Austrian Removes 'Sexist' Urinals

An Austrian businessman announced Thursday that he would get rid of urinals shaped like a woman's mouth from a public toilet near Vienna's national opera, after facing pressure from politicians who demanded their removal.

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Worst Advice Ever.

Dear Amy: My girlfriend wants to "talk" again. She is currently experiencing her monthly cycle. Can I ask her to wait until this is over? She usually gets a bit worked up and later apologizes.

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What on earth was Sarah Palin thinking when she posed in a pair of teeny-tiny gym shorts for a photograph that ended up on the cover of Newsweek -- a cover she has called "sexist"? Perhaps she was thinking that her image would only appear in the magazine she was posing for, Runne …

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excerpt: "" Fox News' Greta Van Susteren reported on her blog last night that the Miss America Organization (MAO) announced that hate radio host Rush Limbaugh will be named as one of the seven judges for the 2010 Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas.""

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Are You A Faux-gressive?

Are you a self-identified Progressive?

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Why are people 'colour-blind' when they are not 'gender-blind'?

Many people (white ones mainly) are keen to boast how 'colour-blind' they are.

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To the surprise of many observers, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) read anonymous comments about Judge Sotomayor in her confirmation hearing Tuesday.

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Sotomayor Deserves Props for Not Going Ballistic, as White Men Claim That "White" is Not a Race, and "Male" is Not a Gender

As Judge Sonia Sotomayor backs down from her previous "wise Latina" statements, and tries to deflect attention from her obvious (and correct) belief that a person's background shapes their perception, it is striking that she is doing so in the face of questioning by largely white …

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40 million pounds might make these pigs shut up for good! At first she was told she had a great chance to become a partner but they made it clear that was not their intentions when they started to give her secretarial work....

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Radio host Rush Limbaugh may have jumped into it with both feet Wednesday when he attempted to get political mileage out of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's acknowledgment that she belongs to an organization for "influential women who are key decision makers."

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Defining Racism and Sexism in America

RACISM: [ ráy sìzzəm ]

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Excerpt: ""The president of the Lewiston-Porter School Board has been forwarding racist and sexist e-mails to other board members, according to past and present colleagues on the board.

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Do men flounce? Has a man ever been described as "flouncing out of government", as Caroline Flint was? Or of plunging a "stiletto heel" into the heart of the prime minister?

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excerpt: "" The media debate over Sotomayor has provided a depressing reminder of what does happen to prominent white men who make racist, sexist, and homophobic comments: MSNBC, among others, puts them on payroll and trots them out to opine on matters of race and gender.""

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excerpt: "Brace yourselves, readers, because it's not over yet. This year has been Misogyny Mania for liberals who claim to be "pro-woman." "

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The Nonsense of the Nomination - Sotomayor

President Obama has often appeared calm under pressure, and when asked about the controversy surrounding his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the supreme court, by NBC news, his famous demeanor was on full display.

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Boy, you stay classy, RNC. We already noticed the assassination fantasy at play in the RNC's new ad attacking Nancy Pelosi, but Taylor Marsh highlights the ad's crude sexism too:

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ELIZABETH Adeney is to be mum at 66. It's a private matter, right? Wrong? It's tabloid fodder: NOBODY said it was disgusting and immoral for David Jason to become a dad at 61, so why is it so disgusting to and immoral for Elizabeth Adeney to have a baby at 66.

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The complaint cites the brief cancellation of a production of 'Rent' and a Facebook video in which football players threaten a female student. The district says the suit contains factual errors.

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*In a sermon delivered Sunday at his old stomping ground, Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright referred to one of his harshest critics, Elisabeth Hasselbeck of ABC's "The View," as "that dumb broad." ... See more irresistible headlines

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The Health Minister of Australia is under fire for appointing Two key FR leaders who have presented with extreme sexist and homophobic views.

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Parents in Karlskoga in southern Sweden are up in arms over what they see as racist and sexist passages in a book designed to help first graders learn how to read.

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An Australian mayor who invited ugly women to move to his outback mining town, saying even they would find a man there, has won the top "award" for the most sexist public comment of the year.

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Ryanair on Friday claimed Sweden's Trade Ethical Council against Sexism in Advertising (ERK) was out of touch with the "Britney Spears generation" after the agency accused the discount airline of running a sexist ad campaign.

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Frankly I have had it, and I know a lot of other women out there who are with me on this. I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin. It has to end. She was in New York on Tuesday meeting with world leaders at the U.N. And what did the McCain campaign do?

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Now I appreciate the effectiveness of insulting stereotyping as much as the next pundit, but I'm getting exceedingly tired of hearing about how much I scorn Sarah Palin because she is a hick chick from a hick state who didn't go to Harvard. Please.

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