Women Trapped by Army's Protection of Abusive Soldiers

Despite Army Assurances, Violence at Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/us/23abuse.html?_r=1&hp

Feminism's Third Wave? Fourth Wave?

Michelle, Our Belle
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pam-bristow/michelle-our-belle_b_145300.html

"At first glance, it may seem that the feminist movement took a major blow with Clinton's primary loss, but a deeper look may spotlight a different female voice emerging, one that is personified by our incoming first lady. A Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University and holder of a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, Michelle Obama is hardly a woman who struggles with proving herself in a "man's world." Yet she has demonstrated over and over that by harnessing our feminine strength as the nurturing hubs of our families and communities, we wield a genuine power that has the simultaneous ability to inspire and affect (as her husband has admitted many times) even the decisions of our President."

Jennifer Aniston=Feminist

Apparently this is all it takes to be a feminist.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1227332/jennifer_aniston_shows_her_feminist.html?cat=9

Feminist Party in European Parliament Election

This website is about the Feminist Initiative, billed as the world’s first feminist party.
http://feministsupport.com/

Link to the policy platform of the Feminist Initiative
http://feministisktinitiativ.se/engelska.php

Sociobiological Gender Assumptions in Recent Mental Health Research?

In Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents' Genes Are in Competition
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/health/research/11brain.html

"Anti-Gay, Anti-Family"

With Proposition 8 front and center, Arkansas' Proposed Initiative Act No. 1 flew under the radar. The proposition bans people who are “cohabitating outside a valid marriage” from serving as foster parents or adopting children. "While the measure bans both gay and straight members of cohabitating couples as foster or adoptive parents, the Arkansas Family Council wrote it expressly to thwart “the gay agenda.”" See below for the link to the NY Times Op-Ed on the Proposition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/opinion/12savage.html?em

The Blame Game

An interesting conversation on whether blaming the McCain loss on Palin is sexist or "calling a spade a spade" can be found on Slate.com.

Two excerpts:
"I couldn’t help but balk a little at the substance of the McCain campaign's criticisms: Palin is described as colossally stupid. And a diva (prone to tantrums and throwing things). And someone who opens her hotel room door in just a bathrobe (inappropriately sexual) and also a shopaholic who already had far too many clothes to begin with. Just wondering if the sexism threaded through all that doesn’t make it a little less juicy and a lot more worrisome? "

"So Sarah Palin is not the only diva out there. I'm not saying this is acceptable political behavior, and I certainly do expect the runner-up leader of the free world to know that Africa is a continent. But I'm wondering if all this diva-labeling is truly sexist, or are we just calling a spade a spade? I wonder if female politicians act out in ways that are particularly feminine and unpleasant. And I'm hard-pressed to think of a story of a male politician behaving this way from friends who've worked for high-profile ones, these kind of grande dame demands that make the average Jane think, "What??" I'm just wondering: Do we not hear about men throwing things in a rage because there's a sexist tendency to point such ticks out only among women or because women are the only ones who indulge in such extreme behavior?"


http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/sarah_2700_s+fault/default.aspx