“The headscarf is where we are stuck”
Menace to society? The obsession with the headscarf is having a profoundly negative effect on Muslim women around the world. Luckily, feminist activists are standing up for the rights of all women to attend school and hold public office — no matter what they wear. Under Turkish law, women who cover their hair cannot attend [...]
...read moreThe Lady-Tax
In an effort to get the city’s budget balanced, New York is developing ways to level taxes on certain services that are disproportionately utilized by the wealthy. And I’m all for that — right up until the point where they level especially high taxes on services that are used almost entirely by women. As government [...]
...read moreThe Good Old Days
While state senators are pining for the good ol’ days of easy rape and conservative Texas communities are doing their darndest to shame and punish young women who “choose life,” a Colorado representative is letting teen moms know exactly how he feels about them: “In my parents’ day and age, they were sent away. They [...]
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
I know that as a person who is both a feminist and single, I’m supposed to hate Valentine’s Day. But I don’t. I mean, I hate the heteronormativity and the conspicuous consumerism and if anyone ever bought me velour lingerie or a diamond heart necklace I would immediately end the relationship and go home alone. [...]
...read moreRape Just Ain’t What It Used To Be
Apparently there’s a big problem with making a rape exception to anti-abortion laws: Rape today just isn’t what it was a few decades ago, when “unchaste” women could be forced into sex with impunity. Or at least that’s what pro-life Tennessee State Senator Doug Henry thinks: “Rape, ladies and gentlemen, is not today what rape [...]
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Women Cannot Be In Positions Of Authority Over Boys
A lady-cop can tell you what to do?! Watch the heads of religious conservatives explode. A religious academy in Kansas recently removed a female referee from a boys’ basketball game because it would have been improper for her to tell them what to do. So do they not have female teachers? Are sons not taught [...]
...read moreThanks for Choosing Life! …now piss off.
Title stolen from Doug, who basically says everything I would have. It’s not an uncommon story: Teenage girl grows up in a conservative town; teenage girl gets pregnant; teenage girl has baby; town is scandalized. But here, the teenage girl got her life together — being a mother pushed her to be more responsible, and [...]
...read moreHow is Steroid Use Suddenly A Partisan Issue? (Or, Republicans Defend The Rich Guy Against The Whistleblower, Again)
I don’t care about baseball. Of the major sports, it is my least favorite. I don’t devote much effort to following sports at all, but I follow boxing most closely, followed by Formula One, Scottish football and … well, everything else is far, far behind. I watch more of the Stihl Timbersports series in most [...]
...read moreScience Reporting Still Sucks
CNN is doing the same old pop-culture reporting on the science of gender, sex and attraction. The story draws a less than startling conclusion, which it attributes to the study: “While people of each gender tend to ogle beautiful people of the opposite sex, they also check out good-looking rivals who might show interest in [...]
...read moreGay Middle Schooler Shot in the Head and Killed
So sad. But several students at the south Oxnard campus said King and his alleged assailant had a falling out stemming from King’s sexual orientation. The teenager sometimes wore feminine clothing and makeup, and proclaimed he was gay, students said. “He would come to school in high-heeled boots, makeup, jewelry and painted nails — the [...]
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Why I love my TiFaux
I get to skip past ads like this one. (via) Oh, sure, one occasionally slips past me and grates my nerves like a microplaner (“He went to Jared!” or one of those tense and misanthropic Sonic ads. I don’t even know what Sonic is). But for the most part, I can avoid the Valentine’s “How [...]
...read moreSupport V-Day at St. Louis University
The international V-Day campaign has done amazing work for women world-wide — and women themselves have embraced V-Day in 120 countries. According to the campaign itself: V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit [...]
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