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 Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:06am On Jul 08, 2013 |
What the Feminist Movement is About: The feminist movement (also known as the Women's Movement, Women's Liberation, or Women's Lib) refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, s[size=1pt].[/size]exual harassment, and s[size=1pt].[/size]exual violence, all of which fall under the label of feminism. The movement's priorities vary among nations and communities and range from opposition to female gen[size=1pt].[/size]ital mutilation in one country or to the glass ceiling in another. The movement began in the western world in the late 19th century and has gone through three waves. First-wave feminism was oriented around the station of middle- or upper-class white women and involved suffrage and political equality. Second-wave feminism attempted to further combat social and cultural inequalities. Third-wave feminism includes renewed campaigning for women’s greater influence in politics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_movement |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:43am On Jul 08, 2013*. Modified: 4:17am On Jul 08, 2013 |
davidylan: I am not the one bothered about "women empowerment", i have a mother, aunts and female cousins who are at the peak of their various careers. Many of whom out-earn their male spouses by far with no issues. You are the one with the "women empowerment" issues so deal with it.  the goal is for at least HALF of all population of the world to have that situation. women make up half of the world's population afterall. now I see where ur hatred for women comes from. feeling insecure and threatened aren't you? No one cares that you are on vacationwell then u shouldn't have asked, FOOL! |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 1:38am On Jul 08, 2013 |
davidylan: This is a most redundant question. You are the one whinning about oppressed women, what are you doing about them besides wasting precious time on the web?I am very actively involved in girls and women empowerment issues trust me (USA and Africa). I spend a lot of time and resources on it. I won't be wasting precious time on this thread if it wasn't something i'm passionate about. besides i'm currently on vacation. now I wonder what YOU are doing since you have admitted that a problem exists... |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 1:35am On Jul 08, 2013 |
davidylan: That is very untrue. The main opponent of planned parenthood is the tea party wing of the republican party. They are the ones who voted to remove government funding for PP, not the catholic church. Get your facts right.nice call. You are right. the republican party is the main opponent followed by the catholic church. but the catholic church (run by 100% male bishops. what a coincidence) is the main religious institutional body actively using influence where it can to attack Planned Parenthood AND the Girls Scout! very ridiculous http://seattletimes.com/html/nicolebrodeur/2018209547_nicole15m.html http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/15/us-usa-komen-catholic-idUSBRE82E12Q20120315 |
| Music/Radio › Re: Otedola's Daughter Florence - I Love My Country (Video) by 99cent: 1:28am On Jul 08, 2013 |
cool. dadaic: This is a huge shame,...You copied David Guetta's beat and claim you have done something for yourself.. You are just like your dad, you must have bribed Guetta for this beat, now i am wondering who is doing a video clip to show the world if Guetta actually denies it.she's a DJ. ie. she mixes music. 1 Like |
| Celebrities › Re: Delphine: Chris Okotie's New Girlfriend? (Pictures) by 99cent: 6:57pm On Jul 07, 2013 |
This |
| Politics › Re: Picture Of 2 Nairalanders Killed In Nasarawa Two Month Ago. by 99cent: 6:48pm On Jul 07, 2013 |
what's their usernames? this topic is a scam!!! |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 6:17pm On Jul 07, 2013*. Modified: 6:46pm On Jul 07, 2013 |
davidylan: The question really is what are these feminists doing to improve the condition of TRULY oppressed women in Africa and the mid-east?well, this is a Nigerian forum and most of you attacking me here (very unsuccessfully, I must say) are African males. clearly, therein lies the problem of why women are oppressed in Africa. Also, until we have equal gender representation in positions of influence, the need for feminism will always be present. (Druid, i'm still waiting for you to name those thousands of women u claim are national presidents and Forbes list international CEOs) @Davidylan, I will ask you this: what are YOU doing to improve the condition of oppressed women in Africa? since you recognize that women in Africa are being oppressed (at least in comparison to their western counterparts). |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 6:16pm On Jul 07, 2013 |
davidylan: Thankfully the US is a free country, if you dont like the rules of the catholic church nothing stops you from leaving so you can continue using your condoms elsewhere. Why the above is an issue is beyond me.The catholic church is the main opponent and attacker of Planned Parenthood - an organization whose aim is to provide se.xual and reproductive health care and advocacy for women all around the USA. most users of planned parenthood are NOT catholic. catholic groups are also more likely to be found protesting outside of abortion clinics. the women using those services are NOT catholic. This is the point I made in my previous post. try to read before posting/ selectively quoting my posts. |
| Family › Re: Woman Sleeping In A Cot While Baby Sleeps On The Bed! by 99cent: 8:44am On Jul 06, 2013 |
