By Suzanne MacNevin
I want to apologize to every fat person I have ever made fun of. Including Rob Ford.
Historically I thought that my "tough love" approach with the obesity epidemic was my way of promoting fitness and motivating fat people to stop coddling themselves, get off the sofa, and start exercising / eating healthy.
I thought that obese people needed both positive and negative reinforcement in order to motivate themselves to change.
What I have since realized is that obese people have no shortage of negative reinforcement, what they really need is more positive.
Furthermore I have also realized I was being a hater.
Not that I hate fat people. What I hated was what you stood for. Laziness and gluttony. It was nothing against the people themselves, but an indictment of their lack of willpower and a society that feeds upon laziness and gluttony, turning people into food addicts.
I came to this epiphany while I was chatting online with a friend in Canada, a personal trainer who lives in Toronto who uses sports to help motivate his clients to lose weight.
What he said was "Haters are going to hate and you can't let haters get you down. You have to stay up, keep going forward, keep trying harder, because quitting will only let the haters win - and you cannot let them win. You have to take your own hate for the haters and turn that into positive action - but you are never going to do that unless you have the support of people who are not haters and tell you to 'go for it!' "
And that was when my brain just clicked. I realized that my brand of negative reinforcement wasn't very supportive. My mindset was all screwed up and my friend had opened a window in my brain, letting a flood of light in and suddenly I could see clearly.
So now I feel I need to spread three messages.
One, I apologize. I am very sorry for all the times I made fun of fat people. I know that isn't a very good apology, but it is sincere.
Two, to other haters out there: Please realize that your hate only drags other people down.
Three, to all the people out there who are feeling a lack of motivation: You can do it. I believe in you.
Note - I want to point out that my friend was speaking broadly about haters and motivation. He wasn't speaking about exercising, the conversation turned in this direction because of some jackass who hates him just for the sake of hating him (and is probably just jealous of his physique). If you have encountered this type of person you know what they are like. The hardcore haters will find any excuse to hate people - even perfectly likable people who can speak so eloquently about turning hate into positivity.
But what he said was truly profound because it applied to all kinds of hate and to many different activities - not just motivating yourself to exercise. It also easily applies to sexism, racism, and any of discrimination.
With that said I am going back to all my old articles and blog posts on the topics of obesity, exercising, etc and re-writing them so they are more supportive. It will take awhile but I will do it. So I apologize if you read any of my old articles in which I make fun of lazy fat people and defended my negative reinforcement. It will take some time and effort to re-write everything.
And you can do it too. You just have to set your mind to it and ignore the haters!
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8-Year-Old Girl Forced to Leave Christian School for being a Tomboy
Below is a story a friend sent me about a girl who was forced to leave her Christian school because she dressed and behaved like a boy. In other words, a typical tomboy. Tomboys are actually quite normal and tend to be the girls who get really into sports and other more male dominated activities.
What I find deplorable however is how the school has chosen to openly discriminate against tomboys - as if being a tomboy is a sin. Shame on them!
Source: ABC News
Eight-year old Sunnie Kahle likes to have short hair, wear sneakers and play sports. That’s also the reason why her school said she was no longer welcome there and her grandparents had to pull her out. The family received a letter from Timberlake Christian School telling them that if their girl did not comply by the school’s biblical standards, then she would not be allowed to enroll for the next academic year. Kahle’s grandparents pulled her out immediately and got her admitted to a public school.[Note, by Bible standards all modest women are supposed to cover their hair in public. I wonder how many young girls at their school actually do that???]
According to Kahle’s grandparents, she is like any other girl who goes to Timberlake Christian School.[Of which the girl in question is none of those things. She is not sexually immoral. She is not homosexual. And being a tomboy is not "alternative".]
“She cries every morning to get on the bus, she cries when she comes home because she wants to go back to Timberlake Christian with her friends,” said Doris Thompson.
The letter received by Thompson states that fellow students have been confused about whether Kahle is a boy or a girl and that the administrators can refuse enrollment to a student based on grounds of sexual immorality, being homosexual or other alternative gender identities.
“You're probably aware that Timberlake Christian School is a religious, Bible believing institution providing education in a distinctly Christian environment… We believe that unless Sunnie as well as her family clearly understand that God has made her female and her dress and behavior need to follow suit with her God-ordained identity, that TCS is not the best place for her future education,” read Thompson.[Where in the Bible does it say women cannot wear pants and do sports???]
Doris and Carroll Thompson, Kahle’s grandparents adopted and raised the little girl when she was even younger.
“How do you label a child, eight years old, or discriminate against an eight year old child? It just don't happen,” said Thompson.
According to an administrator at Timberlake Christian School, the problem with Kahle goes “far beyond her hair length” and that the little girl is a good student, but that “things disturbed the classroom environment.”
“How do you tell a child when she wants to wear pants and a shirt, and go out and play in the mud and so forth, how do you tell her, no you can't, you've got to wear a pink bow in your hair, and you've got to let your hair grow out long, how do you do that? I can't do that,” said Thompson.
