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Documentary: Breast cancer cure ‘hijacked’ by pink ribbons

By David Edwards Friday, February 3, 2012 16:15 EST Long before Susan G. Komen for... more

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Strong Beautiful Woman!!! "What Breast Cancer IS and is NOT"

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Know your breast.

Look here folks I know I am a Goof i love being a goof but the facts are the facts.... more

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Breast cancer screening review launched

By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, October 26, 2011 An independent review into... more

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Papantonio: Big Pharma Lies Cost Women Their Lives

Not one person in the US went to jail or paid any sort of penalty for the AIDS drug... more

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Pill 'interferes with women's memory' | Mail Online

Women who take the contraceptive pill are interfering with the way they remember... more

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Truth About Gardasil | 89 lives have been taken...

Gardasil is the HPV vaccine, touted to fight cervical cancer. What they are not... more

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This week in the War on Women

Bad and ugly: Bill O'Reilly is, yup, still an asshole. And a moron:... more

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Rachel Maddow: ‘Personhood’ bills threaten legality of birth control

Women of America, are we really gonna let this happen????? Do we really want to go... more

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Women at home a 54% higher death rate - How Much Impact Do Toxic Chemicals Have on Society? Read the Statistics.

Women who work at home have a 54% higher death rate from cancer than those who work... more

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Heart Disease in Women.

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24 Hot Girls Working Out --(Pics)

Total Pro Sports - Sweat IS Sexy You wanted to work on your 'tris'... more

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Woman banned from every bar in the UK

Laura Hall is the first person ever banned from drinking alcohol anywhere in England... more

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Are You 35 and Hoping to Get Pregnant? | PriceDoc Talk

Recently more women have been delaying their motherhood to their 30s. It is important... more

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Why do women really have sex?

The Pursuit of Sexual Happiness What turns women on has long been an elusive... more

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I Wouldn't Dream of Wearing a Bikini.

Entering my twenties I felt pretty down about my appearance, most all the time... for... more

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Women 'fight off disease better'

Men really do have an excuse for supposedly being wimpy about coughs and colds - their... more

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From Twisty at Iblamethepatriarchy.com

Source: http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/05/06/spinster-aunt-perceives-flaw-in-pbs-documentary/

Last night’s Frontline documentary on human sex trafficking — “Sex Slaves,” originally broadcast in 2005 — clawed at every cranny of the obstreperal lobe. Definitely not heartwarming.

I’ll skip the basics, assuming that the advanced blamer is acquainted with the mechanics of human trafficking, because I wish to register a complaint. Well, several complaints. Actually, it’s one large complaint upon which a few dangling dingleberry complaints depend.

The large complaint is that the film is itself sexploitational. It is without question voyeuristic, and at times it borders on actual pornography. And why shouldn’t it? Porn has been normalized into a legitimate art form.

Naturally, people who watch PBS believe themselves to be above that sort of thing, but they still need a reason to watch a show about women’s oppression. They might come away with a few useless “facts,” but these must be delivered from within a framework of entertainment. And entertainment, in 2009, is sex and melodrama. Thus, the “Sex Slaves” teaser:

“An undercover journey deep into the world of sex trafficking, following one man determined to rescue his wife — kidnapped and sold into the global sex trade.”

A murder of spinster aunts could charter a yacht, order a vat of guac and a barrel of margs, and ruminate on the Lido Deck all day long, but we’d never come up with a more formulaical Chivalric plot than that. Are you kidding me? Evil villains, a damsel in distress whose virtue is at stake, and a gallant champion who literally rescues her? Oh, and the damsel is 4 months pregnant. Add sentimental fetus-anxiety bonus points.

A kind of grainy prurience attends nearly every sequence of footage. The B-roll street scenes are shot according to a familiar sexploitation formula: the self-consciously verité-esque camera singles out a pair of comely hips encased in sexy jeans, lingers lustily, and finally pans up to reveal the whole woman as a hottie. Meanwhile, the authoritative male voiceover — the disembodied Voice of God — masks this sleazy voyeurism with academic gravitas. When he describes Ukraine as Eastern Europe’s ground zero for “beautiful women,” and the visual is a taut young Ukrainian midriff, it is meant to be accepted as scientific fact. After all, although the qualitative differences between the two are few, this is a documentary, not an episode of “Law & Order: Mutilated Women Unit.” But the greasy ease with which the documentarist’s camera violates women who are just walking down the street minding their own beeswax is an invocation of the global accords governing fair use of women: all females are de facto sex objects, and hot girls — shots of women who aren’t Beauty2K-compliant didn’t make the final cut — are vulnerable sex slaves waiting to happen.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: DudeAmerica just can’t resist hot young prostituted Russians!

Sure, the producers are against human trafficking. Who isn’t? But can we please have a film about it that doesn’t parrot asinine patriarchal narratives about helpless damsels and male valor, that doesn’t itself exploit the very women whose exploitation it purports to abhor, that does more than just hint at some vague notion of women’s “poverty” as the reason for human trafficking? The rapists who abuse all the women in this film, where are they? Where’s the outrage over the notion that “the sex trade” is a “multi-billion dollar industry,” not because Ukrainian women are poor, but because the world is full of assholes who will pay to rape them? Just once I’d like to see somebody — anybody — point out that “the sex trade,” i.e. rape slavery, is not a consequence of women’s desperation and a few unscrupulous pimps. It is the consequence of a social order based on the fetishization of dominance.From Twisty at Iblamethepatriarchy.com Source:... more

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14-Year-Old Surgeon Wows Medical Professionals - LiveSteez

14-Year-Old develops new technique for sewing up hysterectomy patients

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