Oyirinnaya

“la honte doit changer de camp” – Gisèle

[Oyirinnaya @chakannadi]

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[Unchained At Last @UnchainedAtLast]

BREAKING: WE DID IT

WE BANNED CHILD MARRIAGE IN CALIFORNIA.

After our epic NINE-YEAR battle, we got the bill passed in California.

When the law takes effect, California will become the 18th state where
we have helped make the marriage age:

18. No exceptions.

@chelseaclinton

[Oyirinnaya @chakannadi]

@hyel_adzira You are also not an "'Ibo' bastard?"

[Oyirinnaya @chakannadi]

Ụnụ anaghị eri anụ nkịta, ma ụnụ ga-ara ofe e jiri anụ nkịta tee.

Ihe nke a, ihe kwe.

[jw pressroom @jwpressroom]

Jehovah's Witnesses announce an adjustment to their position on blood components derived from another person's blood. For the full press statement see link in bio.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

Beginning in 2006, Tokyo Medical University began secretly limiting female applicants to ensure that more men became doctors.
Female applicants’ admissions test scores were dropped 10-20% right out of the gate, but that still wasn’t enough, so they automatically added 20 bonus points to the scores of all male applicants who had failed the exam less than four times.

The goal was to keep female enrollment at 30% or less, and when this was uncovered accidentally in 2018, Japanese authorities launched a nationwide audit of 81 medical schools. At least 9 other universities were caught doing the same thing — denying qualified female applicants in favor of less-qualified men. Many other institutions were suspected.

The justifications were, quite frankly, pathetic. TMU claimed that they were doing it because they assumed women would eventually leave the medical profession to marry and have children — you know, because women aren’t capable of balancing motherhood and a career.

Juntendo University claimed they adjusted women’s scores because women have better communications skills and mature faster, giving them an “unfair advantage” over men.

Kitasato University claimed men were more “flexible,” and could better handle the overnight/on call scheduling demanded of student doctors.

Kanazawa Medical University and Iwate Medical University claimed that men were more likely to work in rural areas, where there is a shortage of doctors. There was no statistical evidence to support this statement, but that’s what they said.

St Marianna University School of Medicine flat out denied the charges, even after the government investigation found objective statistical proof that they had consistently marked down the test scores of female applicants. Instead, they blamed “irregularities” in their internal screening criteria. They did not specify the nature of these irregularities.

This scandal proved something that Japanese women had suspected for over a quarter of a century: that they were being deliberately excluded from the medical profession. For decades, the rate of female medical students had hovered in the 30% range. It was referred to as the “40% barrier,” and medical schools always claimed it existed naturally.

They were lying.

In late 2018, the Japanese government ordered medical schools to stop rigging scores. In the very next cycle of entrance exams, women outscored and outperformed men at multiple institutions for the first time in Japanese history. By 2023, the “40% barrier” had been broken.

This scandal didn’t happen 50 years ago. Within the last decade, qualified female applicants were being rejected from major Japanese medical schools in favor of waitlisted men. Their scores were artificially reduced, while male applicants had their scores inflated. As a result, just 23.6% of Japanese doctors are women.

This leaves Japanese women with very limited choices when it comes to female-only medical care. We know that female doctors take female patients more seriously. How many Japanese women are getting substandard medical care because their doctor is a man who was given a high score, and not a woman who actually earned one?

[Ụlọma 💜 @ulxma]

My grandma didn’t even need this excuse. She threw us out of the house one time because she came back and we were playing and the plates were unwashed. We were parading the streets of Aba when some corpers took us in for a few days. It was 2002 and I was 7. Her own daughter’s children, mind you. 🤣

[Mike Pesca @pescami]

Ordinary Abundance. This is the greatest thing I've read in weeks. No kidding. This should win a Pulitzer in a category not yet invented. https://t.co/iqnoACNt6z

[Deisine @TDeisine]

The first time I regretted being a woman was when I was 15 years old.

I was talking to my mom about freedom.
I told her, "When I finally leave this house, i will be free. No more chores. No more being told what to do."

She looked at me and said, "A woman is never truly free." She said, as a little girl, you are under your parents. Then you get married, and you are under your husband. He decides what you do, where you go, and how you live. And when you're old enough to be out of your husband's reach, you'll be under your children. They will take care of you, and they will make many of your decisions.

I remember asking, "Then when is a woman ever free?" She simply said,
"She isn't."

That day, I regretted being a woman.
But looking back now, I wish I could sit beside that fifteen-year-old girl, and even my mother, and say: Mommy you were wrong. Because freedom isn't something a father, husband, or child gives a woman. It's something she claims.

Today, I am a free woman.
I make my own choices. I belong to myself.

[Oyirinnaya @chakannadi]

@nzemmili Onye na-ejighi ego a na-adịghị eri ofe Owere, ma ya fọkwa.

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis died OTD in 1955 at HM Prison Holloway, the last woman to be executed by hanging in Britain. Her death prompted a public debate about capital punishment.

