Women vs. Men

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Women to Bare Their Breasts for Topless Jihad Day

Today, women around the world are being encouraged to bare their breasts in solidarity with a young Tunisian activist whose decision to publicly profess her […]

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I Am Not Supposed to Like Lisa Scottoline

I am not supposed to like Lisa Scottoline, the local author of 19 books of fiction, four books of personal essay, and a weekly columnist […]

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Could We See A Woman Drafted in the NBA?

NBA owner/jersey-wearing cheerleader/internet entrepreneur/Dancer-with-the-Stars Mark Cuban has floated an intriguing and possibly facetious trial balloon, positing that he’d consider drafting Baylor women’s basketball star Brittney […]

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Meet the Philly Women Who Want to Be Priests

A group of females who would like to be Catholic priests demonstrated today, as is their wont on Holy Thursday, in front of the Cathedral Basilica […]

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Stop Reading Headlines, Start Reading Stories

It amazes me how frequently, in our new media Twitterverse, a perfectly obvious fact becomes controversial. A headline might read, “Beer bottles can be recycled!” […]

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Rapists Aren’t Strangers Waiting in the Dark for Women in Tight Skirts

Though the trial against the two Steubenville High School teens charged with raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last August ended with a “guilty” […]

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Delaware Court Rules: Ex-Wife’s Bite Really, Really Hurt

The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that Ewelina Mrozik Kulowiec, was properly convicted of assault in a 2011 attack on her ex-husband, ruling that she […]

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Councilwoman Pushes Increased Female Presence On Corporate Boards

Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown—last seen pleading to ethic violations involving the misuse of her campaign funds—has decided there aren’t enough women on corporate boards. Newsworks […]

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Philly Archbishop Changes his Mind: Girls CAN Play Football

Today the Philadelphia Archdiocese decided it had reversed its decision to ban girls from playing football in CYO leagues. Benefitting, along with any girl who […]

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“Lean In”? How About Butt Out, Sheryl Sandberg?

So I get home from work on Friday all ready to do a little relaxing, and what should I find in my mailbox but the […]

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Playboy Is Launching an Israeli Edition

Playboy is launching an Israeli edition that will be in Hebrew and feature Israeli women. My own Hebrew skills only emerge when I’m holding a […]

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Bikini Basketball Association’s Philadelphia Diamonds To Hold Tryouts

Just arrived in our inbox: Calling all sexy and athletic ladies of Philadelphia! If you’re a fan of lingerie athletics or have ever dreamed of […]

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What Would Happen if Men Started Apologizing Like Women?

The most recent issue of Marie Claire magazine featured an interview with Anastasia Danias, the president of the NFL. She talked about gender differences in […]

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Women Talk Too Much, and So Do You

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk / I’m a woman’s man – no time to talk. —”Stayin’ Alive,” Bee Gees […]

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Penn Admits Fewer Women Than Most Colleges

More women attend college than men. (Part of why we must now confront the “end of men” phenomenon.) At Penn (and a few other Ivies) […]