By Jessica • 18 years ago

The politics of ladies’ night

An Op-Ed in The Baltimore Sun today, Women as bait, takes issue with a local bar’s version of ladies’ night:

During “Ladies Lockdown,” held twice a year from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. on a Saturday night, only women are admitted – mostly the University of Maryland students who are the principal clientele of this popular hangout – and they can drink virtually for free.
…young women are encouraged to drink as much as possible until 11 p.m., when young men arrive expecting to find them in an accommodating state.
Whatever the motive, hosting such evenings is an irresponsible business practice that at best encourages binge drinking and at worst has predatory overtones.

Irresponsible, yes. Predatory? I don’t ...

An Op-Ed in The Baltimore Sun today, Women as bait, takes issue with a local bar’s version of ladies’ night:

During “Ladies Lockdown,” held twice a year from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. on a Saturday night, ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Wimbledon won’t pay men and women winners equal prize money

The prize money at Wimbledon this year will be to $1.17 million for the men’s champion and $1.1 million for the women’s.
Wimbledon is the only grand slam tennis event not to pay men and women equally.

The prize money at Wimbledon this year will be to $1.17 million for the men’s champion and $1.1 million for the women’s.
Wimbledon is the only grand slam tennis event not to pay men and ...
By Ann • 18 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

(Somewhat late this week, I know…)
Missouri wants to force Planned Parenthood clinics to give back state family planning grant money that’s already been spent. The state also just approved tax breaks for crisis-pregnancy centers.
Equality means better sex. (Liberals do it better, indeed!)
Apparently the operating room is an old boys’ club.
Gwen Ifill says it’s not easy breaking barriers in TV news.
Ohio considers making it a felony for a woman to have an abortion… even if she goes outside the state to get the procedure.
Saudi women pose for a Wahhabist pinup calendar.
Australian cheerleaders are told to ...

(Somewhat late this week, I know…)
Missouri wants to force Planned Parenthood clinics to give back state family planning grant money that’s already been spent. The state also just approved tax breaks for ...
By Ann • 18 years ago

Men want secretaries… not Secretaries of State?

Has Madeleine Albright been hanging out with Maureen Dowd?

It has become a cliché to say that powerful women scare off husbands and lovers. Do you think it is true?
I don’t think I ever would have been secretary of state if I had stayed married. But I loved being married. I was married for 23 years. I was very sorry when it ended.
Will you marry again?
I doubt it.
Why not?
Why?
Companionship?
I have lots of companionship. I am about to be 69 years old, and I have three daughters, three sons-in-law and six grandchildren. I am not looking to meet men. I also truly can’t imagine who is out there who might be ...

Has Madeleine Albright been hanging out with Maureen Dowd?

It has become a cliché to say that powerful women scare off husbands and lovers. Do you think it is true?
I don’t think I ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Women prefer housekeeping to love


Just so you know, that’s an actual headline.
An online study says that British women just love love love to do housework:

In an age when women are making economic strides and excelling in the workplace, the one thing that gives the majority a sense of empowerment is a good go around the house with the vacuum cleaner – followed by some cleaning and dusting.
…One-third of all women claimed “cleaning gives them more satisfaction than sex.”

Cause who needs love, sex, or a career when you have a vacuum cleaner? (Insert hose joke here.)
The “study� was commissioned by Discovery Home and Health TV for their new series, Cleanaholics.
Related: SC woman kills man ...


Just so you know, that’s an actual headline.
An online study says that British women just love love love to do housework:

In an age when women are making economic strides and excelling in ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Army of crypto-hookers prepare for battle against Tucker Carlson


I’m super late on this one, but boy is it worth writing about.
From Media Matters:

On the April 11 edition of MSNBC’s The Situation, host Tucker Carlson asserted that the testimony of a woman allegedly raped at an off-campus party hosted by members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team “is to be taken … a little differently” from that of “an ordinary person” because she is “a crypto-hooker” who “hires herself out to dance naked in front of and … sometimes sleep with … strangers.”

Is it just me, or does the term “crypto-hooker� sound like something out of Total Recall?
Watch the video here. (I think Wendy Murphy‘s face says it all.)


I’m super late on this one, but boy is it worth writing about.
From Media Matters:

On the April 11 edition of MSNBC’s The Situation, host Tucker Carlson asserted that the testimony of a woman allegedly ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Public schools can ban hate shirts


A U.S. appeals court ruled last week that public schools can ban clothing that have hateful slogans. The case was originally brought by a student who wore a shirt that read: Homosexuality is shameful. The Poway High School student wore the shirt in response to a “Day of Silence�—a protest organized by the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance.
School officials made him take off the shirt and he subsequently sued, claiming they violated his free speech rights.

Writing for the panel’s majority, Judge Stephen Reinhardt affirmed a lower court’s decision against an injunction against the school and said schools may bar slogans believed to be hurtful.
Students “who may be injured by verbal assaults on the basis ...


A U.S. appeals court ruled last week that public schools can ban clothing that have hateful slogans. The case was originally brought by a student who wore a shirt that read: Homosexuality ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Fun fact

While reading a column in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the anti-choice movement’s opposition to birth control, I came across this great piece of information:

Also, [Christina] Page suggests we ask ourselves why one of the biggest supposedly pro-family groups in the country, Concerned Women for America, doesn’t offer maternity leave to its employees. If having and cherishing babies is its foremost agenda, why wouldn’t that group?

Good job, gals. Nice to see how “concerned� you really are.

While reading a column in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the anti-choice movement’s opposition to birth control, I came across this great piece of information:

Also, [Christina] Page suggests we ask ourselves why one of the biggest supposedly ...

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