A Saudi teenager who was gang-raped is set to receive more lashes than one of her rapists will.
Why aren't there more female CEOs? Hint: It's not innate gender differences.
Alabama considers a slew of new TRAP laws.
Says French presidential candidate Segolene Royal, "There is a strong correlation between the status of a woman and the state of justice or injustice in a country."
The ACLU is fighting for inmates' right to abortion in Arizona.
Lifestyle anorexia websites provide young women with "thin-spiration."
And Iranian TV star is in trouble over a sex tape... and rather than just tabloid chatter, she faces a lashing as punishment. Her partner faces three years in jail.
The newly accessible Plan B is not so accessible in Chicago hospitals.
A woman has The Talk about abortion with her 15-year-old daughter.
Human Righs Watch criticizes Uganda's promotion of "virginity parades." The country was successfully fighting the spread of AIDS until the government started pushing abstinence instead of condoms.
One in three U.S. teens get no formal education about birth control.
Jewcy's MovableSnipe has a conversation up about this very blog.
The Gurkhas, the British army in Nepal, will allow women into their ranks for the first time.
A size-12 woman was branded "too fat" for the British version of Top Model.
An essay from a "sisterwife," one of four women married to the same man.
A Wisconsin court ruled a boy could not try out for the girls' gymnastics team, even though there is no equivalent team for boys.
Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero says, "Violence against women is one of the worst forms of human rights violations."
...plus an interview with Sam Hamm, who wrote a screen adaptation of Raccoona Sheldon's The Screwfly Solution.
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Women's Right's is bad for men.
What have us men gotten from women's rights? Marital rape laws (an Irish man was just jailed for 6 years for raping his wife), domestic violence laws, easy divorce laws, child support laws, etc etc etc.
http://mikeeusa.blogspot.com/
https://cat2.dynserv.org/bb/viewforum.php?f=43
Death To women's Rights.
I like the name TRAP...very appropriate.
http://ackbartrap.ytmnd.com/
I should also note that pro eating disorder websites are equal opertunity.
God, that picture of the skinny model is gross.
(BTW, a UK 12 is a US size 14. 11 stone = 154 lbs.)
Argh, I think I got that backwards - a 12 is a 10. She must be a mighty tall woman.
I think British sizes run two sizes smaller than US ones, so a British size 12 is a US size 8. I know that a "size zero" model is a British size four, so that makes sense.
*Sigh*
Why can't we go back to the curves of Marilyn Monroe? Healthier and quite a bit more attractive.
I can't believe some of the commenters out there claim she has "huge thighs". Do these people meet real women once in a while?
Apparently not.
it should be noted that bc of vanity sizing (making sizes smaller to make women "fell" better) would have actually made marilyn monroe, a size 14 in 1960, a size 6 or 8 now. to be sure, she was curvier, but by no means was she a current size 14.