January 2010
December 2009
College rules for ladies, 1837
cherrybombomb:
lickystickypickyme:
No young lady shall become a member of Mt. Holyoke Seminary who cannot kindle a fire, mash potatoes, and repeat the multiplication table and at least two-thirds of the shorter catechism.
Every member of the school shall walk a mile a day unless a freshet, earthquake, or some other calamity prevent.
No young lady shall devote more than an hour a day to...
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50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2009 →
(via sexismandthecity)
Malawi 'gay wedding' couple deny indecency charges...
sexismandthecity:
Two gay men arrested in Malawi after getting engaged have pleaded not guilty to charges of gross public indecency.
Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza appeared at a packed court in Malawi’s biggest city Blantyre, where they will ask for bail on Monday.
The pair held a traditional engagement ceremony over the weekend - believed to be the first gay couple in Malawi to start...
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“girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. they learned to hold...”
– (via iwannotowidigdo)
Men wed in Malawi's first gay ceremony →
sexismandthecity:
Two Malawian men became the first gay couple to publicly tie the knot, the Nation newspaper reported on Monday, risking arrest in the conservative Southern African state where homosexuality is illegal.
Why Aren't There Sleazy Sex Scandals Involving... →
sexismandthecity:
That question often elicits the sexist “men are from Mars, women are from Venus” claptrap. But the truth is much more complicated.
First gay marriage goes ahead in Latin America →
sexismandthecity:
Two men from Argentina have become the first homosexuals to legally marry in heavily Roman Catholic Latin America, after the governor of southernmost Tierra del Fuego province let them wed. “We got married today in Ushuaia,” the windswept provincial capital, an exultant Alex Freyre told the Todos Noticias news channel in Buenos Aires by telephone Tuesday.
The Monkey Cage: The political science of gays in... →
abbyjean:
Hetherington and Weiler find that 95% of those who scored the minimum on their scale for authoritarianism (e.g. attachment to strong and traditional notions of public morality etc) thought that gay people ought to be allowed join the armed forces, as against 79% of those with middling levels of authoritarianism and 67% of those who maxed out the scale. Hetherington and Weiler are...
(510): he said he didn't have a condom.
(415): and you said?
(510): that that's fine cause i was ready to be a mom. yeah - he magically had a condom he forgot about after that.
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“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know...”
– Billy - age 4 (via sexismandthecity)
That’s beautiful.
Wife allegedly calls 911 after husband refuses to...
lickystickypickyme:
Prosecutors will review the case of a woman authorities claim has called 911 30 times over six months for non-emergency reasons, including a call to complain that her husband refused to eat his dinner.
Last Friday, the woman allegedly made a pair of calls to 911, including a hang-up and another where a woman was heard screaming.
Police were dispatched to the residence and...
“You can’t trust a man
Cause a man will lie
But a guy stays beside you
Till...”
– “A Gun is My Life,” song from the Dalton Girls, 1957 (via telephonemelts)
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