| August 1 |
- Saudi sexism OK at the Olympics?
- The Olympics committee bans sexism from the games — kind of.
- Our new look
- Behold Broadsheet’s new three-column format.
- The McCain campaign may have picked the wrong starlet
- If you’re going to make an attack ad comparing your opponent to Paris Hilton, you might want to check your contributor list.
- Designer vagina: Blacklisted!
- Australian gynecologists are taking a stand against vaginal “rejuvenation.”
- Another thing I need like a hole in my head
- Desperate dieters turn to ear stapling to control their appetites.
- Shock! Outrage! Sex! … PSAs?
- A new Planned Parenthood site leaves the Family Research Council “visibly shaken.”
- Slipped through the cracks
- Stories we missed: Military sexual assaults may be underreported by half; babies’ gender no longer secret in South Korea; and lo, it must be camp season.
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| August 2 |
- Feminism via soap opera?
- A show starring a loving and supportive husband is taking the Arab world by storm.
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| August 4 |
- Hell, yeah, I like Suze Orman
- She may be another one of those annoying cable self-help gurus. But the MSNBC economist has some smart things to say about women and their money.
- Someone needs to brush up on her Jane Austen
- After reading Maureen Dowd’s column this week, I had to wonder: Has she actually read “Pride and Prejudice”?
- Quote of the day
- If there are no unbending gender markers, what does it really mean to be female?
- Applegate, nurse navigators and smart bras
- Christina Applegate’s recent diagnosis is just one of many stories about breast cancer in the news today.
- A floor of one’s own
- Are women-only hotel floors sexist? Empowering? Or just pointless?
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| August 5 |
- Lad mags vs. family values
- A British M.P. argues that men’s magazines encourage “instant-hit hedonism.”
- Olympian bodies
- A photo essay demonstrates that when it comes to the body types of Olympian athletes, there’s more than one perfect 10.
- Next stop, “MILF Island”
- Producers are casting a new reality show about “cougars” in New York City.
- The real world: Iraq
- In the HBO documentary “Baghdad High,” four high schoolers film their lives in a war zone.
- Olympian bodies, mommy edition
- Some female athletes find that pregnancy and childbirth improve their game.
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| August 6 |
- Pregorexia: All the hot moms are doing it
- Fox reports that slim celebrity moms are inspiring pregnant women to starve themselves.
- First lady and Miss Buffalo Chip
- How offensive was McCain’s joke about his wife entering a topless-biker beauty pageant?
- Stepford moms choose Jif
- And doofy, dumbass husbands, according to these ads.
- In the club … with Botox?
- Ibiza partygoers have added a new element to their recovery routines.
- Postpartum PTSD?
- For some new mothers, those blues are not depression.
- Getting nudged into the chapel
- There’s something in all of us that craves the trappings of a classic wedding — even intellectuals who rail against the institution’s traditions.
- Special delivery: Sexual harassment stork!
- A Russian judge explains where babies come from.
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| August 7 |
- The Natalie Portman problem
- “Manic Pixie Dream Girls,” a new term that finally gives a name to an old cinematic female character cliché.
- Between love and madness lies … Eva Mendes’ nipple?
- The newest perfume ad from Calvin Klein is as scandalous as ever.
- The creepiest video you will see all day
- They look like real babies, but they’re state-of-the-art designer dolls. International Reborn Doll community, you win this round.
- Why do women live longer than men?
- The founder of the New England Centenarian Study has some theories — and suggestions on how to close the gender gap.
- Obama: Women’s carpool candidate?
- The Lifetime Network asks women some burning political questions.
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| August 8 |
- Losing her religion
- Televangelist Joel Osteen’s wife sued for anxiety, hemorrhoids and shaken faith.
- Beautiful women, lonely men
- Men who see too many gorgeous women find themselves less attracted to the ordinary ones who might actually date them. Poor little bunnies.
- Why don’t we have a male pill yet?
- Drug companies think there’s no market for male hormonal contraception — even though their own data suggests otherwise.
- British Muslims unveil new marriage contract
- It’s being called a “revolutionary” defense of women’s marital rights.
- Slipped through the cracks
- Stories we didn’t get to cover: Women more concerned about the economy than men, sex for food, and why are males the gender most likely to adopt?
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| August 9 |
- What to make of the Edwards fiasco?
- Broadsheet writers sound off on the one-time Democratic presidential candidate’s confession of marital infidelity.
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| August 11 |
- Beyond the pale
- L’Oréal denies lightening Beyoncé’s skin color in an advertisement.
- HHS: Fear not for your birth control!
- Mike Leavitt swears he isn’t attempting to redefine abortion as birth control.
