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POPS"R.I.P." t-shirts becoming part of Bay Area's cultural fabric More: Cha Cha Starks' daughter, Shaneice Davis, was killed while asleep in her bed April 7, 2008, when a stray bullet went through their East Oakland apartment. Starks says, "I wear my shirt and have it done because I'm never going to forget my daughter, and I don't want anyone else to forget her. So as long as you know someone can see her face, they can hear her story."
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POPS"The central tenets of 'natural childbirth' are racist, sexist lies"
More: Pain in childbirth served a very important function…it was the punishment that befell women who became too educated, too independent…The idea that "primitive" women had painless childbirth was fabricated to contrast with the painful childbirth of "overcivilized" women. Grantly Dick-Read was issuing a warning to women of a certain social class: if you step beyond the roles prescribed for women, you will be punished with painful labor… In light of this, the contemporary popularity of natural childbirth is more than a bit ironic. The central claims of natural childbirth, that childbirth is not inherently painful, and that if you "prepare" properly, your birth will be painless, too, were utter fabrications. Read would be delighted that these fabrications have been embraced by many women and that his philosophy has been propagated so successfully that most women don't even realize that the central tenets of natural childbirth are racist and sexist lies.
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