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A few steps closer to the Handmaid's Tale
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Jun 04, 2012 07:41AM
He's apologizing now. It was accidental, of course.
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"Excuse me, I had no idea anybody was paying attention when I said the thing I meant to say. My bad."
I'm new to the thread but wanted to weigh in as I love to see women advocating for women's rights. It makes me feel as though there are a least some women who haven't become a complete traitor to their own gender.On employer insurance premiums...
Insurance companies charge companies who have a high percentage of female employees aged 39 and under more than companies that don't. Insurance companies claim that this is the most expensive demographic, even when stacked against aged baby boomers. It's not true of course, but gender pricing is hard to combat. It's everywhere. With that said, as a single, 27 year old female, its cheaper for me to purchase insurance through my employer than to purchase it individually as I am afforded group discounts given that my employer offers coverage to so many, and also because we do have healthy work environment initiatives. While my employer may not care if I'm overweight, smoke, don't work out etc., they get a discount (which is passed on to the employee) if they offer gym memberships, network with physicians for wellness screenings, have an EAP program, etc. Legally, my employer isn't privy to my PHI and frankly, I love the gym discount, so I'm not going to turn my nose up at the services they do provide just because they aren't necessarily doing it for altruistic purposes.
As for the rest...It’s a scary time to be a female. I don't want to see women's rights revert back to what they once weren't. But it is also an empowering time to be a woman. All these politicos, media outlets, ministries, you name it, are weighing in, and it's because things have changed, and continue to change. I believe that men especially (Sorry to generalize guys) are becoming more and more threatened by women's evolvement. More of us are remaining single, or are bread winners within our households. Instead of stepping up, they are speaking out. It's my hope, that women will continue to speak out against crappy legislation, media persecution, etc. preferably, louder than anyone else.
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(The pre-existing condition exclusion went away for children - part of "Obamacare." If ACA survives the Supreme Court, the pre-existing condition exclusion will go away for all ages, in 2014.)
You can also thank the ACA for the removal of the $2 million lifetime cap.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/...Two female legislators in Michigan can’t catch a break. First, the women were banned from the floor for trying to speak out against the worst abortion measures in the country and using the word “vagina” to discuss the bill. Then, the spokesman for the GOP House majority leader said the women were having “temper tantrums” over the bill.
Now, in the latest sexist move on the part of the Michigan Republicans, state Rep. Wayne Schmidt (R) compared the two women to children, saying that they were given a “time out” for misbehaving:
You know, as I said to someone up north here, it’s like giving the kid a time out for a day. Hey, time out, you went a comment too far, you spoke your piece, we’re gonna let these other people have their dissenting comments, and then we’ll get back to business. But unfortunately, business has become a sideshow.
You can hear the radio show host immediately latch on to the sexism of the comment, saying “time out, temper tantrum, it makes people — makes women angry.”
Hence the thread title. I wish I were joking.
It appears we are in the political times of - One step forward, two steps back.
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That makes me so livid I can barely type right now without throwing curse words all over this comment box. State Rep. Cathrynn Brown, you disgust me. The very fact that you are in a position to be heard and are fighting against women who desperately need a compassionate voice in legislation is appalling, vulgar, repressive and downright horrific.
"According to Republican philosophy, victims who are ‘legitimately raped' will now have to carry the fetus to term inorder to prove their case."
If this passes what will most likely come next is a bill that professes that if a pregnancy isn't acquired from a claim of rape then there can be no proof of the rape happening at all.
Unfuckingbelievable.
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What is a ::facepalm::?
