I'm willing to bet the people in charge were men.

[gynocide.livejournal.com]

Two teenage girls jailed overnight by Cape Breton regional police were denied tampons or pads and forced to attend court the next day in blood-soaked jeans.

From My Journal...

[cutekelliekitte.livejournal.com]

There is a chauvinistic community that has risen lately. I'm not quite positive if the owner has good intentions or not. Sometimes I would say yes, and sometimes, no I think he's a pig. He even honored someone who's journal I used to read and stopped because it became apparent it was difficult for him to respect women above the realm of objectification....which is one of my MAJOR pet peeves.

Anyway, the discussion came about that the feminists of another community needed to get L.A.Y.ed (learn about Y-chromosomes). Apparently they thought the community (which I recently joined) was all about man-bashing, which it is not nor are the other 4 feminist communities I belong to. They are about awareness and equality. Every now and then you get someone who is misinformed, but someone usually shows them the light, nd all is well.

Guy and girls, please learn - A FEMINIST IS NOT A BAD THING - NOT A MONSTER OR MAN HATER.

After my rape, I went through a phase where I let men use me easily - a way to punish myself. Then, I grew to hate men because of it. Yet, I was a child....uneducated, immature. And that is what feminism looks to squash - not egos, well unless they are inflated to an unhealthy level - we look to squash misinformation about women and immaturity at the way we are looked at and sometimes treated. It doesn't feel good to be treated like a piece of meat, I know.

So, if you are a man, please hear me. Hear what I am trying to say. I am just one person, but if I reach you - thats one person more. Love you feminist friends - please don't call us "feminazis" I hate that. That is such an insult to me. If you know me, you know I love guys, especially my boyfriend. Most of my friends are guys - they are just the guys that could see past my physical and love me for who I really am. Forget what God gave...I'm greatful yes, but I didn't have anything to do with it.

What I do control is who I am, how I hold myself, and how I treat others. I ask you please to realize this is true of all humans - male and female. There is no need for hate. All we ask is respect - we respect you...please respect us.

We can't control the fact that you can tell our breast size by looking at us. I bet most of you wouldn't walk around as proud as you do if we could tell your penis size and made a habit of gawking at the big ones and making fun of the lesser ones. Is that really fair? No.

So, yes, I have embarked on a journey to understand the male sex to the best of my capabilities. I feel this will nurish me and my relationships with everyone. All I ask, is that if you read this, you strive to be the respectable, beautiful, wonderful human that your girlfriend, sister, mom, and/or grandmother love.

And I will love you too.

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[erinpinkhair.livejournal.com]

I'm having my first girl doctor appt and I'm scared to death. First of all, the gal gyno is on vacation this week so I've got the boy. I am not comfortable at all with having a boy look at me *down there*, and I also believe that a gal would better cause em, well.. she has a vagina.

So what can I expect? I'm also planning on going on the pill (the main reason for this appt). I was just wondering if there are any questions I should ask while here, or is everything pretty self-explainatory?

Again, this is my first time, I'm 19, and I'm scared to death.. my mom refuses to come with me.

who says we've come a long way, baby?

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

why you can't use the word "vagina" on the morning news in San Fransisco.

"When you know there are children watching, you treat the news differently. It's not about censorship. I've talked to my staff about not showing any explicit violence in the morning show, blood stains, things like that. So it's not just about the use of certain words." -- Andrew Finlayson, news director KTVU.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/02/19/ED62608.DTL

what really offended me was the fact that the WORD is synonymous in this man's eyes with explicit violence and blood stains to this guy. the people who have made a link between vaginas and violence are men... the word is only objectionable or uncomfortable because people like that moron make it that way. goddess forbid that children hear the proper word for a woman's inner genitalia. i'm sure this guy's kids already know the word cunt.

thanks to mactavish for the link.

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[suu.livejournal.com]

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2002/02/02-19-02tdc/02-19-02dops-letter-02.asp

penn state's paper.
disturbs me.