Pink diapers, painted toenails, and the Chicago Bears. Oh my!

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace on November 26, 2008 - 2:03pm; tagged creepiness, diapers, football, gender, nail-painting, parenting.

Brian Urlacher

Behold the teaser from an article in this morning's Chicago Sun Times: "Football tough guy Brian Urlacher dresses his son in pink Cinderella diapers and paints the 3-year-old's toenails blue, the child's mother charged in Will County court Tuesday."

What?

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A Feminist Thanksgiving

Video post by Lisa Factora-Bo... on November 26, 2008 - 12:33pm; tagged feminism, Say Thanks, Vlogging.
The top five things for which I am most grateful as a feminist.
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Saturday Night Ladies

TV post by Juliana Tringali on November 26, 2008 - 9:26am; tagged Ana Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri, Ellen Cleghorne, Jan Hooks, Julia Sweeney, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon, Nora Dunn, Rachel Dratch, Saturday Night Live, Victoria Jackson.

Fey and Poehler

Now that Tina Fey is Saturday Night Live's most visible alumni, it's easy to forget that female cast members have historically had to bust ass to get noticed.

So here's a look at Saturday Night Ladies of the past, remembering their contributions to the show and following up on what they're doing now...

 

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace on November 25, 2008 - 4:11pm; tagged civil rights, gender, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, UN, violence.

At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.

- United Nations Development Fund for Women

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Read more about the history of this day, and include your thoughts, after the jump.

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A news story on the B word...

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on November 25, 2008 - 10:32am; tagged bitch, language reclamation, reappropriation of language, the word bitch.

in which Bitch contributor Veronica Arreola defends the use of the word while many others disagree...

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Adventures in Feministory: A Bonny Lass Indeed

Love / Shove post by Kjerstin Johnson on November 25, 2008 - 10:10am; tagged feministory, history, pirates.
bonny1.jpg Today's adventure takes us to the lawless seas of the early eighteenth century, where Anne Bonny and Mary Read cutlassed and cross-dressed their way through feminine convention.
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