Archive for December, 2009

All I want for Christmas… Read a Feminist Letter to Santa at Care2.com. »

Last week we buried my uncle. His send-off was fantastic. More than 1,000 people attended his wake including the governor of the state, his very large family and his beloved former employees. My cousin wrote and delivered a beautiful, moving eulogy at the funeral, the newspaper published an article about him, and the local fire... »

When “Phineas and Ferb” (rated TV-G) ended last night, The Disney Channel played a video of Selena Gomez, a Disney star from one of its shows, “The Wizards of Waverly Place.” She was singing “Naturally” from the “Kiss and Tell” album.  Gomez is 17 years old and she is beautiful. Two thoughts popped into... »

There will be no happy holidays for me this year. Nope. None at all. Instead, I am going to have a Merry Christmas. And I am going to wish you a Merry Christmas too. (Insert gasp here.) What’s that? You don’t celebrate Christmas? Too bad. I don’t care. Yes, I know Christmas is a... »

First I was afraid. I was petrified. I heard there was a new study from the University of Missouri in Columbia on women breadwinners. Studies about women always make me nervous. After all, people are still buzzing about the research Marcus Buckingham’s been touting on why woman are supposedly so unhappy. And yet, the... »

Dockers, the Levi Strauss brand that makes schleppy khakis worn by Everyman, has published a “Man-ifesto” in its latest ad that wistfully recalls a time when men were men and calls on them to “step away from the salad bar” and solve the world’s problems. The man-ifesto goes like this, “Once upon a time,... »

Last Tuesday I stood outside of a polling station at 6:45 a.m. holding a sign for a candidate for U.S. Senate. For more than two hours I was out there, cold and bored, while people trickled into the voting station alone or two by two. A handful of morning commuters beeped and waved as... »

  The Senate voted down the Stupak-like Nelson amendment, which would have severely restricted a woman’s right to an abortion and other related reproductive health procedures, during its healthcare debates this week. But women’s rights activists don’t think we are out of the woods yet. Both the Stupak-Pitts and the Nelson amendment were aggressive... »

Santa brought us a few early Christmas presents yesterday. Martha Coakley won the Democratic Primary in the Massachusetts Senate race, bringing the state one step closer to electing its first ever woman senator. And the Senate killed the Stupak-like Nelson Amendment. Coakley would be a strong advocate for women in the Senate. Senator Al... »

Today is the Massachusetts Senate Primary. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. If you’re in the Commonwealth, please get out and vote. And may I suggest you vote for Martha Coakley? Massachusetts voters have the opportunity to send a qualified, competent candidate –who also happens to be a woman — to  the... »