March 8th, 2009

Nice Clean Liberation of Women

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!On International Women’s Day today, the Vatican once again showed how out of touch they are with today’s women. Or probably Whirlpool donated a stained glass window or two. But of course, this pales in comparison [...]

September 24th, 2008

Guarding Sarah Palin

After that intense round of questioning that saw Tucker Bounds blink, Campbell Brown brings it home once again by hurling the sexist charge back at the McCain campaign. Is CNN developing a backbone?

August 8th, 2008

Browser History and Gender

This program uses your browser history to determine if you are more likely to be male or female. Don’t worry, it doesn’t store your browser history (or forward it to your spouse). Based on my history, the likelihood that I’m male is 92% much less than that Uncut Varma boy. Wonder what sites has he [...]

June 6th, 2008

Media’s Sexist Behavior toward Hillary Clinton

“Clearly, in an age when the dangers and indignities of Driving While Black are well-acknowledged, and properly condemned, Striving While Female – if it goes too far and looks too real — is still held to be a crime.”

An excellent post on Clinton’s treatment by the media by Judith Warner. Mind you, the Obama campaign [...]

May 19th, 2008

No Woman President this time

Are Clinton women voters racists? Well, by their definition, probably so. A NY Times article quotes several prominent women leaders who have supported Clinton as saying they will not vote for Obama because he is sexist. Just because he is a man who has beaten the woman candidate? Admittedly, the world is not perfect and [...]

October 13th, 2007

Watching Fox Business for the babes

Fox News is launching a business channel on October 15th. NY Magazine notes that their website is mostly plugging “skinny, youthful beauties” including a desi, Shibani Joshi. Anyone who watches CNBC must know Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett so I am not surprised Fox (especially Fox, in fact) is jumping on the bandwagon.

January 4th, 2007

India’s Hottest College Chick Contest

“Presenting India’s first ever online beauty contest India’s Hottest College Chick contest! The one of it’s kind all-online beauty contest hunts for the hottest college chick on the campuses nationwide!”
I am not sure what to make of this contest. On one hand, it might be brilliant marketing and a stepping stone for future social networking [...]

April 27th, 2006

Give the dog a bad name and hang him

Mob justice is always a thorny issue and most of the time, it can prove to be counter-productive. This occurs when a section of the society assumes the role of a vigilante for correcting a social wrong. Bloggers have been accused of doing similar things in the past; even desi bloggers as in the [...]

April 16th, 2006

Why is gender still an issue in America?

Last week’s story in Newsweek is about Katie Couric’s move from NBC’s morning ‘Today Show’ to CBS Evening News. The undercurrents of the story dwelt on the move from fluffy morning gossip news to hardcore serious news but the bulk of the story emphasized on a woman’s entry into an male-dominated domain. I don’t understand [...]

September 29th, 2005

Men, Women, College, and their future life path

This issue has been flogged to death but each time it pops up, it doesn’t fail to raise passionate arguments. Interestingly, last week two diametrically opposite yet independent issues were highlighted. USA Today notes that these days, 135 women are graduating from college for every 100 men. The U.S. Department of Education projects that the [...]


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