Posted on September 18, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Yes, I know the article is a week old. I’ve been out of the loop. Shoot me.
Maersk promotes female managers
The number of women in top level positions is set to increase significantly in the next five years
The country’s largest company, A.P.Moller-Maersk, has committed to having more female managers within five years.
The company is one of [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
From the sometimes strange and sometimes frightening list of search terms that bring people to this blog I have drawn these little tidbits.
woman wants breast reduction
That one appears rather neutral. No problem there. But then the ‘fun’ starts.
breast reductions are bullshit
why women should not get breast reductions
how to talk a girl out of breast reduction
breast [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
I wish I could be surprised. I really do. But I’m not.
I haven’t been able to find this piece of news in the English news sources from Denmark, so you’ll just have to make do with a link to a Danish news source and my post here.
A trans woman was arrested, the news story doesn’t [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Laurelin:
if you are a consumer of pornography, you have a vested interest in it, you benefit from it, and therefore your word on how wonderful and harmless it is is seriously compromised.
And:
Survivors of sexual violence have a vested interest in opposing pornography. Without it, they would benefit from not having their abuse shown over and [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
If the situation is in no other way threatening to anyone, then, telling a person that you will not do X, will make that person think that X is exactly, what you’re planning to do.
Example from the other day: Early in the morning I drive my boyfriend to work, ’cause I need to car myself [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
From the Copenhagen Post:
A Jutland couple who made money from allowing men to have sex with two foreign teens living with them had their sentence extended
The Western High Court in Århus today upheld the guilty sentence of a man and woman sentenced to prison for keeping two teenage Slovakian girls in their house as sex [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
From News24.com
Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country’s eastern region, the president said in a statement on Friday.
“The way God made it, there is no part of a human body that is useless,” President Yoweri Museveni told a gathering in the eastern Karamoja district.
“Now [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Is not the big thing among bigots. See, I wrote this post about who’s angry, about Guy White and his complete ignorance on the study he referred to, his ignorane on evo psych, on biology, on sociology etc etc. He did not even allow a pingback to his post. Instead he posted a comment containing [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
And I’m not even kidding. A google search for Simona Halep, a Romanian tennis player, will drag out enough muck that I won’t be linking any of it here. Most of them are writing the same thing anyway. I’ve found you a few choice quotes, though, especially the response to Halep’s own statement, which I [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
WordPress has this lovely feature called tag surfer. I’ve found some wonderful blogs that way, and sometimes I find some less fantastic ones. A few days ago I found yet another post by an angry white male, who absolutely denies any white male anger to ever have existed. He’s not angry. Nope. Never. No, he [...]
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