By JUDITH WARNER
Published: July 28, 2007
The Washington Post’s penetrating exposé of Hillary Clinton’s “surreptitious” show of cleavage on the Senate floor last week (“To display cleavage in a setting that does not involve cocktails and hors d’oeuvres is a provocation”) sent me trawling on the Internet, digging through sites like eBay and Hijabs-R-Us, desperate to buy a burqa.
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: July 22, 2007
WASHINGTON
Things are getting confusing out there in Genderville.
We have the ordinarily poker-faced secretary of defense crying over young Americans killed in Iraq.
Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested four people in connection with the “honor killing” last month of a Kurdish teen — a startling, morbid pummeling caught on a mobile phone video camera and broadcast around the world.
Mosul, Iraq — According to the Kurdish website Jebar.info up to 1000 men from the Yezidi Kurdish community of Mosul killed a teenager who’s only crime was running away to marry a Muslim man whom she loved and converting to his religion. (more…)
Although women have made many gains since the 1960s, they must still catch up with men when it comes to equal pay and the benefits that generally accompany it…
April 23, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
By BOB HERBERT
Just days after Don Imus was taken off the air for a slur hurled at members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, a police sergeant conducting a roll call at a precinct in Brooklyn is reported to have called the three female officers in the room “hos” as he gave them an order to stand up. (more…)
April 16, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Signs of Infection
By BOB HERBERT
People in positions of great power are the ones who define those who are relatively lacking in power. So when Don Imus, a very powerful radio personality, dropped his disgusting verbal bomb on the members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, he sent a powerful message across the airwaves: that the young women on the team (the black ones, at least) were crude, ugly and genetically inferior, and that all of the women were whores. (more…)
What would possess nappy-headed radio host Don Imus to think “nappy-headed hos” was an amusing way to describe the Rutgers University women’s basketball team? Why would it occur to him to say such a thing even in private conversation, much less to millions of listeners on CBS Radio and the MSNBC cable network?
April 12, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
By BOB HERBERT
You knew something was up early in the day. As soon as I told executives at MSNBC that I was going to write about the “60 Minutes” piece, which was already in pretty wide circulation, they began acting very weird. We’ll get back to you, they said.
(more…)
April 8, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
MEERWALA, Pakistan
You might think that the worst tragedy that could befall a couple would be for their young daughter to be raped and murdered.
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April 3, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Meerwala, Pakistan
If the thought has ever flitted through your mind that your spouse isn’t 100 percent perfect, then just contemplate what Shakira Parveen is going through. And give your own husband or wife a hug.
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UPDATED: [VIDEO]
They face rape, assault at hands of fellow soldiers…
What makes the female so much deadlier than the male? With assists from Fran Lebowitz, Nora Ephron, and a recent Stanford-medical-school study, the author investigates the reasons for the humor gap.
(from the appropriately named Provocation column in Vanity Fair)
For a rare dose of optimism, stop by the oldest private HIV research centre in the world. Fight your way through the chaotic, filthy streets of downtown Port-au-Prince, through a crowd of men, women and children awaiting care, and you’ll find Dr. Jean William Pape, smiling in a crisp white medical cloak.
Currently, in Iran, there are nine women sentenced to death by stoning on charges of adultery, compared to two men for the same offence — highlighting the fact that this barbaric mode of execution is primarily a women’s issue.
[*Yeah, because only women care if women get stoned for adultery. Not THEIR CHILDREN or men or ...]
“This Pill sounds way too scary”
Yes, taking pills that temporarily change the way your body works can be disconcerting — welcome to the wonderful world of sexually active heterosexuality, as previously experienced exclusively by women. And be pleased that this proposed pill is one that stops your flow rather than screws with your hormones, alters your moods and puts you at elevated risk for stroke.
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