You’ve come a long way baby

The first female gondolier in Venice.

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Should I take it as a bad sign…

that the before picture in this lose-fat advert is something I aspire to. Either this is a brutal commentary on our culture or my own personal weight.

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The pill and muscle gain

This study came out last week. I may be overstating it a bit to call it explosive, but I think it could spark a big change in what type of contraceptives women use. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Young women who use oral contraceptives (OC) may not get as much out of their weight-lifting routine [...]

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Reading Essense for the first time

I picked up a copy of the magazine Essense because Michelle Obama and her mother Marian Robinson were on the cover. I’m really impressed with this magazine. I’m not really sure what the non-ethnic specific magazine’s counterpart would be, but it’d definately not Vogue, Cosmopolitan or Vanity Fair. Maybe Womens World? I can’t say because [...]

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Buying lingerie in Saudi Arabia

Clearly not as easy as it sounds. Highlights include: Before her wedding last year, Huda Batterjee went abroad to buy her bridal lingerie — she just couldn’t bear the humiliation of discussing her most intimate apparel with a man. She had little choice: there are almost no saleswomen in Saudi Arabia. Now a group of [...]

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Picture of the living presidents

I’m sure I’m not the only one to have this thought. While race was certainly prevalent on people’s minds during the election, I never had as much of a sensation that Barack Obama was out of place than I had looking at this photograph. Even in a fairly white city like Seattle, there is enough [...]

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Why study home economics?

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Womens issues missing from the debate

Here in Seattle, the bars were full of people playing VP debate drinking games and Sarah Palin bingo. While the debate was somewhat predictable I couldn’t figure out why Gwen Ifill asked not one question about the issues important to 50% of the population of this country. I’m talking about women. Pardon me but when [...]

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2 nations divided by a common language

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Did Jill Greenberg go to far?

Jill Greenberg was hired by The Atlantic to photograph John McCain for a publication of the magazine. She did produce a photograph which The Atlantic will use; however, she also took photographs from the shoot for her own artistic exhibition which she shows on her web site. I was interested in this wordpress blog which [...]

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Desperate Housewives

Here’s a hilarious article — at least for me. It’s all about married women who have decided to be stay at home wives even though they don’t have children. I’m sorry for laughing at these women, but I do think the writer of the article is making them sound absurd. Ten years ago, she was [...]

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Smart Girls

I love this scene from The Big Sleep. It’s playful, risque and the woman is well read. What more could you want?

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The Most Offensive CNN Headline

Exactly how is a thirteen year-old girl who gets videotaped having sex with R. Kelly and gets ——– on by R. Kelly by any stretch of the imagination a vixen? Is this what CNN deems objective media? That it’s merely an opposing view and not really a disgusting no holds barred attempt at a defense [...]

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Feminism, Hillary and Me

I’m one of those unappreciative women that grew up with equal rights and didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton. Perhaps because of my age, I found it hard to identify with Hillary. She’s nothing like me. I am living the life that women of older generations fought for, and yet I am living it more fully [...]

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What Would You Rather Wear?

A 19th-Century puff-sleaved knockoff with a 3 inch curled back bang (fringe) worn by the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints women? Or a designer couture jilbab and hijab? Above two photos via Kuwait-Style. Last photo via Alixianne’s Photostream on Flickr.

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Women and War

An often used argument for electing women leaders around the world is that women by their nature are not warmongers and that the world would be more peaceful if ruled by women. It is said women and mothers in particular better understand the value of life because they have the ability to give life. Yet [...]

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Spike Lee, Barack Obama and Me

So Spike Lee is an Obama supporter, and I am an Obama supporter. Does that mean I have to like Spike Lee? The blogosphere has focused on only a small part of Spike Lee’s interview with New York Magazine where he says Hillary Clinton would lie on a stack of Bibles. The interview is well [...]

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Female Ref Can’t Be Put in a Position of Authority Over Boys

  The story: The Kansas State High School Activities Association said referees reported that Michelle Campbell was preparing to officiate at St. Mary’s Academy near Topeka on Feb. 2 when a school official insisted that Campbell could not call the game. The reason given, according to the referees: Campbell, as a woman, could not be [...]

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Last Chance For a Female President?

One of the reasons some people (female people usually) are giving for voting for Hillary in the Democratic primaries is that this could be the one and only chance to get a female president. For me the fact that so many people seem to be saying and thinking this is the main reason why I [...]

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35 years of executive experience

One of the things about Hillary Clinton that annoys me, aside from the fact that she might beat my choice for president Barak Obama, is that she keeps talking about how she’s the safe option because of her 35 years of executive experience. Yet she doesn’t have 35 years of executive experience. She has 7 [...]

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