Showing posts with label Women's Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women's Rights. Show all posts

17 January 2025

Megyn Kelly Rips "Obese Lesbian" Firefighters

Megyn Kelly
Conservative commentator and former TV host Megyn Kelly had an epic rant last 14 January after she ripped into the Los Angeles Fire Department, calling for the firing of "obese lesbian" firefighters.

"I believe I speak for all females in Los Angeles when I say we want a strong man to rescue us," Kelly said on her podcast, "The Megyn Kelly Show".

10 January 2025

Social Media Relaxes Speech Restrictions Against Women

Trump and Zuckerberg
Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram have started to quietly loosened their public rules on what a few considered as 'hate speech' against transgender people, women, and immigrants as executives seek to curry favor with Donald Trump.

In an update to its hate speech policy last 7 January, spotted first by The Independent, the apps' parent company Meta deleted numerous clauses banning specific derogatory statements about protected groups, while adding detailed exceptions for anti-trans speech.

01 January 2025

Taliban Warned NGOs From Employing Women

Taliban Bans NGO Women
The Afghan Ministry of Economy has reiterated its call with authority for all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country to stop giving women jobs. This was highlighted by a statement last 29 December, where the ministry warned that any NGO that does not comply will have its activities suspended and its license revoked.

In December 2022, the Taliban authorities - who are not internationally recognized - issued a similar order, directing all NGOs to suspend the employment of female Afghan employees until further notice.

29 December 2024

The U.S. NDA Act Restricts Gender-Affirming Care

Biden Signing
President Joe Biden just signed an almost US$ 900 billion defense bill even though the bill contained a provision containing restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

The National Defense Authorization Act passed both the House and Senate in recent weeks after months of negotiating between Democrats and Republicans. One issue in the bill was a measure to ban the military’s insurance Tricare from covering some gender-affirming care treatments.

01 December 2024

Martina Navratilova: "Women Are Not Transgender Women. Just Women."

Martina Navratilova
As expected, many female sports greats, media figures, and even a conservative lawmaker tore into a recent New York Times article for referring to women as "non-transgender women."

Even Tennis legend Martina Navratilova chimed in together with other prominent people to blast the piece online for the characterization, stating the outlet should just be referring to biological women as women.

26 November 2024

A School Official Compared 'Save Girls Sports' Shirt To Swastika

Save Girl Sports
There are two high school cross-country runners and their families that plans to sue a California school district, alleging their "Save Girls Sports" T-shirts were likened by the school officials to a swastika.

Plaintiffs Kaitlyn and Taylor, two athletes at Martin Luther King High School in ninth and eleventh grade, respectively, wore T-shirts bearing the messages "Save Girls’ Sports" and "It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY."

21 November 2024

J.K. Rowling Showed 'Evidence' That Trans Athletes Threaten Girls

Rowling-Oliver
When HBO’s John Oliver claimed over his recent monologue that there are no evidences that transgender athletes or biological men have no advantage over biological females, everyone knows that it is bound to get lambasted.

It was just not expected that the "Harry Potter" author was one of those who responed to the "Last Week Tonight" host’s tirade.

02 November 2024

Taliban Imposes Law That Stifles Further Women's Voices

Afghan Women
The Taliban government in Afghanistan continue to supress women's rights with another Islamic rule that banned women from hearing other women’s voices.

In a scathing news last 28 October, the country’s minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice announced the bizarre new restriction on women’s behaviour.

14 October 2024

Wales Man Abused And Denied Toilet Access By Female Partner

Wales Man
Spousal abuse can take on many forms and one of them is a male domestic abuse. This was experienced first hand by a man who was kicked and punched, made to sleep on the floor and refused access to a toilet by his abusive ex-girlfriend.

Gareth Jones, 41, told news outlets that it took more than a year of therapy to begin to recover from months of emotional and physical abuse from a woman he met online in July 2021.

01 October 2024

A Complicated Study of Women's Productivity

Women Productivity
A study in the U.S. from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis a few years ago looked into how having a family affects women and men. As it turns out, it's really complicated than what was initially expected.

The study focuses on academic economists and finds that moms are more productive than non-moms throughout their careers. But having a kid at the wrong time — or alone — or having too many kids — can make a mother far, far less productive.

