DeusExMachinima posted:

So what's the over/under on these protests today yielding long-term coalitions that actually get poo poo done? Most of these things tend to last until the other team gets back in power, then they get disbanded, then the next time they're needed they have to take a few years to get it together again.

Lightning Knight posted:

The best protest signs from today's march.

LeJackal posted:

botany posted:

oh my god those are absolutely amazing!

Lightning Knight posted:

This machine kills fascists.

I also absolutely love that they're taking the Reagan iconography of "tear down this wall" and shoving it back in Trump's face. Given that he needs to take the mantle of Reagan to gain legitimacy on the right, it's smart imo.

Protest sick burn signs are overall on point today. Mission Accomplished, ladies.

stone cold posted:

I liked the kids with the my two mom signs

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Yes please do! I read a ton about archaeology and one thing I read lately talked about how sexist assumptions work their way into interpretations of what objects were for or art was depicting. Female figures are always "fertility" figures, any skeleton buried with weapons was a man, etc. Do you know anything about that?

Lightning Knight posted:

This machine kills fascists.

Defenestration posted:

Looks to me like Antarctica had signs

https://twitter.com/Pecator/status/822895211076521984

unless you were referring to somewhere else?

Dave Grool posted:

Relative made a thing in support of the Women's March:

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Depends on what you mean by "actual evidence." Women talking about their bodies and experiences tends to be confined to anecdotes, because men and the institutions they control are dismissive or outright hostile to them. Until there's a court case or something you're not going to get much more than women saying "yeah that happened to me." Men can always reflexively say "no it didn't" so it just comes down to who you're more inclined to listen to.

The Insect Court posted:

So, no, in other words.

Given the very real existence of misogyny in certain aspects of healthcare, why double down on an urban legend? It doesn't even make sense physiologically, much less as a supposed routine medical practice that would in reality get any doctor attempting it fired and disbarred as well as almost certainly sued for malpractice.

quote:

More urgent than the problem of Pussygate for many white Americans, evangelical and not, was the problem of Eve, the original signifyin’ woman, and her 21st-century avatar, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the hefty catalog of misogynistic expression in the 2016 presidential campaign, the most determinative may well have been the Eve narrative in the collective unconscious: Whether the topic was Benghazi attacks or Clinton’s email server or the state of her health, the message, as conveyed by the Trump campaign, the Republican Congress, and the mainstream media, was that Clinton was hiding something. If you took a bite of the apple she offered you, you were doomed, forever expelled from Paradise.

Never mind that Trump, with his business holdings all over the world, refused to release his tax returns. Never mind that Trump told lie after lie—and made outlandish campaign promises that even his voters didn’t believe. Because he is a male politician, allowances were made, and because he is Trump, even more. As a white man who is clearly the head of his family, whose family-run business operates on a patriarchal model, Trump is a hero in the eyes of key demographic groups in white America.

Oracle posted:

Its the misogyny, stupid is an American Prospect article on the recent election that had this little tidbit I hadn't even thought of:
There's more, but given the few evangelicals I have friended on Facebook, certain things they've said are seen in a new light.

Grognan posted:

lol christ, some of the worst things that you are saying that happens has no evidence except that the Patriarchy suppresses it. Have you considered that perhaps this does not happen? Like literally saying that any detractors are part of an overwhelming conspiracy, even if they do not know it? You got more in common with 9/11 was an inside job compared to any movement that exists.

wait for me to be actioned, because I disparage and discount a viewpoint. Not because of the identity of the person but because they are asserting some really crazy poo poo.

Please Slashie, I am sure there are boards you DO have mod status on. go there.

quote:

A 2016 investigation conducted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution analyzed public records from the last two decades and found more than 3,100 doctors nationwide had been publicly disciplined after accusations of sexual misconduct. It also found many violations were never reported publicly or uncovered by state medical boards.

RAINN and Women’s Health Magazine surveyed nearly 500 women and found reports of sexual misconduct by a doctor — reported by 27 percent of the women — ranged from inappropriate touching and sexual comments to masturbation during an exam and rape.

Grognan posted:

I was talking about the "daddy stitch" you sociopathic person. The thing that she could not prove but retreated to "oh well there is no evidence because the patriarchy"

SMGFTB


Stonecold you are psychotically bent on your justifications of your beliefs.

