2005 August Archive | Feministing

Team Pentagon is here.

A Pentagon task force has made an official call to crack down on sexist and misogynistic behavior at U.S. military academies, due to an overload of misconduct and harassment that continues to be ignored.
The panel singled out two academies in particular — the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD — for their continuously crappy treatment of women, and urged for more intense, anti-sexist training.
While they admitted that the academies have improved in addressing some sexual harassment and assault issues, the basic training and education given for these problems was deemed “inadequate.” The academies also tend to avoid admitting women as cadets and midshipmen.
Delilah Rumberg, co-chairwoman of the ...

A Pentagon task force has made an official call to crack down on sexist and misogynistic behavior at U.S. military academies, due to an overload of misconduct and harassment that continues to be ignored.
The ...

By Vanessa • 20 years ago

Recognize.

Feministing wishes the 19th amendment a Happy 85th Birthday today!
In 1971, the U.S. Congress designated this date as “Women’s Equality Day” in recognition of women’s right to vote, which was achieved in 1920.
The National Women’s History Project gives us some ideas of how to celebrate this special day, like praising women in your workplace who have made significant contributions, making timelines and posters to put on display, or putting together a scrapbook about significant women in your community.
While I dig the scrapbook suggestion, these ideas make me feel like I’m in the 5th grade. Does anyone have more innovative and fun ways we could celebrate — whether it be something small, ...

Feministing wishes the 19th amendment a Happy 85th Birthday today!
In 1971, the U.S. Congress designated this date as “Women’s Equality Day” in recognition of women’s right to vote, which was achieved in ...

By Jessica • 20 years ago

The sexism awards

Ellen Goodman’s most recent column hands out sexism awards. Really great stuff.
Here are my faves:

…Speaking of Danica, it was Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone who sneered at her, saying: “Women should be dressed in white like all other domestic appliances.” To Bernie we award our Superstar in Sexism Prize and a two-week vacation in our favorite appliance: a deep freezer.
Could Tom Cruise chill out too? He wins the Raging Hormonal Imbalance Award for trashing Brooke Shields because she took medication for postpartum depression. We send him our home-brewed antidote for testosterone poisoning.
What, then, should we give Rick Santorum, who worked so hard this year to grasp the much-coveted Backlash Award? First he blamed the ...

Ellen Goodman’s most recent column hands out sexism awards. Really great stuff.
Here are my faves:

…Speaking of Danica, it was Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone who sneered at her, saying: “Women should be dressed ...

By Jessica • 20 years ago

This ain’t your brother’s skateboard!

This is just awesome.

Curly Grrlz Board Sports is a skateboard company created with the sole purpose of providing girls with awesome skateboards and accessories.
Ever wonder why girls had to skate on guys skateboards or why nobody ever made cool skateboards for girls? So did we! That’s why we did. These aren’t spin-offs from a boy’s line, mind you, but are specifically designed for girls.

Sweet. The Curly Grrlz site also features accessories, a blog, a Curly Grrlz street team, pics of girls doing their thing, and an “emerging talent” section where the coolness of 9 year-olds will put you to shame.
I had a ...

This is just awesome.

Curly Grrlz Board Sports is a skateboard company created with the sole purpose of providing girls with awesome skateboards and accessories.
Ever wonder why girls had to skate on guys ...

By noauthor • 20 years ago

Spinderellas Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Women’s eNews ran an interesting story today on the plight of the female DJ. Apparently, while hired less often and compensated less well, women are breaking into the DJing profession at a steady rate. The article states:
…[W]omen are heading to DJ school in record numbers. For example, when the pre-eminent Scratch DJ Academy opened in Manhattan in 2002, the male-female student ratio was 80-20. Now, says Mike Cannady, the academy’s director, “Our courses are about a 50-50 split between men and women. We just opened up an academy in Los Angeles, which was about 50-50 from the start. I think this shows a major change in the DJ industry as a whole.”
One ...

Women’s eNews ran an interesting story today on the plight of the female DJ. Apparently, while hired less often and compensated less well, women are breaking into the DJing profession at a ...

By Jessica • 20 years ago

My honorary Grandpa

This photo (from the Associated Press) made my day.

Bill Moyer, 73, wears a “Bullshit Protector” flap over his ear while President George W. Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

You just know that this guy is a bad ass. He’s that grandpa who makes you pull his finger every time you see him, gets drunk as shit at all family occasions and has no problem telling your obnoxious uncle to go fuck himself. And you love him for it.
Via Wonkette.

This photo (from the Associated Press) made my day.

Bill Moyer, 73, wears a “Bullshit Protector” flap over his ear while President George W. Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

You just ...

By Jessica • 20 years ago

Way to be pro-life

From ABC News in Australia:

A Melbourne court has heard a man killed his former lover as revenge for the abortion of his child and the relationship breakdown.
In his opening address Crown prosecutor Douglas Trapnell told the jury Anita Pochopien, 32, was killed in cold blood in the driveway of her Chadstone home in April last year.
Pisey Praseour is charged with her murder.

This is just so sad.

From ABC News in Australia:

A Melbourne court has heard a man killed his former lover as revenge for the abortion of his child and the relationship breakdown.
In his opening address Crown prosecutor Douglas Trapnell ...

By Jessica • 20 years ago

Study says men are smarter than women

Hey, why beat around the bush and just focus on math and science? Turns out men are just smarter, period.

A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of Psychology says that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests.
Paul Irwing and Professor Richard Lynn claim the difference grows when the highest IQ levels are considered.
…Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, told the Today programme on BBC Radio Four that up until the age of 14, the study showed there was no difference between the IQs of boys and girls.
“But beyond that age and into adulthood there is a difference of five ...

Hey, why beat around the bush and just focus on math and science? Turns out men are just smarter, period.

A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of ...