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fuckyeahfeminists: rhrealitycheck: Did you know that pregnant women have been fired for using the bathroom to vomit, needing to carry a water bottle on the job, or asking to sit on a stool instead of standing in place all day? While employers have to make allowances like these for other types of temporary disabilities, a number of bad court decisions have encouraged them to feel they can get away with firing or mistreating pregnant workers with impunity. It’s disgraceful and unacceptable that at a time when unnecessary budget cuts are decimating food, medical, and educational supports for low-income families, pregnant women continue to be pushed out of their jobs just as they take on all the expenses of having a new baby. Read more about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Actand take action by contacting your congressperson. This is unacceptable. Pregnant workers need more protection. With a child coming up they need employment more than ever. Please contact your rep.
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fuckyeahfeminists:

rhrealitycheck:

Did you know that pregnant women have been fired for using the bathroom to vomit, needing to carry a water bottle on the job, or asking to sit on a stool instead of standing in place all day? While employers have to make allowances like these for other types of temporary disabilities, a number of bad court decisions have encouraged them to feel they can get away with firing or mistreating pregnant workers with impunity.

It’s disgraceful and unacceptable that at a time when unnecessary budget cuts are decimating food, medical, and educational supports for low-income families, pregnant women continue to be pushed out of their jobs just as they take on all the expenses of having a new baby.

Read more about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
and take action by contacting your congressperson.

This is unacceptable. Pregnant workers need more protection. With a child coming up they need employment more than ever. Please contact your rep.

(Source: action.rhrealitycheck.org)

theyalwayswantyoutoproveit: futurejournalismproject: White Men, Everyone Else: Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Media Matters spent the month of April reviewing evening guests on cable news. The results, unfortunately, don’t surprise: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC “overwhelmingly host male and white guests.” Read through for the details as the watchdog group breaks down the numbers for each network. We learn, for instance, that “Out of 1,677 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April;” and “Fox News had the largest proportion of white guests — 83 percent.” Hat tip to Chris Hayes, whose show is the most diverse in cable evening news. And getting there isn’t very difficult. “We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more,’” Hayes told Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review back in March. “Really, that was it.” Images: Diversity On Evening Cable News, via Media Matters. Select to embiggen. and at the end of the day, native people and other genders still don’t exist.
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theyalwayswantyoutoproveit: futurejournalismproject: White Men, Everyone Else: Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Media Matters spent the month of April reviewing evening guests on cable news. The results, unfortunately, don’t surprise: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC “overwhelmingly host male and white guests.” Read through for the details as the watchdog group breaks down the numbers for each network. We learn, for instance, that “Out of 1,677 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April;” and “Fox News had the largest proportion of white guests — 83 percent.” Hat tip to Chris Hayes, whose show is the most diverse in cable evening news. And getting there isn’t very difficult. “We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more,’” Hayes told Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review back in March. “Really, that was it.” Images: Diversity On Evening Cable News, via Media Matters. Select to embiggen. and at the end of the day, native people and other genders still don’t exist.
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theyalwayswantyoutoproveit: futurejournalismproject: White Men, Everyone Else: Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Media Matters spent the month of April reviewing evening guests on cable news. The results, unfortunately, don’t surprise: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC “overwhelmingly host male and white guests.” Read through for the details as the watchdog group breaks down the numbers for each network. We learn, for instance, that “Out of 1,677 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April;” and “Fox News had the largest proportion of white guests — 83 percent.” Hat tip to Chris Hayes, whose show is the most diverse in cable evening news. And getting there isn’t very difficult. “We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more,’” Hayes told Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review back in March. “Really, that was it.” Images: Diversity On Evening Cable News, via Media Matters. Select to embiggen. and at the end of the day, native people and other genders still don’t exist.
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theyalwayswantyoutoproveit:

futurejournalismproject:

White Men, Everyone Else: Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News

Media Matters spent the month of April reviewing evening guests on cable news. The results, unfortunately, don’t surprise: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC “overwhelmingly host male and white guests.”

Read through for the details as the watchdog group breaks down the numbers for each network. We learn, for instance, that “Out of 1,677 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April;” and “Fox News had the largest proportion of white guests — 83 percent.”

Hat tip to Chris Hayes, whose show is the most diverse in cable evening news. And getting there isn’t very difficult. “We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more,’” Hayes told Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review back in March. “Really, that was it.”