School administrators clarified that they had not accused Kahle of being anyone or anything and simply asked her family to make sure she follows the guidelines set forth for every student but the Thompsons say that they do not wish to re-enroll Kahle at the Timberlake Christian School.
[Apparently Timberlake Virginia is full of religious nutjobs who don't know that being a tomboy is perfectly natural - and that discriminating against women because they are tomboys is just like discriminating against women with red hair (because they might be witches, oh no!) or discriminating against women because they want to study science (because science is not in the Bible, oh no! And yet apparently it is okay for men to study science...) or discriminating against women because they happen to think for themselves (women can think? Oh no!)... Anywho, I rest my case.]
Disturbing Video - 600 lb mother paid to eat
Below is a video of a 600 lb mother in the USA who was paid by men to make videos of her eating. The phenomenon is known as feeders and chubby chasers.
Eventually she reached a point where she was confined to a bed and couldn't walk any more, so she finally decided it was time to try and lose weight. So now she can walk again, but it will be a long and hard road for her to travel in America, a country which celebrates gluttony and "bigger is better".
In related news a friend of mine in Canada recently got his personal training certification from Elite Trainers. Congratulations!
And myself I am working on my weightlifting and yoga routine, trying to find new ways to jazz it up. (Maybe I should exercise while listening to jazz music???)
My point is for those seeking to lose weight and eat healthy, if you can find the motivation, then do it. Just do it and then stay motivated. You will live longer, be healthier, and be able to enjoy life more fully.
Because quite frankly being stuck in a bed or a wheelchair is something nobody should wish for.
Eventually she reached a point where she was confined to a bed and couldn't walk any more, so she finally decided it was time to try and lose weight. So now she can walk again, but it will be a long and hard road for her to travel in America, a country which celebrates gluttony and "bigger is better".
Kathrine Switzer - Historic Icon
It was a historic moment for female athletes.In 1967, Kathrine Switzer entered and completed the Boston Marathon in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. She was the first woman to run the Boston marathon and was registered in the race. (The first unregistered person was Bobbi Gibb in 1966.) She registered, collected her numbers, put them on and started the race.
After realizing that a woman had somehow registered and was running, race organizer Jock Semple chased after Switzer shouting: "Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers."
Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon and she was able to outpace Semple. The photograph above was taken during the incident and made world headlines.
Her finishing time of approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes.
Kathrine later won the 1974 NYC marathon (women's category) with a time of 3:07:29.
Her personal best time for the marathon distance is 2:51:37, at Boston in 1975, where she took 2nd place.
She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 for creating a social revolution by empowering women around the world through running.
In 1997 Kathrine wrote Running and Walking for Women over 40. She released her memoir, Marathon Woman in April 2007 on the 40th anniversary of her first running the Boston Marathon.
What are YOUR feminist truths?
Do you have something really profound you'd like to share with the wider feminist community? Here's your chance to say something.
Leave a comment or email me at suzannemacnevin[at]gmail.com (all comments will be kept anonymous by default).
Also, if you have a topic you'd like me to write about, let me know about it.
Cheers!
Suzanne MacNevin
Examples to get you started:
1. Poverty is the main deciding factor in abortion. If anti-abortionists really wanted to stop abortion they'd fight poverty first.
2. Weightlifting doesn't make you look like a man. Steroids do.
3. There is no excuse for laziness. Don't make being female an excuse for why you can't "Just do it!" yourself. This applies to everything.
4. If you start telling yourself you can't do something because you're a woman then you need to go out there and prove to yourself that you CAN do it.
5. Don't do something because its "the feminist thing to do", do it because its the right thing for you to do.
6. Even men ask for advice. There is no shame in it.
7. Womens sports have a long way to go. Be patient, but always strive for more.
8. Unpaid "women's work" is the backbone on which our economy survives. If it wasn't for women teaching their children, child rearing, making meals, etc. our economy would collapse over night. But that doesn't mean every woman is destined to be a mother. Some women just don't have the maternal spirit, or they choose to delay that aspect of their life until later so they can better provide for themselves and their children.
9. Feminomics is the Future, the Past and the Present.
10. When push comes to shove most women choose love first. Your feminist beliefs are not about restrictions. Its about the freedom to choose what YOU want to do.
Leave a comment or email me at suzannemacnevin[at]gmail.com (all comments will be kept anonymous by default).
Also, if you have a topic you'd like me to write about, let me know about it.
Cheers!
Suzanne MacNevin
Examples to get you started:
1. Poverty is the main deciding factor in abortion. If anti-abortionists really wanted to stop abortion they'd fight poverty first.
2. Weightlifting doesn't make you look like a man. Steroids do.
3. There is no excuse for laziness. Don't make being female an excuse for why you can't "Just do it!" yourself. This applies to everything.
4. If you start telling yourself you can't do something because you're a woman then you need to go out there and prove to yourself that you CAN do it.
5. Don't do something because its "the feminist thing to do", do it because its the right thing for you to do.
6. Even men ask for advice. There is no shame in it.
7. Womens sports have a long way to go. Be patient, but always strive for more.
8. Unpaid "women's work" is the backbone on which our economy survives. If it wasn't for women teaching their children, child rearing, making meals, etc. our economy would collapse over night. But that doesn't mean every woman is destined to be a mother. Some women just don't have the maternal spirit, or they choose to delay that aspect of their life until later so they can better provide for themselves and their children.
