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By Katie Kish, March 5, 2009 11:41 am

And by sometimes, I mean quite often.

A 9 year old girl had to have an abortion because she was raped by her stepfather. You think this would be an open and shut case. She’s 9. She was raped. She’s too tiny to carry a fetus. (actually 2, as she had twins). But nooo.

But Marcio Miranda, a lawyer for the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife in north-eastern Brazil, said the girl should have carried the twins to term and had a caesarean section.

“It’s the law of God: do not kill. We consider this murder,” Ms Miranda said in comments reported by O Globo.

Yet another reason I’m against religion. And why I’m pro-empowerment for women so they can take back control over their own bodies.

Oh wait, I have another one. An ad that promotes whitening skin with a sexist twist.

We can never be happy with what we have. Too fat, not white enough, too skinny, too white, hair is too curly, too straight, big hips, small boobs……women want to be white (apparently) – but if you have pale legs you don’t want to be seen at the swimming pool. Not to mention that “I swallow” line is just horribly inappropriate and gross. After she’s done swallowing she should probably go get Asian Blepharoplasty and blue contacts… and color her hair to be blonde. Then she’ll be perfect.

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By Katie Kish, February 20, 2009 8:50 pm

...thats not funny either...

This study is the least awesome study I’ve ever read. I’ve shouted and complained before about men objectifying women’s bodies. Just the other day I was walking from getting lunch to go back to work and say a man, literally lean 1/2 body out his car and yell at a woman crossing the street “Hey baby! That ass would look so good with me in it.” and today just outside of Starbucks there were 4 guys commenting on every single girls body as they walked in to get their coffee.

Maybe I’m just not watching for it, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a women lean outside of her window to catcall at a woman crossing the street. Nor have I seen a group of girls standing outside of a store purposely watching men walk into it and commenting on their “fine asses” or “beautiful men titties”. Men objectify women.

And now, we can prove it scientifically. When a man is show a picture of a women who is less than dressed the region of their brain that is associated with tool use….lights up. They literally associate that woman’s body with the same purpose as a hammer or a drill. (hardy har) …And they would use the same words to describe using the woman…like pushing, grasping and handling.

But wait! That’s not even my favorite part…

And in a “shocking” finding, Fiske noted, some of the men studied showed no activity in the part of the brain that usually responds when a person ponders another’s intentions.

This means that these men see women “as sexually inviting, but they are not thinking about their minds,” Fiske said. “The lack of activation in this social cognition area is really odd, because it hardly ever happens.”

What?! Wait! Waaait! aaaaand:

And the men who scored higher as “hostile sexists”—those who view women as controlling and invaders of male space—didn’t show brain activity that indicates they saw the women in bikinis as humans with thoughts and intentions.

Scientists have seen this absence of activation only once before, in a study where people were shown off-putting photographs of homeless people and drug addicts.

…Those men associated women on the same level as homeless people and drug addicts. How charming. Now of course one of the first questions that comes to my mind after being grossed out is “well, what about women?” and …”well, is it the society? or is it evolutionary?”

In regards to the women, if they were shown men in sexualized outfits (or lack there of) they probably won’t have the same reation, only because women are turned on and look for mates who have power and wealth. So, if the men were run with affluent symbols attached to them, that could result in similar studies, perhaps.

But Fiske doesn’t think such an experiment would work the same way, because women usually react to men they desire by “interpreting their minds, thinking about what they’re interested in, and then trying to please them,” she said.

So are these traits simply evolutionary? And if they are – should they be allowed? I really don’t think its healthy for a man to see a woman’s body, disassociated it as a person and reassociate it as a tool… and then to top it all off they completely disregard what the woman is interested in or would agree to doing. …scary hairy, IMO.

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By Katie Kish, May 8, 2008 3:23 pm

she looks like an anorexic ghost… a little…

Apparently a new drug to battle obesity would have effects on children’s brains…

Other researchers have found that cannabinoid receptor blockers interfere with neural connectivity in rat brains — a phenomenon that in humans is associated with depression. The Food and Drug Administration has refused to approve Acomplia because it appears to cause anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.

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This is especially troubling because the mice were young. “The juvenile stage of mice is parallel to what we know as the infant stage in humans, when the brain is plastic and prone to modification,” said Liu.

Beyond interfering with neurological development during the critical stage of infancy, could cannabinoid receptor blockers also keep adult brains from developing?

Alright now. Seriously. Diet drugs that could cause you to commit suicide? Cause anxiety? Stunt the growth of the brain? Is it really THAT HARD to stop eating fast food and eat a salad instead? To the point where we have to keep throwing money into this sort of ridiculous research?

I’m sure I could think of at least 100 other things that the money that goes toward this sort of ridiculous research would be better off put into. It’s like all the energy being put into being angry at at that Miley Cyrus girl.

I’ll admit – I didn’t even know who she was until about a week ago when my mom told me about her and her vanity fair “scandal”. The girl, who is am American teen icon, takes a hardly even sexualized photograph and the entire world turns upside down on her.

The two almost go hand in hand – we keep shoving money into diet research while showing off our under aged daughters perfect little bodies to create more media attention and to push more people to the need to use diet pills. …Okay, im stretching it a bit – but you see what I’m getting at right.

This world is f#$@ed! We put these girls up on pedestals idealizing their bodies. Then for some reason get angry when we sexualize these bodies… This is the world we live in – people get sexualized. Then we have girls trying to be like her going batshit insane because they’re using a million and a half different diet pills causing anxiety and depression. WTF.

So in the name of my generation. I vow never to diet or idolize Miley Cyrus. It’s a long road ahead, but I feel like I can make it.

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By Katie Kish, May 23, 2007 11:37 pm

There was a shooting in a Toronto school. One kid died.

Toronto Police tell AM 640 Toronto Radio, a young man was found suffering from gunshot wounds near the pool at the school. He was taken to hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.

Students at the school identified the victim as 15 year old Jordan Manners.

I realize that the majority of the people who read this are over the age of 25 or 30… but I’m assuming you know a 15 year old. …What’s so weird to me is that I think back to the grade 9 class I taught, they would all be 15 or 16 now… and it just tears me apart to think that kid just like them was shot.

Now, I know… I was the one who was like “put it into perspective to the shootings across seas!” when everyone was making a stink about the shooting earlier this year. But it’s just so scary … when I see the picture of the cops I picture Clarkson’s school cop, around the Clarkson pool… looking down at one of the kids I taught. It’s just scary.

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By Gordo, May 16, 2007 9:59 am

It looks like ebay is becoming the market of choice for elephant poachers:

“International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said it had conducted a survey in Britain, Australia, China, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Canada and the United States and tracked more than 2,200 elephant ivory items listed on eBay websites,” the wire service says.

More than 90% of these listings violated the auction site’s rules, according to the group, which wants eBay to ban all ivory sales.

The IFAW report is here. A World Wildlife Fund overview of the ivory trade is here.