Category: 5. Rampant Sexism

  • How Fox News Stepford-izes Women

    I feel like the same thing happens over at CNN’s financial desk but there they make their jawlines too sharp and their hair and skin tones get a bit creepy. When a woman gets a job on the “fair and balanced” news network, she gets “Foxified.” No matter how she looks or how old she […]

  • Papal Responsiveness on Celibacy Versus Sex Abuse

    Which is worse: Tying up two children and raping them or ordaining a married man? A lawyer for the Vatican claimed… that the two years it took the current pope to defrock a convicted pedophile was quick. But in 2006 he excommunicated an Archbishop who defied the celibacy doctrine ‘automatically’. On September 24th 2006 Archbishop […]

  • Lutheran School Meeting Denies Women to Speak

    I think this is the Wisconsin synod right? They’re known for being pretty 1800s I think: During a six-hour meeting Sunday in which females were not permitted to vote or speak, male church members voted to terminate the principal of a Baraboo Christian school…. Females do not have voting privileges, but are generally allowed to speak […]

  • Median Wealth for Single Black Women: $100, Single White Women: $41,000

    The Insight Center for Community Economic Development report: almost half of all single women of color (no inclusion go asian women) have negative or no wealth (debts exceeding assets/income): Nearly half of all single black and Hispanic women have zero or negative wealth meaning their debts exceed all of their assets.The median wealth for single […]

  • To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Call it 'Womb Lynching'

    Hitting the Tuskegee nerve: For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number of black women who undergo abortions. But, staff members said, they found it difficult to make inroads with black audiences. … [They] hired a black woman, Catherine Davis, to […]

  • Family Detransitions Trans Woman in Coma

    A transgender woman in year four of her transition from male to female is hit by a car and put in a coma. Her family takes action: The message came through from her family once she was far away: they were changing up some of the treatment protocols, for Melissa’s sake. It was going to […]

  • State by State: Same-Sex Marriage vs First-Cousin Marriage

    No word yet if the first-cousins are of the same sex: statesmarriagecousin.jpg (JPEG Image, 444×600 pixels).

  • Science Toys for Girls Pink, Weaker

    From science blog Pharyngula: Here’s another odd pink phenomenon. This is a page from a Toys’R Us catalog, illustrating some science toys, and note the odd distinctions being made. Both the telescope and the microscope come in special pink versions, just for the girl who is apparently more interested in getting an instrument that matches […]

  • Abortion and The Health-Care Battle

    Toobin: Throughout this long legal history, the one constant has been that women have continued to have abortions. The rate has declined slightly in recent years, but, according to the Guttmacher Institute, thirty-five per cent of all women of reproductive age in America today will have had an abortion by the time they are forty-five. […]

  • Why Extremists Are Obsessed with Women's Bodies?

    From the Independent: We really do face a phenomenon which deserves consideration: why are extremists so obsessed with women’s bodies? Some ideas might help us answer this question: … Firstly, the extremist view of women is that they are only bodies and instruments for either legitimate pleasure or temptation, as well as factories for producing […]