G4 Tv is messing up. Instead of being a safe haven for nerd, geeks, and dorks, they are trying to become a second Spike TV. I don't know why they are doing this. I've always seen dorkdom and the uber-macho as opposites. The kids getting beat up and those doing the beating.

This new faux-ad is indicative of this change and the problem.

Via Jessica at Feministing

Don't appeal to a stereotypical idea of manliness, appeal to our nerdiness! We have a Spike TV, and we still need something to watch when the internet is down!

Unsafe abortions in the developing world kill 68,000 women a year, research suggests

The article does say that this number includes both legal and back alley abortion. It doesn't say what percentage of these fatalities come from what.

"The most effective way of eliminating this highly preventable cause of maternal illness and death, would be to make safe and legal abortion services available and accessible.

"A second, more immediately achievable, goal is to prevent unintended pregnancies in the first place through improved contraception use."

Seems pretty clear that what ever the number of these come from legal, yet still unsafe, the conclusion is making contraception widely available, abortion legal and improving safety, is the way to lower this number.

Though the fundies draw a different conclusion

The burden of the study is clearly to promote the killing of more unborn babies in poorer countries, regardless of the fact that women do not want abortions

Paul Tully
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children

Read the whole article

I read this article this morning and I got a bit angry. I think the kind of sexism depicted by the author of this article gives support to the preconceived ugliness of the word feminism. This article gives almost NO consideration to Miers actual qualifications for a justice! It argues that her being a woman is good enough. It seems like reverse discrimination and quota-ism in its worst form.

But I want to know what the rest of the progressive world thinks.

I first found the article at: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051004/a_woman_at_least.php