Fort Worth Feminism

This: http://awomanisnotapreexistingcondition.com/# is completely awesome. If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you know that being pregnant, having a c-section, being treated for issues stemming from rape, domestic violence and other things that women go through regularly are being treated like pre-existing conditions by health insurance companies–which essentially allows them to not cover a large group of women. This is clearly wrong. Check out the Web site above — it’s awesome and I hope it helps women get what they need when healthcare reform is finally settled.

A sobering statistic: in 2008, 136 women that we know of were killed by an intimate partner. TCFV has the full report. Take a few minutes to read it…it gives the names, counties, and circumstances surrounding the deaths, which really puts it into perspective.

http://www.tcfv.org/pdf/dvam2009/ListofWomenKilled.pdf

This is seriously cool. Jimmy Carter announced that he is leaving the Southern Baptist church because of its treatment of women and girls (which is based on the church’s belief that women must be subservient to men). Read more here:

http://www.feministing.com/archives/016792.html

This is appaling.

http://www.feministing.com/archives/015357.html

As if a rape survivor doesn’t have enough strife to deal with…Apparently rape victims in Houston (and likely other Texas cities) are being denied funding from the Crime Victims Compensation Fund and are being called on by bill collectors to pay for the evidence taken in crimes against them.  FYI, a rape kit can cost up to $1,800. Like rape victims needed another reason to not report their rapes.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/19400415/detail.html#-

UPDATE: Maybe not after all? http://jezebel.com/5259454/texas-attorney-general-is-not-charging-victims-for-rape-kits

My friend Jess started a blog (at which I will be guest posting from time to time) called “Perpetually Temporary.” It’s hilarious and will discuss in detail her fantastic facebook app called “Why I’m Bitter.” Check it out:

http://www.perpetuallytemporary.blogspot.com/

Garfunkel and Oates (search them on youtube) are freakin hilarious. Most of their songs skew towards dating problems, but this one is a real gem and totally embodies how I feel about pregnancy…except I would add the smugness of all the people around the pregnant women as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJRzBpFjJS8

Ok, I do not know what these people were searching for or why it brought them to Fort Worth Feminism, but here it is: “naked women mud.” Ok, so I do probably know what they were searching for … I guess naked women in the mud or naked mudwrestling? But how they got here I do not know. I am always a little bit amused when such an obvious non-feminist search term brings people here…