The New York Times has a news story up about some new problems in the Congo. Now in addition to women and girls, men are being raped brutally by armed militants. This is horrible because I think this means everyone is now a target for sexual violence.

Berkeley woman misses flight when bra triggers alarm .

In the post-9/11 world of heightened airport scrutiny, Kates, like most travelers, is familiar with the drill: Take off shoes and belts, open the laptop, carry shampoo in 3 oz. bottles. For Kates, on Sunday, though, the security check got too invasive. A big-busted woman wearing a large underwire [...]

Yeah I love The Onion too! Check this article out…

To the few who knew her, Edith was an unattractive, awkward little girl who failed to stand out among her first-grade classmates at Jefferson Elementary School. And it is this lack of social grace, more than anything, that makes her all-too-brief life—and its all-too-brief ending—all the more not-compelling [...]

I was walking to the grocery store today. On the side of a liquor store (one that also has signage of bible quotes… wierd right?) was a liquor ad that was so nasty I had to stop and get a closer look. I am a photographer, I’ve shot nudes. I understand that sex sells. I’m OK with [...]

"The impact of a bullet can push the metal and plastic bits of the bra into an officer’s body, causing serious injury," said Carmen Kibat, an adviser on equal opportunities for the Hamburg-based Bundespolizei – Germany’s federal police force. "I always thought normal bras posed a safety risk and I wanted to change that," she said. "These new [...]

OK some of these links have been looming over me for a couple of days so I’m just going to throw a bunch out there at once. First, we have a court decision where it’s been found: No, you can’t strip search AZ schoolchildren on suspicion of ibuprofen posession. (I swear I’m not in love with the LA Times): [...]

“Forsake lipstick to avoid rape,” is the headline of this cute little piece from the Guardian. Lipstick and noisy high heels are dangerous come-ons according to some Malaysian officials of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party. Mostly I’m just posting this because it’s all so familar, and maybe the association of a such silly ideas with dangerous conservatives will [...]

Woman details abortion, relationship with “pro-life” congressional candidate What a charmer. The Oregonian reports that Congressional candidate Mike Erickson fabricates a bunch of bull how he didn’t know he gave his girlfriend money for an abortion, how she wasn’t his girlfriend, and how he stopped seeing her after the “doctor’s appointment” he drove her to. Lies, lies. [...]