9. Feminomics is the Future, the Past and the Present.
10. When push comes to shove most women choose love first. Your feminist beliefs are not about restrictions. Its about the freedom to choose what YOU want to do.
The World's 100 Most Powerful Women?
POLITICS - According to Forbes the list down below shows the world's most powerful women in 2010.
However this list is extremely Americentric. 70% of the women are Americans, quite a few of them are entertainers (ie. Does Lady Gaga really deserve the #7 spot? Or Katie Couric #22?)... And to be honest, most of them you probably have never even heard of because they're not that famous.
A lot of the non-American women are presidents, CEOs or First Ladies of their countries, with very few exceptions. One of them is just a presidential candidate in Brazil... so apparently just running for president in a country makes you one of the top 100 according to Forbes.
A few are supermodels or athletes. Seriously, how does that make them powerful? By selling lingerie or tennis raquets?
Its all utter nonsense.
So BOOOOOO to Forbes and their phoney baloney list. They are just like making lists apparently to fill space, satisfy their idiot readers and get attention. Boooo!
1
Michelle Obama
First Lady 46 United States
2
Irene Rosenfeld
Chief Executive, Kraft Foods 57 United States
3
Oprah Winfrey
Talk show host and media mogul 56 United States
4
Angela Merkel
Chancellor 56 Germany
5
Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State 62 United States
6
Indra Nooyi
Chief Executive, PepsiCo 54 United States
7
Lady Gaga
Singer and performance artist 24 United States
8
Gail Kelly
Chief Executive, Westpac 54 Australia
9
Beyonce Knowles
Singer, fashion designer 29 United States
10
Ellen DeGeneres
Talk show host 52 United States
11
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House 70 United States
12
Angela Braly
Chief Executive, Wellpoint 49 United States
13
Janet Napolitano
Secretary, Homeland Security 52 United States
14
Cynthia Carroll
Chief Executive, Anglo American 53 United States
15
Sheila Bair
Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 56 United States
16
Sarah Palin
Political maverick and commentator 46 United States
17
Mary Schapiro
Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission 55 United States
18
Ellen Kullman
Chief Executive, DuPont 54 United States
19
Sonia Sotomayor
Supreme Court Justice 56 United States
20
Ursula Burns
Chief Executive, Xerox 51 United States
21
Angelina Jolie
Actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador 35 United States
22
Katie Couric
News anchor 53 United States
23
Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary, Health & Human Services 62 United States
24
Anne Lauvergeon
Chief Executive, Areva 51 France
25
Elena Kagan
Supreme Court Justice 50 United States
26
Patricia Woertz
Chief Executive, Archer Daniels Midland Co. 57 United States
27
Melinda Gates
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 46 United States
28
Arianna Huffington
Founder and editor-in-chief, Huffington Post 60 United States
29
Madonna
Singer, fashion designer 52 United States
30
Ho Ching
Chief Executive, Temasek Holdings 57 Singapore
31
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice 77 United States
32
Maria Ramos
Chief Executive, Absa Group Banks 51 South Africa
33
Chelsea Handler
Talk show host and author 35 United States
34
Tina Brown
Cofounder and editor-in-chief, The Daily Beast 56 United States
35
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
First Lady 42 France
36
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
Chief Executive, Sunoco 54 United States
37
Elizabeth Warren
Assistant to the President and Special Adviser to the Secretary of Treasury 61 United States
38
Ana Patricia Botin
Chair, Banesto bank 49 Spain
39
Heidi Klum
Model and producer 37 United States
40
Meredith Vieira
Co-anchor 56 United States
41
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch 84 United Kingdom
42
Carol Bartz
Chief Executive, Yahoo! 62 United States
43
Christine Lagarde
Finance Minister 54 France
44
Sallie Krawcheck
President, Global Wealth & Investment Management, Bank of America 45 United States
45
Sarah Jessica Parker
Actor and fashion designer 45 United States
46
Diane Sawyer
News anchor 64 United States
47
Meg Whitman
Gubernatorial candidate, California 54 United States
48
Marina Berlusconi
Chair, Mondadori and Fininvest Group 44 Italy
49
Stephenie Meyer
Author 36 United States
50
Rachel Maddow
Talk show host 37 United States
51
Carly Fiorina
Senatorial candidate, California 56 United States
52
Guler Sabanci
Chair, Sabanci Holding 54 Turkey
53
Maria Shriver
First Lady, California 54 United States
54
Carol Meyrowitz
Chief Executive, TJX companies 56 United States
55
Serena Williams
Athlete 28 United States
56
Anna Wintour
Editor-in-Chief, Vogue 60 United States
57
Andrea Jung
Chief Executive, Avon Products 52 United States
58
Julia Gillard
Prime Minister 48 Australia
59
Abigail Johnson
President, Fidelity Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services 48 United States
60
Venus Williams
Athlete 30 United States
61
