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Women more interested in celebrities than own health
Women are more interested in celebrity culture than their own health, a charity claims after conducting a poll of 1,000 women.
The poll found that nearly four out of five women could name Coleen McLoughlin as footballer Wayne Rooney's wife. However, just over half said they checked their breast for lumps once a month or more. The survey showed there was a particular lack of awareness among older women.
Arlene Wilkie, director of research and policy at Breast Cancer Campaign, said: "While women are clued up about the latest gossip from celeb-land, it appears they are dismissing serious information that could save lives. More than 45,500 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer every year and we know that early diagnosis gives the best possible chance of survival." Women are more interested in celebrity culture than their own health, a charity claims after conducting a poll of 1,000 women. ... more -
Ladies - who's coming to dinner?
So it’s nearly 2009. We’ve seen our first black democratic nominee and we may even see our first black president. The US may FINALLY be looking past race when making important decisions … But the question is: DO YOU? LADIES - the Friday poll question: would you marry outside of your race? Why or why not ...? So it’s nearly 2009. We’ve seen our first black democratic nominee and we may even see our first black president. The US may FINALLY... more
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105-year-old virgin: no sex is key to long life
Britain's oldest virgin has revealed the secret of her longevity on the eve of her 105th birthday - no sex. Clara Meadmore has never had sex in her life because she has always been 'too busy' for intimate relationships and it seemed like 'a lot of hassle'. Miss Meadmore, who remembers the Titanic sinking and the outbreak of the First World War, said she knew she would remain single from the age of 12, and abstained as a young woman in order to concentrate on earning a living.
The retired secretary said that during her youth in the 1920s and 1930s sex entailed marriage - and she just did not buy into it.
Miss Meadmore, of Truro, Cornwall, said she was proud of the fact she remained celibate.
She said: 'People have asked whether I am a homosexual and the answer is no. I have just never been interested in or fancied having sex. I imagine there is a lot of hassle involved and I have always been busy doing other things.'
She added: 'I've never had a boyfriend - I've never been bothered about relationships. When I was a girl you only had sex with your husband and I never married.' Britain's oldest virgin has revealed the secret of her longevity on the eve of her 105th birthday - no sex. Clara Meadmore has ... more -
What America's Smartest Women Say About Sarah Palin - Newsweek.com
Heels on, gloves off. Pitbulls with lipstick. Cleavage controversies and baby dramas. For more than a year, we've been talking about women in politics, and, still, we're not tired of it yet. Get any group of women together, of any political stripe, and Sarah Palin, with all her complexities and contradictions, becomes topic No. 1. And once you mention Palin, someone will bring up Hillary Clinton. And feminism. And whether mothers should work. And whether there will ever be a day when we don't talk about a female candidate's hair.
Even with an economic crisis on the front pages, these are irresistible topics—as evidenced by the conversations at NEWSWEEK's annual Women & Leadership conference, held this week in New York. Dee Dee Myers, White House press secretary for Bill Clinton, praised Palin's fortitude and, yes, intelligence: "I think she's both smart and resilient and optimistic and courageous and all those things. ... Her confident and completely unfazed response to being criticized is great because she didn't run from the stage crying. She sort of shrugged it off and when on to the next event, in a way that didn't seem callous, and it didn't seem unfeminine, and it didn't seem like she was acting like a guy, it was just her way."
Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway had no problem acknowledging the debt that her party owes to a Democratic star: "I don't think you could have Sarah Palin's meteoric rise without Hillary Clinton coming before her."
But these women disagreed on whether Palin belongs in the White House: "Is she ready to be vice-president? No." Myers said. "But it's not because she doesn't have these other qualities that make a great politician—things that you cannot teach as easily," such as the ability to connect with voters and deliver a speech with Reaganesque aplomb. "If she'd been allowed to work as governor of Alaska, stand for reelection, maybe be involved in something like the national governor's association, travel around the country, travel around the world a little bit, develop a world view that's more clearly thought through than the one she has now, she could have been a formidable candidate. And she may still be. But as it stands right now, to say that Barack Obama is no more qualified than Sarah Palin is laughable in my view."
