Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 10/15/2011
This shit’s as awesome as it is unreal – like, seriously, it belongs in a Lifetime made-for-TV movie. It would be even more awesome if the local anchor didn’t make an ADORABLE joke at the end about kicking in high heels, but what can you do?
Feminism | Posted by Vimbai D on 04/18/2011
April 13th 2011 was a landmark day for women’s football in England as Arsenal took on Chelsea in the inaugural match of the FA’s Women’s Super League (the WSL). And it was also a personal landmark day as I was able to watch the match on TV. Yes, I did. Women’s football. On TV. I have never had the opportunity to watch women’s football matches on TV before so excuse my excitement.
Featuring eight clubs including Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool, the WSL has been three years in the making. Official plans for the league had been announced in 2009, but it has been a league that has been needed for longer than that. It is the step forward that women’s football in England has desperately needed: a league that …
Pop-Culture | Posted by Rosamund C on 02/2/2011
Anyone living in Britain at the moment would have to be hiding under a rock to have missed the current Sky news sexism row. It hasn’t quite got its own ‘-gate’ suffix yet but it’s surely only a matter of time, as what started as a few off-the-cuff comments has snowballed into a national debate.
Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray were commentating on a football (soccer) match last Saturday, when, believing their microphones to be switched off, they made sexist remarks about the female referee, Sian Massey. The game hadn’t even started when they were already criticising her ability to do her job, complaining that women “don’t know the offside rule” and that “the game’s gone mad.” They also complained about Karren Brady, one of …
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