Suze Orman
Author and personal finance guru 59 United States
62
Tarja Halonen
President 66 Finland
63
Marjorie Scardino
Chief Executive, Pearson PLC 63 United States
64
Mary McAleese
President 59 Ireland
65
Annika Falkengren
Chief Executive, SEB 48 Sweden
66
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer, Facebook 41 United States
67
Cathleen Black
Chair, Hearst Magazines 66 United States
68
Cristina Fernandez
President 57 Argentina
69
Anne Sweeney
Co-chair, Disney Media Networks 52 United States
70
Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi
Minister of Economy 51 United Arab Emirates
71
Chua Sock Koong
Group Chief Executive, Singapore Telecommunications 51 Singapore
72
Gisele Bundchen
Model and fashion designer 30 Brazil
73
Christiane Amanpour
Anchor 52 United States
74
Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned
First Lady 50 Qatar
75
Susan Ivey
Chief Executive, Reynolds American 51 United States
76
Queen Rania Al Abdullah
Monarch 40 Jordan
77
Nancy McKinstry
Chief Executive, Wolters Kluwer 51 United States
78
Rachael Ray
Talks show host and author 42 United States
79
Nikki Finke
Founder and blogger, Deadline Hollywood Daily 56 United States
80
Johanna Sigurdardottir
President 67 Iceland
81
Jing Ulrich
Managing director and chair, China Equities and Commodities, J.P. Morgan Chase 43 United States
82
Laura Sen
Chief Executive, BJ's Wholesale Club 54 United States
83
Laura Chinchilla
President 51 Costa Rica
84
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Chief Executive, Asset Management, JP Morgan Chase 43 United States
85
Janet L. Robinson
Chief Executive and President 60 United States
86
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President 71 Liberia
87
Amy Pascal
Co-Chair, Sony Pictures Entertainment 52 United States
88
Tory Burch
Fashion designer 44 United States
89
Shikha Sharma
Chief Executive, Axis Bank 49 India
90
Sun Yafang
Chair, Huawei Technologies 54 China
91
Vera Wang
Fashion designer 61 United States
92
Chanda Kocchar
Chief Executive, ICICI Bank 48 India
93
Danica Patrick
Race car driver 28 United States
94
Maha Al-Ghunaim
Cofounder and chair, Global Investment House 50 Kuwait
95
Dilma Rousseff
Presidential candidate 62 Brazil
96
Donna Karan
Fashion designer 61 United States
97
Angela Ahrendts
Chief Executive, Burberry Group 50 United States
98
Ellen Alemany
Chief Executive, Citizens Financial Group 54 United States
99
Martha Stewart
Lifestyle Guru 69 United States
100
Dominique Senequier
Chief Executive, AXA Private Equity 57 France
However this list is extremely Americentric. 70% of the women are Americans, quite a few of them are entertainers (ie. Does Lady Gaga really deserve the #7 spot? Or Katie Couric #22?)... And to be honest, most of them you probably have never even heard of because they're not that famous.
A lot of the non-American women are presidents, CEOs or First Ladies of their countries, with very few exceptions. One of them is just a presidential candidate in Brazil... so apparently just running for president in a country makes you one of the top 100 according to Forbes.
A few are supermodels or athletes. Seriously, how does that make them powerful? By selling lingerie or tennis raquets?
Its all utter nonsense.
So BOOOOOO to Forbes and their phoney baloney list. They are just like making lists apparently to fill space, satisfy their idiot readers and get attention. Boooo!
1
Michelle Obama
First Lady 46 United States
2
Irene Rosenfeld
Chief Executive, Kraft Foods 57 United States
3
Oprah Winfrey
Talk show host and media mogul 56 United States
4
Angela Merkel
Chancellor 56 Germany
5
Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State 62 United States
6
Indra Nooyi
Chief Executive, PepsiCo 54 United States
7
Lady Gaga
Singer and performance artist 24 United States
8
Gail Kelly
Chief Executive, Westpac 54 Australia
9
Beyonce Knowles
Singer, fashion designer 29 United States
10
Ellen DeGeneres
Talk show host 52 United States
11
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House 70 United States
12
Angela Braly
Chief Executive, Wellpoint 49 United States
13
Janet Napolitano
Secretary, Homeland Security 52 United States
14
Cynthia Carroll
Chief Executive, Anglo American 53 United States
15
Sheila Bair
Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 56 United States
16
Sarah Palin
Political maverick and commentator 46 United States
17
Mary Schapiro
Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission 55 United States
18
Ellen Kullman
Chief Executive, DuPont 54 United States
19
Sonia Sotomayor
Supreme Court Justice 56 United States
20
Ursula Burns
Chief Executive, Xerox 51 United States
21
Angelina Jolie
Actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador 35 United States
22
Katie Couric
News anchor 53 United States
23
Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary, Health & Human Services 62 United States
24
Anne Lauvergeon
Chief Executive, Areva 51 France
25
Elena Kagan
Supreme Court Justice 50 United States
26
Patricia Woertz
Chief Executive, Archer Daniels Midland Co. 57 United States
27
Melinda Gates
