Today’s Lady News: 6th Person Arrested In Gang Rape & Obama Lifts HIV+ Immigration Ban
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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5:45PM, Friday October 30th 2009
A sixth person has been arrested in the the gang rape of 15-year-old girl in California . Police say the rape occurred during a homecoming dance, allegedly while as many as 20 people watched. [ABC News]
A judge upheld a restraining order on a new law which would’ve required details about Oklahoma women who’ve had an abortion to be posted online. Anti-choicers had hoped the law would go into effect on November 1. [Tulsa World]
Great post by Sadie at Jezebel about “Secret Keeper Girls,” a Christian organization for tween girls which, among other things cares about promoting modesty and purity in fashion. Sadie agrees that less-slutty clothes for young girls would make conservatives and feminists happy, but wishes Secret Keeper Girls wasn’t so gung-ho about sexual purity. [Jezebel]
President Obama announced he will lift a ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by HIV-positive individuals. [CBS News]
Did you even know there was an Asian Boobs app on the iPhone? Ick. But the e-card web site, Someecards, which we thought was cool, has been tweeting about which app is more popular with class comments like, “Let’s keep pushing these boobs around!” Double ick. [TechCrunch]
Police have finally arrested Faleh Amalkei, an Iraqi immigrant who ran over his 20-year-old daughter with a car, allegedly because she had become “too Westernized.” The daughter is still in the hospital in a life-threatening condition. [ABC News]
Rabia Sarwar, a devoutly Muslim woman in New York, killed her husband allegedly because she was “emotionally abused” when he introduced her to alcohol, pork and miniskirts and felt forced to violate her religious beliefs. Her husband said, “There was no gun to her head to do these things.” [CBS News]
It took 55 years but police say they have identified the body of 18-year-old “Jane Roe,” who was found nude and battered outside Boulder, Colorado. She was Dorothy Gay Howard of Phoenix, who had been reported missing in 1954. RIP, Dorothy. [L.A. Times]
Today is Equal Pay Day in the UK, a day marked to represent the fact British women earn 17 percent less than British men. The wage gap is similarly unequal in the U.S., as well: according to a 2007 study by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, a woman earns only 80 percent as much as a man one year after college. [Fawcett Society]
Tags: feminism, todays lady news, gang rape, homecoming
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evelwood
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 05:02 pm: [report]
I am so disgusted by the homecoming rape in CA. Its amazing how low our society stoops.
Secret Story Time
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 05:18 pm: [report]
You say the US has a pay gap of 20%, females earning less than males one year out of college, in the same job. If that is true, it is indeed wrong.
Equal pay for equal work is the right thing.
Secretia Teller
og217
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 05:36 am: [report]
Great, now we get an AIDS influx! Just when I though illiterate peasants and scamming criminals with welfare dreams were not enough, just what we need - a boost to the economy with AIDS tourism! What will those crazy democrats think of next?
My parents came to the US too, but they were college educated young professionals who never got a cent from welfare and in just a couple of years started a business and owned a home. Thats the immigration the country needs, not starving, AIDS ravaged people who need to be subsidized until they croak.
luckyviolinist
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 08:51 am: [report]
Re: OG217,
Clearly you have never read the plaque at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty.
” Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Jessica Wakeman
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 08:51 am: [report]
RT @og217
Would you feel differently if people with AIDS were being persecuted in their own countries? In some African countries, for example, it is illegal to be homosexual. As there continues to be the belief that only gay people have AIDS, those peoples’ lives are endangered.
canadiancutie
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 04:39 pm: [report]
The AIDS thing may be the first thing Obama’s done that I disagree with.
Usually, I feel like he’s not going left-leaning ENOUGH, like he’s being too much of a centrist and making too many compromises to appease the right… this time, I feel like he’s waaaaay out in left field with this one. FAIL.
canadiancutie
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 04:40 pm: [report]
Just to further that study, the number drops to 60 cents to a man’s dollar 20 years into their careers.
canadiancutie
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 04:42 pm: [report]
Am I the only one who doesn’t see a problem with sexually fetishizing Asians and other minorities? Y’know what? No need to answer that. It’s probably yes. lol