Už som doma z konferenice a asi o nej postupne napíšem dosť, ale ani nie tak chronologicky, ako skôr o niektorých témach. Tu je prvá: sexuálna výchova. (Prvá je preto, že o nej nejdem písať veľa 🙂 na tie ostatné bude treba viac času.)
Na Women Deliver bola aj Jessica Biel a rozpávala o kampani, ktorú robí pre Woman Care Global. Tri kratučké videá na ukážku:
A na záver ešte iné video (hat tip Kike za linku) o tom, že prečo je výborné, že ich robí:
Hľadá sa nový domov pre tohto mladého pána, ktorý sa volá Ringo. Záujemcovia hláste sa.
what doctors worry about (TED talks) – obzvlášť na zamyslenie sú druhý v poradí (o publication bias a čo to znamená pre lieky, ktoré lekári predpisujú) a štvrtý (o prístupe k chybám, ktoré lekári robia)
cut as little as possible I know it seems vain but that doesn’t really enter in to it. The fact I’m a woman is important and means much to me… For God’s sakes Dear Doctor no ovaries removed
As you will see, if you compare what should happen when a woman gives birth, versus what actually happens, you can appreciate how tough it can be for US women to breastfeed, but how much easier it could be if only things were a little different around here.
As of this school year, the physical education department is formally conferring pirate status on students, printing certificates on faux parchment with diploma-esque calligraphy. Each paper, authorized by the “swashbucklin’ ’’ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, certifies that the named “salty dog’’ is entitled to a Pirate Certificate “with all its privileges and obligations thereof.’’
In the first Christian centuries marriage had been a strictly private arrangement. As late as the 10th century, the essential part of the wedding itself took place outside the church door. It was not until the 12th century that a priest became part of the wedding ceremony, and not until the 13th century that he actually took charge of the proceedings.
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that?”
Rep. Deborah Mell, a Chicago Democrat, was one of the two members voting against the bills and criticized the assignment to a committee that generally handles farming issues. “We’re not talking about abortions for cows and pigs, right? We’re talking about women?” she said.
The Agriculture Committee is dominated by downstate conservatives, and by assigning the bills there Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan assured the measures would be heard by sympathetic legislators.
As unappealing as the public bathroom was, I still preferred it to my other option of checking in with the managing editor every morning to find an empty office. Everything about the plan horrified me — involving another human being in my private business on a daily basis, posting a sign on the door informing passers-by that I was expressing milk from my breasts. Please knock.
Judge Hughes ultimately sided with Houston Funding by declaring that “lactation is not pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition,” which are the requirements for substantiating a sex discrimination claim.
Why are we so invested in saying that there are some careers that are incompatible with having a family, and trying to find that subset of “big” careers that just won’t work for mothers? I’ve heard people say that my schedule is all well and good for the sort of work that I do, but it wouldn’t fly at a start up (shhh… don’t tell, but I’ve worked at start ups, too, and kept essentially the same hours), or in XYZ industry.
Well, to be blunt, I think that is bullshit. If people have work limits, then they will have interests outside of work. Why should it matter so much if those interests are children? I do acknowledge that some companies and industries have cultures that do not accept that people have work limits- but I think that is short-sighted and frankly counter-productive. And there is nothing inevitable about those cultures. They are not dictated by some sort of natural law, like gravity. People made those cultures. We could change them if we wanted to, and I suspect that if we did, we’d actually get more done. So why don’t we want to?
It took me years to realise that I had been educated to privilege men’s writing over women’s. Like a lot of girls educated in the ’70s and ’80s, I grew up reading a canon of ‘great literature’ written by men (and, primarily, for men) … At school we read almost exclusively male writers … our one woman author was Jane Austen.”
The trend continued at university, though more women authors were studied.
“Without realising it, I was being educated into the view that ‘good’ writing focused on something other than [what were then primarily] women’s interests and concerns — relationships, domesticity, ‘feelings’, the woman’s point of view (except as rendered by ‘masters’ like Henry James and D.H. Lawrence). Subject matter concerning women was regarded as trivial, ephemeral, sloppy and sentimental,” Luehde writes…
Where would J.K.Rowling have got to, I wonder, if she’d written as Joan Rowling about the wizard heroine called Hermione?
