Courtesy of women’s rights activists, “Unfollow Charlie” tees are for sale on Zazzle.com — in reference to actor/domestic abuser Charlie Sheen’s Twitter — and proceeds will go to the Rape, Abuse Incest National Network. I love it!- The New York Times turns a keen, lustful journalistic eye to the “lesbian until graduation” college girl phenomenon.
- Why aren’t there more female airline pilots? Because they’ll get their period and crash the plane, duh.
- Ever wondered if it was an insult when someone called you a “breeder”? (It is.) Check out this official lesbian dictionary of “lezicon” from the chicks at After Ellen and tonight you can go call someone a “beersexual”!
- Golfer Elaine Joyce of Massachusetts has won $15,000 in a sexual discrimination lawsuit against a public golf course that would not let her play as a partner with her father in a men’s competition.
- The USDA has promised $1.3 billion in compensation for female farmers, as well as Hispanics, as both groups have claimed discrimination when applying for USDA farm loans.
- Women, gays and blacks are still shown as stereotypes on film. You don’t say!
- Are biracial and other “exotic” women the new beauty ideal?
- How to get over any anxiety of nursing in public.
- Why is saving NPR from being defunded by Congress a feminist issue?
INTERNATIONAL
- An elderly woman in a London suburb was caught keeping a Tanzanian woman in her home and working her like a slave.
- Meet the women who brave gunfire and curfews in an a Cote d’Ivoire food market to provide for their families.
- Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has cut the women’s varsity hockey team from their budget.
