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In some parts of the world, women are still not taught or allowed to read. And in the United States, women were not given the same education as their male counterparts until decades later. With similar policies overseas, one could think it difficult to find a female on page worthy of praise. With only eyelash batting or being tied to the proverbial train tracks, women have made up a poor part of the printed page.
link: http://librarysciencedegree.org/top-10-fictional-feminist-icons-of-all-time/In some parts of the world, women are still not taught or allowed to read. And in the... more
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Modern Lady's Erin Gibson halfheartedly applauds the historic gender make-up of the new Supreme Court. But, she's not going to be satisfied until there are a majority of women on the bench or until... a man, or lady, or lady man satisfies her. See her strong opinion in "Gibson v. Supreme Court."
In each episode of Modern Lady, Erin Gibson explores the often-conflicting ways in which today's media tells women to work, love, and be ladies. For more Erin visit: http://current.com/shows/infomania/modern-lady/ and Current TV
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.
Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.Modern Lady's Erin Gibson halfheartedly applauds the historic gender make-up of... more
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Women have a chance to nudge up their numbers in the U.S. Senate in November, but it's not a year to expect any great gains. A decline is quite possible.
A looming question of these midterm 2010 elections is the extent to which female senators--now numbering 13 Democrats and four Republicans–will shift to the GOP side of the aisle.
Of the Senate's 17 female members, six are up for re-election. One of these races won't affect the female headcount because the race is between two women.
Read the rest: http://www.womensenews.org/story/campaign-trail/101007/senate-races-could-shift-womens-party-linesWomen have a chance to nudge up their numbers in the U.S. Senate in November, but... more
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Shaharzad Akbar mulled it over a million times before pressing the "publish" button on April 4, 2007.
What went online then, to her blog in Farsi called "Mesle Aab, Mesle Aatash (Like Water, Like Fire)," was the first part of a series of posts called "insulting love," which she says has brought the worst backlash since she started blogging in 2006.
"The post argued that most Afghan popular songs and poetry portrayed a weak image of women and addressed them as property or an object rather than a full, intelligent human being," said Akbar, a 22-year-old graduate student at Oxford University in England, in an email interview.
Though she currently lives outside of Afghanistan, Akbar considers herself to be part of a slowly growing blogosphere of Afghan women writing about women's issues, politics and culture. As with other female bloggers, she takes advantage of a technology that affords them a rare opportunity for self-expression in a male-dominated culture.
Read the rest: http://www.womensenews.org/story/media-stories/101005/afghan-female-bloggers-wince-and-then-uploadShaharzad Akbar mulled it over a million times before pressing the "publish"... more
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Thank You Skinhead Girl
director : Sharon Woodward
language : English
length : 45 minutes
England, 2009, HD
23 - 30 October, 2010 Chiang Mai, Kingdom of Thailand
http://dsiff.tumblr.com/filmsThank You Skinhead Girl
director : Sharon Woodward
language : English
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Inez Sainz was allegedly sexually harassed by the New York Jets, and the media made a confusing mess of the whole ordeal. Resident lady news expert Erin Gibson shows how Fox contributor Liz Trotta summed up the scandal in one word: hooker.
In each episode of Modern Lady, Erin Gibson explores the often-conflicting ways in which today's media tells women to work, love, and be ladies. For more Erin visit: http://current.com/shows/infomania/modern-lady/ and Current TV
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10/9c on Current TV.Inez Sainz was allegedly sexually harassed by the New York Jets, and the media made a... more
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A profile of Ukrainian feminists FEMEN.
"The topless rogues are in the news often, splashing in the public fountain for renter’s rights, defending parental rights of former porn actresses, protesting sexual tourism and getting arrested. The girls are under twenty, for the most part. With photos of their actions all over the net, they’ve been fired and can’t get jobs. They do get threats from angry boyfriends of newly converted FEMEN sisters. They don’t mind: The $1000 the group scrapes together from donations (a German DJ here, a press agency there) covers cheap communal rent, bread crumbs and fines are enough."A profile of Ukrainian feminists FEMEN.
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As much as my husband rolls his eyes at the show, I adore watching America’s Next Top Model.
