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Third Wave Agenda: Support our troops... unless they're sexually assaulted

"And then we should "take no action." According to the Acting Secretary of the Air Force, "any mistakes or misjudgments some of [the officers] may have made are mitigated by the complexity of the issues faced, the necessity of policy tradeoffs and compromises, and the difficulty of measuring program effectiveness."
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Feministing: India Under Pressure to Curb Sex Trafficking

"As many of you know, sex trafficking has been an ongoing problem throughout much of the world. Recently, Asmita Women's Publication Group conducted a study that found at least 17,000 Nepalese women forced into prostitution in four of India's major cities."
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Feministing: Another Scary Place to Live

"South Dakota Governer Michael Rounds signed four intensely anti-abortion laws last week that will seriously restrict a women's right to choose. "
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Women and learned helplessness

"I've been pondering lately how women were, and it seems in some cases still are, taught to be, and rewarded for being, utterly helpless and hapless, as though this were an admirable trait."