2005 October Archive | Feministing

Hitting the vagina jackpot

Goddamn, this woman likes vaginas! BadMimi, recently featured in The Chicago Tribune, has a whole website devoted to vagina-love.
While the commandment-style genital adoration is a bit much (“Thou shalt love your Vagina deeply and with reverence”), the products are pretty bad-ass.
So if you have a hankering to own a pussy pen or vagina candle, now you know where to go.
Personally I’m a big fan of the belt buckle (too tacky not to love) and this shirt. Cause really, who doesn’t heart vagina?

By Ann • 18 years ago

Wage gap? What wage gap?

On Friday the Senate passed an amendment that would require the Bureau of Labor Statistics to continue gathering data on female workers.
In August, the bureau removed questions about working women from its monthly survey of payroll and employment data. A brilliant move. If the government doesn’t collect data about women’s earnings, we can’t compare them to men’s. That makes it all too easy for conservatives to say “What wage gap?” Without the numbers, it’s pretty difficult for us to make the case that an earnings gap exists, let alone talk about ways to remedy it. So here’s hoping the amendment makes it out of conference.
For more info see the National ...

On Friday the Senate passed an amendment that would require the Bureau of Labor Statistics to continue gathering data on female workers.
In August, the bureau removed questions about ...

By Ann • 18 years ago

Scalito: Beyond anti-choice

In addition to his indefensible opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Scalito’s record is chock-full of information that should make every woman in America shudder. Happy Halloween:
Gender Discrimination
Alito has ruled in favor of a plaintiff in a sex discrimination case only once. In most instances, Alito issued opinions that made it far more difficult for victims of discrimination to get to court and prove their cases. In one sexual harassment case, Robinson v. City of Pittsburgh, a police officer filed a complaint that her supervisor was “unhooking her bra, snapping her bra strap, touching her hair and ears, telling her ‘you stink pretty,’ making comments about the size of her breasts…” The police chief took no action, and ...

By Jessica • 18 years ago

Alito’s anti-choice record

NARAL Pro-Choice America has just posted some seriously troubling info on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, Jr. and his record on choice:

Alito took pains to distant himself from the longstanding constitutional requirement that abortion restrictions must have exceptions when a woman’s health is in jeopardy. He did so when ruling on a law that effectively banned abortion as early as the 12th week of pregnancy and lacked an exception to protect women’s health. The health exception is a fundamental tenet of Roe v. Wade, and the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments about the need for the health exception this fall. Should Alito’s vote replace that of Sandra Day O’Connor, a fundamental right will likely be lost ...

NARAL Pro-Choice America has just posted some seriously troubling info on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, Jr. and his record on choice:

Alito took pains to distant himself from the longstanding constitutional requirement that abortion restrictions ...

By Jessica • 18 years ago

Dowd has no class

Now, I didn’t like Maureen Dowd’s NY Times Magazine article for a number of reasons: Dowd’s assumption (once again) that feminism ended in back in the day, the reliance on dubious studies, and–as Amanda points out–Dowd’s seeming penchant to blame everyone and everything but patriarchal norms.
But what really struck me about What’s a Modern Girl to Do? is the extent of Dowd’s elitism. Determining a social trend based completely on the lives of the upper class isn’t exactly new, but I expected a bit more from an article on feminism. (Silly me.)
(Not to mention, Dowd’s insistence on measuring feminism’s success based on men ...

Now, I didn’t like Maureen Dowd’s NY Times Magazine article for a number of reasons: Dowd’s assumption (once again) that feminism ended in back in the day, the reliance on dubious ...

By Jessica • 18 years ago

Happy Halloween!

I’m not feeling particularly festive this year, so I thought I’d throw up a couple of pictures to cheer myself up. The one above is of my favorite costume from a party I had last year. (When there was still hope.)
Anyone dressing up feminist-styles this year? I know Samhita had Wonder Woman plans…now if I could just convince her to post a picture…
One more pic after the jump–inspired by a Feministing post!

I’m not feeling particularly festive this year, so I thought I’d throw up a couple of pictures to cheer myself up. The one above is of my favorite costume from a party I had ...

By Jessica • 18 years ago

That was fast…

Damn, Bushie–rush much?
From The Washington Post:

President Bush today named appeals court Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court. Alito, 55, serves on the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where his record on abortion rights and church-state issues has been widely applauded by conservatives and criticized by liberals.
Alito, appointed to the appeals court in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush, has been a regular for years on the White House’s short list for the high court. He was also among those proposed by conservative intellectuals as an alternative to Harriet Miers, the White House counsel who withdrew as the nominee last week.

Sounds like a real winner.
By the way, how ...

Damn, Bushie–rush much?
From The Washington Post:

President Bush today named appeals court Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court. Alito, 55, serves on the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third ...

By Samhita • 18 years ago

Women had integral role in civil rights movement.

This is a good little piece discussing the death of Rosa Parks and how we should not just remember her own work (which was incredible) but remember the role of women and girls throughout the civil rights movement. Sister Rosa was one of the few that became fixed in history. But let us not forget the resistences of other women that worked towards making this country somewhat tolerable, but not written about in the history books.
Check it.