The “little pink pill”, sometimes referred to as the “Viagra for women”, is having a hard time performing up to its corporate claims. When the drug flibanserin (brand name: Addyi) was approved a year ago by the FDA – supposedly to help women’s…
Category: Reproduction
Military Medical Hypocrisy: Females on the Bottom
by Ti-Grace Atkinson A few days ago, the Pentagon announced that it was lifting its ban on openly transgendered individuals. The reason given was the need for qualified persons in a volunteer army. The Pentagon has further committed itself—and its…
Sloppy Science Invoked to Support Trans Ideology
by Kathy Scarbrough Not a day goes by lately when loving parents can’t be heard spouting some hackneyed sex stereotype (“my son likes pink; my daughter prefers trucks to dolls”) as evidence that their child is the opposite sex “inside”…
Short Takes • March 4, 2016: Abortion
by Carol Hanisch Anti-Abortionist Legislator Grateful His Grandmother Was Raped? The ongoing attack on abortion rights continues to bring forth revealing anti-woman sentiments from male-supremacist legislators. This week’s doozy came from Texas State Representative Jason Isaac, co-author of the Texas…
Ros Baxandall on Day Care
SHORT TAKES: February 5, 2016 Introducing a new MEETING GROUND feature We often have links or brief comments that we want to share with our readers that do not really fit an article format. We will try to post at…
Dangerous Federal Decision Claims Being a Woman Is a “Choice”
by Margaret LeClair Reactions to the November 2015 U.S. Department of Education ruling that a transgender youth who identifies as female must be allowed unrestricted access to girls’ facilities have, for the most part, focused on what this means for…
Housework, Reproduction and Women’s Liberation
by Carol Hanisch PART II: Who Benefits from Housework? In a city of 500,000 people, containing, say 100,000 working and lower middle class homes, 100,000 women are planning how to get the windows washed, the curtains cleaned, the clothing washed…
Women Refusing Erasure by Transgender Activists Ask for Support
by Kathy Scarbrough While, of course, all people deserve basic respect for their humanity, I am getting tired of the demands of trans activists that serve to erase the existence of women and I’m tired of the liberal response to…
Transgender / Transracial: Why is one “courageous” and the other “outrageous”?
The transition of Bruce to Caitlyn Jenner and the”outing” of Rachel Dolezal who is of Czech, German and Swedish ancestry but strives to be perceived as a black woman are particularly interesting in terms of the similarities between transgender and…
Support Purvi Patel’s Right to Control Her Own Body
by Carol Downer In our rush to support Purvi Patel, the woman sentenced to 20 years in prison by an Indiana Judge on the charges of child neglect and feticide (inducing her own abortion), many have adopted Patel’s claim that…