By Jessica • 16 years ago

I heart cheetahs


Apparently female cheetahs “sleep around.”

For female cheetahs in the Serengeti, the call of the wild is just too hard to resist as new research shows nearly half of their litters are made up of cubs with different fathers.
And while the serial infidelities of the females does ensure a broader genetic mix to help the survival of the endangered species, it comes at a cost, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said on Wednesday.
“Mating with more than one male poses a serious threat to females, increasing the risk of exposure to parasites and diseases,” said Dada Gottelli, ZSL’s lead scientist for the research.
“Females also have to travel over large distances to find new males, ...


Apparently female cheetahs “sleep around.”

For female cheetahs in the Serengeti, the call of the wild is just too hard to resist as new research shows nearly half of their litters are made up ...
By Ann • 16 years ago

Gender discrimination at work: A-OK!

We’re a little tardy in writing about yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear. The court ruled that employees must make their discrimination complaints within 180 days “after the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred.â€? In other words, the discrimination occurs at the time a woman is given a salary that is significantly lower than her male counterparts. If she doesn’t catch on to the pay disparity within 180 days, she’s screwed. Which is why Ledbetter’s attorneys had argued that she was discriminated against every time she was handed a paycheck for less money than her male equivalent on the job — not simply when her salary was determined. According to the Times:

Ms. Ledbetter’s salary was initially the ...

We’re a little tardy in writing about yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear. The court ruled that employees must make their discrimination complaints within 180 days “after the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred.â€? ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Liveblogging the Causes in Common conference

Contributed by Kate Harding
Yesterday I got an e-mail informing me that Feministing’s Jen had thrown out her back and couldn’t attend the first ever Causes in Common Meeting today and the SisterSong Conference over the next few days as planned. Having the extensive qualifications of being a Chicago blogger who was available to do it, I was asked to fill in for her. I’m so sorry Jen’s in pain, but so grateful to have this opportunity — both to write for Feministing and to attend these gatherings, the first of which is already shaping up to be fantastic.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Causes in Common, it’s an organization devoted to ...

Contributed by Kate Harding
Yesterday I got an e-mail informing me that Feministing’s Jen had thrown out her back and couldn’t attend the first ever Causes in Common Meeting today and the SisterSong Conference ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Fake Benetton campaign?

Just so you know: Seems the Colors of Domestic Violence campaign may not be an official Benetton thing. Broadsheet reports that a senior fashion public relations manager for the company says that Benetton has never heard of the campaign. So where in the world did this thing come from?

Just so you know: Seems the Colors of Domestic Violence campaign may not be an official Benetton thing. Broadsheet reports that a senior fashion public relations manager for the company says that Benetton has ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Sperm: The new crack


In perhaps the best titled article ever, “Crying Over Spilled Semen,” Psychology Today reports on a study that basically says women are addicted to semen. Hilarious.

The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful—and potentially addictive—mood-altering chemicals.
Study author Gordon G. Gallup, Ph.D., a psychologist at the State University of New York in Albany, also found that women who routinely had intercourse without condoms became increasingly depressed as more time elapsed since their last sexual encounter. There was no such correlation ...


In perhaps the best titled article ever, “Crying Over Spilled Semen,” Psychology Today reports on a study that basically says women are addicted to semen. Hilarious.

The finding that women who do not use ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

Gentrification, Hipsters and “Ghetto Chic.”

This post by Wendy Muse on Racialicious just about sums up (really well) what I have been feeling about the hipsters all up in “our hoodz stealin all our fashionz.” I also feel old as I wore door knockers the first time around (NY in the 80’s) eeek.
Muse is discussing all her personal negotiations and some of the political stakes involved with “ghetto chic.” She says,

For one, it’s a matter of nomenclature. The term “ghetto� is evocative of “negative� images (poverty, housing projects, crime, drug use, lack of education), and remains racialized by the media. Ghettoes and poverty are typically associated with blacks and Latinos, even though as a result of the racial demographics of the United States, ...

This post by Wendy Muse on Racialicious just about sums up (really well) what I have been feeling about the hipsters all up in “our hoodz stealin all our fashionz.” I also feel old as I ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Armpits are the new black.

Dove’s Real Beauty Campaign has had its fair share of successes and critiques, yet while they have been pushing this idea of “real beauty,” it seems that they also think that should exclude your armpits. Like we don’t have enough body parts to obsess over.
The slogan, “Are you sleeveless ready?” says enough about what they’re trying to pitch, but I’ve heard the commercial is pretty irritating, more or less saying that their newest deodorant will make your underarms look soft and gorgeous (as opposed to their gross existence before). The website says:

“Every woman can have softer, smoother underams and show them off in sleeveless styles that make her feel beautiful.”

Because seriously, who likes a girl ...

Dove’s Real Beauty Campaign has had its fair share of successes and critiques, yet while they have been pushing this idea of “real beauty,” it seems that they also think that should exclude ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Promiscuities my ass.

Naomi Wolf had the cover story in New York Magazine on Saturday titled, “The Porn Myth,� which largely discussed how porn today basically kills people’s sex lives; or in other words, men’s.
With mainstream porn’s fake breasts, tiny vaginas and perpetually tan bodies, the unrealistic expectations it puts on straight men and what sex is “supposed� to look like is evident, which Wolf points out. But her extreme oversimplification of the issue is evident as well.
She claims that all porn this day and age does is demolish straight women’s sex lives because they can’t live up to porn’s image of the “perfect body� and satisfy their more-or-less bored partners. In fact, the entire piece discusses the issue ...

Naomi Wolf had the cover story in New York Magazine on Saturday titled, “The Porn Myth,� which largely discussed how porn today basically kills people’s sex lives; or in other words, men’s.
With mainstream porn’s ...

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