Tag Archives: Sexism

America’s Next Top Buttock

Ame­ri­can Appa­rel con­test has spar­ked a peti­tion protest.

If I thought it would do any good I’d sign the peti­tion, but on revie­wing the suc­cess of Ame­ri­can Apparel’s (bor­de­ring on por­no­graphic), mar­ke­ting tac­tics over the years, I don’t think it would do any good. Peo­ple need to stop buying the stuff

Google Women, Strangely Irritating

I was orga­ni­zing my Goo­gle home pages. I have many cate­go­ri­zed pages, from science and inter­na­tio­nal deve­lop­ment, to blogs and anth­ro­po­logy. I deci­ded to add another “tab”, as they call it, for women’s issues”.
I star­ted the tab, and labe­led it women. I inad­ver­tently left their “I feel lucky” box chec­ked. The six sites which

Interesting Incidentals

I’m dis­trac­ted by the fact that my windshield was crac­ked ear­lier this eve­ning during a hail storm. Con­se­quently I’m not much for wri­ting ori­gi­nal con­tent this eve­ning. Ins­tead I’m rea­ding things like a friend’s medi­cal bill from an imme­diate medi­cal care cen­ter.
The bill from the imme­diate care cen­ter is for the sutu­ring of

Wednesday Wonderings, WTF’s and Sound Bites.

The Church of Scien­to­logy is on trial in France, accu­sed of “tar­ge­ting vul­ne­ra­ble peo­ple for com­mer­cial gain”. I’m not an expert on Scien­to­logy, know little of it except that Greta Van Sus­te­ren  —  FOX news semi talking-head for­merly of CNN  —  is one, as is her hus­band John Coale, a high ran­king Scien­tio­lo­gist and trial law­yer, was appoin­ted by