Novinky z Virgínie – povinný ultrazvuk pred ukončením tehotenstva a keďže väčšina plánovaných ukončení tehotenstva sa udeje v prvých týždňoch, nejedná sa o ten klasický ultrazvuk, ktorý si väčšina ľudí predstaví – keď sa sondou behá po nagelovanom bruchu – ale o vaginálny ultrazvuk. Aj keď s tým, žena nesúhlasí. Aj keď vloženie hocičoho do ženinej vagíny proti jej vôli, či už je to penis, ruka alebo lekársky inštrument, je znásilnenie.
This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion. Because the great majority of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks, that means most women will be forced to have a transvaginal procedure, in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced. Since a proposed amendment to the bill—a provision that would have had the patient consent to this bodily intrusion or allowed the physician to opt not to do the vaginal ultrasound—failed on 64-34 vote, the law provides that women seeking an abortion in Virginia will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason. I am not the first person to note that under any other set of facts, that would constitute rape under state law.
…During the floor debate on Tuesday, Del. C. Todd Gilbert announced that “in the vast majority of these cases, these [abortions] are matters of lifestyle convenience.” (He has since apologized.) Virginia Democrat Rep. David Englin, who opposes the bill, has said Gilbert’s statement “is in line with previous Republican comments on the issue,” recalling one conversation with a GOP lawmaker who told him that women had already made the decision to be “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.” (I confirmed with Englin that this quote was accurate.)
That’s the same logic that animates the bill’s sponsor in the House of Delegates, Del. Kathy J. Byron, who insisted this week that, “if we want to talk about invasiveness, there’s nothing more invasive than the procedure that she is about to have.” Decoded, that means that if you are willing to submit to sex and/or an abortion, the state should be allowed to penetrate your body as well.)
Novinky z Oklahomy – aby senátorka poukázala na absurditu navrhovaného zákona, ktorý hovorí, že nenarodené dieťa v každom štádiu vývoja – vrátane práve oplodneného vajíčka v ženskom tele – je už občanom so všetkými právami (Personhood Bill, o ktorom som už trochu písala tu, aj keď vtedy sa jednalo o štát Mississippi), navrhla dodatok, podľa ktorého budú z tohto pohľadu posudzované aj mužské spermie:
provided, however, any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman’s vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child.
Výsledkom chyby je, že denná dávka týchto antikoncepčných tabletiek môže byť nesprávna a nechrániť ženy pred otehotnením. Táto chyba nepredstavuje žiadne okamžité zdravotné riziko.
Takže tehotenstvo (a pôrod, ktorému sa na jeho konci akosi nedá veľmi vyhnúť) nie je okamžité zdravotné riziko? A to, že sú ženy, ktoré berú antikoncepciu aj z iných dôvodov, ako je zabránenie tehotenstvu, na tých tiež nezáleží.
The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women.
Mišo je momentálne na týždeň preč a ja tu s dvoma trpaslíkmi strážim pevnosť. Naše dni nie sú iné ako zvyčajne, ale večery sú pomerne náročné. Keď sme už všetci unavení a niektorí z nás aj namrzení a treba aj večeru nachystať, aj zjesť a vôbec… u nás je hodina čarodejníc tak zhruba od 5. do 7. večer. Za normálnych okolností sme tu na to dvaja a keď krpci zaspia, tak máme obidvaja dosť. Teraz som na to sama a mám potom dvakrát dosť.
A za čo som vďačná – už dlhodobo, ale v takéto dni obzvlášť – je to, že pre mňa bola antikoncepcia vždy dostupná. Toto nie je vtip a ani žiadne chválospevy, len jednoduché konštatovanie.
Som vďačná, že som mala informácie, že som sa k antikoncepcii vedela dostať, že som si ju mohla dovoliť, že napriek tomu, že tie metódy, ktoré som používala, nie sú 100%-né, pre mňa 100%-ne fungovali (obzvlášť vzhľadom na fakt, že obidva razy som otehotnela hneď prvý mesiac po tom, čo sme sa pre tehotenstvo rozhodli).
Takéto nálepky na zadných oknách áut tu vídavam celkom často. Okrem zvláštnej potreby oznamovať ostatným vodičom zloženie svojej rodiny je na nich zaujímavé, že som nevidela zatiaľ žiadny, ktorý by bol zoradený inak ako (podľa dôležitosti? veľkosti?) chlap, žena, deti od najväčšieho po najmenšie a na koniec domáci mazlíčkovia. Mišo hovorí, že hľadám význam aj tam, kde žiadny nie je. Ale obrázky sú mocná vec… odhliadnuc od toho, komix ma pobavil