Sure Tyra’s self-important need to be like Oprah can be off-putting. But common. It’s a show about girls with deep insecurities; for some of these girls, their whole world changes when they are forced to change their hairstyle.
Then there’s the cattiness… and oh – do you remember the girl who was probably cut for confessing to her diary, “I almost had to room with a black girl – gross!” Through tears she explained, ” I didn’t mean it that way!”
It’s no wonder our own Austinite Teresa Cantu didn’t make it. There was nothing manufactured about her – from her attitude to her smile.
In the second episode, women were asked to write down words bullies used to hurt them. They were then asked to describe themselves in a positive way.
What would your words be?
I’ve been dealing with mean girls since elementary school, I believe it started in second grade. So much has been said about me, but consistently the two words they tend to use interchangeably are weird and crazy. In one instance, I was on a train in Paris when the group of girls I was traveling with decided to gang up against me. What was the word they used? Oh yeah, psycho.
In the most recent mean girl episode, there were three. And even though I’ve been through this before, it never seems to stop hurting like the first time.
Thankfully, way more than three people send me love on a daily basis, so the small group’s consistant negative energy was turned into creative fuel.
So if I had a power phrase to describe myself, it would be independent radical.As much as my husband rolls his eyes at the show, I adore watching America’s... more
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men are now behind women in pay in major cities, behind in percentage of college and grad school student bodies, and they make up a much larger percentage of those losing jobs in the bad economy. Plus, women are now getting most of the jobs teaching math, science, and engineering. And all of that’s aside from the large and growing percentage of single mother American households with kids with no male father figure in their lives. That’s almost every indicator of the road to matriarchy (and to collapse), and I blame most of that on unbridled feminism in all areas of our society and pop culture and estrogen-targeted affirmative action preferences.
There’s just one thing left: physical prowess and sports activity. And, now, that’s changing, too. Although women, on average, are not and won’t likely be stronger or more proficient than men, they are dominating amateur athletics. I’ve been reading about it and the figures were stark in a story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about Lululemon, the hip, expensive yoga and exercise clothes company which is thriving in the recession and the stock price of which is soaring.
Women have come to eclipse men as participants in other types of amateur athletics. In 2009, for instance, 53% of road-race finishers in the U.S. were women, according to Running USA, an industry-sponsored research center.
It’s feminism run amok ad absurdum. The ghost of “Ugly Betty” (Friedan) is laughing at us from whatever hell to which NOW members go when they meet their maker, but he really doesn’t wanna meet them.
That, too, is in part based on Title IX affirmative action and phony tough-chick-kicks-guys-ass movies, etc. But another aspect is that mothers aren’t home to take care of their kids and send them outside to play. They’re at work, and their kids–especially the boys–are sitting in front of the TV watching MTV reality show BS or being gamers in front of video games all day long, after school. Or they’re on Facebook 24/7.
But physical activity–sports and exercise–are disappearing for boys. It’s scary.
There are few areas left in American society not dominated by women. And that’s not a good thing. Like I said, matriarchies never last. And they always end in disaster. That’s not good for men OR women. Sorry, but I went the men to be the men in our society, not the women to be the men.
But it looks like that’s where America is headed. Don’t look for women in cool exercise gear to pick up the pieces.
The question is: when it’s all over, will there be any real men with testosterone left to bring us back from the edge?men are now behind women in pay in major cities, behind in percentage of college and... more
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Ad appearing in Women's Day magazine's jaw-dropping argument.
So, ladies, you say you want a raise? How should you go about getting it?
First, you have to figure out how to compete with the guy in the next cubicle. After all, he went to a school almost as good as yours. His grades were nearly as good as yours, too. He works hard. In fact, most mornings, he's the second person in the office. You know this, because you're always first. He is young, ruggedly good looking, and he washes his balls with a manly but fresh sandalwood soap.
What to do?
Fortunately, the good folks at Women's Day and Summer's Eve have a few words of advice for you.
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/147991/hey_ladies,_want_a_raise_wash_your_vagina_--_women's_day_magazine's_ultra-sexist_ad/Ad appearing in Women's Day magazine's jaw-dropping argument.