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 46 United States
28
Arianna Huffington
Founder and editor-in-chief, Huffington Post 60 United States
29
Madonna
Singer, fashion designer 52 United States
30
Ho Ching
Chief Executive, Temasek Holdings 57 Singapore
31
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice 77 United States
32
Maria Ramos
Chief Executive, Absa Group Banks 51 South Africa
33
Chelsea Handler
Talk show host and author 35 United States
34
Tina Brown
Cofounder and editor-in-chief, The Daily Beast 56 United States
35
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
First Lady 42 France
36
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
Chief Executive, Sunoco 54 United States
37
Elizabeth Warren
Assistant to the President and Special Adviser to the Secretary of Treasury 61 United States
38
Ana Patricia Botin
Chair, Banesto bank 49 Spain
39
Heidi Klum
Model and producer 37 United States
40
Meredith Vieira
Co-anchor 56 United States
41
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch 84 United Kingdom
42
Carol Bartz
Chief Executive, Yahoo! 62 United States
43
Christine Lagarde
Finance Minister 54 France
44
Sallie Krawcheck
President, Global Wealth & Investment Management, Bank of America 45 United States
45
Sarah Jessica Parker
Actor and fashion designer 45 United States
46
Diane Sawyer
News anchor 64 United States
47
Meg Whitman
Gubernatorial candidate, California 54 United States
48
Marina Berlusconi
Chair, Mondadori and Fininvest Group 44 Italy
49
Stephenie Meyer
Author 36 United States
50
Rachel Maddow
Talk show host 37 United States
51
Carly Fiorina
Senatorial candidate, California 56 United States
52
Guler Sabanci
Chair, Sabanci Holding 54 Turkey
53
Maria Shriver
First Lady, California 54 United States
54
Carol Meyrowitz
Chief Executive, TJX companies 56 United States
55
Serena Williams
Athlete 28 United States
56
Anna Wintour
Editor-in-Chief, Vogue 60 United States
57
Andrea Jung
Chief Executive, Avon Products 52 United States
58
Julia Gillard
Prime Minister 48 Australia
59
Abigail Johnson
President, Fidelity Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services 48 United States
60
Venus Williams
Athlete 30 United States
61
Suze Orman
Author and personal finance guru 59 United States
62
Tarja Halonen
President 66 Finland
63
Marjorie Scardino
Chief Executive, Pearson PLC 63 United States
64
Mary McAleese
President 59 Ireland
65
Annika Falkengren
Chief Executive, SEB 48 Sweden
66
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer, Facebook 41 United States
67
Cathleen Black
Chair, Hearst Magazines 66 United States
68
Cristina Fernandez
President 57 Argentina
69
Anne Sweeney
Co-chair, Disney Media Networks 52 United States
70
Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi
Minister of Economy 51 United Arab Emirates
71
Chua Sock Koong
Group Chief Executive, Singapore Telecommunications 51 Singapore
72
Gisele Bundchen
Model and fashion designer 30 Brazil
73
Christiane Amanpour
Anchor 52 United States
74
Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned
First Lady 50 Qatar
75
Susan Ivey
Chief Executive, Reynolds American 51 United States
76
Queen Rania Al Abdullah
Monarch 40 Jordan
77
Nancy McKinstry
Chief Executive, Wolters Kluwer 51 United States
78
Rachael Ray
Talks show host and author 42 United States
79
Nikki Finke
Founder and blogger, Deadline Hollywood Daily 56 United States
80
Johanna Sigurdardottir
President 67 Iceland
81
Jing Ulrich
Managing director and chair, China Equities and Commodities, J.P. Morgan Chase 43 United States
82
Laura Sen
Chief Executive, BJ's Wholesale Club 54 United States
83
Laura Chinchilla
President 51 Costa Rica
84
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Chief Executive, Asset Management, JP Morgan Chase 43 United States
85
Janet L. Robinson
Chief Executive and President 60 United States
86
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President 71 Liberia
87
Amy Pascal
Co-Chair, Sony Pictures Entertainment 52 United States
88
Tory Burch
Fashion designer 44 United States
89
Shikha Sharma
Chief Executive, Axis Bank 49 India
90
Sun Yafang
Chair, Huawei Technologies 54 China
91
Vera Wang
Fashion designer 61 United States
92
Chanda Kocchar
Chief Executive, ICICI Bank 48 India
93
Danica Patrick
Race car driver 28 United States
94
Maha Al-Ghunaim
Cofounder and chair, Global Investment House 50 Kuwait
95
Dilma Rousseff
Presidential candidate 62 Brazil
96
Donna Karan
Fashion designer 61 United States
97
Angela Ahrendts
Chief Executive, Burberry Group 50 United States
98
Ellen Alemany
Chief Executive, Citizens Financial Group 54 United States
99
Martha Stewart
Lifestyle Guru 69 United States
100
Dominique Senequier
Chief Executive, AXA Private Equity 57 France
The Truth about Tiger Woods & Adultery
SEX - I know I might anger some golf fans by writing this, but Tiger Woods isn't all he's cracked up to be.
That much can be easily seen by his press conference today, the first time in months he's been seen in public since the height of his adultery scandal. He was extremely nervous in front of the camera, his eyes shifting across the crowd, fidgeting, stuttering even.
