By Jessica • 19 years ago

New condom generates buzz

And they just keep coming…
A Japanese-designed condom soon to be on the market has a little added pleasure factor—it vibrates.
Apparently this pulsing prophylactic has a vibrating ring at the base, and is currently being tested before its release. I wonder how one goes about being in that focus group…I want in.

And they just keep coming…
A Japanese-designed condom soon to be on the market has a little added pleasure factor—it vibrates.
Apparently this pulsing prophylactic has a vibrating ring at the ...
By Jessica • 19 years ago

What’s (not) being done in the Sudan

Make sure to check out the NY Times’ piece today on the horror that women in Darfur are going through right now, we well as the argument over whether violence against women is a war crime. Um…Yes. Discussion over.
Seriously though, it never ceases to amaze me how people cannot make the connection between the incredible increase of violence against women and war. How is systematic rape not a war crime?
Violence against women—which is most often, but not limited to, sexual assault—is par for the course when it comes to armed conflict:
Sexual violence has been a tried-and-true way for armed men to sow terror among civilians in wartime, from the Balkans to Colombia ...

Make sure to check out the NY Times’ piece today on the horror that women in Darfur are going through right now, we well as the argument over whether violence against women is a war ...
By Jessica • 19 years ago

Kerry will fight for equal pay

In a speech Kerry gave in Nevada this past Friday, he vowed to fight for equal pay for women:
“Today, for far too many women, the American dream seems a million miles away…[women are] working two jobs, three jobs, just to get by – and that’s only counting the jobs they’re paid for.” Nice!
It’s great to see that Kerry is recognizing all of the unpaid labor that women do at home and elsewhere.
Kerry also said that he would raise the minimum wage (from $5.15 to $7 an hour), which would help nine million American women.
And please don’t forget how Kerry got shit about mentioning the wage gap in the last presidential debate. ...

In a speech Kerry gave in Nevada this past Friday, he vowed to fight for equal pay for women:
“Today, for far too many women, the American dream seems a million miles away…[women are] working ...
By Jessica • 19 years ago

Bush hire doesn’t believe in Church and State separation

Not exactly shocking, I know, but ridiculous just the same.
Beliefnet reported recently that the RNC has been employing a “Texas-based activist who believes the United States is a ‘Christian nation’ and the separation of church and state is ‘a myth.’”
Yikes! (Though it does sound right up Bush’s alley…)
David Barton, who founded Wallbuilders, an organization “dedicated to the restoration of the constitutional, moral, and religious foundation on which America was built,” has been speaking at RNC sponsored events for evangelical pastors across the country for about a year. At these events, Barton discusses “America’s Christian heritage,” and tells the pastors that they are allowed to endorse particular candidates from the ...

Not exactly shocking, I know, but ridiculous just the same.
Beliefnet reported recently that the RNC has been employing a “Texas-based activist who believes the United States is a ‘Christian nation’ and the separation of ...
By Jessica • 19 years ago

WTF? More than third of Turkish women justify beatings by husband

According to the Agence France Presse, more than a third of Turkish women think that they deserve to be “beaten if they argue with their husbands, deny them sex or burn the meal.” Holy fucking shit. That is a seriously scary statistic (assuming it’s correct.)
The survey, done by Ankara’s Hacettepe University, also said that in rural areas, 57 percent of women said that their husbands had the right to commit violence against them.
At least the study was done because of the concern over domestic violence. The EU—which Turkey wants to join—funded the study along with the Turkish government to address women’s rights.

According to the Agence France Presse, more than a third of Turkish women think that they deserve to be “beaten if they argue with their husbands, deny them sex or burn the meal.” Holy ...
By Jessica • 19 years ago

Vera Drake: A must-see

If you haven’t heard about the amazing movie Vera Drake yet, it’s about time you did. Coming from filmmaker Mike Leigh (who also did Secrets and Lies), Vera Drake is a seriously heart-wrenching movie about abortion in 1950s England. And I mean seriously—bring the tissue box.
I was lucky enough to catch a screening of the movie in New York a couple of weeks ago, where I met Mike Leigh and Imelda Staunton, who plays the title character.
Staunton plays Vera Drake as a kind, selfless, lower-middle-class mother who works as a domestic and in her spare time (for no money), “helps young girls.”
What I found most striking about ...

If you haven’t heard about the amazing movie Vera Drake yet, it’s about time you did. Coming from filmmaker Mike Leigh (who also did Secrets and Lies), Vera Drake is ...

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