A few days ago, I wrote that we should not consider as heroes those companies that have dropped their advertising from the Rush Limbaugh shows. If they were really socially responsible, they would never have advertised with him at all. The number of companies dropping the advertising continues to grow. The Center for American Progress [...]
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According to reports, there are now more than 30 advertisers who have left the Rush Limbaugh show. That list includes Netflix, Sears, Capital One, and J.C. Penney. In addition, two radio stations have dropped his program. All of that is great, but I imagine that everything will eventually get back to normal for Limbaugh and [...]
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From a blog written yesterday by Suzanne Kahn for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, I learned new things about one of my icons, Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to writing a syndicated newspaper column, she wrote a monthly advice column, “My Day,” for women’s magazines from 1941 until 1962. These columns provided a wide range [...]
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You’ve probably seen the news today that the Obama administration has (again) caved-in to the right (including, of course, the churches) by overruling its own Food and Drug Administration’s decision that emergency contraceptives be available over-the-counter to anyone, including teenagers 16 years old and younger. Thus, age restrictions will still be in place. Here is [...]
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The BBC has an articlewritten by Mary Beard, who is a writer and Professor of Classics at Cambridge and has been a feminist since the 60’s. She writes about the 2011 Miss World beauty pageant recently held in London and how her views about it have changed since she was a “radical feminist teenager” in [...]
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Add this to the ridiculous things Herman Cain has said. In an interview in GQ, Cain says that “The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is.” Being a “manly” man, he is also against vegetables: “A manly man don’t want it piled high with vegetables! He would [...]
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You might know from some of my posts that I’m a fan of women’s (and men’s) sports. But it’s always been frustrating for me to find the results of women’s events. CNN.com is my primary source for sports but there is almost no women’s coverage there. On its main sports page, CNN has these tab [...]
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I always have a problem with Bill Maher. I almost always agree with what he says. And I thought his movie “Religulous” was hilarious. But I don’t like his “style” as a comedian and he sometimes is unnecessarily “anti” particular individuals. And his comments on women sometimes (often?) sound sexist. But, on his HBO show [...]
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Politics and sports and women. Again we have the intermingling of the powerful men in a world sports organization with women athletes and politics. Last week, in an Olympic qualifying round in Amman, Jordan, FIFA (the world soccer governing body) officials refused to allow the Iranian national women’s team to compete in a match with [...]
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