Political commentator Bay Buchanan thinks Palin would have been attacked in the media no matter how much experience she had. "A woman like Sarah Palin, a socially, pro-life conservative woman who is extremely feminine, and a mother, and all of these things that one thinks about when they think about a traditional woman, was unacceptable [to the media and critics on the left]," Buchanan said. "Was totally unacceptable. It didn't matter if she had 10 years or two years [of experience]. They were going after her."
But author and editor Tina Brown said that Hillary Clinton was also subject to an unrelenting storm of criticism for everything from her cleavage to her ankles. "The moment that Hillary wept was a hugely transformative moment for women in a strange way," Brown said. "Because she was so extraordinarily abused by the media—I do feel that strongly—and she was so stalwart and she is so stalwart and so valiant, and she had this moment of breaking down, and there was a collective acknowledgement: What are we doing? I even felt sorry for Sarah Palin last night when I saw her on television, she looked so beat up, that you had to say, this process is so grueling, are we right to put our public figures and our politicians through quite such an ordeal, and what does it do to their values and their sense of themselves by the end?"
(more at the link) Heels on, gloves off. Pitbulls with lipstick. Cleavage controversies and baby dramas. For more than a year, we've been talking ab... more -
Excitement as nun set to be India's first female saint
A Roman Catholic nun who disfigured herself to avoid marriage will become India's first woman saint when she is canonised by the Pope on Sunday.
Many Indian clergy and pilgrims are expected to attend the special mass at the Vatican for Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, who died in 1946, aged 36.
She is the second Indian to be elevated to sainthood. The first, 16th-century martyr Gonsalo Garcia, was canonised in 1862. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who died in 1997, was beatified in 2003 - the first step to sainthood.
Sister Alphonsa's pending canonisation has caused great excitement among Catholics in India and comes as the nation's Christian community is feeling under considerable threat.
About 35 people have been killed and numerous churches burned since August in anti-Christian violence in the eastern state of Orissa.
"In these times, the canonisation is an encouraging moment for those suffering in the name of Jesus," said Father Alphonse Arokiam, who heads one of the churches dedicated to the popular saint-elect.
Christians account for 2.3per cent of India's billion-plus, mostly Hindu, population.
Born in 1910, Sister Alphonsa was so determined to enter a convent that she deliberately stepped into a fire to disfigure her feet so that her aunt would stop pressuring her to marry. She was plagued by serious illness but was known for her stoicism and compassion.
After her death, numerous miracles were attributed to her and her burial place became a pilgrimage site.
The main miracle attributed to her, and approved by the Vatican, involves the reported cure in 1999 of a one-year-old boy, Jinil Joseph, who was born with a birth defect affecting his legs. After a visit to Sister Alphonsa's tomb, his legs apparently straightened.
"I pray to Sister Alphonsa every day for curing me," said Jinil, who will be at the Vatican canonisation ceremony.
"She made my life normal and I'm indebted to her for the miracle cure." A Roman Catholic nun who disfigured herself to avoid marriage will become India's first woman saint when she is canonised by the ... more -
Prostitutes 'appear' on Euro banknotes as part of sex trade campaign
Altered Euro banknotes showing the images of prostitutes are being used to discourage Ukrainian women from getting caught up in the sex trade.
The images, which are otherwise almost indistinguishable from the genuine notes, have been produced as part of a campaign to prevent women from seeking to work illegally in the EU. They show under-dressed women leaning against the grand examples of European architecture printed on the currency's bills since its launch in 2002.
Messages warning about the real price of seeking blackmarket employment abroad are printed across the top of the “fake” notes. Altered Euro banknotes showing the images of prostitutes are being used to discourage Ukrainian women from getting caught up in the se... more -
Celebrating Women's History: 100 Amazing Libraries and Collections on the Web
There are numerous sites on the web, many through libraries and archives, that can provide you with access not only to information but to documents, photos and first hand accounts of women as well. Check them out... There are numerous sites on the web, many through libraries and archives, that can provide you with access not only to information but... more
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Dutch plan to stop prostitution
All sorts of ideas have been suggested to curb prostitution, but the craziest idea has to be from the Dutch town of Eindhoven. The town will offer "street miles" for good behavior, which are redeemable for designer clothes or furniture. All sorts of ideas have been suggested to curb prostitution, but the craziest idea has to be from the Dutch town of Eindhoven. The tow... more
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James Bond creator Ian Fleming a notorious drinker, womanizer
Ian Fleming was also a brilliant journalist and wartime intelligence expert whose private memorandums during his years at the British Admiralty helped pave the way for the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States. Ian Fleming was also a brilliant journalist and wartime intelligence expert whose private memorandums during his years at the British ... more
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Malaysia: Emerging trend in trafficking tribal women
An emerging trend in the trafficking of tribal people, mostly young girls, is raising concern among government officials, rights organisations, migration experts and human rights lawyers.
