Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy
Former FDA head Lester Crawford to plead guilty for failing to disclose his interests in several companies regulated by his agency. Court papers say Crawford chaired the Food and Drug Administration’s Obesity Working Group while he and his wife owned shares worth at least $62,000 in soft drink and snack food manufacturer Pepsico Inc., based [...]
...read moreHot sexy law school deans are waiting for you…
Creepy indeed. A law gossip blog (who knew?) is soliciting nominations for the sexiest female law school dean. Because, you know, when you’ve clerked for the Supreme Court, graduated at the top of your class, been published dozens of times over, and worked your ass off to succeed in what remains a remarkably male-dominated (and [...]
...read moreConcerned Women for College Sports
Tbogg, father of the lovely and talented soccer-playing Casey, has a post up about a new group with the innocuous-sounding name of the College Sports Council. Not surprisingly, if you scratch the surface, you find anti-Title IX groups looking to restore the non-revenue men’s sports that typically get cut when sports budgets get restricted. And, [...]
...read moreI’m Special.
There is only one of me in the entire USA. HowManyOfMe.com There are:0people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? via Lauren, who is totally less special. 47? Sucka.
...read moreWhy the Headscarf Debate Matters
Not trying to make it hijab day here at Feministe, but Russell sends on this article about Tunisia’s attempts to limit the headscarf in public, and I think it illustrates fairly well why this issue should matter to feminists. For too long, the headscarf/veil has been seen as synonymous with “oppression.” Let me be clear: [...]
...read moreCoyote is My Stepchild
Okay, so this was supposed to be a serious post in response to this essay bfp posted/linked on her blog, but now I am utterly captivated by the awesomeness that is Lynn Andrews. I mean, really: I invite you to browse through our store and shop with confidence. You can purchase a varitey of items [...]
...read moreAnother Book Thread
Because I’m so lazy. Over at brownfemipower, on the bounty post, a sideline opened up in comments about symbolism, race, and women as (various kinds) of chattel. Chabert: ” and the ways in which feminism and Victorian morality, angel in the house, woman as moral influence, yup, went together” chasingm brought up the film of [...]
...read morePoor Choice of Words
This is maddening: Salon published an article Saturday by Mary Elizabeth Williams about the reliability of Rachael Ray’s recipes even if her personality is getting more and more coked-up and grating as she expands her media empire. The title? “Rachael Ray, my dinner hooker.” Lovely. After noting that Ray does not give off the kind [...]
...read moreRe-Framing the Abortion Debate
A former pro-life activist writes an article for Alternet about her ideological shift, and proposes ways to reach those who are technically pro-choice, but don’t relate to traditional pro-choice talking points. She’s saying what a lot of people in the pro-choice movement have been arguing for decades: That reproductive freedom is about poverty; it’s about [...]
...read moreThinly-veiled bigotry
Speaking of the headscarf, a Muslim teacher in England has been suspended for wearing the veil — and social conservatives like Minister for Local Government and Community Cohesion Phil Woolas are arguing that she should be fired. And their reasoning just keeps getting more ridiculous: Woolas said Azmi’s stance amounted to sex discrimination: “By insisting [...]
...read moreCalling a Spade a Spade
This is why I love Bob Herbert. His column, in its entirety: “Who needs a brain when you have these?” — message on an Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt for young women In the recent shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania and a large public high school in Colorado, the killers went out of [...]
...read moreMorocco Moves to De-emphasize Headscarf
Morocco, a fairly Westernized Islamic nation, is making moves to place less emphasis on the headscarf. They claim they’re doing so in order to combat extremism. I have mixed feelings. As it stands, the Moroccan government is simply cutting down on the number of textbook illustrations featuring women in the headscarf; they aren’t outlawing it, [...]
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