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An estimated 10,000 activists flooded the streets of Dublin on Saturday to protest Ireland’s stringent abortion policies. The predominantly Catholic country has a total ban on all abortion services, with a narrow exception in cases where a pregnancy may threaten a woman’s life. But the recent death of Savita Halappanavar — the 31-year-old Indian woman who died of blood poisoning after an Irish hospital refused to terminate her pregnancy — highlights the fact that women in Ireland struggle to access reproductive health services even when their lives may be at stake. Halappanavar’s tragic story is quickly becoming an international controversy, prompting the Irish government to promise to reexamine its abortion policy.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets today with signs and banners bearing Halappanavar’s image, vowing that the tragic events of her death will “never again” happen in their country (all images via Broadsheet)
This is incredible.
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OHMYGOD.
Why would there be a bottle of wine on the stove?!
WTF Barbie you can’t use a cutting board for a bulletin board
BARBIE! you should know better than to leave a cheese grater on the edge of the fridge! someone could get hurt!
Um, okay, DOES NO ONE REALIZE THAT BARBIE is cleaning her kitchen floor with a garden hose? Get it together, Barbie.
OH MY GOD BARBIE! ARE YOU JUST GOING TO LEAVE THOSE DIRTY DISHES IN YOUR SINK? SERIOUSLY GET IT TOGETHER BARBIE!
…Seriously?
People. Wow. Open your EYES.
Is NOBODY going to point out how Barbie is CLEANING HER FLOOR
IN
WHITE
PANTS???
CLOSE THE DAMN REFRIGERATOR! YOUR LETTING ALL THGE COLD OUT!
Barbie, seriously? The blender on top of the fridge? You could get hurt!!1
Guys for the love of god how can you not notice the freaking rat next to the fridge?! WTF Barbie? Clean your house more often, would ya?
Barbie, who the hell puts a calculator on their fridge. COME ON! GET WITH THE TIMES!
I love how everyone pretends not to notice the toaster next to the sink. BARBIE! YOU COULD GET ELECTROCUTED IF THAT FELL IN! GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER GURL!
Is no one gonna point it out? Seriously? NO ONE! Jesus Christ, there’s a fucking plant pot hanging over the edge of the shelf on the side. If that falls off number one, the pot is metal so that could smash your toes Barbie, and number two, if it falls all those years of hard work growing will be ruined, RUINED!! Phew! I’m glad I got that out, you really shouldn’t let things like that go un-missed…it’s a hazard.
why does no one realize she’s cleaning the floor with a sponge. This is 2012, not 200 BC. THEY MAKE MOPS FOR A REASON GOD DAMMIT!
can we just talk about how she’s using COMMON DISH SOAP to get out the stains? Barb that’s gonna need some serious bleach who taught you to clean. Those are HARDWOOD FLOORS, Barbie
I can’t stop laughing at the posts in this thread.
(Source: fantasising-about-escape)
On your first date, do not hand him your vagina, polished and thirsty.
Do not allow him to rub your back or your shoulders.
Do not overdrink.
When he offers to come home with you, do not think of your ex-lover’s chest.
How it peeked from behind the open neck of a pressed J. Crew buttondown.
How you still masturbate to this.
Over dessert, do not think how smooth this man’s thighs will be.
Do not think how lovely their dark will lay against your sheets.
Do not ask to touch during sleep, it smells like love
and you have a suitcase to unpack.
You have laundry and dishes and a dog to walk. You are busy. Stay busy.
Don’t muddy your days with honey whiskey.
When the boy at the club buys you a beer, yanks you hard
from your disappearing waist, remember you owe no one.
Even if he is all your favorite music.
Keep your tongue inside your mouth.
Stop his wandering hand even if it’s the only thing good in New York City tonight.
Say no. When your boss suggests you meet Nate from Accounting
who is recently divorced, say no. Say bones break. Say love is expensive.
Remind him you have a dog and no time. You’re busy.
When a friend explains, women have children at 45 these days, girl,
you’re good, smile. She is lying.
Press her rosewater skin under your nose. Press hard.
Pretend it is the skin of a newborn. Steal this moment. She won’t mind.
When Friday finally arrives and your friends leave early, let them go.
Keep your tab open. The bar has been your longest friend.
Churns out warm bodies like a factory.
When the bar closes, remember you are busy. It’s time to walk the dog.
When you dress for your first date in two years, don’t call it date. Call it friend.
Do not let him pay. Share a bottle of your favorite wine, you deserve this.
When the wine makes words slippery as butter, tell him everything you shouldn’t.
Your diagnoses, how you have no insurance.
Count for him all the men you used to escape your husband.
The time you almost got a boyfriend arrested on West 4th Street.
The tryst with a colleague. Describe the miscarriage at 13. Abortion at 25.
The train engineer you fucked in Penn Station, how his son had Leukemia.
Tell how you waited six hours at a roof party
in Brooklyn one summer just to take the drummer home.
How you ran into that drummer weeks later and couldn’t recall his name.
Carefully detail your unending appetite for drink/fuck/fight,
everything nasty you keep under your skin. Do it precise. Calm.
When he runs from this quiet grenade, find the bar.
Tell yourself you did it for his sake. Besides, you’re busy.
Smoke another cigarette. Take another honey whiskey. Let it curdle your face.
You haven’t been beautiful in years.
Re: The Jane Goodall Quote
I’m a primatologist and I’ll do my best to answer this question, but it is one that is highly debated within the field. I will give you all my take on it.
So the issue with calling any sexual or copulatory behavior that nonhuman primates including chimpanzees and orangutans (often also cited as having “rape” behaviors) participate in “rape” is that it is simultaneously projecting human morality and values onto an animal’s behavior as well as downplaying what rape really is in humans. Saying that chimpanzees or any other animal rapes is anthropomorphizing them; we are placing our values, behaviors, thoughts and morals onto their actions. And by saying it is a “natural” behavior in any animal does a disservice to any human being that is raped; a rape is not just an act of physical gratification for the rapist, but one that involves an extremely complex web of social and power dynamics.
We cannot know, generally, if a nonhuman primate or any other animal is having consensual sex because the idea of consensual sex is something that is human. Animals mate and have very complex mating behaviors that are easily seen by humans as being aggressive or violent, and by projecting the idea of rape onto those behaviors we are doing a disservice to victims of rape worldwide by equating rape with something natural.
So in this primatologist’s opinion - no, chimpanzees do not rape. Humans do.
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rice croquettes - savory fried bite size treats
Minimal Posters - Six Women Who Changed Science. And The World.
i would reblog this a million times if i could.
These would make great mini posters for my classroom.
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