This Wednesday, three men will go on trial for the rape and murder of Eudy Simelane, South Africa’s openly gay female football star. In April 2008, Simelane was found dead after being gang raped, beaten, and stabbed 25 times. Her murder was declared a hate crime, a brutal and tragic example of the widespread South African problem [...]
Filed under: GLBT, International, Law, Violence | Tagged: corrective rape, eudy simelane, lgbt, Rape, south africa | 1 Comment »
I was reading an article in the Stanford Alumni Magazine about a panel discussion titled “When the World Changed: The Impact of WWII on Women at Stanford.” Six women who were students at Stanford during World War II described some of their experiences. I was struck by how different a female student’s life was at [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Male Perspectives | Tagged: equality, Feminism, male feminists, sexism, women in the military, women's rights | Leave a Comment »
Kiss Cams are popular time-out attractions at NBA games. The big screen Jumbotrons have the heading of “Kiss Me” (or something similar) and video cameramen (I can’t recall ever having seen a woman wielding a camera at an NBA game) focus on couples and hope to entice or embarrass them into kissing for the entire [...]
Filed under: GLBT, Pop Culture, Sports | Tagged: Gay rights, Kiss Cam, media, Mystics, preference, Sheila Johnson, Sports, Stereotypes, WNBA | 4 Comments »
Most feminists will tell you that at one point or another, they’ve been told to “lighten up” or have been accused of “not having a sense of humor.” This usually happens when someone says something racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive and expects not to get called out for it. And then there’s Christopher Hitchens, who [...]
Filed under: Advertising, Male Perspectives, Pop Culture | Tagged: Feminism, feminist humor, humor, sarah haskins | Leave a Comment »
There are few things that irk me more than when a celebrity is interviewed and asked, out of the blue, to comment on “feminism.” The response is usually something very similar to: “Well, I believe in, like, women voting and stuff, but like, I don’t believe in hating men.” To be fair, its not generally [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Pop Culture | Tagged: elle macpherson, Feminism | 4 Comments »
There has been so much written and reported about Gates over the past few days that I have had a difficult time coming up with what I wanted to say. But I do know that I needed to say something. Then I came across this post by Shark-Fu at Feministing. I realized that her angle [...]
Filed under: Harassment, Law, Politics, Race/Ethnicity | Tagged: crowley, gates, police, racism, skip gates | 2 Comments »
When I was 17 and in my senior year, my Texas high school held a mandatory assembly featuring some speaker who was an Abstinence Life Coach. The man was 35, a proud virgin, and pretty good at fear-mongering. He showed graphic STD slideshows, made a lot of awkward jokes, and waxed poetic about ‘true love.’ [...]
Filed under: Marriage, Reproductive Rights, Sex | Tagged: abstinence, abstinence-only education, Sex, sex education | 1 Comment »
Well, here’s something I didn’t expect. No, not the fact that some degenerate took a video through a hotel room peephole of naked ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews and then posted the video on the internet. (There is a report now that the video may have been shot by a fellow ESPN employee.) And not [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Male Perspectives, Pop Culture, Sports | Tagged: equality, Erin Andrews, Gregg Doyel, male feminists, sexism, Sports, Stereotypes | 1 Comment »
The Guardian reports that a select committee of Parliament has announced that it is going to investigate the number and pay of women working in financial firms. The reason: It wants to prevent another financial crisis in the banking sector. Of course, the committee itself is part of the problem. For one thing, it only [...]
Filed under: International, Politics | Tagged: Finance, Financial Crisis, Great Britain, International, Politics, sexism, sexual harassment | 1 Comment »
The Washington Post reports that a high school in Woodbridge, Virginia, is under investigation by the Department of Education for possible violations of Title IX because of disparities in its baseball and softball programs. The article also states that there are 49 other school systems in the U.S. that are being investigated for Title IX [...]
Filed under: Sports | Tagged: Sports, Title IX, women's rights | 1 Comment »