Increasingly, tribal girls in the region are duped and trafficked from their villages to regional capitals like Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to work in brothels and massage parlours that attract well-heeled locals as well as tourists.
‘’The trafficking of tribal people is on the rise across the South-east Asian region,’’�said Irene Fernandez, executive director of Tenaganita, a leading Malaysian NGO that tracks trafficking of women to Malaysia from across the Asia Pacific region.
‘’It is a most heinous crime because tribal girls are duped into believing they are getting high-paid office and home jobs, but are forced into prostitution,’’ she told IPS.
Not only are tribal people from the region trafficked to Malaysia, the country’s own Penan, from the interiors of Sarawak state, and the Orang Asli tribal groups in peninsular Malaysia are trafficked internally and exploited.
Outsiders, including workers, miners and others, also visit the villages to sexually exploit young tribal women, researchers told IPS.
‘’It is their poverty, dislocation and vulnerability that makes the tribal easily exploited,’’ said a Malaysian researcher with the Penan people who declined to be named. ‘’The government is totally unresponsive...it is total neglect of indigenous people.’’
‘’They give lip-service whenever the issue makes the headlines, but after that the indigenous people are left to the mercy of the traffickers,’’ Fernandez said.
The case of five young Naga tribal women from India’s north-east, who were trafficked from their village to Singapore and later moved to Malaysia and forced to work as sex slaves, has highlighted the plight of tribal women uprooted from their villages and trapped in Malaysia, a country generally hostile to migrants.
The five women are now housed in a half-way centre and the Indian High Commission here is making arrangements to send them home.
Commission counselor Sudhir Kumar Mehrotra told ‘The New Straits Times’ daily on Sep. 29 that the women from the Zeliangrong Naga tribe were promised lucrative jobs but were duped and forced to work as bar girls and prostitutes in nightclubs in Singapore and Malaysia.
‘’We have information that as many as 150 women from Manipur, Assam and Nagaland have been duped and forced to work immorally in this region,’’ he said. According to Mehrotra, the Indian government is concerned and investigating the people involved and the routes taken to curb the emerging trend in the trafficking of tribal people.
Poverty among the tribal people in places like Manipur state’s backward Tamenglong district, where parents place their hopes on agents to secure jobs for their daughters, is fueling the trade, human rights lawyers said.
According to migration experts, trafficking of tribal girls is widespread within India but because of the great demand in South East Asian capitals traffickers are beginning to traffic them outside India in the hope of making a fortune.
‘’Tribal people are rare in these capitals and there is a rising demand for them in many brothels and massage parlours in the region because of their rarity,’’ said a migration and HIV expert with a regional NGO.
‘’The flesh trade is always looking out for new victims,’’ he said, declining to be identified so as not to annoy regional governments. ‘’Trafficking of tribal people is common in India and blatantly carried out despite all the laws against it. But with the heightened push and pull factor the victims are surfacing outside India.’’ �*****CONTINUES***** An emerging trend in the trafficking of tribal people, mostly young girls, is raising concern among government officials, rights organ... more -
Halle Berry the sexiest woman of 2008?
Halle Berry is very sexy and deserves the title.For sure she's sexy, and i think since this year was the year of the pregnant celebs , they chose the sexiest mama. And seriously I would kill to look like that at 42, just having had a baby.Finally its not Esquire's choices. For sure they are not telling you who you MUST consider the most sexy. To each his/her own.So tell us — do you think Halle is the sexiest woman of 2008? Halle Berry is very sexy and deserves the title.For sure she's sexy, and i think since this year was the year of the pregnant cel... more
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Blog groupies?
