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Apparently, people actually ARE interested in female athletics. At least, that's what I have to assume this means. Somehow, I can't imagine that the Lingerie Football League made a decision that wasn't motivated by the potential for profit.
Today, ESPNW is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX with an incredible photo mosaic made up of women doing sports. Scrolling through thousands of photos of female athletes in all different sports is a totally inspiring experience. And I noticed quite a few derby players in and among all the track and field, gymnastics, hockey, basketball, soccer players, and all sorts of other athletes.
Most people know now that the Komen Foundation, the organization that is responsible for popularizing those pink Breast Cancer Awareness ribbons and raises and distributes millions of dollars for breast cancer research, has chosen to terminate its $700,000 grant to Planned Parenthood. PP used this money to fund breast screenings for low income women all over the country.
A new study of "sexual economics" was presented by Roy Baumeister of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida on Sunday at the American Psychological Association meeting.
"If women don't have many opportunities to make money on their own, they need the value of sex to be as high as possible," Baumeister says. "When women don't have other opportunities, sex is the main thing she has to offer."
Let's never forget how good we have it. This goes so far beyond "a league of their own."
"Some clerics condemn women’s sports as corrupting and satanic and charge that it spreads decadence. They warn that running and jumping can damage a woman’s hymen and ruin her chances of getting married.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas amends an honor killing law in response to the public outcry of citizens, officials and politicians after the murder of university student Aya Al-Baradiya, allegedly by her family.
"Some reports suggested Aya was killed because she refused a proposal from her uncle's son, while security sources said the uncle held ultra-conservative views and was dead set against her quest for education.
This WIP article about this month's release of the HBO documentary "Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words" includes information about a dialogue the Women's Media Center would like to have with you, defining the next 40 years' goals for the future of feminism. Read on to get involved!
(Surely one of you wants to submit a 2 minute video about Junior Derby and the future of women's sports?)
In the growing Slut Walk movement, many women are finding catharsis and empowerment in a way they have not been able to in other efforts to reclaim safety and security from harassment and sexual assault, like Take Back The Night. Yet, as we derbs may well know, the "fishnets and short skirts" argument remains...(i.e.
