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08/17/09
From the article:
"the women -- many of whom had been interned by the Nazis on the grounds they were "asozial" or anti-socia"
Read: Lesbian. Forced to have sex with men.
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08/17/09
FFS.
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08/17/09
the report really didn't offer many solutions for this *problem except maternity education. But we need a serious revamp of the sex ed programs in our schools. Serious sex ed classes, free condoms, the works. But also: after-school activities, better classroom environments, more opportunities for higher education...I feel like this is merely a symptom of some much bigger problems.
*(and I know calling this a problem might spark controversy, but I really don't think sex at that age is ever a good thing).
08/17/09
Just sad and repulsed. Especially after I interviewed college students who said they'd lost their virginity early--one as young as twelve, the median age probably being 13/14.
The girl who lost it at 12 (18 at the time of the interview)had a BIG smile on her face when I asked if she used a condom that first, "unpleasant, accidental" time (as she described it...her partner was 17) because she answered "yes" and was proud of that knowledge ( as she should have been).
Then she said she'd had an abortion earlier that year and despite feeling awful about it and remaining sexually active, she hadn't switched to the Pill, nor was she using condoms.
That is why the people who study this and take this issue seriously know that if we took comprehensive sex-ed seriously as a country it would have to be aggressive and would start in middle school...and ideally would tackle everything from rape/rape culture, peer pressure, and why pregnancy prevention/avoiding STIs (and getting tested regularly once one becomes sexually active) are all incredibly important.
08/17/09
Shocker!
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08/17/09
I'm excited to see how they play that out (much more excited to see that than any JFK reference that has been played to death). I can only imagine how politics worked when Congress was debating whether to give legal protections to minorities (women were only an afterthought), and then the workplace impact that it had after when sudden legal protections for women and minorities existed. They may not have been enforced, but I'm sure a topic of many conversations and a "problem" that businesses now had to learn how to address.
08/17/09
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08/17/09
And she got let go once because she got pregnant.
Unbelievable!!
08/17/09
08/17/09
Well, you get my point.
(And those are law firms. They dressed the dismissal up to make it look pretty, but ...)
08/17/09
08/17/09
Last year, my boss at a start up told one woman she needed to stay home and raise her babies the right way, told another he only hired women for the eye candy, called all of us sweetie, honey and sugar and then put a line in our termination contracts saying we'd lose our severance package and incur a $2000 fee if we said anything negative about him OR implied all the women in the company were fired on the same day because of any sexism on his part. If you have enough money, apparently the rules don't apply.
I'm proud to say I know just as many men who are not sexist holdovers from the fifties as are, but it's a damn shame when 50% is something to celebrate.
08/18/09
08/17/09
I will be taking notes the rest of the season to see how Peggy handles her office. Maybe I could learn a few tips from her (well, maybe not the baby-having-and-hiding part).
08/17/09
08/17/09
My boss's attitude is "be an adult, brush it off" but after awhile I get very tired of being the only adult in the room. When do I get to act like a child, huh? I call this the burden of the competent. You will always have to do more than you should, because no one else will.
08/17/09
I might be biased though, because Marriott's continental breakfast service was what kept me alive when I was snowed in at JFK with no money.
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08/17/09
Those morning sickness bags are officially the stupidest pregnancy-related product I've ever seen. And that is REALLY saying something, because pregnancy is fertile ground for stupid products.
08/17/09
Although compared to life in a concentration camp brothel...!
08/17/09
08/17/09
Immediately followed by:
A new book, Das KZ Bordell, details the horrible reality of life in concentration camp brothels. The Nazis suspected that their prisoners would work harder if they were given an incentive, so they enlisted women from the camps to work as prostitutes, which were segregated according to race and closely monitored (read: peepholes) by SS officials.
Is kind of...twisted and ironic. Please tell me the placement was an accident.
08/17/09
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