I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity and weaponized insecurity, where women, having been debased to the point of no longer being considered human, are seen merely as instruments […]
Tag Archives: anti-abortion
School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alek Minassian, Alex Azar, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Betsy DeVos, blood money, CDC, coined phrases, Dan Patrick, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Donald Trump, doors, enforced monogamy, Florida, gun control, gun reform, gun rights, gun violence, high capacity magazines, hollow promises, incels, insecurity, Intellectual Dark Web, involuntary celibates, Jeff Sessions, Jordan Peterson, Kirstjen Nielsen, Marco Rubio, masculine spirit, mass shootings, misogyny, National Rifle Association, NRA, Parkland, Paul Gosar, pro-life, Santa Fe, school safety, school shooting, sex, sexism, sexual marketplace, spurned advances, Ted Cruz, Texas, The Handmaid's Tale, the masculine spirit, thoughts and prayers, Toronto, toxic masculinity, violence, weaponized insecurity 60 Comments
Checking in with Ypsi’s least favorite son, Tom Monaghan
The new issue of Businessweek has an interesting piece comparing and contrasting Michigan’s aging pizza barons, Tom Monaghan and Mike Ilitch. And, as it’s been a while since we’ve discussed Monaghan, who started Domino’s here in Ypsilanti in 1960, I thought that I’d share a bit. Tom Monaghan was once a billionaire. He owned 244 […]
Posted in History, Ypsilanti Also tagged anti-gay people who are most likely gay, anti-homosexual nonsense, Ave Maria, baseball, birth control, burgers, Catholicism, Detroit Tigers, Domino's, Gyrene Burger, Harry Bennett, homophobia, Jim Towey, John Norman Collins, Joseph Fessio, Little Caesar's, Mike Ilitch, pizza, pro-life, religious fundamentalism, Tom Monaghan 20 Comments
Welcome to Michigan, where we invest in anti-abortion pseudo-science bullying instead of things that actually work, like comprehensive sex education
Last year, Republicans in Michigan’s legislature passed a budget which included a $700,000 “abortion alternatives program” to be managed by the faith-based organization Real Alternatives. While the Pennsylvania non-profit claims to have brought the abortion rate in their home state Detroit News. The Michigan Legislature won’t fix the roads. It hasn’t shown much interest in […]
Posted in Church and State, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged abortion, abstinence only, anti-choice, anti-science, contraception, Jeff Irwin, Kevin Bagatta, Michigan Department of Community Health, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Pregnancy and Parenting Support Services Program, Pennsylvania, pregnancy, pro-life, Progressive Women's Caucus, pseudo-science, Pure Michigan, Real Alternatives, women's health, women's rights 12 Comments