Last week I bought a car. The week before that I visited five to six dealers and drove at least nine cars before I found the one I wanted. Of four salesmen who went on test drives with me (something I noticed did not happen when my husband bought a car the week before), three [...]
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Sexism doesn’t sell (cars, that is)
April 5, 2010
Really interesting water bottle graphic
December 21, 2009
This is really interesting…I knew bottled water isn’t good for the environment but I didn’t know just how much damage it does. http://www.onlineeducation.net/bottled_water/
Local teen discriminated against for pregnancy
December 3, 2009
How lovely. Fort Worth has made the national news yet again for something sexist…Arlington Heights High School senior Mackenzie McCollum was first kicked off of the volleyball team and then allowed back on but with playing time cut for being pregnant. She was required three times to provide doctors’ notes in order to be reinstated. [...]
Housing nightmare
November 24, 2009
So it’s definitely been awhile since I’ve posted anything and to all five of my readers I am sorry! My excuse is that I’ve been embroiled in a housing situation nightmare–which has zapped my will to live…not to mention my will to blog. After the sale of our condo in June, the loan process to get [...]
“Being a woman is not a pre-existing condition” campaign is awesome
October 23, 2009
This: http://awomanisnotapreexistingcondition.com/# is completely awesome. If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you know that being pregnant, having a c-section, being treated for issues stemming from rape, domestic violence and other things that women go through regularly are being treated like pre-existing conditions by health insurance companies–which essentially allows them to not cover [...]
136 Dead
October 21, 2009
A sobering statistic: in 2008, 136 women that we know of were killed by an intimate partner. TCFV has the full report. Take a few minutes to read it…it gives the names, counties, and circumstances surrounding the deaths, which really puts it into perspective. http://www.tcfv.org/pdf/dvam2009/ListofWomenKilled.pdf
Awesome ex-president of the year
July 20, 2009
This is seriously cool. Jimmy Carter announced that he is leaving the Southern Baptist church because of its treatment of women and girls (which is based on the church’s belief that women must be subservient to men). Read more here: http://www.feministing.com/archives/016792.html
Hells yeah!
July 10, 2009
This rocks. I mean, seriously rocks. Who do those pharmacists think they are, slut-shaming women who need medication and calling it freedom of religion? Well they were shut down. Read more here: http://www.feministing.com/archives/016626.html
The mortgage process and sexism
July 2, 2009
I’m in the process of getting a mortgage for the second time, and something tells me this time I’ll be more attuned to the sexism that happens when you buy something with your husband than I was last time. It has already been suggested that I legally change my name to make the process simpler [...]
Texas charges rape survivors for their own rape kits
May 11, 2009
This is appaling. http://www.feministing.com/archives/015357.html As if a rape survivor doesn’t have enough strife to deal with…Apparently rape victims in Houston (and likely other Texas cities) are being denied funding from the Crime Victims Compensation Fund and are being called on by bill collectors to pay for the evidence taken in crimes against them. FYI, a [...]
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