Egyptian Female Demonstrators Forced to Undergo Virginity Tests
Call me a cynic, but I just don’t believe much good can come when the “Supreme Council of the Armed Forces” is running a country as it now is in Egypt, especially given that they […]
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Our GIRLFRIEND of the Week: Crystal Ivory
Sometimes it requires drastic measures in life if you want to be heard. Last Sunday afternoon in Riviera Beach, Florida, police received a call about a sexual assault. When they arrived, the police found the […]
Are All Women Vicious, Evil, Conniving Creatures Intent on Inflicting Pain?
Kelly Valen, author of The Twisted Sisterhood: The Dark Side Of Female Friendship Explored, wrote a stirring essay in 2007 for the New York Times entitled, My Sorority Pledge? I Swore Off Sisterhood. That essay […]
Are Some Women Using Our Struggle to Throw Stones at the Wrong Goliath?
When it comes to women’s rights, you have to take out the party rhetoric. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are Republicans FIRST, women’s advocates second. It’s one of the biggest reasons we can’t seem to […]
International Women’s Day: “the working women’s day of militancy”
Make no mistake. From its very beginnings of International Working Women’s Day in 1911, March 8th was not meant for candy and flowers or even as a celebration of women. It was a means to […]
Saudi Women Asked to Give Breast Milk to Unrelated Males
“A Saudi cleric finds himself in the hot seat after issuing a decree permitting unrelated women and men mingle so long as the guy drinks the woman’s breast milk.” Did I read that right? I […]
Better Name for UNIONS – Group that Insures Women Equal Pay for Equal Work
Why do the governors of Wisconsin and Ohio hate women and old people? I mean their support of bills to strip government unions of their collective bargaining power is focused squarely on teachers, 80 percent […]
Prostitute Patron vs. Award-Winning Writer/Commentator
My mother always said, “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you what you are.” I’m beginning to see what CNN is. The network that touted 24-hour news seems to have become nothing more than […]
“Worst case is some women may have little beards.”
Just a month after our GIRLFRIENDS’ Post, American Women are Being Poisoned, Should We Care, the governor of Maine issued a dire warning to women regarding the health effects of bisphenol A. “The only thing […]
Jobs for “Ugly” Women
So you want to land an exclusive research position in a highly competitive, male-dominated profession. You’ve employed a resume writing service, a career coach and boned up on all you can about the company and […]
The Circus, The Pimp, & The Prostitute
I don’t know about you, but if I bring my child to the circus, I’m expecting skits with goofy clowns, trapeze artists, elephants, a master of ceremonies and lots and lots of popcorn, cotton candy […]
A Woman Invented That?
Need a invention that will lower, even eliminate our dependence on oil? Look to a woman. According to the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, which measures Americans’ perceptions on inventing and innovations, women ages 16-25 “indicate […]
Women’s Party of America: Georgia Lawmaker “Accuses” Rape Victims
The more I blog, the more I think Women are underrepresented and have little or no power in the political process. First, the strongest women candidates are more loyal to their party than to women. […]
Twitter Outs a Sexist (and a complete jerk)
South African journalist and CBS’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Lara Logan, opened up the dark side to Egypt’s revolution when she “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a […]
Millions Spent on Ridiculous Studies About Women
Each year, millions of dollars are spent studying absurd and ridiculous issues about women, yet the life and death research is left unstudied and for some like heart disease, skews more toward men. FACT: Heart […]