The Women: a remake that never left the 1930s

The film, The Women, is about infidelity. Other themes are mentioned but the main conflict in the story is an affair. The movie was based off of a 1939 film also titled The Women. In a film about relationships and...

WE TV plans a documentary on kiddie beauty pageants

WE TV is planning on filming a documentary on child beauty pageants entitled Little Miss Perfect. It's supposed to be a look into the Southern pageant circuit. Three other documentaries have already been made about these little beauty queens; Living Dolls, Painted Babies (as...

Top Ten Hagee-isms

I just don't think that enough attention has been paid to McCain's endorsement seeking strategy from Rev. Hagee and Rev. Parsley, especially when you add up how many weeks we saw Rev. Wright on TV. So to be fair, I...

Research: Mate is just a tool for female leader

Researchers from University of Jyväskylä (Välimäki Suvi, Lämsä Anna-Maija & Hiillos Minna 2008), The School of Business and Economics, have made a research about men behind female leaders. Research was made by interviewing 29 female leaders. Sometimes female leaders...

Political Surprise: McCain & Palin Move Me to Tears--and Why

I cried today. Over politics. Now, that was a surprise. I've been through many kinds of political experiences. I've managed a campaign, worked on several. I've coached a candidate through tough forums and issues,...

Where have all the real men gone? (opinion)

While I don't agree with much of this piece, it presents an interesting alternative opinion to many of the opinions central to the feminism movement. There's quite a lot to say about this piece, but I don't want to copy and paste the whole thing here. "I know. Saving the...

The House Bunny; new film, old issues

The House Bunny. It's new, it's funny, and it's going to be an excuse to strut out pretty girls while reinforcing society's negative view of women. If you check out the IMDB page for the film you can see the raging message board war about whether the movie is setting the...

Why Soldiers Rape (opinion)

This piece is not for the faint hearted. "An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact has received a fair amount of attention lately from researchers and the press — and deservedly so."The...

Berlin Strich & Faden Art Show Presents a Humorous Look at Regionalism

The Strich und Faden group show offers subversive travesties of folk art and folklore; documentations of contemporary tribal fashion codes; and works that thematize "Heimat" (regionalism), gender, identity and...

Too young? Preteen girls get bikini waxes

"Philadelphia aesthetician Melanie Engle, whose specialty is eyebrow shaping, is no stranger to odd requests. But nothing prepared her for being asked by one client to book a bikini wax appointment for her 8-year-old...

Why do you think there is an increase in female offending?

"Increasing numbers of violent women are stretching police resources, a police association has warned. About 240 women a day are arrested for violent crime in England and Wales, according to recent figures. Police in Scotland and Northern Ireland say, anecdotally, they have...

Feminism is evil (some say)

"Beware of the feminists, many are lesbians."I don't even know where to start with this, truly. It's both laughable and horrific. Of course the presentation of the 'material' on the site is dreadful, and at first I thought it was a joke, but I fear it is not. "I'm not going ...

Feminism in 2008 (opinion piece)

"For most of this decade, the conventional wisdom has had it that feminism in America is dead – or, at least, irrelevant. The New York Times talked to female students at Yale and found them to be mostly interested...

Gender stereotypes suck for men too

Here's an interesting talking point: are men screwed over by societal gender roles as much as women? Not quite, obviously--discrimination against men isn't institutionalized--but it's stifling to be uncommunicative,...

Call for specialist rape squads

Yes, yes, yes. I can't stress the importance of this enough. The current clear up rate in rape cases is horrendous - as low as 5%. "Every police force should set up a specialist squad to investigate rape allegations, a senior officer says. John Yates, who speaks on the...

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