WHO GETS TO VOTE? In the summer of 1920, local residents disputed the merits and perceived risks associated with the passage of the 19th Amendment. Racism, rather than sexism, was a key factor on both sides of the argument. This composite image is not meant to suggest all women suffragists aligned with white supremacy ideology but is meant to convey the influence of white supremacy among some involved in the women’s movement. Klan photo courtesy of Buncombe County Special Collections; women’s suffragist photo courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina
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I'm sure that the Asheville and NC experience was not unique.
The short haircut of South Korean archer An San, who has won two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, has attracted anti-feminist sentiment at home.
Online abuse, calling her hairstyle "feminist", comes against a backdrop of rising anti-feminist sentiment among South Korean young men....
Growing animosity toward feminism and public policy to promote women's rights has become a hot topic in South Korea.
Some South Korean politicians and celebrities posted messages and their own short-hair photos to support An.
"With that firm look, please shoot through every prejudice in the world. We stand by your short-cut hair and support you," Sim Sang-jung, a lawmaker from a minority Justice Party, said in a tweet.
Another post urged people to call the Korea Archery Association to defend An from online hatred.
I'll bet that not a single one of those anti-feminist South Korean young "men" would dare dis her from within 70 meters.
After the investigation led by New York Attorney General Letitia James and following action by:
New York State Senate Temporary President/Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins
New York State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes
and others, the state’s first female governor will be Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul.
After a Texas law restricting abortion went into effect Wednesday, the state’s largest anti-abortion group publicized a website that invited citizens to inform on the law’s violators.
The website, prolifewhistleblower.com, which was set up by the group Texas Right to Life, was designed to help carry out the new law. That’s because the law places enforcement not in the hands of state officials but with private citizens, who are deputized to sue anyone who performs or aids an abortion in violation of the law.
Tips about the law’s potential offenders quickly flooded into the website, which features an online form so people can anonymously submit reports of those who are illegally obtaining or facilitating abortions.
But some of the tips were a little unexpected.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was a leading proponent of the abortion law, was a violator, according to some of the tips. The fictional characters from Marvel’s Avengers were also apparently seeking abortions, the reports said. Other tips did not point to individuals but instead contained copies of the entire script to the 2007 animated film “Bee Movie.”
I tried to submit a tip, but:
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... These techniques, known as “hacktivism,” have become increasingly prevalent. Last year, TikTok teens and fans of Korean pop music inundated a rally website for former President Donald Trump with fake registrations — and then never showed up, leaving thousands of seats conspicuously empty. Anonymous, the loose hacking collective, has protested policies from the Vatican, the CIA and others by flooding their websites with junk traffic to try to force them offline....
One posted a screenshot on Reddit of a fake report that pointed to some of Marvel’s Avengers as abortion seekers. On Twitter, people posted screenshots of other fake tips. One user sarcastically reported that he wanted to retroactively abort his 30-year-old son who apparently wouldn’t leave the house.
Others on Twitter called for a boycott of GoDaddy, the company that hosts the Texas Right to Life tip site. They said the site violated GoDaddy’s rules that prohibit customers from collecting or harvesting nonpublic information about anyone without their “prior written consent.”
GoDaddy said late Thursday that it had given Texas Right to Life 24 hours to find a new hosting provider before cutting off service.
“We have informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have 24 hours to move to another provider for violating our terms of service,” Dan C. Race, a GoDaddy spokesperson, said in an email.
By Friday afternoon, some people were having trouble submitting tips to the website using the form. Others reported seeing a GoDaddy firewall page instead of the profilewhistleblower.com site.
... “Imagine being a pregnant woman trying to get a healthcare appointment and not knowing if your driver will cancel on you for fear of breaking a law,” Lyft CEO Logan Green wrote. On September 3, he tweeted that Lyft would not be bending to this archaic law. “TX SB8 threatens to punish drivers for getting people where they need to go— especially women exercising their right to choose. @Lyft has created a Driver Legal Defense Fund to cover 100% of legal fees for drivers sued under SB8 while driving on our platform.” He also added that the company would be donating $1 million to Planned Parenthood.
His call to action from other companies quick took hold. Just over an hour after Green’s announcement, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi quote-tweeted him and added, “drivers shouldn’t be put at risk for getting people where they want to go. Team @Uber is in too and will cover legal fees in the same way. Thanks for the push.” ...
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... GoDaddy said late Thursday that it had given Texas Right to Life 24 hours to find a new hosting provider before cutting off service.
“We have informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have 24 hours to move to another provider for violating our terms of service,” Dan C. Race, a GoDaddy spokesperson, said in an email.
By Friday afternoon, some people were having trouble submitting tips to the website using the form. Others reported seeing a GoDaddy firewall page instead of the profilewhistleblower.com site.
prolifewhistleblower.com now just links to the Texas Right to Life home page.
The snitch group out its own employees and prospects:
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a state on the Texas border — that had made abortion a criminal act.
The decision will immediately affect only the northern border state, but it establishes a historic precedent and “obligatory criteria for all of the country’s judges,” compelling them to act the same way in similar cases, said court President Arturo Zaldívar. “From now on you will not be able to, without violating the court's criteria and the constitution, charge any woman who aborts under the circumstances this court has ruled as valid.”
Those circumstances will be clarified when the decision is published, but everything points to that referring to abortions carried out within the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy, the period allowed in the four states where abortion is already legal....
The CEO of video game developer Tripwire Interactive is out after taking to Twitter two days ago to give full-throated support to the controversial Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
John Gibson has stepped down after his comments caused an uproar on Twitter and throughout the industry.
Tripwire announced Gibson’s departure on Labor Day, saying, “The comments given by John Gibson are of his own opinion, and do not reflect those of Tripwire Interactive as a company. His comments disregarded the values of our whole team, our partners, and much of our broader community. Our leadership team at Tripwire are deeply sorry and are unified in our commitment to take swift action and to foster a more positive environment.” ...
Has anyone caught any of the women gymnasts testifying in Congress today?
Jesus fuck, they're brave!
I saw a couple of clips of it on ABC news last night. They also showed the FBI director apologizing for the bureau's lack of timely action on their behalf. The only part of any of it I didn't like was how some of the girls seemed to have really long fake eyelashes. Aly Raisman was not one of them, though.
I'm sure that the Asheville and NC experience was not unique.
Not to mention Harvey Keitel's father in the dark robe.
The snitch group out its own employees and prospects:
