| July 1 |
- Women watch porn to please men?
- Read on for more inane explanations of why some ladies like X-rated fare!
- Some dangeous chemicals with your vampy pout?
- A failed California bill tried to push companies to keep the lead out of red lipsticks.
- Before you pick up that Gillette Mach3, mister
- Women may be more attracted to men with a little stubble.
- Get ready for prairie chic!
- Fundamentalist Mormon women go into the online clothing business.
- Quote of the day: Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy
- Celebrating the nomination of America's first female four-star general.
- Your construction company kills babies
- Thanks to pressure from antiabortion activists, a builder has pulled out of a project for a Planned Parenthood clinic.
- Erasing the age lines from a résumé
- There's a new challenge facing job seekers: What to do when you look great in person but old on paper.
- Psst! Wanna write an Op-Ed?
- Catherine Orenstein helps women break into the opinion pages.
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| July 2 |
- Save boys from tween tramps!
- Boys need rescuing from hypersexualized pubescent girls?
- Quote of the day: Backlash U.K.
- The Guardian details an "all-out assault" on feminism.
- Granny and the real doll
- Older Japanese women with a hankering for grandchildren get their own adorable, stuffed companions.
- Congressional candidate crush
- Vote Darcy Burner, and her dog
- The mommy wars, interrupted
- Should mothers stay at home or go to work? Sandra Tsing Loh chooses her choice, and so do I.
- Go ahead, treat your vulva
- A new spa offers "pelvic fitness" regimens.
- It's (pretty) good to be a girl
- Young women have never had it so good, but sexism is still rampant, girls say.
- "Anti-Abortion, but Pro-Date Rape"
- Why was Amazon.com selling a T-shirt supporting rape?
- So it's come to this: Sex for gas
- Things sure are looking bleaker and bleaker at the pump these days.
- Ingrid Betancourt freed
- After six years in captivity, the political reformer is rescued from Marxist guerrillas in Colombia.
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| July 3 |
- Aussies: Sex lives of soap stars?
- Cheating, bad sex and pornography, oh my! A new book reports on women Down Under.
- From hot chick to nerd girl in four easy steps
- A Web site advises guys on converting their girlfriends to geekdom.
- What would a feminist campaign look like?
- Hint: No bra burning would be involved.
- The economics of abortion
- In Minnesota, more women are citing the costs of children in their decisions to terminate a pregnancy. Should we be surprised?
- Throwing out the bonus with the bath water
- When people take parental leave, should they still be eligible for incentive pay?
- Exploitative Fourth of July peg of the day!
- Women should celebrate the holiday by not being so abusable?
- Lady superstars are totally marriageable after all
- News flash: Beautiful, rich, famous women are not wholly unappealing!
- Sugar, spice and science
- Mars, Venus, woolly mammoths -- no really, they did a study!
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| July 7 |
- Reader, she married him
- As wedding season churns on (and celebrities' marriages rip open), the New York Times offers a mini-instruction manual on connubial bliss.
- Money, money, money
- "Sex and the City" proved that four women over 40 can open a movie -- but what about three women over 50?
- Turks gone wild!
- Women protest an exhibitionism conviction by showing some skin.
- The male biological clock
- Nicholson and Beatty notwithstanding, men's fertility declines as they age, too.
- Harvard for toddlers
- Google provides the world's greatest day care -- for millionaires.
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| July 8 |
- Pink-collar ghetto, here we come!
- Study finds graduating women expect to earn less than men.
- Jezebels without a cause
- Giggling about rape, knocking back drinks, two controversial writers at the popular women's site embarrass themselves -- and their employer.
- PSAs in your panties?
- Ads against female genital mutilation are showing up in the crotch of bikini bottoms.
- Obama and late-term abortion
- An addendum to "Are Democrats Backpedaling on Abortion Rights?"
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| July 9 |
- Parade shames Gloucester Girls
- This family-friendly event features teenagers with fake bellies and signs reading, "Sluts missed sex ed."
- Is Carly Fiorina secretly working for Obama?
- Top McCain advisor says "women would like a choice."
- Sex ed expert of the day
- Columnist: Actually, Gloucester girls should be mocked
- Grandma gets off
- Seniors are having more sex, and better sex.
- Facebook's gender trouble
- A recent change may please grammarians, but not transgender users.
- Quote of the day
- Should men embrace feminism for their own sake?
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| July 10 |
- Make less! Save more!
- Planning to retire at 65, ladies? Think again.
- There's no rape in Williamsburg
- And other lessons learned from Lizz Winstead's controversial interview of two Jezebel bloggers.
- From lovebirds to jailbirds
- Lesbian couple may face jail time for California marriage.
- Hotties! Blogging!
- Two roundups of sexy female bloggers on the same day? Groan.
- Pregnant pause
- John McCain's response to the question: Is it fair that insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control?