Tiger Woods' fall from grace has been a long time coming. He's been cheating on his wife for years now... but whats funny is how pussy whipped he is now.
There is no other way to describe it. Pussy whipped.
Like a beaten dog, cowering under the couch with its tail between its legs.
Now I want to point out however I don't exactly approve of what his angry wife Elin Nordegren is doing either. She should just dump his ass and leave. Unless they were separated at the time there's really no excuse for sleeping around (with the possible exceptions of swingers or wife/husband swapping, but that is a whole other matter). She has Tiger by the balls now and she's taking the vengeful wife thing to celebrity extremes.
Elin first met Tiger Woods in 2001 at the British Open, where she was the nanny of Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik's children. Tiger had been pursuing her for a year as one of his sexual conquests and eventually asked her to marry him in 2003 and finally married her in a huge $2 million wedding in 2004.
However all that time Tiger had women on the sidelines, and continued to 'knock it in the hole' for many years until his wife found out he was seeing other women, arousing suspicion.
Then the shit hit the fan when a San Diego cocktail waitress came out publicly, announcing she had had a two-and-a-half year affair with Tiger Woods and even produced emails, phone messages and text messages like the following:
"Hey it's Tiger, I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone...You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. Bye."
Since then the growing list of women saying "I had an affair with Tiger Woods" has become increasingly long, including naked photos of Tiger Woods having sex with another woman.
Here's the thing however... the only reason Tiger is sticking it out is because he has endorsement contracts with a lot of influential companies. Its not just his wife's lawyer squeezing his balls, its the army of lawyers working for everything from Gillette razors to Titleist golf balls. Their iron grip around his balls must be so tight its hard to speak, let alone in public.
Its amazing he hasn't just called it quits and agreed to a divorce, but instead he's so pussy and lawyer whipped he just keeps at it, not knowing when to throw in the towel. At this point I don't think it can get any better either. At this stage in a relationship the spouse will always be holding that over the offender's head. Whenever they have an argument Elin will automatically win because all she has to do is mention how he cheated and lied to her.
Its all so ironic, funny, sad, pathetic and yet predictable. I frankly wouldn't be that surprised if Tiger Woods committed suicide, except this action is doubtful because for many years now he's had a huge ego, basically thinking he was god's gift to golf (and reportedly having a temper if he didn't win). Still I wouldn't rule out suicide on the basis that he's fallen so far so fast. He's gone from being on top of everything to being the most pathetic person in the celebrity gossip rags.
In many ways you have to feel sorry for him, trapped between the gossip rags and the vicious cutthroat lawyers just itching to sue him. But on the other hand you have to ask...
Doesn't every person who cheats on their spouse deserve to be publicly humiliated?
Yes, there's some truth in that.
That much can be easily seen by his press conference today, the first time in months he's been seen in public since the height of his adultery scandal. He was extremely nervous in front of the camera, his eyes shifting across the crowd, fidgeting, stuttering even.Tiger Woods' fall from grace has been a long time coming. He's been cheating on his wife for years now... but whats funny is how pussy whipped he is now.
There is no other way to describe it. Pussy whipped.
Like a beaten dog, cowering under the couch with its tail between its legs.
Now I want to point out however I don't exactly approve of what his angry wife Elin Nordegren is doing either. She should just dump his ass and leave. Unless they were separated at the time there's really no excuse for sleeping around (with the possible exceptions of swingers or wife/husband swapping, but that is a whole other matter). She has Tiger by the balls now and she's taking the vengeful wife thing to celebrity extremes.
Elin first met Tiger Woods in 2001 at the British Open, where she was the nanny of Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik's children. Tiger had been pursuing her for a year as one of his sexual conquests and eventually asked her to marry him in 2003 and finally married her in a huge $2 million wedding in 2004.
However all that time Tiger had women on the sidelines, and continued to 'knock it in the hole' for many years until his wife found out he was seeing other women, arousing suspicion.
Then the shit hit the fan when a San Diego cocktail waitress came out publicly, announcing she had had a two-and-a-half year affair with Tiger Woods and even produced emails, phone messages and text messages like the following:
"Hey it's Tiger, I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone...You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. Bye."
Since then the growing list of women saying "I had an affair with Tiger Woods" has become increasingly long, including naked photos of Tiger Woods having sex with another woman.Here's the thing however... the only reason Tiger is sticking it out is because he has endorsement contracts with a lot of influential companies. Its not just his wife's lawyer squeezing his balls, its the army of lawyers working for everything from Gillette razors to Titleist golf balls. Their iron grip around his balls must be so tight its hard to speak, let alone in public.
Its amazing he hasn't just called it quits and agreed to a divorce, but instead he's so pussy and lawyer whipped he just keeps at it, not knowing when to throw in the towel. At this point I don't think it can get any better either. At this stage in a relationship the spouse will always be holding that over the offender's head. Whenever they have an argument Elin will automatically win because all she has to do is mention how he cheated and lied to her.