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In 1971, Rep. Bella Abzug introduced, and Congress adopted, a resolution declaring August 26 as National Women's Equality Day. The day honors the 1920 ratification of the 19th amendment, which secured women's right to vote in the United States. Believe it or not, people ranted and raved, moaned and wailed, and predicted all sorts of horrendous consequences if women (GAAASSPPP !!!) VOTED !. None of those terrible things happened, and change came to America. But it came slowly, and painfully, in fits and starts. And we still have a long way to go.
Read more . . . . http://www.examiner.com/public-policy-in-pittsburgh/celebrate-national-women-s-equality-dayIn 1971, Rep. Bella Abzug introduced, and Congress adopted, a resolution declaring... more
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Hey, remember when the Republicans ran a lady for vice president, and complained about the "sexism!" heaped on her by Democratic women? Remember how the GOP claimed to flood the zone with female candidates, purported to be the real feminists defending womankind against horrible liberalism, and decreed 2010 to be the year of the "mama grizzly"?
Their bad! It was all a ploy to score hot chicks, and to leave the dregs for those boner commies on the left. Ha ha, yeah bro! High-five it! Pass me one of them Bud Light Limes!
Yes, it's true: this video was posted on a Minnesota district GOP* website, which insists that you take Rep. Michele Bachmann seriously, GOP put its true womanly feelings on YouTube.
Note: That is not me exaggerating with cynical lefty hyperbole. Please, for the love of all that's holy and sacred, watch this video in its entirety:Hey, remember when the Republicans ran a lady for vice president, and complained about... more
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What should smart ambitious women with some measure of career fulfillment do to prove they're not miserable and sexless? Hold a mass demonstration with smiley-face banners?
The latest incarnation of these false charges comes from critic Camille Paglia, who in June wrote a New York Times article, "No Sex, Please, We're Middle Class," saying that a sexual malaise consumes the country. The culprit: "the anxious, overachieving, white upper middle class."
Women in this group, says Paglia, postpone childbearing and "men and women are interchangeable, doing the same, mind-based work."
And she adds, "Physicality is suppressed; voices are lowered and gestures curtailed in sanitized office space. Men must neuter themselves, while ambitious women postpone procreation. Androgyny is bewitching in art, but in real life it can lead to stagnation and boredom, which no pill can cure." These brainy female drones certainly don't turn men on, Paglia believes, calling to mind the old saw that "men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses."
No matter how many times researchers debunk that story with real facts, it refuses to die. Feminism is always the culprit for women's alleged unhappiness. I've tracked this story over the past few years on Women's eNews, and its hardiness is astonishing.
Read the rest: http://www.womensenews.org/story/uncovering-gender/100812/smart-women-take-heart-your-love-life-fine?page=0,0What should smart ambitious women with some measure of career fulfillment do to prove... more
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Erin Gibson weighs in on the controversy surrounding Gisele Bündchen's comments about mandatory breastfeeding. From clips of Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" to talking heads across the political spectrum, Erin tells the media to chillax and leave the supermodel alone. But, Gisele is also called out for acting like a boob.
In each episode of Modern Lady, Erin Gibson explores the often-conflicting ways in which today's media tells women to work, love, and be ladies. For more Erin visit: http://current.com/shows/infomania/modern-lady/ and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10/9c on Current TV.Erin Gibson weighs in on the controversy surrounding Gisele Bündchen's... more
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Woman in HP scandal "saddened" by CEO's ouster
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The woman at the center of the sexual harassment claim that forced the resignation of Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd revealed her identity Sunday and said she is "surprised and saddened" that Hurd lost his job.
Jodie Fisher, 50, an actress and businesswoman, knew Hurd through her contract jobs with HP's marketing department from 2007 to 2009. HP paid her up to $5,000 per event to greet people and make introductions among executives attending HP events that she helped organize.
Fisher echoed Hurd's statement that the two never had a sexual relationship, but neither she nor her lawyer, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, would discuss details of the harassment claim.
