Feminist Friday Quick Clicks, 9

Awesome: “Starting December 14, 2009, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine will no longer be a required vaccination for immigrant women and girls.”

For those looking for stores to boycott over the holiday season, here’s a list of the stores that say ‘Merry Christmas’ and those who are more inclusive, choosing a ‘Happy Holidays.’

“Meet the Predators“: a post on who rapes.

Glenn Beck, still being an asshole, compares universal healthcare to rape (are you kidding me?) using the Polanski case for an analogy that doesn’t even make sense to anyone who’s read or seen or knows ANYTHING about that case.

Two recent diagrams from Indexed that I liked.

John Stewart on Palin’s book tour, or whatever.

Tampa (the city I’m from) adds transgender protections to its nondiscrimination ordinance.

Chaz Bono in an interview on abc news: “…gender is between your ears, not between your legs…”

You don’t even need to see the before and after shots to see what a terrible, impossible photoshop job this was.  An entire chunk of Demi Moore’s hip is missing (quite obviously) in order to make her appear even thinner.

After all that crap they put her through, Caster Semanya will be allowed to keep her title.

Oprah plans to end her show in 2011 and start a new one on her own channel.

 

[Edited to include links I’d forgotten to insert prior to the scheduled time this was posted for.]