By Courtney • 16 years ago

Yogurt Pussies

I was hanging out with some Skidmore gals after my talk there Tuesday and we got to talking about that old, itchy foe, yeast infections. One of the pre-med students had just prepared a paper about alternative treatments, including…drum roll please…sticking yogurt in your vagina (“not strawberry, not vanilla,” she warned us, “plain yogurt.”) A couple of the other female students freaked out at this suggestion (ahem, Carly, ahem). I googled it today and, lo and behold, it’s a bonafide treatment (along with garlic and tea tree oil).
So level with me, what do you all think about these alternative va-jay-jay remedies? Do you use them or resort to the man’s Monistat? I went to the Monistat ...

I was hanging out with some Skidmore gals after my talk there Tuesday and we got to talking about that old, itchy foe, yeast infections. One of the pre-med students had just prepared a paper about ...
By Courtney • 16 years ago

Feminist Generations/Feminist Locations

If you’re in the New York area tonight, check out what promises to be a deep conversation about the unfinished work of feminism and its bright future. I spoke in Ann Snitow’s class earlier in the semester and I was blown away by how awesome she was. It’s no surprise that she’s brought in such a great group of panelists:
FEMINIST GENERATIONS/FEMINIST LOCATIONS:
THE CONTINUING VITALITY OF FEMINIST THOUGHT AND ACTION
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008
66 WEST 12TH ST., ROOM 407
6:30-8 PM
DEBORAH SIEGEL, author of Sisterhood, Interrupted

LINDA ABAD of Damayan Migrant Workers Association

MEREDITH TAX of Women’s World
(a founder of Boston’s Bread & Roses – 1969)
ANN SNITOW of Eugene ...

If you’re in the New York area tonight, check out what promises to be a deep conversation about the unfinished work of feminism and its bright future. I spoke in Ann Snitow’s class earlier in the semester ...
By Courtney • 16 years ago

Not Oprah’s Book Club: Let Your Life Speak

I’m reading an amazing little book by one of my new favorite authors, Parker Palmer (see my review of The Courage to Teach from a couple of weeks ago). This one’s called Let Your Life Speak and in it he explores how one truly finds a vocation, a calling, a purpose in life. He writes:

Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.

He traces his own “deep gladness� back to childhood when he used to write little booklets about aviation. At the time he interpreted it as a ...

I’m reading an amazing little book by one of my new favorite authors, Parker Palmer (see my review of The Courage to Teach from a couple of weeks ago). This one’s called Let Your Life Speak ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Douchebag of the Day

On Fox News yesterday, Larry Sabato of the Center for Politics offered a very insightful metaphor of Democrats and Republicans:

“Look, when you analyze parties, you need to think of them this way: The Democratic Party is the mommy party, and the Republican Party is the daddy party. . . The mother is loving and caring and takes us back in and provides the safety net. The father is the disciplinarian — tough love. He makes us face up to hard realities, at least in many families. Well, the mommy party is the Democratic Party. The daddy party is the Republican Party.”

No comment necessary.
Check out the video of this ass at Media Matters.

On Fox News yesterday, Larry Sabato of the Center for Politics offered a very insightful metaphor of Democrats and Republicans:

“Look, when you analyze parties, you need to think of them this way: The Democratic Party is the ...
By jen • 16 years ago

Feministing Site Upgrade Weekly Update

As promised, here’s an update on the Feministing site upgrades. Things are moving along well, we’re to the part I like best, fiddling around (technical term) with where things go and how they work. Today Jessica and I were talking about something that we’d like your feedback on.
All registered users with the site will be able to upload a picture that displays on your profile page, if they want to. It’s also possible to have a small user picture appear next to every comment you add to the site. So, the question is, do you want that? Let us know. Vote in the poll and let us know in comments why you answered that way.

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As promised, here’s an update on the Feministing site upgrades. Things are moving along well, we’re to the part I like best, fiddling around (technical term) with where things go and how they work. Today Jessica and ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

Italy starts campaign to stop eating disorders.

It is good to see that eating disorders are actually considered a public health concern that is being stimulated by the fashion and beauty industry. Italy is starting a campaign on eating disorders.

Italian authorities are mounting a $1.5 million campaign against a growing epidemic of anorexia and other eating disorders in a country known for its fashion industry and image consciousness.
The Italian Ministries of Health and Sports are aiming the project at schools and the media, providing guidelines for magazines, television, radio and Internet sites to discourage ultra-thin beauty ideals.
“Anorexia and bulimia have been for many years diseases that have not been recognized as such. It was sort of a veil of unspoken and unrecognized problems,” said Giovanna ...

It is good to see that eating disorders are actually considered a public health concern that is being stimulated by the fashion and beauty industry. Italy is starting a campaign on eating disorders.

Italian authorities are mounting a ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

More Feminist News!

iPartySmarter.com – Smart Women Smart Choices:“Girls just want to have fun. Right? However, a woman’s party style can make all the difference between having fun or having regrets.” (Nothing like a little victim-blaming campaign to shame women into not “partying.”)
Copyranter – French men can’t see the forest for the trees. Or something: Some charming ads for hair removal cream.
Rebel Dad – Men: Shrinking Violets?: Brian takes on Laura Sessions Stepp’s latest nonsense.
Open Society Fellowship: “The Open Society Institute has launched a fellowship program for outstanding individuals from around the world working on issues concerning national security, citizenship, authoritarianism, and new strategies and tools for advocacy.” (For all you activists who ...

iPartySmarter.com – Smart Women Smart Choices:“Girls just want to have fun. Right? However, a woman’s party style can make all the difference between having fun or having regrets.” (Nothing like a little victim-blaming campaign to ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Encouraging girls to be “Miss Bimbo”


This is too gross. An online game, Miss Bimbo, encourages girls (as in under 10 years old) to buy their avatars plastic surgery – face lifts, boob jobs, you name it – in order to be the “hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world.” Yeah.

Children are given a naked virtual character to look after. They compete against other players to earn “bimbo” dollars so they can dress her in sexy outfits and take her clubbing. They are given missions, including securing plastic surgery at the game’s clinic to give their dolls bigger breasts, and they have to keep her at her target weight with diet pills.

Perhaps even worse than the sexist and dangerous ...


This is too gross. An online game, Miss Bimbo, encourages girls (as in under 10 years old) to buy their avatars plastic surgery – face lifts, boob jobs, you name it – in ...

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