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| July 11 |
- Men (and women!) at work
- Little linguistic changes mean so much.
- Putting boobies on a pedestal
- Touching disembodied breasts will "improve your manly strength!"
- Buying abortion drugs online
- In countries where abortion is illegal, the Internet can be the safest place to go for help.
- From clearing crap to modeling fashion
- Former Indian sanitation workers hit a New York runway.
- Slipped through the cracks
- The stories we didn't get to cover: An all-female football league, 365 days of Cosmo, women in the church and a kerfuffle over potty parity.
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| July 12 |
- Sex and money: A week in review
- Apparently, we're spending our stimulus checks on porn and "hard times" are forcing women to strip.
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| July 14 |
- The offensiveness of Bernie Mac
- The comedian's jokes about hos and black first ladies fall flat at an Obama fundraiser. Should we be outraged?
- Equality holds women back? Huh?
- Generous maternity benefits are making British women less attractive to employers -- and the solution is more generous paternity benefits.
- Awesome or awful? Self-cleaning underwear
- The future is coming, and it won't require Woolite.
- This just in: Adolescence sucks
- A new study shows that adolescent girls are stressed, insecure and anxious. What else is new?
- The kitchen: Not just for men anymore
- More women are assuming positions of power in high-end restaurants.
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| July 15 |
- Prada: The new puberty
- In today's young adult novels, girls become women via consumption.
- Amanda Peet gets her shot on
- The actress and mom defends childhood vaccinations from Jenny McCarthy.
- On the ballot this November: Obama, McCain and a definition of when life begins
- In a nationwide first, Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether a fertilized human egg should be defined as a person.
- Not-so-bulging brides
- Has pre-wedding dieting gotten out of control?
- So much for my happy ending
- Men aren't the only ones having icky, anonymous sex with their deep-tissue massages.
- Bush: Birth control = abortion
- An administration proposal protects antiabortion medical providers and redefines birth control as abortion.
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| July 16 |
- Teen pregnancy: "Rational long-term economic choice"?
- L.A. Times editorial about young parenthood slams stigma, upends assumptions.
- "You don't feel like it, but you do it for him"
- Australian study: Attitude toward marital rape has yet to catch up with law against it.
- Workin' 9 to 5 -- on Broadway!
- Dolly Parton brings the feminist cult classic to the stage.
- Used women are like used cars?
- BMW compares nonvirgins to preowned luxury vehicles.
- "WTF" of the day
- "Liquid virgin tightening lubricant" -- get your designer vagina from a handy and colorful squeeze bottle.
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| July 17 |
- Are breast self-exams worth it?
- Regular checks can help identify malignant tumors early, but they can also lead to unnecessary procedures and jacked-up anxiety.
- Toilet talk
- Can using the ladies room help your career?
- The bikini theory
- Helen Mirren proves that winning an Oscar for playing a British monarch 20 years your senior doesn't mean you can't rock a two-piece suit.
- Amanda Peet: "Sorry about that 'parasites' thing"
- The actress regrets calling parents who don't vaccinate their children "parasites," but she still thinks they're making the wrong choice.
- "Ugh" of the day
- A new sex column analyzes "little girls jumping out of their panties" for Barack Obama.
- Is a black princess that hard to imagine?
- Disney rethinks its first African-American heroine amid accusations of racism.
- All hail Kay Ryan
- The newly appointed poet laureate aims to "prevent all bad poetry from being published during [her] reign."
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| July 18 |
- Broadsheet, out
- We're taking a holiday, so now it's your turn to speak.
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| July 21 |
- What a load of crockpots!
- Who doesn't want a Manwich? Sarah Haskins' new video spoofs the advertising world's rosy vision of motherhood.
- Mad women
- The female characters on "Mad Men" are complex and fascinating -- so why no Emmy love?
- Janet Jackson's nipple not "actionably indecent"
- A federal court finally throws out the FCC's attempt to fine CBS for 2004's "Nipplegate."
- "WTF" of the day: Wii sex game
- Nintendo's popular party console simulates the ultimate party activity.
- Ma vie en noir
- Should a 12-year-old British boy be allowed to get sex reassignment surgery?
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| July 22 |
- Theatrical battle of the sexes?
- Liz Smith says only men are trashing "Mamma Mia!" Meanwhile, an L.A. Times blogger explains why women can't handle "The Dark Knight." Oh, please!
- Equal opportunity unemployment
- For the first time since the women's movement began, an economic recovery has not led to a higher percentage of women in the workforce.
- O'Really?
- The latest comments from Bill O'Reilly that make us want to vomit on ourselves.
- Estelle Getty, thank you for being a friend
- The Golden Girl died this morning at the age of 84.
- Quote of the day
- Katie Couric says sexism is more common than racism in America.
- Carp diem!
