Oh Wal-Mart, when will you learn?

Wal-Mart’s latest attempt to appear woman-friendly in the face of their class action sex discrimination suit is just sad.
For two days Wal-Mart stores will host their Speaking of Women’s Health Community Event, which is “designed to inform and educate women about living well.”
Cause who knows better about women’s health than those that hold business meetings at Hooters?
The best part: the main information about women’s health that will be available at their event is The Book: Recipes for Living Well, “a book packed full of tips and recipes on healthy living and eating.”
Yeah, bitches–get cooking! Apparently equal pay won’t make you healthy, but getting your ass to the kitchen will.

Wal-Mart’s latest attempt to appear woman-friendly in the face of their class action sex discrimination suit is just sad.
For two days Wal-Mart stores will host their Speaking of Women’s Health Community Event, ...

One Piece Medicine Instead of Just Bikini

I had both a relieved and angry reaction to the article in yesterday’s Times, Men, Women More Different Than Thought. Turns out the medical profession is finally acknowledging that there is more to “women’s health” than what goes on in our uteri. As the article says, there is a “quiet but revolutionary change infiltrating U.S. medicine as a growing number of scientists realize there’s more to women’s health than just the anatomy that makes them female, and that the same diseases often affect men and women in different ways.”
HELLOOOOO? What year is it? I’m glad this transformation is finally happening (because for years women have been misdiagnosed and mistreated for lack of female-specific ...

I had both a relieved and angry reaction to the article in yesterday’s Times, Men, Women More Different Than Thought. Turns out the medical profession is finally acknowledging that there is more to “women’s ...

I’m going to get shit for this, but I don’t care


From Nerve.com:
The Porn For Kerry DVD claims to be the “hottest political porn ever shot!” The summaries on the website are priceless: “Scene 1: After a particularly heated TV debate, blonde bombshell conservative Ann Cunter and quirky comedian Al Frankenbeans blow off some steam in the dressing room … Scene 3: Jorge Bush thought his hot tub business meeting with King Fahk of Sexy Alabia would be, well, all business. But his highness always knows how to entertain guests with his personal squad of sex minions!”
Plus, all proceeds go to the Kerry campaign.

Any thoughts? Strategic humor, or tasteless activism run amok?


From Nerve.com:
The Porn For Kerry DVD claims to be the “hottest political porn ever shot!” The summaries on the website are priceless: “Scene 1: After a particularly heated TV debate, ...

Federal employees to be offered Catholic insurance plan…

Yikes! The Bush administration announced a new plan last week that would offer federal employees a Catholic health plan that deliberately excludes coverage for birth control, abortion, sterilization and artificial insemination.
This “faith-based” insurance plan, while touted as a way to “empower” employees to have greater control over their medical care, is just another way the Bush administration is attempting to blur the line between Church and State.
…some critics expressed concern that this trend in health care might grow into a wider phenomenon. Is this “explicit denial” the first step in “denying federal employees a normal benefit that has been traditional for 30 years?” asked Philip R. Lee, a professor of social medicine at the University of ...

Yikes! The Bush administration announced a new plan last week that would offer federal employees a Catholic health plan that deliberately excludes coverage for birth control, abortion, sterilization and artificial insemination.
This “faith-based” insurance plan, ...

In case you missed it…

Feministing was on Air America!
I got the chance to go on Janeane Garofalo’s show The Majority Report on Friday night…super exciting. If you didn’t get the chance to listen, you can hear the archived show here. You have to create a user name and password to listen, but it takes but a second…
Feministing’s segment is about 1:34 into the show.

Feministing was on Air America!
I got the chance to go on Janeane Garofalo’s show The Majority Report on Friday night…super exciting. If you didn’t get the chance to listen, you can hear the archived show ...

Rape threats for African women in miniskirts

Bus drivers in Swaziland have said that they will rape any female passenger wearing a miniskirt. No, I’m not shitting you.
Check this out:
They have banned women from wearing revealing clothes on buses after three men were arrested for allegedly gang-raping an 18-year-old schoolgirl at a bus station in the town of Manzini.
Witnesses said the men – a bus driver and two conductors – shouted abuse at the girl for wearing a miniskirt.
When about 1,000 women demonstrated against the attack, drivers and conductors threatened to do the same again. One conductor said: “Women who wear miniskirts want to be raped, and we will give them what they want.”

Ah, yes. Didn’t you know ...

Bus drivers in Swaziland have said that they will rape any female passenger wearing a miniskirt. No, I’m not shitting you.
Check this out:
They have banned women from wearing revealing clothes on buses ...

California takes the lead on stem cell research

A new ballot measure in California calls for the state to spend almost $3 billion dollars in stem cell research over the next ten years—particularly the kind of research that cannot receive federal funding because of Bush’s current policy. Go California; you guys aren’t screwing around! This kind of cash is pretty much what is being spent now by the federal government on embryonic stem cell research.
According to the NY Times, the ballot measure—Proposition 71—“would expand embryonic stem cell research far beyond the 20 or so cell lines that can be studied with federal support under the Bush policy, thus allowing the fuller range of research that most scientists deem important.”
What’s even ...

A new ballot measure in California calls for the state to spend almost $3 billion dollars in stem cell research over the next ten years—particularly the kind of research that cannot receive federal funding because ...

Sunday Reads…

Courtesy of CommonDreams.org, some of my fave headlines in case you are looking for some good Sunday reads…
Mark Morford’s What’s Wrong With John Kerry: Is it the Hair? The Lack of Charisma? ...

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