That claim set off the chain of events that led to the discovery of allegedly falsified expense reports for dinners Hurd had with Fisher and ended in Hurd's forced resignation Friday from the world's largest technology company.
Fisher acknowledged that she and Hurd have settled the matter. A person familiar with the case told The Associated Press that Hurd agreed to pay Fisher but would not reveal the size of the payment.
"I was surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this," Fisher said in a statement. "That was never my intention."
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Between the Bomb and the Burqa
Her voice was thick with passion as she argued for ending violence against fellow Afghan women, but the men didn't listen. Instead they hurled insults at her; they called her a prostitute and a traitor to her religion. The stubborn men's insults were abusive and frustrating, but it had been worse for other women in her position. They were threatened and hunted down. Some of them were killed.
Like many recent reports in the media, this story conjures up images of a brave Afghan villager struggling against the tyrannical rule of a Taliban court or insurgent militia, but that's not case: the woman in this story is an unnamed member of the Afghan Parliament supported by the United States. The verbal abuse is recounted by another female Afghan official in a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report. The men who called her a prostitute were her colleagues and fellow legislators, the supposed enemies of the religious fanatics fighting for control of Afghanistan.
Such accounts shed doubts on the narrative of female liberation following the initial toppling of the Taliban, as the reinvigorated debate over the occupation has renewed the media's interest in the abuses suffered by Afghan women at the hands of America's enemies. Human rights advocates may be pleased, but media critics say the plight of Afghan woman is being used to rally support for the war, and as a recent military leak reveals, the government secretly considered such a media strategy as recently as this spring.
Time magazine became the poster child for this trend last week with a cover story featuring the disfigured face of a young Afghan girl named Aisha with the ominous headline: "What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan."
"They are the people that did this to me," Aisha told the Time reporter as she touched her damaged face, disfigured as part of Taliban punishment for running away from her abusive in-laws. "How can we reconcile with them?"
Aisha's heartbreaking plea reveals the harsh reality of living in a war-torn and ultra-religious society. She puts a face on the Afghan dilemma, but critics contend that the Time article on Aisha oversimplifies a complicated issue.
"Feminists have long argued that invoking the condition of women to justify occupation is a cynical ploy and the Time cover already stands accused of it," wrote Priyamvada Gopal, an English professor at Cambridge University, in The Guardian UK. "Misogynist violence is unacceptable, but we must also be concerned by the continued insistence that the complexities of war, occupation and reality itself can be reduced to bedtime stories."
A careful editorial by Time editor Rick Stengel insists that the magazine is not "either in support of the US war effort or in opposition to it," but its intention is also an attempt to counterbalance the recent WikiLeaks release of more than 90,000 documents detailing the military actions in Afghanistan.
According to Stengel, the leaked documents cannot provide "emotional truth and insight into the way life is lived in that difficult land," but a different WikiLeaks release does provide some insight on using Afghan women to promote war.
The Red Cell CIA Leak
An internal Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) document released by WikiLeaks in March reveals a secret plan to use the plight of Afghan women and refugees in developing media strategies to "leverage French (and other European) guilt" during an especially bloody summer of military escalation. The confidential document was prepared by the Red Cell, a secretive group that consults the US intelligence community.
In response to the news that Dutch forces would soon withdraw from Afghanistan, the Red Cell outlined a plan to use Afghan women and refugees in developing media strategies to ensure that more NATO allies would not succumb to public pressure and follow suit. The memo claimed that a "not our problem" sentiment toward the Afghan conflict allowed European leaders to ignore voter's vast disapproval of the occupation, but "forecasts of a bloody summer" could provoke a public backlash.
The forecast was correct: June and July were the deadliest months for NATO and US forces to date. The record number of body bags coupled with the firing of former US Gen. Stanley McChrystal and the bloody revelations provided by the massive WikiLeaks release has pushed international support for the war to a new low.
Bloomberg reported last week that, in the wake of the WikiLeaks release, approximately 70 percent of Germans want their troops to leave "as soon as possible." Germany has the third largest military presence in Afghanistan.
READ MORE AT LINK: http://www.truth-out.org/between-bomb-and-burqa62110Between the Bomb and the Burqa
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