I consider myself quite a spiritual person, so why am I saying something that folks might find spiritually outrageous? Most of us are aware of the history of black slavery in America and the Holocaust in Europe but something else is happening right now. Did you know that young black women have about double the death rate from breast cancer as white women? Continue reading Is God Racist and Anti-Semitic? If So, Can We Fight Back by Ditching Our Bras?
Category Archives: Women’s Rights
Harvey Weinstein and the 1980s Wandering Hands Era
A Washington Post report by Monica Hesse and Dan Zak alleges systemic sexual assault by movie executive Harvey Weinstein dating back to the 1980s. It reminded me of attitudes towards women that were prevalent when I was working in the media at that time. Certain men I worked with in the BBC in Britain in the early 1980s were known for having what we girls described as “wandering hands syndrome.” Continue reading Harvey Weinstein and the 1980s Wandering Hands Era
Undersea Groping
Getting my breasts groped through 5 millimeters of rubber 50 feet under the ocean was not exactly what I had expected when I signed up for a 2-tank Manta Ray Dive in Hawaii. Continue reading Undersea Groping
Migrants Threaten Women’s Rights in Germany
Women gathering in Cologne’s central square to celebrate the countdown to 2016 got a New Year’s Eve they would never forget. A mob of about 1,000 Muslim men, many of them apparently recent immigrants, descended on the crowd and subjected hundreds of women to theft, molestation and rape. Continue reading Migrants Threaten Women’s Rights in Germany