-someone must have helped her to fit in d cot and zip it. -that someone must have also taken the pic (probably her husband) -I don't think anyone can fall asleep in that extremely uncomfortable posture. it's a funny pic sha. I laughed |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 8:40am On Jul 06, 2013 |
I.Joan:  |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 8:22am On Jul 06, 2013 |
I.Joan:I don't feel comfortable sharing any personal experience with u and besides, it's not "personal experience" that motivates me but just a sense of what's right. Idealism, if you wish. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 8:00am On Jul 06, 2013 |
I.Joan:Ok. yea it's hard to notice when i'm responding to 4-5 anti-feminists at once. I know where u stand and you know where I stand so I don't really think there is anything much to debate with you. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 7:56am On Jul 06, 2013 |
souldust: this same church you say hates women, believes so much in a woman. Is it a crime to protect the lives of the inocent from being sacrificed on the alters of selfishness?I think it is very interesting for you to believe that you care more about the life of some unborn fetus than the mother who is carrying that fetus in her own stomach. besides, what are you doing to protect the lives of the billions of children (not fetuses, ACTUAL CHILDREN) who are abandoned, hungry, homeless, sick, abused and dying all around the world? You would think that each of those anti-abortion protesters will have at least 2 adopted/foster children under their care the way they go about claiming to be protectors of another woman's unborn child. the catholic church did not even approve of condom use until 2010!! Till today, it still does not approve of birth control. yea, a church that only sees women as baby-making machine and not much else is not what I would call a good church. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 2:52am On Jul 06, 2013*. Modified: 8:08am On Jul 06, 2013 |
^what a monkey |
| Health › Re: Two-year-old Boy Diagnosed With Cloves Syndrome by 99cent: 2:48am On Jul 06, 2013 |
Decryptor: Why is it that whites are the ones who usually suffer from these ailments more frequently than Africans? Rare diseases with weird namesbecause such a child would not have even survived 3 weeks in naija. how many premature babies survive in naija? u read that the child suffers from severe seizures and is probably on a lot of medications to keep him alive. also, in naija, such a child might be branded as a devil. there is a thread about a woman who gave birth to a child with three legs (birth defect), i'm sure witchcraft will be implicatd in it. these oyinbos see it as rare diseases rather than witchcraft the way nigerians will view it. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 2:36am On Jul 06, 2013 |
I.Joan:not this one again. you know I'm not even going to waste my time in answering you. I have had an exchange with you before and know that your intentions are not good. besides you have refused to answer my own question: what motivates you to debate atheists on an online forum? |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 2:27am On Jul 06, 2013 |
CAMEROONPRIDE: i'm having a severe, uncontrollable diarrhea of the mouthI fixed ur post for you, little ape. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 2:27am On Jul 06, 2013 |
biolabee: cameroon is perfectly able to speak for himself and if as you say decide to join him in the use of insulting languagewell then you need to stop poke nosing on my posts. when I make a post that is NOT directed at you, then u should mind your business and control yourself. u look like a dumbo when u pick on my post for insult while throwing high fives at ur friends who are also making much worse insults directed at me. mind your business next time. you are not a moderator. I seriously hope you keep ur word and refrain from posting on this thread henceforth.... u seem like the worse one one here with ur passive-aggressive nature. next in line will be ur friends cameroon and david while toshman (although a republican) seem a little bit more reasonable in his posts. at least he is starting to seem so. |
| Celebrities › Re: Funke Akindele (Jenifa) Climbing A Palmtree On Set Of A Movie by 99cent: 2:21am On Jul 06, 2013 |
she's too much |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 10:47pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
Political Attacks on Planned Parenthood Are a Threat to Women's Health Political attacks on Planned Parenthood pose a threat to the well-being of millions of women in the U.S. By The Editors | Friday, June 1, 2012 | 61 Almost 100 years ago Margaret Sanger opened a tiny birth-control clinic in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, N.Y. Poor Yiddish- and Italian-speaking women, overwhelmed by large families that they could not support, would come for advice about how to avoid pregnancy and the dangers of horrific, sometimes life-threatening, self-administered abortions. The clinic taught women to use the diaphragm. Nine days after it opened, Sanger and two other women who ran the center were jailed for violating a New York State law that prohibited contraception. This clinic eventually grew into Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest nonprofit supplier of reproductive health services to women and men. A century after its founding, the organization is again at the heart of one of the most divisive issues in American political life. It has come under attack by Republican presidential candidates seeking to revoke the group’s federal funding—almost half of its $1-billion budget comes from