| June 2 |
- Is Wii Fit the new striptease?
- In a new YouTube trend, guys film their girlfriends playing the Nintendo Hula Hoop game.
- Women trade dead-end relationships for dead-end careers?
- The Onion issues its special report on gender.
- The perfect time to quit smoking?
- Apparently, you can do a lot by tracking your menstrual cycles, if you're into that kind of thing.
- Why political candidates should be sucking up to women
- According to the authors of "The She Spot," there's plenty of money and free P.R. to be had.
- Make it stop: Abstinence-only education
- Bad news for those of us who think sex ed should include discussions of actual sex.
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| June 3 |
- More on "the YouTube divorcée"
- It's annoying that Tricia Walsh-Smith is in serious talks for her own reality show. But does she deserve our scorn or our sympathy?
- News flash: Straight men like boobs!
- A new scientific study answers the age-old question: Do some guys do stupid things because of sex?
- Mother of "honor" killing victim murdered in Iraq
- Leila Hussein, the Iraqi woman who dared to leave her husband after he brutally murdered their 17-year-old daughter, was shot in the street.
- Sex and the box office
- "Sex and the City" does big business and makes Hollywood wonder: Does the female audience have power again?
- Coat hangers and crochet hooks
- A physician with experience of pre-Roe days details the horrors of illegal abortion.
- The superheroes of "Sex and the City"
- Are Carrie and the gang the high-heeled equivalents of the Incredible Hulk?
- "We need to be vulgar. This is our revolution"
- A "Vagina Monologues" for the Middle East, and other ways that Arab women are pushing boundaries.
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| June 4 |
- Clinton props of the day
- According to Arianna Huffington, you can win for losing.
- Hard labor
- Washington state prisons offer incarcerated mothers birth and parenting support.
- "Show me your genitals"
- YouTube dude translates catcalls into plain English.
- Drunk lady looks like a dude?
- A new ad campaign attempts to stem female binge-drinking.
- Daughters of Iraq
- Charged with preventing suicide bombings, the female guards can't carry guns or work in public.
- A giant vulva bicycle taxi hits the streets of Finland
- What more is there to say?
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| June 5 |
- How crazy are women on reality television?
- Stars from "The Hills" and "Real Housewives of NYC" get a quick diagnosis from the DSM-IV.
- Stone Age men fought over women
- A new archaeological find suggests men have long battled over women.
- Iraq, as described by its women
- The New York Times is running a five-part series of (wo)man-on-the-street interviews focusing on the female perspective of daily Iraqi life.
- Your fuel efficiency is so hot
- Women prefer men who drive environmentally friendly cars.
- Why is Walters talking about Hillary Clinton's backside?
- "It's a little smaller on top and fuller on the bottom," the host of "The View" says.
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| June 6 |
- And the winner is ...
- We present you with the world's most yonic building.
- Girl crush: Sarah Haskins
- The satirist we wish "The Daily Show" would hire.
- Don't forget the gender-neutral lyrics!
- West Point alters its school songs to respect female cadets.
- Hygiene and the city
- German author Charlotte Roche stirs controversy with a raunchy, feminist novel about female grooming.
- Single women should be ashamed of themselves!
- A sex therapist says that if you're unmarried, and you say you're happy, then you must be lying.
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| June 9 |
- And baby daddy makes three
- Memoirist Mary Pols talks about coparenting with her one-night stand.
- Clinton news roundup
- What does the end of her historic presidential campaign mean for women?
- Always a bridesmaid -- who can afford that?
- It's not merely the cost of weddings that's out of control. It's the cost of being a part of them.
- Fashion! Espionage! Midsize sedans!
- Toyota's curious advertising campaign to lure black women.
- Today in sex: A roundup
- Married couples who do it every day, affairs that can be forgiven and a history of vibrators that bring "a glow to the face."
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| June 10 |
- This is a Bust!
- Celebrating 15 years of the feminist magazine for "women with something to get off their chests."
- Let's keep talking about sexism
- Discussing the effects of sexism remains important even after Hillary Clinton's concession.
- Can I get this abstinence message in a medium?
- Kmart sells "True Love Waits" sweatpants but denies trying to promote the cause.
- Massachusetts declares a "public health emergency"
- Domestic-violence-related deaths are up, and Gov. Duval Patrick has announced plans to try to help.
- Hot moms of the world, unite!
- You've got yourselves an anthem.
- "I now pronounce you wife and wife"
- Meet the lesbian pioneers who will be San Francisco's first legally married same-sex couple.
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| June 11 |
- Food for thought of the day
- Save women's reproductive decision making, save the planet.
- Michelle Obama, fashionista
- The media compares the presidential candidate's wife to Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn ... and Barbara Bush?
- Guilt by abortion association
- Could RU-486 help treat, like, everything? We may never know.