- Fish pedicures come to America, leaving flesh-hungry carp full and your feet clean.
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| July 23 |
- The veil vs. French values
- A Muslim woman is denied citizenship -- some say because she wears the niqab.
- "Fat Princess"
- No, it's not fat-positive just 'cause the point of the game is to rescue her.
- "Honeypots" need not apply
- British spy agency is on the hunt for female, minority applicants.
- Quote of the day
- New York Times reporter David Carr on being a welfare dad.
- Not another teen video game
- Paramount releases titles based on "Pretty in Pink," "Clueless" and "Mean Girls."
- Bachelor party
- Should great men of genius stay single?
- "WTF" of the day
- China Shrink cream is an ancient cure for a "loose vagina due to multiple childbirth and frigidity."
- Reader letter of the day
- Alarajrogers: "The veil is a terrible metaphor for women's submission."
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| July 24 |
- The disappearing movie critic
- A study finds fewer women writing about film for top newspapers. But the big news isn't the gender of critics -- it's the poor health of the profession.
- "The View" from here? Bleak
- Please don't let morning show co-host Sherri Shepherd become the public face of abortion.
- It takes a piglet
- Using an unusual incentive program, the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation has kept thousands of girls out of slavery.
- "WTF" of the day: Botox bridal parties
- Something old, something new, something Botoxed and ... I'm sorry, but something's wrong with your face. Can we get that fixed?
- Sex advice for Barack
- Why Obama should kick abstinence-only programs to the curb.
- Breaking: Boobs need support
- Women are damaging their breasts by exercising without support, researchers say -- again.
- CNN's "Black in America"
- What did you miss in the first installment of the cable program's high-profile series on race?
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| July 25 |
- Quote of the day
- Teri Garr is a loose cannon -- in the best possible way.
- Many women have a low sex drive. Or not
- A new study shows that 36.2 percent have flagging libidos. Never mind that it was funded by a company aiming to fix that.
- What's in a bat-crap-crazy name?
- Should the state prevent parents from giving their kids humiliating names?
- 2 + 2 = duh
- Yet another study proves that girls are just as good as boys in math.
- Slipped through the cracks
- Stories we missed this week: McCain's anti-feminism, only girls being born in northern Greenland, and game heroines in metal thongs.
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| July 28 |
- Pole dancing: A "clean, fun, social activity"
- Mainstream Chinese women are catching on to strip aerobics.
- When a vagina is not enough
- Olympic organizers in Beijing have created a lab to test female athletes suspected of being males -- but how much does a Y chromosome prove?
- "Life is short. Have an affair"
- An online dating service for people looking to cheat on their spouses? Stay classy, AshleyMadison.com.
- Don't lose your head (scarves)
- Two Michigan Muslim women allege McDonald's refused to employee them because they wore the hijab. The kicker? It was a halal McDonald's.
- "WTF" of the day: Abstinence thong
- A rather revealing pair of underwear carries the slogan: "Earn your right to wear white"
- "She was just in diapers"
- Are underage female gymnasts being allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics?
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| July 29 |
- "Ugh" of the day
- Guinness commercial suggests another use for a woman: Beer coaster.
- Should it ever be defensible to kill your husband?
- Proposed reforms in the U.K. would provide a partial defense to victims of domestic abuse accused of killing their partners.
- Keira Knightley says no to airbrushing her boobs
- The star of the upcoming movie "The Duchess" has refused to have her cleavage enhanced in promotional posters.
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| July 30 |
- A blogosphere of their own
- Outrage over the N.Y. Times' story on the all-female BlogHer convention prompts the question: Are women on the Web just not taken quite as seriously as men?
- Save Kobra Najjar
- An Iranian woman sentenced to stoning death for "adultery" has lost her last appeal for amnesty.
- The John McCain Women's Clinic
- "Revoking your rights since 2009"
- Press release of the day: Our show harms kids!
- NBC celebrates the APA's condemnation of "The Baby Borrowers."
- Chewing the fat
- Today in annoying studies: Overweight women who want to lose weight should exercise longer. Duh.
- Judging a book by its (pink) cover
- Why are publishers slapping chick-lit-style covers on books written by women, whether they fit the genre or not?
- You Web-surf like a dude!
- A new site offers a "guestimate" of your gender based on your browser history.
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| July 31 |
- Man on the street (in stilettos)
- Could you walk a mile in 3-inch heels?
- Respect the Web geek's cock!
- An entrepreneur offers a charming speech on how to launch a start-up and deal with all those money-grubbing whores.
- Quote of the day
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry remembers Anne Armstrong, one pioneering Republican woman.
- Is Barack cheating on Hillary?
- Rumor has it, Obama's checking out some other women for the V.P. slot. And some Hillary supporters are pissed.
- So it's come to this, too: Ova for cash
- Egg donations increase in the face of recession.
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