Survey por favor
Fill out this survey about women and technology for a study conducted at the University of Texas!
It takes like 15 min., swear. If you’re a lady, you’ll do it.
Life lesson from Barbie
A Barbie world?
NYT reported that Iran wanted to ban the likes of Barbie for not coinciding with Islamic beliefs of covering the body. Basically the Iranian govt. was half-right when it mentioned that it was “dangerous for the health of children.” Sara and Dara are the dolls Iranian Islamic fundamentalists are hoping will get popular and are […]
Johnny, be good
So McCain opposed a bill for women to get equal pay.
Too many lawsuits he says.
This is the year 2008, and we can’t get a damn bill that even pretends to tell me I can fiend in fist-throwing capitalism? I have an old white dude, who will die prior to my entrance into a stable employment […]
No Deal
When Deal or No Deal came on the air, I knew those women had to stand and hold briefcases because they were “hot.” We all knew.
The show, however, never managed to touch my gag reflex until Monday night. I don’t watch it religiously, so it was the first time I became aware that I had […]
Two new podcasts
I apologize for my post delay. As you can tell, I’m a stereotypical moderately-liberal college woman with finals nearing…
However! Two new podcasts have been added.
Courtney is the director for SafePlace, the rape crisis center in Austin. Natalie is a graduate student at UT. Both tell their own stories of rape and their ability to […]
Watch your adjectives NYT
Today the NYT presented an interesting and archaic review of the book “I Lost My Love in Baghdad;” a memoir written by a man who lost the woman he loved in Iraq.
The adjectives to describe the woman: “young, lovely, idealistic.” Then it says,
The decision to send this young woman to a 90-minute meeting in an […]
Abortion as art… NOT
A Yale student claimed to impregnate herself and then give herself induced miscarriages throughout a nine-month period for her senior art project. The documentation of the project, i.e. video recordings of the miscarriages and blood collected from the procedure (how dainty), were supposed to be shown at the exhibition next week.
Anyway, that was what the […]
A film series I actually want to see
The BBC airs a new film series tomorrow documenting the silence about violence against women.
The series is called “Women on the Frontline” and is hosted by Annie Lennox (who ironically sang “some of them want to abuse you”). The segments should reveal the traumatic circumstances of women in certain countries who deal with war in […]
Supreme Court rules in favor of “eye for an eye”
The very conservative Supreme Court ruled in favor of keeping the death cocktail, meaning that the Texas govt. can once again resume building up its street cred, execution-style.
If abortion comes up in the courtroom, I hope they don’t suddenly find sanctity in life again.