fuckyeahfatvegans:

thedailywhat:

PSA of the Day: According to the Best Friends Animal Society, more than 80 percent of pet owners support spaying or neutering their furry friends. But apparently, pet owners can’t seem to remember exactly when their animals should be sterilized (at 4 months old).

Enter the Fix at Four campaign, a series of clever PSAs that aims to reduce the number of accidental pets, and the best of which makes it seem as if a freaked-out father is trying to keep a bunch of horny neighborhood boys from impregnating his tween-age daughter.

“We purposely made them lighter,” says Bill Oakley, of TM Advertising, which helped design the spots. “When I see those Sarah McLachlan commercials, I turn them off. I can’t even watch them.”

[adweek]

ugh, animal rights/animal welfare causes using rape culture and benevolent sexism to sell sterilizing companion animals.

INTERSECTIONALITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yuck.

feministfilm:

prchtshrk:

so happy

USEFUL.

coma-therapy:

anonmedics:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/david-graeber-new-police-strategy-in-new-york-sexual-assault-against-peaceful-protestors.html

A few weeks ago I was with a few companions from Occupy Wall Street in Union Square when an old friend — I’ll call her Eileen — passed through, her hand in a cast.

“What happened to you?” I asked.

“Oh, this?” she held it up. “I was in Liberty Park on the 17th [the Six Month Anniversary of the Occupation]. When the cops were pushing us out the park, one of them yanked at my breast.”

“Again?” someone said.

We had all been hearing stories like this. In fact, there had been continual reports of police officers groping women during the nightly evictions from Union Square itself over the previous two weeks.

“Yeah so I screamed at the guy, I said, ‘you grabbed my boob! what are you, some kind of fucking pervert?’ So they took me behind the lines and broke my wrists.”

Actually, she quickly clarified, only one wrist was literally broken. She proceeded to launch into a careful, well-nigh clinical blow-by-blow description of what had happened. An experienced activist, she knew to go limp when police seized her, and how to do nothing that could possibly be described as resisting arrest. Police dragged her, partly by the hair, behind their lines and threw her to the ground, periodically shouting “stop resisting!” as she shouted back “I’m not resisting!” At one point though, she said, she did tell them her glasses had fallen to the sidewalk next to her, and announced she was going to reach over to retrieve them. That apparently gave them all the excuse they needed. One seized her right arm and bent her wrist backwards in what she said appeared to be some kind of marshal-arts move, leaving it not broken, but seriously damaged. “I don’t know exactly what they did to my left wrist—at that point I was too busy screaming at the top of my lungs in pain. But they broke it. After that they put me in plastic cuffs, as tightly as they possibly could, and wouldn’t loosen them for at least an hour no matter how loud I screamed or how much the other prisoners begged them to help me. For a while everyone in the arrest van was chanting ‘take them off, take them off’ but they just ignored them…”

How can things be so fucked? Fuck.

coma-therapy:

“I don’t know if rape jokes encourage rape culture. I don’t care. You still shouldn’t tell them.

Statistically, if you have told a rape joke to a group of more than five people, one of the people you told it to was a rape survivor, possibly of multiple rapes. They will not necessarily disclose this to you; rape apologism is endemic in society and most rape survivors are cautious about whom they tell. Some may even be too ashamed of their rape to admit it to anyone, or because of rape-minimizing narratives like “men can’t be raped” and “I consented to oral, so I couldn’t have been raped” may not admit it even to themselves. The fact remains: if you’ve told dozens of rape jokes in your life, then you have almost certainly told a joke that minimizes or trivializes rape in front of a survivor.

And if you put as your Facebook status “I totally raped at Halo today” for your two hundred Facebook friends to see, statistically, you have just reminded thirty-three people of one of the worst experiences of their entire lives.

To describe how well you did at a video game.

Good job!”

— An Addendum, On Rape Jokes.

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

DAMN. Love.

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fuckyeahtattoos:

I am posting as a warning to my fellow inked. I posted my tattoo a couple of months ago (http://fyeahtattoos.com/post/11674064345/i-got-this-tattoo-as-soon-as-i-could-once-i-turned) and talked very highly of the artist who did it. Unfortunately I have come to learn that he is facing sexual harassment charges from a woman he had tattooed multiple times.

Here is a link of the account: http://kvetchmom.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/vic-tim-ize-to-make-a-victim-of/. I am hoping that the people who took my advice to go to see Matthew Mattison will see this and keep themselves from being put in the same position this poor woman was put in. I feel sick to my stomach that I ever promoted his work, and also incredibly lucky that I decided to bring a small group with me. Unfortunately we often don’t know things like this until it is too late, but I hope that this will prevent others from the harassment this woman faced.

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Mod note: Trigger warning in regards to the link. 

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

North Carolina’s ultrasound law, passed last year over the governor’s veto, didn’t provoke the same level of controversy. It doesn’t include the words “trans-vaginal probe,” either. But it effectively requires the procedure for many, if not most, abortions.

The new law requires an ultrasound before any abortion procedure. The woman has to be shown the image of the fetus, have the image described to her, and be offered the opportunity to hear the fetal heartbeat.

In early pregnancy—up until about 8 weeks—the only way a doctor can comply with those requirements is by using a trans-vaginal sonogram probe.

Rex Healthcare’s Rhonda Thomas is president of the NC Ultrasound Society. She says abdominal ultrasounds can’t see much before the two-month mark, especially if the patient has had prior pregnancies or is overweight.

“They’re just more sensitive,” Thomas said of trans-vaginal scans. ”That’s the test of choice.”

A trans-vaginal sonogram is also the only way to hear a fetal heartbeat in early pregnancy. Thomas says the heartbeat isn’t audible via stethoscope until about 10 weeks.

Planned Parenthood of Central NC spokeswoman Paige Johnson said her group lobbied hard against other parts of the bill, but didn’t make a big issue of the probe. That’s because her group uses them, too.

Johnson says Planned Parenthood requires an ultrasound before every abortion to “date” the pregnancy. NC law allows abortion only within the first 20 weeks, except when the mother’s life or health is threatened.

If it’s early in the pregnancy, Johnson says, the clinic’s doctors use a trans-vaginal probe for the scan. And most cases are early: she says 90 percent of abortions are performed within the first 12 weeks.

“Before the law, if a woman didn’t want to undergo the scan, she could go elsewhere,” Johnson said. “Now she doesn’t have that choice.”

A federal judge has temporarily stayed the part of NC’s law that requires the doctor to describe the ultrasound image to the patient. But the requirement for the ultrasound itself is law, as are the waiting period and the mandate that doctors counsel women seeking abortion about adoption services and the availability of food stamps.

[NB: This affects more than cis women.]

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keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

Holy fucking christ. 

At the link, there is a petition to sign and information about who in Pennsylvania to contact to voice your displeasure or rage. 

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