What We Missed.
Senate blocks Medicare Payment Bill.
Aboriginal women are targeted in the Canadian sex trade.
Can people stop writing books about unlocking women?
More on reframing health care around gender.
A mind-numblingly awful story about a woman who was struck from insurance after taking anti-AIDS medication after being raped.
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I'm horrified at the report on Aboriginal women being trafficked into the sex trade - but I must object to this statement: "The only reason Smith, who has passionately taken on the issue of human trafficking for several years, can give for her government not addressing Aboriginal trafficking is that they can't get anything done with a minority government." That's bogus. Just because she's a Conservative MP, she shouldn't be bringing partisan politics into this kind of issue. That's disgusting. All parties would unite against such a crime. No one would vote against any legislation that would decisively address it. And any future government would more than welcome the chance to act on any such law even when passed by the Opposition.
Yeah that's pretty typical of Canadian politics lately...all the parties use the supposed 'deadlock' of minority government as an excuse to sit around and insult each other and not DO anything...
Interestingly, the problem of Aboriginal women being targeted for the sex trade was focused on several times in a dramatic Canadian TV series, Da Vinci's Inquest. It's extraordinary that tv producers are more aware of the issue apparently than the "serious" media. Thinking of this issue, as well, in light of another story here today, on how majority cultures appropriate minority cultures... In an ideal fantasy world, maybe there would be a rule: you can't become an enthusiast of Native or Aboriginal cultures unless you have volunteered time to those communities to try to help them solve the problems your own culture creates for them.
Concepts like "the eternal feminine mystery" have crept into our cultural mythology, meaning that periodically someone feels a compulsion to define what that is or how women really are.
Ugh, the article about denying coverage for using anti-retrovirals is infuriating! Apparently insurance companies don't think rape is a big deal:
A 38-year-old woman in Ithaca, N.Y., said she was raped last year and then penalized by insurers because in giving her medical history she mentioned an assault she suffered in college 17 years earlier...Blue Cross Blue Shield, not only had declined payment for the rape exam, but also would not pay for therapy or medication for trauma because she "had been raped before."
FUCK THIS COUNTRY. Violence against women is a pre-existing condition for the WOMAN???? The only way you can predict the occurrence of rape is based on the past behavior of MEN WHO MAY RAPE, not a woman who has been raped before. FUCK THAT.
"everyone poops" including French women.
Another news bit!
The Class of 2011 William and Mary elected a transgender homecoming queen for the first time. For a small southern school (though W&M is admittedly much more progressive than some schools in the south), this is a very positive sign! I'm proud of my fellow students there (especially because I voted for Jessee, too!).
http://flathatnews.com/content/71865
The thing about the French women is kind of interesting I think. Worrying less and less about the judgment of others would be a good thing for all women to do. I don't know what it is about their national character that makes French people generally more relaxed. French women also get more sleep and are healthier for it. Unlike the US, it is not a badge of honor to be able to "survive" in 4 hours of sleep.
I think we could learn a lot from French women...