federal and state sources. Last year the House of Representatives voted to withdraw some of its support, although the measure was not sustained in the Senate. (Backing for the group, initiated under the Nixon administration, has not always been a partisan issue.) In March, Mitt Romney, the GOP’s presumptive presidential candidate, vowed to end federal funding if elected. This is a worrying prospect for both women and public health. For some people, Planned Parenthood has come to symbolize abortion, which it has provided since 1970. But in all the rhetoric, facts have sometimes gone missing. For instance, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona declared last year on the floor of the Senate that abortion accounts for “well over 90 percent” of what Planned Parenthood does. The actual figure is 3 percent. (Planned Parenthood clinics perform one in four abortions in the U.S. but use no federal funds for this practice.) To some abortion opponents, that 3 percent is reason enough to gut the organization. If a future Congress and White House were to do so, however, it would drive women once again into the back alleys, without necessarily decreasing the number of abortions. Stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding would also sacrifice the 97 percent of its public health work that has nothing to do with abortion, from which many people benefit directly. One in five American women have used the group’s services, and three out of four of its patients are considered to have low incomes. In 2011 it carried out tests and treatment for more than four million individuals with sexually transmitted diseases. It supplied 750,000 exams to prevent breast cancer, the most common cancer among U.S. women. And it performed 770,000 Pap tests to prevent cervical cancer, which was a leading cause of death among women before this screen became widely available. Planned Parenthood is one of the most important public health care institutions in the country, even aside from its work in rational family planning. Family planning has benefited society in numerous ways. It has saved lives, opened new horizons for women and kept populations from soaring. Since 1965, the year the Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law that made access to contraception illegal, women’s ability to plan and space out pregnancies has contributed to a 60 percent decline in maternal deaths. By 2002, moreover, only 9 percent of births were unwanted, compared with 20 percent in the early 1960s. As a major provider of contraceptives—it furnished birth control to two million Americans last year—Planned Parenthood serves as “America’s largest abortion preventer,” as one Chicago Tribune writer pointed out. Access to birth control in the U.S. has helped narrow the income inequality gap between men and women by as much as 30 percent during the 1990s alone. The pill has given women greater choice about when to have children, freeing them up to acquire career skills. By 2009 women procured more than half of all U.S. doctoral degrees, compared with 10 percent in 1960. The health and well-being of a society correlates highly with the status of its women. In many parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa, women are now making gains, to the betterment of all, in access to education and jobs—both contingent on family planning. Now is a particularly bad time for Americans, as citizens of the world, to forget what we have accomplished at home. This article was published in print as "Protect Women's Health." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=protect-womens-health |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 10:40pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
Memo on planned parenthood website Opposing Attacks on Women’s Health https://www.plannedparenthood.org/images/PPFA/0900000-issues-womens-health.jpg Women must be able to access health care without fear of violence, harassment, or intimidation. Young people must be able to get accurate information about their health and how to protect it. And women, men, and teens must able to make their own decisions about their health and their futures without government intrusion. Anti-choice extremists do everything they can to prevent women and men from taking charge of their lives. If these radicals truly were concerned about women and families, they would work with Planned Parenthood to reduce unintended pregnancy in the first place by doing the only thing that works — increasing access to affordable birth control and comprehensive sex education. Planned Parenthood fights anti-choice extremism on every level. Unfortunately, anti-choice extremists continue their attacks on Planned Parenthood and the people we serve. Join us to fight: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/key-issues/opposing-attacks-womens-health-25940.htm it's so ironic that most of the same people (anti-feminists, religious right wing extremists etc) who oppose abortion are also the same who will not support access to birth control for women and se.xual health information for women. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 10:22pm On Jul 05, 2013*. Modified: 10:55pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
