By Vanessa • 18 years ago

The most pointless study ever

I just don’t get it. This is the tenth article I’ve seen on sex differences in cell phone use this month, and in my irritation I felt the urge to point out its meaninglessness.
“The first national study of mobile phone users has found 34 per cent of Australian women bought ringtones in the past year compared to 27 per cent of men.
As for games, 15 per cent of men had bought them in the last 12 months, compared to only 10 per cent of females.”
Astounding! Not only are the differences pretty insignificant, but who gives a fuck anyway? Jeez.

I just don’t get it. This is the tenth article I’ve seen on sex differences in cell phone use this month, and in my irritation I felt the urge to point out its meaninglessness.
“The ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Amazon gets frisky.


In a campaign to expand the range of their products, Amazon.com has recently started selling sex toys. Awesome.
It’s actually a shitload (around 37,000) of sex products, ranging from condoms and lubricants to dildos and vibrators, located in the Health and Personal Care section. Condoms and lubes have been the top sellers of the products, reaching the top 100 best sellers on the site.
So kudos to Amazon for expanding the personal care of their customers! Click here to check out the products o’ pleasure. After all, who can resist when the vibrators are decorated with daisies.


In a campaign to expand the range of their products, Amazon.com has recently started selling sex toys. Awesome.
It’s actually a shitload (around 37,000) of sex products, ranging from condoms and ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

How women matter (or not) in the Iraqi constitution

Check out this Salon article, “Why Women Matter,” where the author examines Iraq’s draft constitution and explains why women’s equal rights are essential for the success of a stable democracy.
The author points out that many basic fundamental rights are given to women in the draft, such as the right to vote, to run as political candidates, the right to pass citizenship on to their kids, and 25 percent of parliamentary seats have been set aside for women. Yet there are other parts of the draft where murky language leaves opportunities for oppression:
“For instance, freedom of expression, freedom of the media and freedom of association and peaceful protest are only guaranteed by the state if they do ...

Check out this Salon article, “Why Women Matter,” where the author examines Iraq’s draft constitution and explains why women’s equal rights are essential for the success of a stable democracy.
The author points out that ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

FDA Director of Women’s Health resigns

Hmmm…I wonder why. Susan Wood, Director of the Office of Women’s Health and Assistant Commissioner for Women’s Health, sent around the following email to her friends and colleagues:

I regret to tell you that I am leaving the FDA, and will no longer be serving as the Assistant Commissioner for Women’s Health and Director of the FDA Office of Women’s Health. The recent decision announced by the Commissioner about emergency contraception, which continues to limit women’s access to a product that would reduce unintended pregnancies and reduce abortions is contrary to my core commitment to improving and advancing women’s health. I have spent the last 15 years working to ensure that science ...

Hmmm…I wonder why. Susan Wood, Director of the Office of Women’s Health and Assistant Commissioner for Women’s Health, sent around the following email to her friends and colleagues:

I regret to tell you that I ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Blog-tastic

ms. musings points to a report by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) that says network television still falls short in its depiction of homosexual characters.

Atrios highlights racist media coverage of Katrina. Apparently black people “loot” and white people “find.” Nice.

Meghan O’Rourke at Slate says that there’s nothing wrong with men who don’t want to watch their partners give birth. You know, cause vaginas are gross. Hugo and Amanda respond.

Pam’s House Blend tells us that the latest radical, feminist, homosexual threat is none other than the Girl Scouts. (Move over Sponge Bob!) ...

ms. musings points to a report by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) that says network television still falls short in its depiction of homosexual characters.

Atrios highlights ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Americans want kids to be stupid

This is so fucking depressing:

In a finding that is likely to intensify the debate over what to teach students about the origins of life, a poll released yesterday found that nearly two-thirds of Americans say that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools.
The poll found that 42 percent of respondents held strict creationist views, agreeing that “living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”

Sigh. Who the hell are these respondents? I’m going to go cry into my ice coffee now.

This is so fucking depressing:

In a finding that is likely to intensify the debate over what to teach students about the origins of life, a poll released yesterday found that nearly two-thirds of Americans say ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

NY Times: What’s the Matter With Kansas?

Check out today’s NY Times editorial on the Kansas craziness I wrote about yesterday. Glad to know I’m not the only one freaked out by logic that says statutory rape is all good so long as you get married:

The fact that parents are willing to go along with these unions does not make them right. Chances are that in most of these cases, as apparently happened with Mr. Koso’s family, when the parents found out that a baby was on the way, they were eager for the child to be born to married parents. But neither parental nor state approval makes it right to tie a girl as young as 12 to another person in ...

Check out today’s NY Times editorial on the Kansas craziness I wrote about yesterday. Glad to know I’m not the only one freaked out by logic that says statutory rape is all ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

U.S. poverty rate rises

The Census Bureau reports that the nation’s poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year; there were 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.

Legal Momentum reported last year that women are 40 percent more likely to be poor than men in 2003. (If they come out with another study for the 2004 Census findings, we’ll let you know.) Ninety percent of adult welfare recipients are women.
Yeah, I know. I’m a downer.

The Census Bureau reports that the nation’s poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year; there were 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.

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