Its all so ironic, funny, sad, pathetic and yet predictable. I frankly wouldn't be that surprised if Tiger Woods committed suicide, except this action is doubtful because for many years now he's had a huge ego, basically thinking he was god's gift to golf (and reportedly having a temper if he didn't win). Still I wouldn't rule out suicide on the basis that he's fallen so far so fast. He's gone from being on top of everything to being the most pathetic person in the celebrity gossip rags.
In many ways you have to feel sorry for him, trapped between the gossip rags and the vicious cutthroat lawyers just itching to sue him. But on the other hand you have to ask...
Doesn't every person who cheats on their spouse deserve to be publicly humiliated?
Yes, there's some truth in that.
Boxing and Breast Implants
FEMINISM - Female boxers are a rarity. Female athletes in general seems to be a rarity.So when I heard a female boxer has been banned from fighting - because of her breast implants - I thought, well, what should we make of that?
Sarah Blewden, 25, has been told that repeated blows to her false breasts could knock them out of shape and damage her breast tissue. She was stunned when she was told she wasn’t allowed to fight under Queensbury rules due to her implants.
A medical expert from the association said Sarah’s chest was at risk of ‘capsular contracture’ or distortion if they were repeatedly hit. Blood cells in the breast tissue pushed forward by the implants could also be harmed, the medical expert ruled. Sarah said: ‘I think it is just ridiculous. My surgeon said they make me no more vulnerable than any other woman. They are not enormous ones - they are in proportion.'
These are not 'huge' breast implants as you can see from the photos. She got them because her breasts looked deformed and she wanted a more natural look (that's right, breast implants that look normal).Technically speaking breast implants are very difficult to break or get dislodged, and as it stands many female boxers wear protective gear over their breasts to prevent regular injury.
INTERESTING POINT: There are a lot of male boxers with pec implants to make them look more buff, but none of them have been banned for the same reason that Sarah Blewden is being banned for.
So is this really a worry about injury? Sarah Blewden evidently is confident enough that her breasts won't be injured and is willing to take that risk that she's wrong. And even they did somehow get damaged, she could easily have surgery to fix the problem.
Male boxers with pec implants are also confident their implants won't be damaged either.
So why the double standard?
Its because women are supposed to be beautiful, and female athletes are often discriminated against in sports because they're worried about the marring of female beauty.
The sentiment is nice, but its not necessary. We girls can take care of ourselves.
Sarah Blewden still hopes to box in the 2012 Olympics in London.
See Also:
Sport in a Masculinist World
Gender Biases in School Sports
Weightlifting for Women
The Often Misunderstood She-Hulk
You throw like a girl!
Women's Fitness
Sleeping in Sports Bras
FASHION/HEALTH - Myself and a friend have both been experiencing muscle-related chest pains as we get older, especially while we sleep, and we think its caused by a lack of support while we sleep.We were both told by our mothers (and everyone else with an opinion) that we're not supposed to sleep with a bra and told it would either make our breasts smaller, cause deformities, that its bad for circulation, constricts your breathing and that its unhealthy for a variety of reasons.
Well, recently my friend has started wearing a sports bra to bed. Not a really tight one, just something comfortable that provides support and she claims her chest pains have gone away. It could be a placebo effect, but she's certain its the sports bra.
Now before I jump on the bandwagon and try the same thing I thought I'd consult the internet and see what other people have been saying about sleeping in sports bras... and what I found was a lot of people with an opinion, but most of it just seems to be hearsay. Some people even mention so-called studies that prove sleeping in a bra (regardless of type) is bad for your health. Well, I've been searching around for these studies and I can't find any of the research results. I have pretty much concluded this "don't sleep in a bra" thing is just an urban myth forced on women (by ourselves it would appear).I'd love to see a formal or informal study of 10 women with muscle-related chest pains who all decide to wear sports bras for 2 weeks and see if it helps. Maybe then we could disprove this myth once and for all.
According to rumour (not sure if this is true or not) Marilyn Monroe always slept with a bra so she would never lose that gravity-defying look. So evidently I am not the only one who thinks this "don't sleep in a bra" thing is a myth.
See Also:
History of the Bra
Bras, Spas and Anorexic Celebrities
Sports, Corsetry and the Empowerful Woman
Little League Canada loses fight with girls softball team
ENTERTAINMENT/FEMINISM - Little League Baseball Canada has struck out today with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, losing a sex discrimination case filed by a Victoria girls softball team.In 2005 the Beacon Hill Little League Major Girls softball team was denied funding for the team's trip to the national championship in Windsor, Ontario and was told they had to fund raise. Their counterpart boys team was given free funding by Little League Baseball Canada to attend the same event.
The girls eventually raised the money themselves through fundraisers and anonymous donations and attended the tournament. They won the tournament and went on to represent Canada at an international tournament in Portland, Ore.
Four years later the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the league to pay $1,000 each to the 13 members of the 2005 team.
In a 74-page decision, tribunal member Marlene Tyshynski found the league had engaged in discriminatory conduct against the team of 11- and 12-year-old girls in 2005.
"I find that every team member suffered an injury to her dignity, feelings and self-respect due to the discriminatory conduct of the Little League," said Tyshynski's ruling. "I have determined that the impact of the (travel) policy on the team gives rise to a prima facie case of sex-based discrimination that impedes the team's full and free participation in the social and cultural life of British Columbia."