biolabee: You recognise there should be term limits for abortion yet you call those who feel the same terroriststhe "limit" I am talking about is counseling for these poor vulnerable women. NOT criminalization. besides i'm only trying to be more "tolerant" ie understanding of toshman's views. calm ur azz down. read my post before typing n stop putting words in my mouth. when there is lack of proper access to health, the lives of these women become more endangered. many will self-induce abortion or go to crooks if they can't get it at a hospital. this is very dangerous and life threatening. I am yet to see you say anything about cameroon (your friend) insultive posts. yet u are always hypocritically looking for a million and one things in my posts. hmm I wonder why. birds of the same feathers flock together.a dunce will be friend to a dunce. besides an organization called planned parenthood provides counseling and other contraceptive services to women. yet the anti-women amongst us(mostly the catholic church who are against birth control and conservatives who just hate women for no reason at all) are succeeding in their fight to shut the organization down! http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are-4648.htm |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 10:05pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
toshmann: If you want my opinion, I'll say the doctors who do the abortion be punished. Their license revoked and they'll be suspended for sometime eg 6months for first offenders etc.LOL. Women's reproductive health issues encompasses much more than just abortion. access to proper health care being the main issue for women's reproductive health. access to birth control as well. we all know about this and last year's attack on Planned Parenthood from the conservative faction of American society. u are republican so u should know. and these are the kind of lack of support of women's health that lead to dangerous things as increased incidences of late term abortions. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 10:01pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
toshmann: That was just my opinion. I'm no legal expert. You asked for my amateur opinion and I gave it.I see ur point I personally think that there should be some limits but there should be more of a counseling requirement for the women rather than just criminalizing it. Usually there are reasons for why women would go for such proceedures. The main reason women have late term abortion (as of a 1987 poll in the USA) : 71% Woman didn't recognize she was pregnant or misjudged gestation 48% Woman found it hard to make arrangements for abortion 33% Woman was afraid to tell her partner or parents 24% Woman took time to decide to have an abortion 8% Woman waited for her relationship to change 8% Someone pressured woman not to have abortion 6% Something changed after woman became pregnant 6% Woman didn't know timing is important 5% Woman didn't know she could get an abortion 2% A fetal problem was diagnosed late in pregnancy 11% Other so it seems that many of these women had problem (social, health care and otherwise) getting early abortion. which put them into further risk as time went by. Mostly lack of access to proper health care and guidance. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 9:30pm On Jul 05, 2013*. Modified: 9:56pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
toshmann: If you want my opinion, I'll say the doctors who do the abortion be punished. Their license revoked and they'll be suspended for sometime eg 6months for first offenders etc.OF COURSE no licensed doctors will perform it. late term abortion is actually already illegal in many places. Abortion then becomes an underground procedure performed by quacks (same ones who probably shoot up drugs etc) thereby further endangering the lives of the vulnerable young women (physically and financially) who are being criminalized. these women who go for these procedures already have tons of problems. what exactly do u gain from shutting them further out of mainstream health care system? |
| Health › Re: Benefits Of Cold Water Showers. by 99cent: 8:04pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
rubbish. cold shower ko... u will catch pneumonia before u know it. |
| Celebrities › Re: Celebrity Section Complaints/Suggestions Thread by 99cent: 7:55pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
psky: Wow! This section is generating more traffic than even politics section.well because there are now at least 10 celebrity topics on the front page for every political topic even snapping pic with d-list celebrity will land u on front page. |
| Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Can A Non-national Join Nigerian Army? by 99cent: 7:36pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
sure. they're called mercenaries. if nigerian govt offer them a lot of money, i'm sure they will do it. many dictators use paid foreign solders all d time. they don't trust their own people |
| Sports › Re: Christian Obodo Found In Italy With Marijuana & Girls by 99cent: 7:29pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
he looks at least 45!! why r they looking for him? the guy is tired. why else will he be hiding. let them go and find somebody else. hahaha na by force |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Morsy's Overthrow, Good Or Bad by 99cent: 7:24pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
makahlj2: Yes, but only if we are sure that democracy is always a good thing. Which is far from proven, especially for countries such as Egypt (and Nigeria too).lol. so u would much prefer military rule? u already miss ABACHA? |
| Education › Re: Nigerian Graduates With 5.0 CGPA From Russian University by 99cent: 7:22pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
timecop28: Because there is a Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) between the FG and countries like Russia, China, Ukraine, Turkey, etc. which doesn't include the USA or the UK. He was a beneficiary of such scholarship.hmm makes sense. |
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