I hadn’t heard about the Lingerie Football League until a commercial for one of their match-ups appeared on one of the shows I was watching. If you haven’t had the misfortune of knowing about this “league,” formed in 2009, it features women in lingerie, obviously, playing some full-contact indoor football in pads and helmets. Read more about Lingerie Football League
Recently, Washington Post's advice columnist Carolyn Hax responded to a suburban mother's "concern" for her daughter, who skipped from going to college in order to grow her bartending business. How outrageous! Now (cue shock and horror) her daughter also decided to start a family of her own, but wait: she is doing it all wrong, the parents express, she was suppose to go to college and become something "nice and stable" (my words, not theirs) such as becoming an accountant or teacher, before deciding to get married or having children. Read more about The Condition fo Being a Suburban Sailoress
I live in a little liberal bubble here in the Pacific Northwest. While there are misogynists and sexists anywhere, they aren’t vocal around here! However, when I come across blatant sexism on Facebook and the internet in general, it leaves me a bit stunned. I happened across a male calling a female a “feminazi” because she has a hyphenated last name. It left me completely stunned.
If you haven’t seen “Shit Girls Say” on YouTube, or any of its subsequent parodies, you must be living under a rock. The original “Shit Girls Say” features a guy dressed in drag, and inexplicably Juliette Lewis, apparently mimicking the kind of language that women use when they are interacting with one another. Read more about Watch "Shit Girls Say"
New York Times writer Peggy Orenstein responds to the hubbub surrounding little feminist Riley’s Christmastime rant, questioning the reliance on gender-based marketing in toys for boys and girls. If never watched Riley’s rant, she bemoaned the divisive state of children’s toy marketing: blue and superheroes for boys; pink and princesses for girls. Read more about Gendered Marketing for Boys and Girls
I’m not bashing men here, although the title may suggest that. In fact, I think that women often contribute to the fallacy that men just “can’t” clean and don’t notice messes in the same way that women do. Now, people are different and I’m not saying that some or many men don’t actually do those things. I just don’t think it’s a gender thing. 
The feminist hearts in millions of women and men the world over grew a few sizes with hope the past week. That hope came from a three-year-old Newburgh, New York girl named Riley, who ranted about the gender expectations in toy buying for little girls and little boys over Christmas. Her video went viral. Read more about Riley's rant will make your feminist heart swell
Disney just announced a new kind of princess to their plethora of ladies in tiaras. In contrast with adult princesses like Jasmine and Cinderella, Princess Sofia the First is a child. Sofia’s key market is little kids ages two to seven, and her movie is set to hit theaters next fall. She will then move into the small screen with her own series on the Disney Channel in spring 2013. Read more about Disney's Newest Princess: Sofia
I’m speaking in generalities here, but in so many couples, it seems like the women get taxed with the job of buying gifts, even if it’s for the husband’s family. Again, I know that it isn’t the case for everyone. In my own situation and relationship, it doesn’t work that way at all. We both shop and wrap for the gift recipients. But, in so many situations, why do women get stuck buying and wrapping the gifts?
Women are about 20% less likely to be convicted of a violent crime in comparison to men. Women are more likely to be convicted of a drug or property crime by approximately the same amount. Yet, the incarceration of women over the past few decades has increased by over 500%! Whether you agree with the war on drugs or not, there is a real epidemic of women being incarcerated and families being destroyed because of it.