In the News (#1675)

Forcing women to give birth knowing they won’t be bringing a baby home is pure cruelty. – Nancy Northup The Leading Players in the Field, Not (#574) While Western “feminists” burbled hagiographies of Gloria Steinem, Indian feminists had this to say: …Gloria Steinem[‘s]…deep and damaging impact on the movement for sex workers’ rights…is one of her most lasting legacies in Southasia…Steinem posited that prostitution – she refused to call it “sex work” – manifests an inherent power disparity between male buyers and female sellers of sex. In this construct, women are passive, mute and helpless pawns in the transaction, which is understood to be inevitably an act of gendered violence. Speaking on a visit to India in 2014, aged 79, Steinem…told reporters…[that sex work] is a form of “commercial rape”. It “involves body invasion and so it is not like any other work. So how can you call it sex work? Prostitution is the only word you should use”… Monsters (#1329) Monsters typically claim the…