isn’t quietly enabling RFK Jr.’s vaccine lunacy. They’re enthusiastically embracing it.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"Across battlegrounds, there is a 10-point gender gap in early voting so far: Women account for roughly 55 percent of the early vote, while men are around 45 percent, according to a Politico analysis of early vote data in several key states."
~ Megan Messerly and Jessica Piper