In need of a little grade boost? Toss your razor! At least, that’s what one professor at Arizona State University is suggesting. Professor Breanne Fahs offered female students extra credit if they agreed to “stop shaving their legs and underarms for ten weeks during the semester while keeping a journal to document their experiences.” Fahs, […]
Always has addressed the pesky ‘like a girl’ stereotype with their new social experiment that has rightfully so, gone viral. According to Mashable, Procter & Gamble’s Always brand and famed director Lauren Greenfield asked several young adults and young girls to reenact motions that a girl would do. As the young women ran, hit, and jumped in […]
In attempt to be both hip and ridiculously sexist, a Fox News host reacting to Hillary Clinton’s dissent to the Supreme Court ruling on Hobby Lobby said the suspected presidential candidate will need support from “Beyonce Voters,” or women who want the government to pay for their birth control. Jesse Watters continued, calling the voting […]
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that closely held, for-profit companies can claim a religious exemption to the Obamacare requirement that they provide health insurance coverage for birth control. Hobby Lobby, the family-owned chain of arts and craft stores behind the ruling, claimed the Obamacare requirement for corporations to provide health care coverage for contraceptives interfered with […]
Hobby Lobby, the family-owned chain of arts and craft stores founded on Biblical principles, may have gained some ground in the religious freedom fight yesterday when the Supreme Court ruled corporations can refuse to provide health insurance coverage for birth control. But the newest enemy in the fight to limit women’s reproductive rights also exhibited some hypocrisy too […]
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that closely held, for-profit companies can claim a religious exemption to the Obamacare requirement that they provide health insurance coverage for birth control. The court’s limited ruling, written by Justice Samuel Alito, was 5-4 and does not appear to open the door to other types of religious-exemption claims by […]
On Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts, saying it violates the First Amendment. Massachusetts had argued that the buffer zone, which anti-abortion protesters said violated their speech rights, keeps patients and clinic staff safer. But the court ruled unanimously that Massachusetts went too far when it created 35-foot buffer zones around […]
Earlier this month, Facebook changed its policy on nudity and obscenity to ensure that photos of breastfeeding won’t be flagged and removed from the site – even if a nipple is pictured. Activists have been pushing Facebook to address what they say is a double standard in the way they regulate explicit content. Although Facebook’s Community Guidelines […]
A photo posted to the web recently has given dads everywhere an interesting viewpoint on dating their teenage daughters. The pic was posted to Tumblr over the weekend with the following rules: 1. I don’t make the rules 2. You don’t make the rules 3. She makes the rules 4. Her body, her rules Kristen Speare posted […]
Stuntin’ on them! Hillary Clinton‘s classic style has flipped the world of pantsuits upside down. During her time in the White House as First Lady, Clinton wore almost every pantsuit under the rainbow, essentially making them her signature look. And Hil gets the joke; “pantsuit aficionado” is even in her Twitter bio. With the release […]
Want to know how to end violence against women? One Washington Post columnist knows the answer. In an op-ed posted on June 10, W. Bradford Wilcox suggested that single women “stop taking lovers” and get married to ward off domestic violence. Yep. That happened. As if married men don’t beat on their wives. Here’s a bit […]
For 25-year-old Karlesha Thurman, graduating from California State University, Long Beach was a rewarding gift not only for the hardworking student, but for her infant daughter as well. Sadly, as it happens in this misogynistic society, many were offended and turned off by a photograph of the mother and daughter at the graduation ceremony — […]