Do you want to give your favorite blogger more than your opinion?
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Iran unveils plan for women's car
Iran has announced plans for a new car designed specially for women.
Its features will include automatic transmission, parking and navigation aids and a jack for changing tires without getting grease on your chador.
Iran's biggest car producer, Iran Khodro, says it will come in a range of feminine colors and interior designs.
Other features are proposed to make it easier for women when they are doing the family shopping or taking their children to school.
If that suggests a degree of sexist stereotyping in Iranian society, it is, just possibly, true.
Despite the fact that Iranian women now make up around 60% of university students, Iranian men have yet to absorb fully the message of equality.
A recent study by an academic from Allameh Tabatabaii University in Tehran found that working Iranian women believed that the domestic chores should be shared more equally.
However, according to the report "their husbands think and act traditionally".
Indeed, the idea of married men cooking for their wives is viewed in Iran as highly eccentric.
As a result, the report concludes, Iran's new generation of working women "are obliged to play the role of a superwoman to resolve their contradictions in handling all tasks."
It says such women "have become increasingly frustrated with their life". Iran has announced plans for a new car designed specially for women. ... more -
Could The Star Of Bethlehem have been the DOG Star of the Egyptians known as SIRIU...
The Star Of Bethlehem was said to have shined in or from the east. For the Egyptians The Rising of Sirius in the East preceded the annual flooding of the Nile River which for them was a magical event. It was also the time when the Goddess ISIS would appear to give birth to Horus the divine child of the Egyptian Trinity.....Hmmm, sounds like Mary giving birth to Jesus, the divine child of the Christian trinity....hmm The Star Of Bethlehem was said to have shined in or from the east. For the Egyptians The Rising of Sirius in the East preceded the ann... more
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Euro Hot Girls
some really Hot Euro 2008 Female Fans
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Global voices: The women's vote
Al Jazeera is asking a global panel for their thoughts on the US presidential election and on Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, and his Republican rival, John McCain.
This week we asked our panel to reflect on the role of women in the US election, particularly following the vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, and Joe Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential pick, and how it compares to the role of women in politics in their country.
*********CONTINUES Al Jazeera is asking a global panel for their thoughts on the US presidential election and on Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, ... more -
Girls are the Answer?
This video explains how girls can change the future of the world.
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Airbrush Issues
Sometimes the worst thing for women's self esteem....is women
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Ladymobiles to hit the streets of Iran
Iran is known for being gender-sensitive. This concept is taken to all new levels with an (incredibly sexist and patronising) move to create gender-specific cars for women. What makes a car "right for women?" According to Iranians, it's a pastel vehicle absent of all the mechanical aspects of driving, complete with extra sensors, parking aids, navigation systems and alarms... oh, and kit to keep the kids entertained. These ladymobiles are due to hit streets next summer. Iran is known for being gender-sensitive. This concept is taken to all new levels with an (incredibly sexist and patronising) move to ... more
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Is TBN related to the British Monarchy?
Just a little observation I made, and It's quite a suspicious discovery indeed. I recently observed TBN"S Emblem or Logo, which consists of A lion and Unicorn to the left and right of a shield, with a crown above and various inscriptions, if you are familiar with symbolism you would know that such a logo is not a logo but is what would be considered a ''Coat Of Arm's'' which is usually associated with Royalty and the Military...Hmmm, why is a Christian Network employing a ''Coat Of Arms''? and are the similarities between the TBN logo and the British Royal coat Of Arms just a coincidence? make your own observations....
The Lion and the Unicorn are time-honoured symbols of the United Kingdom. They are properly speaking heraldic supporters, appearing in the full Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom. The lion stands for England and the unicorn for Scotland. The combination therefore dates back to the 1603 accession of James I of England who was already James VI of Scotland.
The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom is the official coat of arms of the British monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. These arms are used by the Queen in her official capacity as monarch, and are officially known as her Arms of Dominion. Variants of the Royal Arms are used by other members of the Royal Family; and by the British Government in connection with the administration and government of the country. In Scotland, the Queen has a separate version of the Royal Arms, a variant of which is used by the Scotland Office. Just a little observation I made, and It's quite a suspicious discovery indeed. I recently observed TBN"S Emblem or Logo, wh... more
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