[Updated] Why the Girl Scouts kick the Boy Scouts’ ass
With the news that The Boy Scouts of America is toying with ending its discriminatory policy against GBT (and presumably L) people, I can’t help but compare them to The Girl Scouts. In fairness, I must admit up front that I am an alum of the organization. But that’s not enough to completely cloud what…
Feminist Files: If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention
Make it rain: Today is the fourth anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. But we still don’t have a Paycheck Fairness Act, which would give Ledbetter the teeth to go after wage discrimination. And just a reminder, women are still working more than 100 days into the following year to equal what a…
Breaking the chains of misogyny that shackle us to rape culture
*TRIGGER WARNING* Just as I was getting ready to pack it up for my last work week of 2012, my twitter feed exploded with the news that gang-rape victim in India has died in the hospital following cardiac arrest and massive organ failure. The unnamed medical student was beaten with iron rods and raped (for…
Feminist Files: Apropo of nothing
Even in the last moments of 2012, there’s never a dull moment. NYE resolutions: My Fem2.0 colleague Erin Belitskus offers a great wish list for good tidings for women and children in 2013. (Hint: It starts with reauthorizing VAWA.) Thanks SCOTUS! The Supreme Court decided to deny a temporary hold on the contraceptives coverage in…
UPDATED: Trouble with the 5-0
Remember when I was praising the Edmonton Police Services for its revolutionary anti-rape campaign? Apparently, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department didn’t get the memo. Sigh. Check out this tweet posted on Dec. 22: When you click on the video, you get this: The video now shows a literacy program but if you click on…
The SCS Gift Guide for Bad-ass Girls (and Boys, too)
Perhaps it is the natural out-growth of keeping an eagle-eye out for Tired Marketing Fails or it is just the nature of being a feminist parent, but I find shopping for my toddler to be the hardest of my entire holiday gift list. We do our best to keep give our daughter an environment that…
Sin City Rules: Introducing the faux ‘Real Housewives’ of Las Vegas
After participating in a KNPR panel on feminism in Las Vegas on Friday, how could I resist taking a peek at TLC’s new reality show Sin City Rules, which follows five so-called power women in Las Vegas? It follows a familiar format, minted by Bravo’s “Real Housewives” brand: Throw a handful of women with big…
Feminist Files: The Twinkie defense
You want a Pepsi Blue with that? It was inevitable, I guess. Now that the First Lady’s socialist plot to get America’s kids to eat healthier foods and exercise more is taking off, it’s time to blame America’s moms for subbing out Hostess in the lunchbox. (Don’t even get me started on the sexism of…
Waiting for Norma Rae
As anxious shoppers trekked from the warmth of their homes for Black Friday deals, at Walmarts across the country workers seized the day to strike for fair wages and fair treatment. Many of the workers who picketed instead of working, faced retaliation from a company known to intimidate those who threaten to organize. Strike and…
The Sin City Siren 