Category Archives: Uppity Wimmin

Miss Travel gets a miss, all right

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Leave it to the Daily Mail to test-drive a sleazy sounding website…and find out that it does, indeed, have that general whiff of hinkitude about it. Joanne Hegarty signed up for “Miss Travel”, a sugar-daddy website for pretty but broke … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: And a king-sized bottle of Estée Lauder

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Funniest blues song ever. Or is it funniest story-telling? Whatever. I just heard this for the first time today, and had to share.

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“Sugarbabe” life goes sour: a cheat is not so sweet, after all

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Okay, I’m going to try veerrrry hard and restrain my Schadenfreude here while I share some very sad news with you: Holly Hill believed so strongly that humans are not built to be faithful that she appeared on television and … Continue reading →

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Rape and forced marriage in Morocco: A victim fights back

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Sabina Becker

A Moroccan poster denounces the forced marriage of child brides. A problem which, sadly, remains a fact of life in Morocco, even in cases of rape: The family of a 14-year-old girl in Tangier, Morocco, denounced the case of their … Continue reading →

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Nothing Gaga about these ladies!

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Sabina Becker

A terrific Lady Gaga parody celebrating the women’s suffrage victory of 1920 in the US. Canadian women had limited suffrage already, as of the federal election of 1917 (when female relatives of military men could vote “on behalf of their … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Mother Jones on the working women’s struggle

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Happy May Day…and if you are not a (total) slave, thank a socialist.

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Quotable: Tina Fey on conservative women

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Sabina Becker
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On “personhood” and what it means to be a non-person in Canada

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Sabina Becker

The Famous Five, gagged. This is what it’s coming down to, folks. Well. How about that “debate” in the House of Commons today? Or should I say, that NON-debate? Because the legal status of zygotes, embryos and fetuses in Canada … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: We can haz new proggregator?

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Yes, we can haz. And this is terrific news, since teh illiberalz eated the old one. I’m still waiting for the bumper sticker (and the typo in the banner to be fixed), so I can add it to my sidebar … Continue reading →

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A cautionary tale for would-be “sugar babies”

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Before you sign up for Seeking Arrangement or any other similarly sleazy site thinking that you’ll be “empowered” or otherwise set for life, girls, there’s something you need to see. Namely, what REALLY happens to women who sign on for … Continue reading →

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