Images: Diversity On Evening Cable News, via Media Matters. Select to embiggen.

and at the end of the day, native people and other genders still don’t exist.

Okay, guy, so why do you feel like you want/need/deserve to settle down with a “pure” woman? I’m genuinely listening. “Oh, it’s because sluts are gross.” Too vague. Do better. “Well, their vaginas are real stretched out and big.” No. “Ummmmm, they probably have a bunch of diseases?” Easy fix! Setting aside the fact that plenty of women contract STIs from monogamous partners or during “safe sex,” it sounds like your real problem here is with illness, not sex. So I assume you’d be fine dating a promiscuous woman who practiced safe sex and happened to be STI-free? “No, because I want a girl who’s traditional and family-oriented.” Having sex doesn’t mean you don’t want to have a family. It just means that you want to have sex. “Yeah, but a slut is more likely to cheat on me.” Really? Then why do couples in the Bible Belt have such a high divorce rate? “The devil, I guess?” NOPE. “I just can’t stand the thought of her getting fucked by all those other guys.” So you’re about to have sex with a woman you’re attracted to, you really want to have sex with her, but all you can think about is her getting pounded by tons and tons of dicks? That sounds like an entirely different issue. “No! I just mean that I struggle with the same powerlessness and insecurity that all human beings do, so as a coping mechanism I take advantage of our culture’s patriarchal power structure and exorcize my feelings of worthlessness by perpetuating shame-based proprietary attitudes over women’s bodies. Basically I’m obsessed with controlling women’s lives because I can’t control my own.” Oh, honey. I know.

Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit

Hitting the bullshit nail right on its head. 

Feminists don’t hate men, we hate the bullshit power structure that exists that allows men to take advantage of women rather than dealing with their emotions. 

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deafmuslimpunx: tranqualizer: [photo: light skinned latino man facing the viewer and smiling at the camera. Jorge is standing on concrete and behind him are rocks and forest. he is wearing a brown and gray t shirt, text on it reads, “no more mr. nice guy.” he is wearing blue jeans and a back pack. the straps are black with a strip of red.] ereyes312: sulitati: For everybody in southern Arizona and Texas: Jorge was abandoned by his guide in the beginning of May while crossing north. He had been vomiting and had severe abdominal cramping. His full name is Jorge Humberto Menjivar Guardado. He is 40 years old. He left El Salvador on April 5 and stayed in Reynosa until April 29.  His family says he was headed to Houston, Texas. No one has had word of him since he left Reynosa. Please share this information with anyone who might be able to help, especially if you are near the border region. If you see him or hear anything about him, please call: The Mexican Consulate in Tucson (if found in AZ): @ 520-882-5595 or 520-623-7928 Consulate in Brownsville, Texas @ 512-882-3375 Consulate in Del Rio, Texas @ 830-775-2352 Consulate in El Paso @ 915-533-3644 I live in the border region near Brownsville.  I’ll keep an eye out for ‘im. I hope and pray he is fine, and will be back home safe with his family.
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deafmuslimpunx:

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[photo: light skinned latino man facing the viewer and smiling at the camera. Jorge is standing on concrete and behind him are rocks and forest. he is wearing a brown and gray t shirt, text on it reads, “no more mr. nice guy.” he is wearing blue jeans and a back pack. the straps are black with a strip of red.]

ereyes312:

sulitati:

For everybody in southern Arizona and Texas:

Jorge was abandoned by his guide in the beginning of May while crossing north. He had been vomiting and had severe abdominal cramping. His full name is Jorge Humberto Menjivar Guardado. He is 40 years old.

He left El Salvador on April 5 and stayed in Reynosa until April 29.  His family says he was headed to Houston, Texas.

No one has had word of him since he left Reynosa.

Please share this information with anyone who might be able to help, especially if you are near the border region.

If you see him or hear anything about him, please call:

  • The Mexican Consulate in Tucson (if found in AZ): @ 520-882-5595 or 520-623-7928
  • Consulate in Brownsville, Texas @ 512-882-3375
  • Consulate in Del Rio, Texas @ 830-775-2352
  • Consulate in El Paso @ 915-533-3644

I live in the border region near Brownsville.  I’ll keep an eye out for ‘im.

I hope and pray he is fine, and will be back home safe with his family.

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