(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . This Week in the War on Women, 4/9-15/23: Crime and Taxes [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-15 In Other News Harassment Gerard Depardieu: gerard depardieu-13-women-accuse-actor-of-sexually-inappropriate-behaviour-in-new-report. https://www.theguardian.com/... Abortion Via Jessica Valenti: Iowa is now refusing to use crime-victim funding to pay for rape victims' morning-after pills - even though the funding mostly went to child victims. State battles over abortion are leading to state constitutional amendments – an option in all 50 states and available directly to citizens in 18 states. in AmericanIndependent by dk's own Rebeka Sager How anti-abortion laws disproportionately impact Indigenous people. "Native American reproductive rights activists say bans on abortion are a 'perpetuation of colonization.'" Breaking news from Florida: DeSantis signs Florida GOP’s 6-week abortion ban into law :( Good News Monday, California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis issued a proclamation honoring labor activist Dolores Huerta on her 93rd birthday. Huerta at Netroots Nation. Woot! (h/t Bill in Portland Maine) funny The Daily Show (TDS) — brilliant news satire show — has had three regular hosts, white guys Craig Kilborn and Jon Stewart (1996-1998 and 1999-2015, respectively) and black guy Trevor Noah (2015-2022). It also has been the launching pad for famous white guys, all but one finding success in political comedy similar to TDS (year in parenthesis was when they left to establish their own bigger careers): Steve Carell (2005), Stephen Colbert (2005), John Oliver (2013), and — finally! — white woman Samantha Bee (2016), as well as another guy, Hasan Minhaj (2018). Shows this year feature a variety of temporary comedic hosts, one of whom will presumably become the new regular host, although current plans are to continue with guest hosts until middle to late 2023. Several of those guest hosts are women. My vote is for the outrageously funny Sarah Silverman (Warning: Slightly NSFW): Jimmy Kimmel: Calls $Rump “our fondling father”. Well deserved, so you know. Funny/not funny. He also shows clips from Mike Pence speaking at the University of Alabama, in which a woman very seriously and apparently sadly asks the following: I wake up every day and I sometimes don’t feel safe because I’m a woman and I feel that that’s being taken away by our president, and I just want to know do you think that that’s going to change in the near future. Do you think that that’s going to get better? Because I’m worried that the idea of being a woman is being taken away by the Democrats. To which Pence replies, after a pause where he apparently tries to figure out what the heck she’s talking about (and I”m not sure he does!): “Well let me assure you, help is on the way”. OK, “conservative” women, this rant is for you: Women and men have the same right to be as feminine or as masculine as they want to be. This includes people born or assigned a certain gender at birth, later transitioning to another gender as much as they feel comfortable transitioning. These people are no threat to you. They are just living their best life as they see fit. Just like you hopefully are living your best life as you see fit. Anyone of any gender can of course be a criminal. But otherwise, just relax and go about your business. The amount of “femininity” or “masculinity” they may or may not have, has nothing to do with you. What you really need to be concerned about, what will not keep you safe, is withdrawal of abortion rights. People who can get pregnant do so by a variety of routes, and later decide that they cannot continue for a variety of reasons. Women need the freedom to make that decision independent of the opinions of other people, especially people who cannot get pregnant. And what the GOP does by riling you up over non-threats, is distract you from the real threat. You may one day be a woman needing to make a decision to discontinue a pregnancy. Don’t vote GOP and make it more likely that you will be forbidden to make that decision about your own body and your own business. /Rant off I know, not many conservative women lurk here. But sometimes the internalisation of the manipulations just makes me rant. As always, this column is a group effort! Many thanks this week to Tara, mettle fatigue, Angmar, and SandraLLAP! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/15/2164078/-This-Week-in-the-War-on-Women-4-9-15-23-Crime-and-Taxes Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/