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President Obama Talks Gay Marriage, “50 Shades Of Grey” On “The View”

Jessica WakemanMay 15, 2012 //

The president comes out in support of same-sex unions. Read More »

NC Gay Ban

North Carolina voted to add gay marriage ban to state constitution. Read More »

Lesbian Mom

One woman talks about being a lesbian mom. Read More »

President Obama appeared on “The View” today, and damn, the talk was serious as if he appeared on “Meet The Press.” But there were very serious matters to discuss: last week’s announcement that the president believes lesbians and gays should be allowed to marry, the economy, and of course whether or not Mitt Romney is “a rich man who is out of touch” with average Americans. All the president will say about that last point is that Romney’s financial success should be celebrated, but as a politician he has “a different vision on how to move the country forward.”

After the serious talk, the ladies quizzed the president on his pop culture knowledge, including (gulp!) 50 Shades Of Grey. Hear his response, after the jump:

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Mitt Romney’s “Gay Guy Impression” When Offered A Pink Tie Caught On Camera

Jessica WakemanMay 10, 2012 //

Obama Supports Gays

The president comes out in support of same-sex unions. Read More »

NC Gay Ban

North Carolina voted to add gay marriage ban to state constitution. Read More »

Bigots "Lost" Gay Marriage

Bigots admit they've lost the gay marriage battle in our generation. Read More »

Attention To Politicians: when cameras are rolling or even just present, it is not the best time for you to do a lispy impression of a gay guy’s voice when offered a pink tie. There is never a good time to impersonate a gay guy’s voice. But for fuck’s sake, you do it when cameras are around?

Mitt Romney learned this the hard way.

And this guy wants the nuclear codes? [BuzzFeed] Keep reading »

Today’s Lady News: Mitt Romney Spokesman Furiously Deleting Sexist Tweets

Jessica WakemanApril 23, 2012 //

A new spokesman hired by Mitt Romney has furiously deleted tweets in which he made sexist comments about Callista Gingrich, Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama. Richard Grenell has defended himself by saying tweets about Callista Gingrich’s appearance, for example, were only meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Uh huh. [Talking Points Memo]
Wisconsin’s Planned Parenthood clinics have suspended use of the abortion pill (also called non-surgical abortions) after a new anti-abortion law has required women to visit a doctor at least three times before taking the abortion pill. [MSNBC]
A new report by the Department of Health and Human Services found significant health disparities for transgender folks, including those exacerbated by discrimination and prejudice. [Think Progress]
Foreign Policy magazine asked female politicians to play a game of “Women In Politics” Mad Libs. [Foreign Policy] Keep reading »

The Soapbox: On Ann Romney & Women “Marrying Up”

Jessica WakemanApril 18, 2012 //

Single Mom Speaks

Jennifer has been a single mom and Rick Santorum can kiss her ass. Read More »

Romney Vs. Rosen

Was Hilary Rosen wrong in her comments about Ann Romney? Read More »

GP On "Working Moms"

GOOP's "Day in the Life" of three wealthy working moms. Read More »

Another day, another bombastically link-baity piece on the Internet to get everyone’s feathers ruffled!

Today’s linkbait comes courtesy of The New York Daily News op-ed page, in which writer S.E. Cupp hammers away at Democratic consultant Hilary Rosen for a foot-in-mouth comment she made on “Anderson Cooper 360″ last week, that stay-at-home mother (SAHM) of five Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.” Rosen later clarified that she meant Ann shouldn’t be her millionaire husband’s earpiece for issues on women and the economy; alas, her point was lost by inelegant phrasing.

The rudeness of Rosen’s comments were chastised by everyone from First Lady Michelle Obama, members of the president’s staff, and feminists such as myself. But that fact has been conveniently ignored by S.E. Cupp. Instead, she wants to pat Ann Romney on the back for “marrying up,” writing:

[W]hile liberal women may praise Ann for (at least) getting herself an education, where is the praise for Ann’s best decision of all — to marry well? Keep reading »

Ann Romney Says Family Dog “Loved” Traveling On Top Of The Car

Julie GersteinApril 17, 2012 //

2012 Election

All of The Frisky's posts about the 2012 election. Read More »

Mitt On Morning After

Mitt Romney called the morning after pill "abortive pills." Read More »

Election Day Ladies

Women who won and lost during the 2010 election. 11 Photos »

Whoa boy, DogCarGate just won’t end, and now it’s Mitt Romney’s wife Ann who’s speaking out and defending the family’s practice of traveling with their dog Seamus on top of the car. The Romneys had previously gotten flack for admitting to a strapping Seamus (in a crate) to the roof of the car during a 1983 family trip from Boston to Ontario. And in an interview with Diane Sawyer earlier this week, Ann Romney claimed the dog loved traveling that way.

