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A blog dedicated to bringing you daily news stories and current events regarding gender equality, racism, and discrimination. Everyone is welcome to comment and offer their input! I want to help keep people up-to-date on these important issues, while

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• Shoot at the vaginal opening

  Posted on Saturday August 30th, 2008 at 13:03 in Ignorance, violence

  This makes me nauseous. It's a video game called "Cunt" where your objective is to use what looks like a small penis to "shoot at the vaginal opening" which will cause "cunt damage." What's even bette...

• Dead is the new sexy

  Posted on Sunday August 17th, 2008 at 10:00 in Advertising, Ignorance, violence

  The ladies of Feministing posted quite the disturbing pictures of the new advertisements for the country-western inspired clothing line, Wrangler. Their new tagline is "We Are Animals" and their ads f...

• Fighting genital mutilation

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 14:39 in violence, women abroad

  Yes! The Egyptian Parliament has passed new restrictions on female genital mutilation. One law can impose a maximum of 2 years and $1,000 fine for those who engage in genital mutilation. The practice ...

• Miss Landmine: not just a beauty pageant

  Posted on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 in beauty body image, violence, women abroad

  Landmines are a major problem in at least 99 countries today. For those of you who don't know, landmines are explosives that are set off when someone steps on or near them, causing injury or death. An...

• Acid attacks: new form of violence against women

  Posted on Monday May 19th, 2008 at 14:58 in violence, women abroad

  20-year-old Sanaa covers her face because she is ashamed of how she looks. After being forced to marry a man 28 years her senior, she was the victim of an acid attack, indirectly caused by her husband...

• Take Action Tuesday: Sudan activist call

  Posted on Tuesday April 29th, 2008 at 19:41 in taking action, violence, women abroad

  For Take Action Tuesday, I want to point you all to an event that Enough sent me an e-mail about. It's their monthly activist call, in which you call in to a special number and you will be connected t...

• New GTA encourages murdering prostitutes

  Posted on Tuesday April 29th, 2008 at 19:21 in prostitution, sexism, violence

  Okay, I need to send a big "what the fuck were you thinking?!" over to the makers of the new Grand Theft Auto IV. I always knew that GTA was extremely violent and raunchy, but apparently creators made...

• Take Action Tuesday: stopping child abuse

  Posted on Tuesday April 8th, 2008 at 16:28 in taking action, violence

  This week's Take Action Tuesday is inspired by this upsetting story. In Pennsylvania, a two-year-old girl died after being beaten with a video game controller by her mother's boyfriend. It wasn't the ...

• Sexism vs. Misogyny

  Posted on Tuesday April 8th, 2008 at 15:59 in sexism, violence

  Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote a short opinion piece, attempting to sort out the differences between sexism and misogyny. It's an interesting thing to think about because many people can...

• Vintage sexism

  Posted on Monday April 7th, 2008 at 10:45 in beauty body image, rape sexual assault, sexism, violence

  For kicks, I was looking up some vintage sexist advertising that promotes nice little obedient and submissive women of the 50s and 60s. My favorites:Ah, the wonderful advertising from decades ago. Loo...

• Buffet of the Week

  Posted on Sunday April 6th, 2008 at 18:42 in abortion, famous women, politics government, sex education, sexism, violence, women abroad

  Here are your samplings of current events from around the world!POPLINE - a popular online health database - recently, for some absurd reason, removed the word "abortion" as an acceptable search term....

• 20 women give up genital mutilation

  Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 15:23 in stds, violence, women abroad

  In Arusha (Africa), twenty women attended the ceremony for the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood specifically to turn in their genital mutilation tools. One of them commented:"We have discover...

• Sean Connery on slapping women

  Posted on Sunday March 30th, 2008 at 16:02 in violence

  This video is quite old, but I highly doubt that Connery's ideals have changed much since then.Oh, I see! So it's only okay to slap women when they deserve it because they're just not listening to you...

• Buffet of the Week

  Posted on Saturday March 29th, 2008 at 11:17 in birth control, gay lesbian, politics government, rape sexual assault, stds, theft, violence, women abroad

  There are so many stories I come across in the news that deserve attention that I can't possibly make individual posts about them all. So, here is a list of small samplings (a buffet, if you will) of ...

• Rape epidemic in Congo

  Posted on Friday March 28th, 2008 at 11:22 in military, pregnancy, rape sexual assault, stds, violence, women abroad

  This will most likely ruin your day. But it involves an extremely serious and important issue that we all need to understand. The Democratic Republic of Congo, for those of you who don't know, is curr...

• Another woman saved from death by stoning

  Posted on Thursday March 27th, 2008 at 11:35 in violence

  In Iran, if a woman committs adultery, she could be sentenced to be stoned to death. For those of you who don't know, stoning involves a group of people literally throwing stones at someone until they...

• Mentally disabled woman tortured incessantly

  Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2008 at 13:10 in violence

  This makes me sick....