2004 April Archive | Feministing

You talkin’ to me?

While the March for Women’s lives generated some media coverage this week (though not nearly enough—punks!), what Feministing found interesting were several stories preceding the March that supposedly focused on young women’s participation in the event.
In a 4/24/04 Washington Post article, “For Abortion Rights, a Changing of the Guard,” young women involved with the March are shown to be middle-of-the-road morons who are trying to separate themselves from the “traditional” feminist movement.
The article quotes a Vassar woman who identifies as “very pro-choice,” but believes in restricting in late-term abortion, as well as a 22 year-old woman who thinks parental-notification requirements are a necessity. (Though she admits she would have been pissed to have to tell her parents ...

By Vanessa • 19 years ago

Karen, Karen, Karen

As Jessica put it in a recent post, “one million people on your front lawn telling you to go fuck yourself” is the not-so-subtle message that marchers brought to President George Bush this past Sunday.
We really didn’t expect much reaction from the President or his people on the March for Women’s Lives. (at least publicly) To pretend it didn’t happen seemed more of his thang.
Yet, as I’m sure everyone knows by now, presidential advisor Karen Hughes decided to put her two cents in on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf on Sunday–right around the same time that the march was forming.
She essentially said that the pro-choice marchers that day–and any other reproductive rights advocate–hold the same values as ...

By noauthor • 19 years ago

The High Cost of Beauty

Uh oh ladies. An article in the Chicago Tribune details increased spending among women in their teens and twenties on beauty products. While putting your best foot forward is always a good thing, it’s not a great idea when it comes at the expense of your savings account.
It turns out that we are spending more than twice as much today on waxing, tanning and lipstick as our moms did in the 60’s.
Companies who have been documenting our spending have found that we tend to [over]pay for our beauty regimens in cash and then charge necessities like groceries and gas. As a result, money that should be going into a savings account is spent ...

Uh oh ladies. An article in the Chicago Tribune details increased spending among women in their teens and twenties on beauty products. While putting your best foot forward is always a good thing, ...

By noauthor • 19 years ago

Jonesing

If you don’t already know about Sarah Jones, you’re missing out. A fellow Bryn Mawrtyr, she’s been on the New York urban poetry scene for years (she won the Nuyorican Grand Slam championship in 1997) and has championed the young feminist cause throughout.
She’s also a free speech activist. In 2001, the Federal Communications Commission issued a a $7,000 fine to a Portland, Oregon radio station for playing Jones’s poem, YOUR REVOLUTION. The FCC characterized the poem, which is about misogyny in rap lyrics, as “indecent and obscene”. Jones then counter-sued, claiming her first amendment rights had been violated, and she won!
It’s been a few years, ...

If you don’t already know about Sarah Jones, you’re missing out. A fellow Bryn Mawrtyr, she’s been on the New York urban poetry scene for years (she won the Nuyorican ...

By Jessica • 19 years ago

Washington Post Rape Coverage

What does the media love more than a scandalous in-school rape case?
A young woman recanting her story.
The recent Washington Post articles examining the alleged rape of a 15 year-old girl at Mount Hebron High School in Maryland have been remiss in their handling of the girl’s recent recantation.
The girl had previously accused three boys of forcing her into a bathroom, where one held her down and the other raped her. The third boy allegedly watched out for anyone at the bathroom door.
The first 4/17/04 article noted that a “physical examination of the girl at Howard County General Hospital showed that her body had signs of trauma consistent with forcible rape.”
Later stories implied that the ...

By Jessica • 19 years ago

Update on “Missing” Women

Today’s NY Times has an article on the National Council for Research on Women’s report Feministing commented on yesterday.
Here’s a shocker: “The White House did not immediately return a call for comment.”

By Jessica • 19 years ago

Pump some iron, ladies!

According to a study by Penn State highlighted in an Associated Press article, young women who get distracted easily may just be iron-deficient.
It’s been known that anemia can make you tired and distracted, but the study–which looked at women ages 18 to 35–reveals that even a less severe iron-deficiency can have an effect on concentration and mood.
Apparently 20 percent of the women in the study were either iron-deficient or anemic. Feministing finds the explanation for this a little disconcerting:
Lisa Ritchie, director of the dietetics program at Harding University in Searcy, Ark. says that, “Taking a look at the typical college student, they may be financially strapped, so buying a lot of iron-rich foods may not be ...

By Jessica • 19 years ago

If you had fun in DC on Sunday…

then you should go again on May 8th! Visions in Feminism, a conference at the University of Maryland at College Park, will be a great way to spend Mother’s Day weekend.
Their workshops include Our Bobbins, Ourselves: The Craft Revolution, Feminist Movements in the Arab World, and 99 Problems and a Bitch Ain’t One: Hip Hop and Feminism/Womanism.