- "Virginity is more important to me than life"
- The disturbing increase in hymenoplasty surgery among European Muslim women.
- Quote of the day
- Katie Couric speaks out on how sexism hurt the Clinton campaign.
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| June 12 |
- Are all women a little bit bi?
- A new documentary looks at the complicated nature of female sexuality.
- Geeks gone wild
- Are the Nerd Girls set to redefine our image of female engineers?
- Judge Alex Kozinski regrets posting those pictures
- Is it a good idea for public figures to host porn on their public Web sites? You be the judge.
- Parental consent laws gone amok
- A Georgia mother gets jail for illegally signing a form so that her son's girlfriend could get an abortion.
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| June 13 |
- Men, talk among yourselves
- One woman asks the question: Are men boring? (Well, are they?)
- Michelle Obama Watch
- A new Web site tracks the most egregious examples of racism and sexism directed at the potential first lady.
- From shortcake to tart
- What have marketers done to the beloved toys of my youth?
- Quote of the day
- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on the recent announcement that his daughter is a lesbian.
- "She had her mouth on my dad's penis!"
- The controversial case of the nursing-home lovers.
- Girl crush: "Top Chef's" Stephanie Izard
- It's rare that the person who deserves to win actually does -- and makes Bravo history, to boot.
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| June 16 |
- The "angry white women" problem
- Are female Clinton supporters really planning to leave their party to vote for John McCain?
- Turns out, advertising stereotypes men too
- A look at some of the worst male-bashing commercials.
- Outrage of the day: Children's salon boom
- The feminist in me hates the trend, but as a little girl, I would have eaten this up.
- Heart disease is a feminist issue
- Diabetic women get less intensive treatment for their heart disease than men do.
- Roundup on gay marriage
- With California's same-sex wedding ceremonies starting Monday, news outlets wonder: Are couples feeling ambivalent? And do gay men have bigger penises?
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| June 17 |
- American Apparel sells the "Cadillac of vibrators"
- Get your hoodies and your Hitachi Magic Wand in one convenient place.
- The sex lives of animals
- A new exhibit in New York reveals that creatures in the wild do a lot more than what you see on the Discovery Channel.
- Angry women? Not so fast
- Don't paint female Hillary supporters as wackadoo McCain voters.
- Gay men and straight women have similar brains
- Old stand-up comedy jokes find a new scientific basis.
- Octogenarian lesbian brides tie the knot
- Tear-jerker alert! Celebrating San Francisco's first same-sex marriage.
- Press release of the day: The "fertile turtle" resort package
- Do you find baby sea turtles arousing? Have we got the vacation package for you!
- Pro-life pharmacies
- As if it weren't enough to refuse to dispense contraceptives, a growing number of drugstores won't even stock them.
- Iran tackles summertime sin
- As the weather heats up, police crack down on dress code violations.
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| June 18 |
- Imprisoned to iron, birth illegitimate child
- Two Italian women were allegedly kidnapped to clean house and avoid public shame.
- Make mine a venti
- The good news for women who drink coffee.
- Men snip, but don't tell
- Male plastic surgery is on the rise, even as the overall market takes a dip.
- Joan Rivers' F-bomb on British television
- After her colorful description of Russell Crowe, the comedian is escorted off the set.
- Girl crush: Cyd Charisse
- Remembering one of Hollywood's most elegant dancers.
- Michelle Obama on "The View"
- She's proud of her country, Hillary Clinton -- and her signature fist bump!
- Bareheaded in the park
- Islamic women can shed their scarves at Tehran's female-only "Mothers' Paradise."
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| June 19 |
- Amazon.com for prostitutes
- Johns review sexual services and prostitutes dish on customers.
- Hot, steamy footage!
- For the first time, human ovulation is captured on film.
- Save the animals, exploit the women
- Once more, PETA places politics above humanity.
- A new take on the octopussy
- A French AIDS-prevention ad campaign makes us never want to go swimming again.
- Some GOP women are defecting from McCain
- The candidate's abysmal record on reproductive rights is one reason.
- A new form of birth control
- If homosexuality is determined by prenatal hormones, is there a way to force your fetus to be straight?
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| June 20 |
- Women love "self-obsessed psychopaths"?
- Yet another study draws creative conclusions about what women want.
- Should we go to the mall -- or get pregnant?
- A group of Massachusetts teen girls make a pregnancy pact.
- Japan's new sexbot
- She's the woman of your fantasies, if you dream of 15-inch cyborgs.
- The great size debate continues
- A popular online chart claims to show women's preferred penis size.
- Clinton's campaign is cold, but sexism is still hot
- The man behind the controversial Obama button has a Web site stocked with Hillary hate.
- Girl crush: Velvet d'Amour
- A celebration of the 5-foot-8, 300-pound model who is anything but "the staid, asexual, catalogue, muumuu chick."
