This has been making the rounds on Facebook amongst some of my friends, and I thought it deserved a place here as well – Arizona has decided that pregnancy now begins two weeks before conception.  Yep.  You read that right. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed a bill that allows for the state to legislate a [...]

I must say, I’m really sad to be writing this post. I wrote my first post for the Feministing Community Blog in October of last year when a Canadian radio station hosted a contest entitled “Win a Wife” in which they offered one winner the chance to go to Russia to meet a number of [...]

Yeah… I wish I was joking.  As a matter of fact, when I first heard about this I was sure it had to be a joke – surely no one would think that it was appropriate to set up a contest in which winners are promised a “Mail-Order Bride” and think that there wouldn’t be [...]