By Vanessa • 17 years ago

Indian Health Minister to ban “son-centric” ads.

Anbumani Ramadoss, India’s Health Minister and father of three girls, is requesting a ban on gender bias in advertisements, where depictions of families are typically daughterless. According to the minister, it reinforces sexism and often results in female infanticide:

An estimated 10 million baby girls have been murdered in India in the past 20 years because parents see boys as better future breadwinners.
Recent figures have shown the situation is getting worse, with the gender ratio down to 927 girls for every 1000 boys and falling, particularly in well-heeled urban areas where people have access to the technology that enables them to determine their child’s sex.

Gender determination is presently banned, but more or less ignored. The goverment is also ...

Anbumani Ramadoss, India’s Health Minister and father of three girls, is requesting a ban on gender bias in advertisements, where depictions of families are typically daughterless. According to the minister, it reinforces sexism and often ...
By jen • 17 years ago

Help wanted – must hate everyone, or at least promise to try

I know it’s silly, but it brings a little joy to my dark, evil-doing heart to see far-right zealots searching desperately for a candidate with enough wingnut street cred to support for 2008.

Many conservatives have already declared their hostility to Senator John McCain of Arizona, despite his efforts to make amends for having once denounced Christian conservative leaders as ”agents of intolerance,” and to former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, because of his liberal views on abortion and gay rights and his three marriages.
Many were also suspicious of former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts; members have used the council as a conduit to distribute a dossier prepared by a Massachusetts conservative group about liberal elements of ...

I know it’s silly, but it brings a little joy to my dark, evil-doing heart to see far-right zealots searching desperately for a candidate with enough wingnut street cred to support for 2008.

Many conservatives have already ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

Support Feministing!


Hey y’all, just wanted to remind you about our fabulous Feministing gear. We had a bit of a fight with our old vendor who did our shirts–they found them vulgar. We found them taking 90 percent of the profits vulgar. So we’ve found an amazing new company, GoodStorm, to sell our oh-so-fashionable shirts. And they even give us a fair cut of the proceeds.
So please check out the shirts (and other products!), and be on the look out for new styles–I’m thinking of making one about vagina dentata…”Feminists have teeth!”
(A big thanks to Ray for putting the design together, especially the super cool option of having a left-handed or right-handed ...


Hey y’all, just wanted to remind you about our fabulous Feministing gear. We had a bit of a fight with our old vendor who did our shirts–they found them vulgar. We found them ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

Sisters of Substance

Ann mentioned this atrocious story of an Indiana sorority who booted all of it’s “socially awkward” sisters–you know, the women of color and “overweight” women–in the Weekly Feminist Reader.
I just wanted to let y’all know that some folks have started a Facebook group to support the ousted women.

Ann mentioned this atrocious story of an Indiana sorority who booted all of it’s “socially awkward” sisters–you know, the women of color and “overweight” women–in the Weekly Feminist Reader.
I just wanted to let y’all know ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

EC bill fails in South Dakota

A South Dakota bill, which would have required hospitals to tell rape victims about the availability of emergency contraception—that’s right, just tell women about it, not dispense it—failed last week.

Supporters of the bill tried unsuccessfully in the House Health and Human Services Committee to remove a “conscience clause” from the measure. That would let any health care provider or facility opt out of giving the information.
…The amendment to remove the conscience clause failed on a 6-7 vote, and another amendment that would let just doctors or other health care workers opt out also failed.

Rep. Mark Kirkeby, R-Rapid City, said, “In all honesty, with [the conscience clause] being in place in this bill, there’s no sense in even having ...

A South Dakota bill, which would have required hospitals to tell rape victims about the availability of emergency contraception—that’s right, just tell women about it, not dispense it—failed last week.

Supporters of the bill tried unsuccessfully in ...
By Vanessa • 17 years ago

Lovely.

Ah, there’s nothing better than your run-of-the-mill sexist “women as meat” ad to start off your Monday morning.

Ah, there’s nothing better than your run-of-the-mill sexist “women as meat” ad to start off your Monday morning.
By Ann • 17 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Are mothers’ movements finally gaining traction?
Yet more speculation on why models have gotten so skinny.
A U.S. soldier is sentenced to 100 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl.
Mississippi takes another step toward passing an abortion ban.
How male and female brokers perform differently.
In an effort to reverse their “socially awkward� image, an Indiana sorority kicks out several of its members who are minorities or deemed to be overweight.
Suburban housewives are into sexercising.
The frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination can’t figure out how they feel about abortion rights. But that might not even matter in the end.

Are mothers’ movements finally gaining traction?
Yet more speculation on why models have gotten so skinny.
A U.S. soldier is sentenced to 100 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old Iraqi ...
By celina • 17 years ago

Salome Chasnoff: Going Beyondmedia


Photo by Audrey Cho as it appeared in The Chicago Reporter.
Salome Chasnoff is executive director of the alternative media nonprofit, Beyondmedia. Salome is a video and installation artist, media activist and educator, whose work is dedicated to expanding media access for marginalized communities. She has been an arts educator for the past 20 years in university and community settings, and an artist-activist in the prison moratorium movement for 8 years.
Beyondmedia, for the most part, works with young women between the ages of 13 and 25. They also partner with many women’s and queer youth groups.
Here’s Salome…


Photo by Audrey Cho as it appeared in The Chicago Reporter.
Salome Chasnoff is executive director of the alternative media nonprofit, Beyondmedia. Salome is a video and installation artist, media activist and ...

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