Monday, August 27, 2007

• Today's Articles - Woman Assaulted While Others Watched & Did Nothing

  "Man Rapes Woman as Bystanders Look On" - WCCO.com (CBS News Syndicate)
  Anyone reminded of the rape and murder of Catherine Genovese in 1964 where people watched and did nothing?  The best part about this story?  The guy claims he didn't do it even though it's been caught on video tape.
  
  "Destructing Mammy Pt. 1" - The Luscious Librarian
  An attempt to understand why society still looks down upon African-American women wearing head wraps.
  
  "Martin Luther King Jr. Monument Criticized Over Selection of a Chinese Sculptor" - BrandonSun.com
  The issue?  That the sculptor isn't African-American. I think this is stupid.  I'm pretty sure the fact that they're arguing over what race the sculptor should be would have MLK rolling in his grave.
  
  "They Stand By Their Men, Loudly" - New York Times
  "RICHARD NIXON had definite views about how the wife of a presidential candidate should campaign. In 1992, he was watching a lawyer named Hillary Clinton aggressively defend her husband in New Hampshire....'If the wife comes through as being too strong and too intelligent,' Mr. Nixon observed, 'it makes the husband look like a wimp.'...Now, 15 years later, strong and intelligent women are out in force on the campaign trail, and the focus is not just on how they reflect on their husbands but how they reflect on themselves. These women are full partners in their husbands’ campaigns while running mini-campaigns of their own, with hectic travel schedules, strategic agendas and a media horde in tow."
  
  "At a Home Office, Life's Little Interruptions" - New York Times Magazine
  A guy's account of being a stay-at-home dad. 
  
  "Buh Bye Girlhood, Hello Trampy 'Tweendom!" - Salon's Broadsheet
  "It's that exciting time of year when adolescent girls across the nation go in search of the essentials for starting off the school year prepared and ready to learn as a hot new 'tween: pink, padded bras, T-shirts with slogans declaring their total lack of smarts ('I Left My Brain in My Locker') and, perhaps, a Juicy Couture gym bag made especially for prepubescents, announcing 'Juicy and Happy.'"
  
  
  

  Currently Reading Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives By Rose Weitz see related

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