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Douchebag Decree: Liz "Women in the Military Should Expect to Get Raped" Trotta

Douchebag Decree post by Kelsey Wallace on February 16, 2012 - 1:35pm; tagged Douchebag Decree, Liz Trotta, rape, US military.

"ye olde douchebag decree" in blue letters with a light blue hand-drawn douchebag in the background, and "BITCH HEREBY DECLARES THE FOLLOWING PERSON A TOTAL DOUCHEBAG" in small letters in red underneath.

Trigger warning for discussion of rape and sexual assault.

Fox News isn't exactly known for its nuanced feminist critiques, but when pundit Liz Trotta aired her views on women in the military earlier this week, stating that—among other things—women working in close quarters with men should expect to be raped, things reached a whole new level of douche.

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Reproductive Writes: A Fighting Chance For Choice

Social Commentary post by Holly Grigg-Spall on February 24, 2010 - 12:09pm; tagged anti-abortion, birth control funding, birth control research, emergency contraceptive pill, morning-after pill, plan b, President Obama, pro-choice, rape, religious right, Reproductive Writes, US military.

The emergency contraceptive pill is now mandatorily available at US military bases worldwide. I would think there are a lot of us out there who assumed - as government employees in a situation detrimental to their health in a whole range of ways - that all US soldiers would have access to the best of health care and any prescription drugs they wanted.

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