“The dog loved it,” Ann Romney said. “He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks.” Keep reading »

Today’s Lady News: Women Swing State Voters Back Obama Over Romney

Jessica WakemanApril 2, 2012 //

More women voters in swing states support Barack Obama over Mitt Romney, according to a poll by USA Today/Gallup. Obama leads with women 51 percent to Romney’s 42 percent, with the number of women under age 50 who support Romney shrinking. [MSNBC]
Black women have more trouble clearing HPV from their bodies, which puts them at greater risk for cervical cancer, according to a new study. Compared with white women, black women’s bodies held onto strains of HPV for six months longer. [AP]
Goldman Sachs has sold its shares in Backpage.com, a shady “hookup” web site fingered for the sex trafficking of women by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. [New York Times] Keep reading »

Mitt Romney Promises To “Get Rid Of” Planned Parenthood

Jessica WakemanMarch 14, 2012 //

I Stand With PP

Why I support Planned Parenthood clinics. Read More »

Mitt On Morning After

Mitt Romney called the morning after pill "abortive pills." Read More »

2012 Election

All of The Frisky's posts about the 2012 election. Read More »

Mitt Romney must think low-income women don’t really need breast exams. And those Pap smears that could detect cervical cancer? So frivolous! Surely that’s the only thing the GOP frontrunner could have meant when he told folks in Missouri he would “get rid of” Planned Parenthood, as well as a number of other programs, to reduce the debt. “The test is pretty simple. Is the program so critical, it’s worth borrowing money from China to pay for it?” Romney said. “And on that basis of course you get rid of Obamacare, that’s the easy one. Planned Parenthood, we’re going to get rid of that. The subsidy for Amtrak, I’d eliminate that. The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities.” Keep reading »

The Most Ill-Conceived Pro-Rick Santorum Ad Ever

Julie GersteinFebruary 15, 2012 //

Santorum Eats ice cream

Watch him deep throat a cone. Read More »

Santorum on Lesbians

Says being a lesbian is a "choice." Read More »

Santorum Wants to censor

Wants Google to stop associating his name with "frothy" anal sex bi-product. Read More »

Okay, you’ve heard about how Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s name has also been associated with ”the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex,” right? (Thank you, Dan Savage). So why, why, why would supposed Rick Santorum supporters create an ad in which mud — suspiciously resembling the aforementioned excrement — is shot at the candidate by a faux-looking Mitt Romney? I mean, the picture on the Spreading Santorum site exactly resembles the mud spatterings portrayed in the ad. Unreal. [Huffington Post]

Mitt Romney Calls Morning After Pills “Abortive Pills”

Jessica WakemanFebruary 7, 2012 //

I Took Plan B

Our writer took the morning-after-pill to thwart unwanted pregnancy. Read More »

Bachmann Stupidity

Sorry, Michele, "the morning-after abortion pill" doesn't exist. Read More »

2012 Election

All of The Frisky's posts about the 2012 election. Read More »

Fact checking time! Mitt Romney hit the campaign trail in Colorado last night and referred to emergency contraception/the morning-after pill as “abortive pills.” This could be because he or his team genuinely doesn’t understand that emergency contraception (Plan B) and the abortion pill (RU-486) are two completely different pills. Or it could be because he’s irresponsibly trying to totally conflate the two for political gain, which I am sure would shock — shock! — you coming from an anti-abortion politician. (Is Mitt anti-abortion this week? I can never keep track!)

Let’s recap, very briefly: The morning-after pill prevents a pregnancy by stopping a woman’s ovaries from releasing eggs — which could be fertilized by the sperm and go implant in the uterus — as well as thinning the lining of a woman’s uterus so a fertilized egg cannot implant. The RU-486 abortion pill, on the other hand, ends an existing pregnancy — as in, the fertilized egg has already implanted in the uterus and a fetus is growing. (I explain it all in more detail in this post.)

See? Two different things, Mitt. Keep reading »

Jon Rips Mitt Romney’s Tax Rate

NewserJanuary 26, 2012 //

Jon Stewart ripped into Mitt Romney’s tax return last night, and Elizabeth Warren showed up later to hammer home the point. “How can you justify making more in one day than the median American family makes in a year, while paying an effective tax rate of the guy who has to scan your shoes at the airport?” Stewart asked incredulously. Sure, as Romney pointed out, we might not want a candidate “who pays more taxes than he owes,” Stewart agreed. “No, but we might want one who thinks that’s wrong.” Added Warren later in the show, “Washington now works for those who can hire an army of lobbyists.” She pointed, to a booing audience, to a recent study showing the US’ top 30 corporations spend more on lobbying than their tax bill. “That is the investment, and that is what they see as the future.” Read more…