Ruth was born in Rhyl in 1926 and her family frequently moved when she was a child. They often changed surnames too. There are all sorts of possible reasons for this but one thing is certain. Her father preyed on and sexually abused Ruth from the age of eleven — she tried to fight back — as well as raping her elder sister Muriel who bore his child when she was 14. As a result of his unorthodox relationship with another young girl and his own predatory behaviour, Ruth had a very early introduction to alcohol and men.

Pregnant at 17 to a married Canadian soldier, she ended up in dead-end factory jobs to support herself and her baby daughter. Not long after, the teenaged Ruth started nude modelling, followed by escort work, and at age 24, became a nightclub hostess. During the period leading up to, during, and after her trial for the shooting of David Blakeley in April 1955, she was excoriated in the national press for her “lifestyle”, her looks, and her working class background.

Why are abused women drawn into relationships with abusive men? You’ll have your own thoughts and I have mine, but when Ruth married in 1950, her husband was a violent alcoholic 16 years older than her who knocked her around and refused to acknowledge he was the father of her second daughter. They split up. On the breadline again, Ruth started selling herself to make enough to get by.

She tried to improve her prospects. She took etiquette and elocution classes and was promoted to nightclub manager in 1953 when she was 27. This brought her into contact with celebrities and people with money. That’s how she met David Blakely, a privately educated racing driver as well as a promiscuous bisexual and violent alcoholic. He was engaged at the time. Ruth herself was also in a relationship with Desmond Cussen, another alcoholic. None of this is promising, is it?

In January 1955, Blakely punched Ruth in the stomach so hard that she miscarried. She often gave him money to placate him. He would often attack her when he was drunk. “He would smack my face and punch me…[and once] lost all control. His fist struck me between the eyes and I fell to the floor. Savagely he beat me as I lay there.”

On 10 April 1955, Ruth went to a Hampstead pub where Blakely was drinking with friends. When he and a friend left the pub at 9.30pm, Ruth took a revolver out of her handbag and shot him five times, three times in the back. A sixth shot ricocheted and took off the thumb of a bystander.

An off-duty police officer ran outside to find Ruth standing next to Blakely’s body. She said, “Phone the police.” Arrested and taken to the police station, she said, “I am guilty: I am rather confused. It all started about two years ago” and thanked the Detective Chief Inspector when she was charged.

You know the rest. Less than three months later, Ruth Ellis stood trial at the Old Bailey for Blakeley’s murder. When Christmas Humphreys, counsel for the prosecution, asked her why she had shot him, she infamously said, “It’s obvious when I shot him I intended to kill him."

It took 23 minutes for the jury to return a guilty verdict for murder, a capital offence.

The Manchester Evening News reported, “And as Mr. Justice Havers put on the black cap, Mrs. Ellis, the mother of two children, turned to the prison nurse standing beside her and smiled gently. Then she turned and with a wardress’s hand under her arm, walked calmly down the steps to the death cell.”

Within two days, her execution date was ”fixed for Wednesday, July 13, at Holloway Prison.” Her only chance of reprieve lay in the hands of the Home Secretary who was “set to study all the papers in the case.”

There was no reprieve.

Ruth was woken at 8.30am 71 years ago today at Holloway. She refused breakfast but accepted a glass of brandy from a woman prison officer, and accompanied by the prison governor, the prison doctor, a chaplain and the executioner, she was led to the place of execution. It was the shortest longest walk you could ever imagine.

Prison staff described her as “the calmest woman who has gone to the gallows.” The Coventry Evening Telegraph reported: “Women wept and others prayed outside Holloway Prison”.

Ruth was 28.

Did she deserve to die? You’ll have your own thoughts about this too and I have mine. What I will tell you is that I knew the prison officer who sat with her the night before, a duty we called the death watch. I worked with that officer many years later. She never spoke of it except to say one thing. She had gone into that cell that night strongly in favour of capital punishment. She came out the next morning vehemently opposed to it.

Ruth said: “Only a woman who had led a similar life to mine could understand how I was irresistibly compelled to do what I did.��

[Eloho Johnson @ElohoJohnsonn]

Here is what I am telling you, young woman: That a mother of 7, a divorcee, a sex worker, and even a virgin woman are all equal. That all women are equal and that is how they must be viewed and treated, just as no man is ever defined by how much he uses his penis.

[Maia @maiamindel]

a lot of people will say "women from such and such culture were respected and powerful within the household" and mean it in the same way stupid chuds think their family is a matriarchy because their grandmother was in charge of sunday lunch

[Cecilia Adeyemo @AdeyemoCecilia1]

School of Nursing (RN)
School of Midwifery (RM)
Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGCert)
BSc in Nursing
MSc Healthcare Management and Leadership
PhD in Nursing
Lecturer, Nursing Education and Administration
Associate Professor of Nursing
Dean, College of Nursing Science

[Chief £ne @_Ojonya]

For Nigerian women, here are some of the way your human rights are being violated.

[Lenore Lenoir ♀ @LenoreLenoir]

La esclavitud femenina no se reconoce porque implicaría poner sobre la mesa a una situación que afecta a más de la mitad de la población y que va más allá de la clase o etnia, que se trata de algo que llevamos arrastrando desde hace milenios.

[Oyirinnaya @chakannadi]

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