- They must increase their bust
- Wonderbra’s ad campaign for a new line of D- to G-cup bras features 8,000 women in their underwear.
- Girl crush: Dara Torres
- The Olympic swimmer is “doing it for all the 40-year-old moms out there.” Swoon.
- Peep this: Anime eyes
- Extra-wide contact lenses offer a perpetually surprised look — without surgery!
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| August 12 |
- A world where men wear skirts
- Could it be on its way?
- Do we need to guard against Gardasil?
- The controversial cervical cancer vaccine may carry serious health risks.
- Quote of the day
- For Roberto Cavalli, Kate Moss is just another dumb block of pine, waiting to be sculpted by his fine hands.
- Keep touching yourself, America
- The FoxSexpert rips the lid off masturbation — it’s good for you!
- Don’t blame Edwards, blame society!
- An Op-Ed argues that the admitted adulterer is a victim of society and his seductress.
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| August 13 |
- APA report: Abortion is not a threat to women’s mental health
- Can’t say the same for all the quackery to the contrary.
- 1,250,444 ways to please your man
- A new Onion video satirizes the absurdity of Cosmopolitan magazine.
- Quote of the day
- New York magazine on the delicate balancing act of being Michelle Obama.
- Stop rape, punish victims?
- Britain cuts compensation for rape victims who were drunk at the time of their attack.
- Open arms
- Looking at some of the terrific feminist writing on Salon’s new social content site.
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| August 14 |
- All-American funny girl
- Margaret Cho returns to television with a Kathy Griffin-style reality show. Can she make it work this time?
- “WTF” of the day
- Rush Limbaugh offers his take on why John Edwards decided to stray.
- Ruining relationships one Pill at a time?
- Researchers say birth control alters women’s pheremonal sensibility — but do we know enough yet to draw conclusions?
- A softer line on abortion
- Could an addition to the Democrats’ platform on reproductive rights help court evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics?
- Girl crush: Julia Child
- America’s favorite chef was also a top-secret WWII spy.
- America’s next transgender model
- For the first time, Tyra Banks’ reality TV show will feature a transgender contestant.
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| August 15 |
- “WTF” of the day: “Dive In!” underwear … for kids
- Parents are outraged over a suggestive pair of “High School Musical” panties.
- “We want our kids back too”
- A new viral Web campaign seeks to raise awareness about missing children of color.
- Wankipedia
- Chickipedia achieves new heights in the blatant objectification of women.
- Kick off those heels!
- A new study says bosses are risking their employees’ health with “sexist” dress codes.
- Slipped through the cracks
- The stories we missed: Women turn off breast-feeding, bikini waxes a hit with tweens and VH1’s most famous pickup artist gets sued.
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| August 18 |
- Quote of the day
- A witness to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s wedding wishes opponents of gay marriage could have seen it.
- The hemline effect
- With the economy in the toilet, one mother cheers the return of modest clothing.
- Girl talk
- Is it ever appropriate to call women “girls”?
- Wanted: “Ugly ducklings”
- The “beauty disadvantaged” are invited to flock to Mount Isa, where they’ll be treated as swans.
- Awesome or awful? Fat camp scholarships
- Essay contests invite children to win a summer of free weight loss.
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| August 19 |
- The Big O
- The frustrating contradictions of Oprah Winfrey.
- What does it mean to be an “anti-feminist”?
- Men’s rights lawyer Roy Den Hollander has just completed a trilogy of anti-feminist lawsuits. Watch out, women’s studies!
- A new use for stem cells: Breast augmentation
- Enterprising doctors have figured out a way to use a woman’s own stem cells to make her boobs look bigger.
- It’s a Maddow Maddow Maddow Maddow world!
- Rachel gets her own show! Rachel gets her own show! Rachel gets her own show!
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| August 20 |
- In California, docs can’t say, “Sorry, you’re gay”
- In a final decision on a 1999 lawsuit, the state Supreme Court rules that antidiscrimination law trumps “religious freedom.”
- … Or me?
- Bikini Coffee — now expanding — offers more than one kind of stimulant.
- Like a woman scorned
- Wanna get back at a cheating ex? Get out your digital camera — and your can of spray paint.
- A chick-less ticket?
- Awaiting word of the Democratic vice-presidential pick, it looks increasingly less likely that it will be a broad.
- Hooking ain’t easy
- A 23-year-old “aspiring journalist” writes about the history of hooking — and tries turning a trick.
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| August 21 |
- Is the semicolon girlie?
- Broadsheet writers and Salon book critics debate the idea that some punctuation marks are more feminine than others.