27 September 2024

Feminists Are Confused About Women With Sexy Bodies

EmRat Bikini
The series of photos that Emily Ratajkowski posted a few years ago of herself on Instagram, wearing a red bikini on a yacht in the French Riviera, seem to be part of her campaign of defining feminism. As she states in a pinned tweet on Twitter, "women choosing when and how they want to share their sexuality and bodies."

However, for many feminists, the aggressively sexual posturing seemed explicitly for the male gaze only. The unattractive fighters of the so-called "women equality" believes that EmRat's super sexy body only reinforce the strict set of norms long-associated with the presentation of feminine identity and female sexuality rooted not in women’s empowerment, but in what men want.

26 September 2024

"Darlington Five" Continues Fight For Women's Changing Room

Darlington Five
The five NHS nurses, dubbed as the "Darlington Five", have raised women's rights against their employers as they were forced out of their changing rooms after complaining about a trans colleague.

The group of five at Darlington Memorial Hospital launched a legal case last June alleging sexual harassment against their employer, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

15 September 2024

Legislation Encourages Car Tech To Address Domestic Abuse

Car Technology
Californian lawmakers want to enhance protection for women who are victims of domestic abuse. They just endorsed a state proposal that requires automakers selling internet-connected cars to do more to protect women survivors.

As automakers add ever more sophisticated technology to their cars, instances of stalking and harassment using features such as location tracking and remote controls have begun to emerge.

06 August 2024

Queen of TradWives Corrected the Wrong Impression Of Her

Queen of TradWives
The name Hannah Neeleman is becoming famous and trending in my many platforms. Hannah is a Mormon influencer known as Ballerina Farm and also referred t as the Queen of Traditional Wives (tradwife).

The 34-year-old has eight children and competes in beauty pageants. Her social media accounts reference the intense ballet training she experienced at the Juilliard School and the Utah farm she runs with her husband. Onlookers frequently debate whether Hannah should be praised or criticized for the perfectly manicured life she has been broadcasting online for nearly a decade.

01 August 2024

"Tradwife" is Trending and Gaining More Followers

Tradwife Trend
Internet memes and Social media trends come and go, but few have had the consistently polarizing holding power of the tradwife.

The term, which has garnered significant social media traction in recent months, is shorthand for "traditional wife" and most broadly refers to a woman who practices conventional gender roles within a relationship. On TikTok and Instagram, however, the trend has manifested through popular content creators who've gained large followings by showing off their lives as homemakers, from their elaborate homemade meals to their 1950s-inspired wardrobes.

04 July 2024

World Athletics Finally Decided to 'Maintain Fairness' in Women's Sports

Halba Diouf
World Athletics has banned transgender women from participating in women's sports at the Summer 2024 Paris Olympics to "protect the female category."

That means all the easy work of French native Halba Diouf is all for naught, which is good. Diouf was born a male and had been illusioning to running for her home country in France, training for the 200-meter race.

01 July 2024

"Doctor Who" Actor David Tennant hit by Backlash Over "Shut Up" Jibe Against Women

David Tennant
"Doctor Who" actor David Tennant was facing a growing backlash over his swipe at British Cabinet minister Kemi Badenoch over her stance on transgender and women’s rights.

Equalities Minister Badenoch has said she "will not shut up" after Tennant suggested she should do so at the British LGBT Awards.

22 July 2022

Wisconsin SC Ruled That Trans Sex Offender Birth Name Is Valid

Wisconsin SC
According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the fact that a transgender woman can't change her legal name because she's on the sex offender registry as a male does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment, or violate her free speech rights.

The 4-3 decision last 7 July took up 81 pages in three opinions that featured some stark differences about "originalism" and adapting law to modern times, and even sharp differences about pronoun use.

24 July 2020

JK Rowling Overwhelmed By Big Support Going Her Way

JK Rowling
More and more people are rallying to support JK Rowling. The famous author says she has received more than 3,000 emails a day thanking her for detailing her experience with domestic abuse.

The "Harry Potter" author has been at the centre of a row over trans rights following a string of social media posts in which she voiced her concerns about transgender issues and reiterated that "women has menstruation".

24 June 2020

J.K. Rowling's Transgender Stance Is Getting Popular

J.K. Rowling
Famous literary author J.K. Rowling acknowledged that she was being labeled with the term "TERF" on Twitter in her latest controversy over transgender activism.

"'Feminazi,' 'TERF,' 'b----,' 'witch,'" she wrote in response to someone calling her a "TERF," which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. "Times change. Women-hate is eternal."