I like that you posted links that have nothing to do with TB's claims.

quote:

Vaginal tightening surgery has been around since the mid fifties, where gynecologists used to tighten the entrance of a woman's vagina with an extra stitch while repairing vaginal and perineum tears or episiotomies after giving birth. At that time it was notoriously known as the “husband's stitch,” the “husband's knot,” or the “vaginal tuck,” and doctors discreetly referred to this procedure as “improving a woman's well-being.”

The goal of these procedures is to reconstruct (or to narrow) the lower third of the vagina, which includes “the orgasmic platform, internal and external vaginal diameter (introitus) and the perineal body.” The procedure enhances vaginal muscle tone strength and control, and decreases internal and external vaginal diameters. Women choosing to have their vaginas tightened are generally healthy women without true functional disorders. In vaginal tightening procedures, portions of mucosa are excised from the vaginal fornices (via scalpel, needle electrode, or laser) to surgically “tighten” the lower third of the vagina. Presently there is no standardization of this procedure: It can be an anterior colporrhaphy, a high-posterior colporrhaphy, an excision of lateral vaginal mucosa, or a combination.

Grognan posted:

The fact that a rich, white, traditionally male profession, that abuses people that try to break into it is totally a thing. That is completely america. Please have some sources before gossip-level abuses are a thing.

Grognan posted:

I was talking about the "daddy stitch" you sociopathic person. The thing that she could not prove but retreated to "oh well there is no evidence because the patriarchy"

SMGFTB


Stonecold you are psychotically bent on your justifications of your beliefs.

I like that you posted links that have nothing to do with TB's claims.

Defenestration posted:

https://twitter.com/alexia/status/823004763835011073

Grognan posted:

LOL reading those articles, this is not a thing that happens in first world countries and you are still psychotically doing your clam tickle thing.

I am guessing you want a space that you feel safe from criticism but we actually read the studies here.

Or more accurately you want a space that you can rage against an acceptable enemy without introspection. I am sure you can make a sub-Reddit but it would not have the audience you want.

Please make up more things about me that justify not listening to me.

Crain posted:

Dude, this is getting sociopathic. Like John Hinckley trying to impress an underaged Jodie Foster crazy.

It is actually possible to talk with people without acting like this.

Seek help.

Grognan posted:

Thanks for trying to portray criticism as mental illness, I am sure that will warm the hearts of the people you are shielding.

MariusLecter posted:

What are you even trying to say grognan? Could you please take the time to articulate your thoughts in a coherent manner?

Grognan posted:

LOL reading those articles, this is not a thing that happens in first world countries and you are still psychotically doing your clam tickle thing.

I am guessing you want a space that you feel safe from criticism but we actually read the studies here.

Or more accurately you want a space that you can rage against an acceptable enemy without introspection. I am sure you can make a sub-Reddit but it would not have the audience you want.

Please make up more things about me that justify not listening to me.

Grognan posted:

LOL reading those articles, this is not a thing that happens in first world countries and you are still psychotically doing your clam tickle thing.

I am guessing you want a space that you feel safe from criticism but we actually read the studies here.

Or more accurately you want a space that you can rage against an acceptable enemy without introspection. I am sure you can make a sub-Reddit but it would not have the audience you want.

Please make up more things about me that justify not listening to me.

blackguy32 posted:

First off, episiotomiesshould be really rare because they can prolong healing, increase rate of infection and aren't really all that beneficial. But they are still being done.

Second, plenty of episiotomies are done without the woman's consent simply because it's easier.

Third, there are multiple types of data aside from objective data.

quote:

A large population-based study from Canada found that the risk of severe maternal morbidities––defined as hemorrhage that requires hysterectomy or transfusion, uterine rupture, anesthetic complications, shock, cardiac arrest, acute renal failure, assisted ventilation, venous thromboembolism, major infection, or in-hospital wound disruption or hematoma––was increased threefold for cesarean delivery as compared with vaginal delivery (2.7% versus 0.9%, respectively) (7). There also are concerns regarding the long-term risks associated with cesarean delivery, particularly those associated with subsequent pregnancies. The incidence of placental abnormalities, such as placenta previa, in future pregnancies increases with each subsequent cesarean delivery, from 1% with one prior cesarean delivery to almost 3% with three or more prior cesarean deliveries.

stone cold posted:

You're dumb.