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	<title>The Pursuit of Harpyness &#187; Women&#8217;s History</title>
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		<title>Quick Hit: Jill Lapore on Margaret Sanger [NPR]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annajcook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminist Food for Thought]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who haven&#8217;t yet read Jill Lapore&#8217;s New Yorker essay on Margaret Sanger and the politicization of birth control and abortion (or want more), you can hear her interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air for free thanks to National Public Radio: A full transcript is not available, sadly, but select sections are [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t yet read Jill Lapore&#8217;s <em>New Yorker </em>essay on Margaret Sanger and the politicization of birth control and abortion (or want more), you can hear her interviewed by Terry Gross on <em>Fresh Air</em> for free thanks to National Public Radio:</p>
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<p>A full transcript is not available, sadly, but select sections are available <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/09/142097521/how-birth-control-and-abortion-became-politicized">through the NPR website</a>.</p>
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		<title>Just When You Think They Couldn&#8217;t Get Douchier</title>
		<link>http://www.harpyness.com/2010/09/30/just-when-you-think-they-couldnt-get-douchier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PhDork</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Tom Coburn of Iowa Oklahoma (duh, Dork!), Republicans both, have upped their Massengill Quotient by a factor of ten. Just weeks before midterm elections (which they&#8217;re not running in, obvs), these clowns thought that a little congressional obstructionism on the backs of women would be just the thing.  [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.myhousecallmd.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/douche.jpg" alt="" width="137" height="247" />&#8230;Senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Tom Coburn of <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Iowa</span> Oklahoma (duh, Dork!), Republicans both, have upped their Massengill Quotient by a factor of ten.</p>
<p>Just weeks before midterm elections (which they&#8217;re not running in, obvs), these clowns thought that a little congressional obstructionism on the backs of women would be <em>just</em> the thing.  So they put a &#8220;hold&#8221; on a bill that would merely approve the sale of a lot of land to the organization that has been planning on building a <a href="http://www.nwhm.org/">National Women&#8217;s History Museum</a>, because (they say) it might, at some point in the indeterminate  future, ask for a federal subsidy.  Which would be too much to possibly someday ask of some indeterminate future taxpayers.<span id="more-17157"></span></p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-29-museum_N.htm">this USA Today story</a> notes that the hold was requested, by the anti-choice, anti-woman Concerned Women for America.  The CEO of that fine, bible-licious organization, Penny Nance, said the NWHM would &#8220;focus on abortion rights without featuring any of the many contributions of the pro-life movement in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mm-hm.  The whole of US women&#8217;s history:  abortion.  They were gonna call it the National Babykillers Memorial, but that didn&#8217;t poll so well.  So they&#8217;ll throw in something on Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt as a cover for their nefarious agenda.  Jim DeMint knows.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll see if the bill&#8217;s sponsor, Maine&#8217;s Susan Collins&#8211;also a Republican&#8211;can work her feminine wiles on these douchenozzles and and change their vinegary attitudes.  If so, I hope the NWHM will put pictures of the two Senators in a case with other outdated and unnecessary tools that were sold to women for years and years.</p>
<p>Obviously, if you live in South Carolina or Oklahoma, get on the horn and give &#8216;em an earful.</p>
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