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| June 21 |
- U.N.: Rape a war crime
- Finally, the Security Council defines sexual violence as a weapon of war.
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| June 23 |
- Did Maureen Dowd go too far?
- The New York Times' public editor examines whether sexism played a role in Clinton's coverage by the paper of record.
- Baby's first stilettos
- Well, I suppose it had to happen eventually -- high heels for newborns.
- SOS double-D
- Jogging bras can save your life!
- Not such a pill anymore
- A British doctor offers birth control prescriptions online. Are you listening, American docs?
- Quote of the day
- Barack Obama speaks about equal pay to working women in New Mexico.
- Girls in trouble for catcalling construction workers?
- The tables turn at a college campus in England.
- Want the pill? It'll cost ya.
- The House drops an amendment for more affordable birth control for college students and lower-income women.
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| June 24 |
- News flash: Sex is sold to young girls!
- A report argues that the media is hypersexualizing adolescents, leading to an "ideology of seduction."
- So was it a "pact," or more of an informal agreement?
- Controversy continues to stir over the supposed "pregnancy pact" at Gloucester High School.
- Disaster of the day: Too many women rabbis!
- Jewish religious leaders lament a shortage of men in the clergy.
- "I'm not pregnant -- but the night is young"
- Joy Nash offers women some snappy comebacks to nasty remarks about their bodies.
- A crack in the Army's glass ceiling
- Pending Senate approval, Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody will become America's first female four-star general.
- I now pronounce you male applicant and female applicant
- A Virginia courthouse may have inadvertently beaten California to the punch by accidentally marrying two men.
- Equality, shmequality! Just become a man
- Some Albanian women swear to live as men to avoid the strictures of womanhood.
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| June 25 |
- J.C. Penney does not actually endorse teen sex
- A racy, fake advertisement has the retail giant up in arms -- and pointing fingers.
- Malaysia: Give up lipstick, prevent rape!
- Officials are passing out anti-rape pamphlets that warn against makeup and high heels.
- Bully for Nancy Pelosi!
- The speaker of the House affirms that she, too, is the victim of sexism, yesiree.
- "PUMAs": Angrier than I thought
- Readers' responses to a piece about Hillary Clinton supporters.
- Holy Mary, mother of God ... lactivist icon?
- The Vatican condones depictions of baby Jesus at the breast.
- Umm, what is boob punching?
- Duh: It's when you punch a woman in the boobs, of course. And it's yet another Internet trend.
- "I just want mayonnaise. I don't want guys kissing"
- A backlash ensues after Heinz pulls an ad featuring a smooch between two men.
- Men: Score! Women: Whoops!
- A study finds women experience more regret over one-night stands.
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| June 26 |
- Bad news for 27-year-old virgins
- The FDA is delaying its decision on whether to approve Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine, for women over 26.
- A new definition of "boob tube"
- Should doctors be allowed to offer financial incentives for patients to post video endorsements on the Web?
- What do your genes say about your breasts?
- A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine says we're getting closer to a genetic test for breast cancer risk.
- Beautiful new home comes with free ... wife?
- One Florida real estate agent will sell you a lovely house -- with her in it.
- Are you a "trailing spouse"?
- When one half of a married couple relocates for work, what happens to the other person's career?
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| June 27 |
- Is the Pill "outdated"?
- A lead reproductive health researcher says hormonal birth control pills don't "work well enough."
- The next female presidential contender
- Maybe you should ask her to run.
- Ex-girlfriend: Pro-life pol is a hypocrite
- Mike Erickson's ex-girlfriend claims the congressional candidate paid for and approved of her abortion.
- A game with soothing graphics, gal pals
- It's great that video game manufacturers are reaching out to women. But why are they so clumsy about it?
- The tragic story of LaVena Johnson
- More disturbing evidence that women in the military sometimes face more danger from their fellow soldiers than from their enemies.
- Woman's best friend
- How can dogs detect ovarian cancer?
- Ladies get a small bite of the Big Apple
- Forget what you see on TV. New York women are much worse off economically than they were two decades ago.
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| June 28 |
- Women and their "girl crushes"
- Judith Warner asks why men don't share in platonic same-sex crushes.
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| June 30 |
- American Girl power
- Does the specialty doll nurture girls' adventurousness or simply encourage them to be good little consumers?
- The true price of beauty is needles in your face
- Sarah Haskins' hilarious new video satire takes on the wicked world of Botox.
- How to get ahead at the office -- in 1976
- "Not unlike a geisha, leave your flip-flops at the door and step into those Jimmy Choos." Mmmkay.
- Britney and Lindsay go to college
- Academics meet to discuss the public's fascination with "train wreck" celebrities.
- See? See why I get hysterical?!?
- Research shows that subtle sexism is more damaging to women's self-esteem than glaring examples.
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