By Ann • 17 years ago

Legislator wants to ban “truck nutz”


These things are ridiculous, but a ban? Seriously?

“People are making a joke out of it,” [Maryland delegate LeRoy] Myers said yesterday. “But I think it’s a pretty serious problem. You have body parts hanging from the hitches of cars. We’ve crossed a line.”
His bill would prohibit motorists from displaying anything resembling or depicting “anatomically correct” or “less than completely and opaquely covered” human or animal genitals, human buttocks or female breasts. The offense would carry a penalty.

Also good to know:

A hunter could still throw a freshly killed and uncovered deer in the back of his pickup, though, because the deer’s body parts would be real, Myers said.

We can all recognize that Myers is semi-crazy ...


These things are ridiculous, but a ban? Seriously?

“People are making a joke out of it,” [Maryland delegate LeRoy] Myers said yesterday. “But I think it’s a pretty serious problem. You have body ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

First woman wins prestigious computing award

Here’s some cool news to start your weekend off with:

One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman Wednesday for the first time in the award’s 40-year history.
Frances E. Allen, 74, was honored for her work at IBM Corp. on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers, the programs that translate one computer language into another.

Allen started working at IBM in 1957, around the time the company was recruiting women by using a brochure called “My Fair Ladies.” Awesome.
Via Women and Tech News.

Here’s some cool news to start your weekend off with:

One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman Wednesday for the first time in the award’s 40-year history.
Frances ...
By Vanessa • 17 years ago

PC my ass.

Our peoples at In These Times featured “A Politically Correct Lexicon” where they go over a number of terms, and experts give their perception of what the appropriate language is to use nowadays. But I have to admit I was extremely pissed to see that these folks believe the politically correct usage of the word “feminist” is pointless because the word itself doesn’t really exist anymore:

Feminist: “A word that the younger generation doesn’t always embrace,” is how Baim, 44, describes it. A lot of young women, she says, are “feminists but they don’t want to be pigeonholed.” “Feminist somehow became a tainted word along the way,” says Hill. “I have heard a lot of people say, ‘this ...

Our peoples at In These Times featured “A Politically Correct Lexicon” where they go over a number of terms, and experts give their perception of what the appropriate language is to use nowadays. But ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

And the anxious masculinity award goes to…

The guy who wrote me this awesomely predictable email. Classic.

I randomly came upon your website and it made me laugh so much. What you fail to realize is that ALL WOMEN ARE PROPERTY. That’s why your mothers took the last name of your fathers. That is because SHE BELONGS TO HIM. I love making fun of all the cute lil’ feminists around the UM, College Park campus as other scantly clad female student contradict everything they are saying. ALL WOMEN were created to serve men, thats why you get pregnant and that why you have to look attractive with long hair and make up to attract a man. One day all of you ...

The guy who wrote me this awesomely predictable email. Classic.

I randomly came upon your website and it made me laugh so much. What you fail to realize is that ALL WOMEN ARE PROPERTY. That’s ...
By celina • 17 years ago

For All the Activists Out There!


When you get the chance, check out my latest article for WireTap, “Notes on Activism and Loyalty.” Marisa Handler keeps it real, no matter the cost. She’s also got a CD out, “Dark Spoke.” She’s on the road doing book readings and singing.


When you get the chance, check out my latest article for WireTap, “Notes on Activism and Loyalty.” Marisa Handler keeps it real, no matter the cost. She’s also got a CD out,

By Ann • 17 years ago

Rape as a weapon of the Iraq war

My colleague Kay has a post up over at TAPPED about the guilty pleas from the two U.S. soldiers who raped and killed 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi. Their truly disturbing testimony comes at a time when Iraqi politicians are rushing to politicize the allegations by 20-year-old Sabrine al-Janabi that she was sexually assaulted by Iraqi security forces.
See also: Robin Morgan’s Rape, Murder and the American G.I.

My colleague Kay has a post up over at TAPPED about the guilty pleas from the two U.S. soldiers who raped and killed 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi. Their truly disturbing testimony comes at a time ...
By Ann • 17 years ago

A ‘Larry Summers Moment’

Amy Hoffman, editor-in-chief of the Women’s Review of Books, recently reported that she attended a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute by Barry Gewen, an editor at the New York Times Book Review. In what even he described as a “Larry Summers moment” he explained that the reason so few women reviewers appear in the NYTBR is that they just can’t write for a general audience about such topics as military history. He explained that NYTBR editors find reviewers by talking to colleagues and reading publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic, insisting that he and his colleagues are not overtly prejudiced people but admitted they might have ...

Amy Hoffman, editor-in-chief of the Women’s Review of Books, recently reported that she attended a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute by Barry Gewen, an editor at the New York Times Book Review. In ...

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