By Jessica • 15 years ago

Quick Hit: Columbia U. files motion to dismiss anti-Women’s Studies suit

Remember anti-feminist Roy Den Hollander, who is suing Columbia University over its Women’s Studies classes? Well the school has struck back, filing a motion to dismiss the suit, saying it “reads like a parody.”

Remember anti-feminist Roy Den Hollander, who is suing Columbia University over its Women’s Studies classes? Well the school has struck back, filing a motion to dismiss the suit, saying it “reads like a parody.”
By Jessica • 15 years ago

National Review: Women who don’t support Palin are just upset about their abortions

Now this is rich. Kevin Burke, a proponent of the invented “post abortion syndrome,” writes that the criticism of Sarah Palin “may have a relationship to the collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal involvement in the abortion of an unborn child.” Here I thought voters made decisions based on the issues that matter to them – little did I know that women across the country who don’t support Palin are simply depressed about all of those abortions we’ve been having!
Burke gets even classier when he brings Palin’s pregnant teen daughter into the mix:

If Bristol Palin had quietly aborted, Sarah Palin would have been spared the politically untimely focus on this very personal family issue. ...

Now this is rich. Kevin Burke, a proponent of the invented “post abortion syndrome,” writes that the criticism of Sarah Palin “may have a relationship to the collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

Women’s heart disease misdiagnosed as stress?

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women, but according to Consumer Reports many women could be in danger because of a misdiagnoses:

If you have chest pain, breathlessness or an irregular heartbeat, you’d expect your doctor to check you out for heart disease. But if you’re a woman, it’s possible that might not happen. Instead, you might be told your symptoms are caused by stress.
A study presented at a recent conference looked at decisions made by 230 experienced American physicians. The study showed that doctors were more likely to put these symptoms down to stress if a woman appeared anxious, or if they knew she had been through stressful events.

When the same ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women, but according to Consumer Reports many women could be in danger because of a misdiagnoses:

If you have chest pain, breathlessness or an irregular heartbeat, ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

Sam Bee on “women’s health,” abortion and penis babies

Samantha Bee on McCain’s women’s health air quotes. Nails it dead. (Wait until about halfway through the vid.) I love her.
Thanks to all the Feministing readers who emailed me late into the night excited about this segment!

Samantha Bee on McCain’s women’s health air quotes. Nails it dead. (Wait until about halfway through the vid.) I love her.
Thanks to all the Feministing readers who emailed me late into the ...
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Tuesday Ten: Ten things I absolutely hate about heteronormative dating.

In no particular order.
1. You are expected to dress nice and act a certain way “waiting” to get asked out.
2. You have to play by the rules which generally give men most of the power. (wait till he calls you, don’t be too forward, be mysterious-you don’t want to scare him off, etc)
3. If you show emotion too early on or too much of it, you are needy.
4. If you don’t show enough emotion, you are making the other party insecure forcing them to wield social privilege to silence your daring attempt at independence from self obliteration via coupling.
5. It fetishizes unequal power relations between women. He’ll get the tab, he’ll get the door as ...

In no particular order.
1. You are expected to dress nice and act a certain way “waiting” to get asked out.
2. You have to play by the rules which generally give men most of the power. ...
By Ann • 15 years ago

Pimp the vote

Perhaps you’ve seen the image on the left circulating around the Internets. It’s an homage to the image on the right, a ’60s antiwar poster featuring Joan Baez and her sisters.

I second Rebecca Traister, who says the newer, Obama-themed poster “Makes me want to put a fist through a wall, put a hammer through my skull and move to France.” More specifically, as Renee puts it:

It’s not even a new twist on an old theme; as Barack would say, it’s more of the same. The idea that women’s bodies can and should be offered as a reward for good behaviour has been with us for centuries. It’s appearance as a campaign slogan only proves how far we ...

Perhaps you’ve seen the image on the left circulating around the Internets. It’s an homage to the image on the right, a ’60s antiwar poster featuring Joan Baez and her sisters.

I second Rebecca Traister, who says ...

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