Lots of news this week, so let’s get right to it!
Abuse and Harassment
Not just pedophilia: abuse of adult women by Catholic priests alleged to be even more pervasive. It's all about power.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/…
Some McDonald's workers striking over harassment.
https://www.usnews.com/...
The ripple effect of misogyny: CBS exec Les Moonves not only directly harassed women, he reshaped the CBS lineup to remove shows with a strong female voice and replace them with ones where the ubiquitous female role was "sexy corpse."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/...
Les Moonves stepping down at CBS amid new reports of harassment - but he's staying on as an unpaid "adviser."
https://www.newyorker.com/…
Violence
Man fatally shot his own wife, four others and himself Wednesday after a confrontation at a trucking business in Bakersfield, Calif. "The new normal," sheriff commented: http://www.latimes.com/...
"Domestic violence" angle also mentioned by the sheriff (https://www.star-telegram.com/...), not so damn new. Last year, a CDC study found husbands and boyfriends perpetrated half of all murders of women; half of these murderers used a gun: https://www.theatlantic.com/...
Identities not yet released.
Russian women fight for their lives after new legislation makes it much harder to prosecute domestic violence.
https://medium.com/...
Some Republican congressmen (and it's mostly men) have written to Paul Ryan to get a vote on renewing the Violence Against Women Act.
http://thehill.com/…
Singlehood
In the U.K., being single can cost a person up to 2,000 pounds a year (about $2,600).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
A Guardian commentary, taking off from there, discusses lack of real knowledge about the lives of single people, and raises the subject of "social infertility" due to economics or not finding a suitable mate. (It also mentions in passing that 1 in 4 university graduates, female OR male, remains childless at 42.)
https://www.theguardian.com/...
New Playboy Club opens in Manhattan, 32 years after the whole chain shut down.
Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights
Women patients not listened to by male doctors, in two new memoirs, and a fictional classic.
Feature on volunteers and their experiences protecting clients at at last abortion clinic in Ky. (Louisville)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/…
A federal appeals court is lining up the destruction of Roe v. Wade.
https://thinkprogress.org/…
No more birth control pills? It could happen.
Ridiculous but Improving
Dress Codes:
Long read in Vox goes into how dress codes shame and discriminate against girls, even more against girls of color, and how things are changing in many places, thanks to a model dress code developed in Oregon:
(Damn, how awful it was back in the day. Kneel on the floor in front of a male administrator to test if your skirt is too short--symbolic much? On more than one level?)
Eight-year-old public school girl in Utah forced to cover her outfit with a jacket, due to religion-based dress code that sexualized any glimpse of female shoulders. Family has successfully pushed back.
http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/…
Nuisances?
A St. Louis suburban town will no longer expel victims of domestic abuse who repeatedly call police. An ACLU lawsuit is responsible for the change.
(The City of Maplewood has an odd law requiring all residents to hold an "occupancy permit," which can be revoked if someone creates a "nuisance." This system was instituted in 2006 and has also generated complaints of racial discrimination: http://news.stlpublicradio.org/...)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/...
Earlier, St. Louis Public Radio had quite an outstanding in-depth piece about the ordinance, mentioning several domestic violence victims exiled as "problem people": http://news.stlpublicradio.org/…
Good News
CurvyCon...For the 70% of women classified as "plus size." (Size 12 is "plus size" in the fashion industry, did you know?) But things are improving.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/…
White Men Are Minority of House Democratic Nominees For First Time Ever
Women and people of color make up the majority of politicians running for House seats on the Democratic ticket, according to a new analysis.
Petition!
Here's a petition in another case where another black woman, this time in Alabama, is accused of murder for standing her ground and shooting her abusive husband, who came after her in her driveway though there was a restraining order against him.
https://act.weareultraviolet.org/…
Thank You
To all those who sent in items for this week, including Clio2, Tara, Besame, and ramara. No WOW diary would be complete without our Amazons.