- No transwomen allowed
- The Library of Congress offers David Schroer a job and rescinds the offer after learning he’s becoming Diane.
- The Democratic convention just got less boisterous
- A brief eulogy for Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American woman elected to Congress in Ohio.
- A card for every occasion … including same-sex marriage?
- Hallmark stirs controversy by launching a line of greeting cards for gay weddings.
- Unveiled woman = unwrapped candy bar?
- An anonymous campaign warns Egyptian women to protect against sexual harassment by covering themselves.
- Friends with benefits
- Is it time to legally recognize the bonds of friendship?
- Viagra for women
- Two experimental products aim to jump-start women’s desire.
- HHS: Doctors can refuse abortions
- A new proposal defends “health care provider conscience.”
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| August 22 |
- “Sluttyienna” Miller and the sexual double standard
- Slut-bashing never goes out of style in Hollywood. The latest victim: Sienna Miller.
- Sarah Haskins on chick flicks
- We don’t care if we look like pathetic fangirls — Sarah Haskins just keeps being too funny to resist.
- Be-yawn the valley of the dolls
- Margaret Cho is known for being provocative and hilarious. The first episode of her VH1 reality show was exactly what she doesn’t want to be: Boring.
- Sassy in pink
- A seventh grader chooses to fight school administrators who suspended her for having pink hair.
- Slipped through the cracks
- The stories we missed this week: More women opting for double mastectomies, working women thwarted by insecurity and the top 10 literary virgins.
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| August 23 |
- Too many feminists in the kitchen
- What is at the heart of feminism’s generational rift? Cupcakes.
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| August 25 |
- And after the campfire singalong? Chemical peels!
- “Spa summer camps” teach middle-school girls the enduring lessons of avocado masks and ginger foot scrubs.
- “What to expect when you’re aborting”
- A young woman blogs about terminating her pregnancy.
- What’s black and white and objectified all over?
- There’s going to be a beauty pageant for nuns. Seriously.
- Big fat contradictions
- Weight-loss programming on TV is full of contradictions — and so is the criticism of it.
- Bottle feeding baby = breast-feeding bovine?
- A reporter pretends to nurse a calf to promote a breast-feeding documentary.
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| August 26 |
- About that whole “right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy” thing
- Eighty-five percent of Mexico City’s doctors have declared themselves “conscientious objectors” to a law guaranteeing women the right to have an abortion.
- The sexiest zoo you’ll see this week
- Orangina’s controversial new ad features pole-dancing deer and lascivious zebras.
- A different kind of double D
- Is your breast milk vitamin D deficient?
- Quote of the day
- How will “new style” feminists fight the inequalities symbolized by Hillary Clinton’s defeat?
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| August 27 |
- Get your Mac on!
- Planned Parenthood offers up political protection with the John McCain condom.
- Quote of last night
- Besides “No way. No how. No McCain.”
- The emerging abortion underground
- Researchers are set to study the whys of DIY termination.
- The joy of abstinence
- A humorous blog and a conservative think tank on the benefits of not having sex.
- Canceled: Beauty contest for nuns
- Father Antonio Rungi says his pageant plans were “deliberately misinterpreted.”
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| August 28 |
- Beating up on women never gets old for Fox
- From gripes about Michelle Obama to news of a Miss USA reality show, Fox News has a field day beating up on the ladies.
- Del Martin, lesbian pioneer and bride, dead at 87
- Until death did them part …
- “WTF” of the day
- Relatives of an 8-year-old Saudi girl, married without her knowledge to a man in his 50s, are fighting to get her a divorce.
- Clearasil condoms?
- Cambodian women find an unexpected use for the lubricant.
- “Ugh” of the day
- The author of “The Re-Education of the Female” has a simple piece of advice: Do as men say.
- Same-sex marriage ban lags in California
- Will love win the day at the ballot box in November?
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| August 29 |
- Second hottest girl in NYC a transsexual?
- According to some, Jamie Clayton is better at being a woman than most biological females.
- Dress code: Head-scratchingly casual
- If the Stuff White People Like blog doesn’t have an entry for “cutesy, baffling dress codes” yet, it’s about time.
- Should Obama have picked Hillary?
- Did the GOP just co-opt the Democrats’ chance at making history? Sarah Palin, a conservative, antiabortion, pro-NRA Republican, may just be the first woman in the White House.
- What’s that smell?
- Scented candles for men will bring the fragrance of urinal cakes into your home at last.
- Quote of the day
- Sen. Barbara Boxer on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
- News flash: Masculinity is about more than sex
- A study suggests that stereotypes about men’s view of masculinity are wrong.
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