The Fosters - Pilot

Just some casual lesbian domestic affection from ABC Family’s The Fosters.

Diane Sawyer: So, have you thought, how many women is enough? How many women [on the Supreme Court] would be enough?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Nine, nine. [Applause.]
Sawyer: Oh! Oh. [Laughs.]
Ginsburg: Well, there’ve been nine men there for a long long time, right? So why not nine women?
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The Lesbian and Gay Band Association performs “Tonight” from West Side Story and “The Edge of Glory” by Lady Gaga for President Obama during his second Inaugural Parade. LGBA is made up of members of LGBT bands from 27 states and DC. In 2009, the band made history as the first ever LGBT group to be invited to participate in an inaugural parade, and this year it was the parade’s second-largest contingent, with 215 members.

LGBA’s inclusion took on additional significance in light of President Obama’s second inaugural address, in which he invoked the historic Stonewall riots and declared, “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law”—the first time the word “gay” has ever been used in an inauguration speech.

LGBA artistic director Marita Begley told the New York Times, “This is a parade that’s a tapestry of all the things that make up this country. It feels like the president is saying, ‘These people are Americans, welcome to the table.’ ”

“It’s really good to be here,” she said, “as full citizens.”

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Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories chronicles the impact of domestic violence on children and the recurring failings of family courts across the country to protect them from their abusers. In stark and often poignant interviews, children and battered mothers tell their stories of abuse at home and continued trauma within the courts. The one-hour special also features interviews with domestic violence experts, attorneys and judges who reveal the disturbing frequency in which abusers are winning custody of their children and why these miscarriages of justice continue to occur.

Watch the full documentary here, or watch just Manya’s story here.

Eugene Mirman reports on the Republican presidential primary. (In 2008, but does it really make any difference?)

Drop Dead Diva 4x10, “Lady Parts”

So this show has been pretty bad lately, but it still makes me happy on a fairly regular basis. Such as this episode, in which a man who goes around chastising women for being “emotional” is played as an unambiguous villain.

Claressa Shields of Flint, Mich., 2012 Olympic women’s middleweight boxing champion. Because 2012 is the first year women have been allowed to compete in Olympic boxing, Shields is the first woman ever to earn the title. Just 17 years old, she defeated 33-year-old Russian boxer Nadezda Torlopova, becoming the second youngest fighter to win a gold medal in either men’s or women’s boxing.

22-year-old Idalys Ortiz of Cuba, 2012 Olympic women’s heavyweight judo champion. Ortiz is the first woman not from China or Japan to claim the title.