Tyshynski noted the league's records showed a surplus of almost $210,000 in 2005 and also said the league showed disregard for the impact its travel policy could have on female players and noted that some of the players told the tribunal they felt stress and concern about not being able to have enough money to attend the tournament.
Little League Baseball Canada took another strike earlier this week when the Canada Revenue Agency stripped the league of its status as a registered athletic association and the right to provide donors with receipts for income tax purposes.League president Roy Bergerman and Little League officials argued that the boys' games are "officially sanctioned events" while the girls' games are just optional, claiming that girls don't go on to careers in baseball.
Admittedly there isn't a lot of women in professional baseball, but who's fault is that? The women athletes who participate and try out? Or the little leagues and minor leagues that train them?
In addition to the cash award for injury to the girls' dignity, the tribunal ordered the league to overhaul its travel policy to prevent similar complaints in future.
On Monday, the Canada Revenue Agency stripped the league of its status as a registered athletic association, meaning the league can no longer provide receipts to donors for income tax purposes. According to the revenue agency, the minor league ball association issued more than $82 million in receipts in 2007 for what the government calls "abusive transactions arising from its role as a participant in a tax shelter arrangement." Little League Baseball Canada is now sitting on a huge surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars.
On Monday league president Bergerman admitted the league ran a tax-shelter scheme and that league staff was now living "quite well off" thanks to the millions of dollars in surplus cash. The organization has only two full-time employees, including Bergerman himself.
So not only are they sexist and greedy, but apparently league president Roy Bergerman is a scam artist.
See Also:
Gender Biases in School Sports
You Throw Like a Girl
Sport and the Empowerful Woman
Disney Princesses, Capitalism and Feminism
ENTERTAINMENT - Disney princesses don't slay dragons, play sports or go to university. Higher academics, athletics don't seem to be on their list of things to do.Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan and newly added Tiana and Rapunzel... they have all perfected the art of being the damsel in distress. Even the bookish Belle, the runaway Jasmine and the resourceful Pocahontas... they all are beholden to having a man rescue them. Mulan is the only one that actually gets a sword.
Girl power? Don't make me laugh.As a franchise Disney has done very well at selling clothes, toys, dolls to your kids. As cute as the little dresses are Disney's primary goal is your wallet.
You may laugh when your daughter says she wants to be a princess when she grows up, but what is she really aspiring to? Wearing pretty dresses and being rescued all the time? We all know there's no knight in shining armour. REAL relationships are about communication, mutual respect and spending time with each other.
There's also the health issue... all the Disney Princesses are anorexic. Do we really need to encourage our daughters to emulate the super thin?
Fairy tales have been around for centuries, little girls have always liked pretty dresses, and its no surprise little girls like them. But should parents be going out of their way to buy their kids all the Disney crap? Does the Disney Corporation really need more money?Why not buy something that is good for your daughter's health and education?
This Christmas, I encourage parents to go out and buy their kids some sports equipment. Or something that will stimulate their brains.
The Disney Princesses may have beauty, but our daughters need more brawn and brains.
Top 10 Ways Sports Illustrated Disrespects Women
10. Sports Illustrated disrespects women through sex-discriminatory coverage of women's sports. (Fewer than 10 percent of Sports Illustrated pages are devoted to women's athletic achievements.)9. Sports Illustrated disrespects women by displaying demeaning stereotypes of female sexuality. The swimsuit issue features women models posed not as athletes of strength, skill, and endurance but as playthings--in costumes no one could possibly swim in competitively.
8. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue disrespects women by showing women's primary value to be their value as sex objects.
7. Sports Illustrated disrespects women by photographing their bodies as if they are merely body parts--breasts, buttocks, and crotches.
6. Sports Illustrated disrespects women by encouraging boys and young men to view women as sex toys and by turning voyeurism into a sport.
5. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue disrespects women by imitating an idea of women that originates in pornography. Mimicking magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, Sports Illustrated spreads out women's bodies on the page for male "readers" to ogle at.
4. Sports Illustrated disrespects women by numbing men to women's humanity.
3. Sports Illustrated disrespects women by exhibiting women to men as the "other"--as if women were a different species from the "real" athletes who are men.
2. Sports Illustrated disrespects women by sending a message to girls and young women that no matter how much they excel in athletics, all that matters is how they look to men.
1. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue disrespects women by directly contradicting Time-Warner's corporate hype, which claims the magazine stands for serious sports journalism and respects the ability and dignity of women and girls in athletics. If that were true, where is the magazine with all the scantily clad men wearing nothing but Speedos?
Women and Sports:
Sport in A Masculinist World
Gender Biases in School Sports
You Throw Like A Girl!
Women in Sports: Lies, Sexism & Selling Out
FEMINISM - If you look at women in sports what do you usually see?
Actually you probably don't see a lot unless you're looking in a men's magazine like Sports Illustrated and what you will see is a lot of skin and the emphasis will be on sex, not sports.
Men have so dominated the sports industry that when women try to get attention in the business they have to resort to doing something other than their actual sport... namely posing scantily clad. Take Ana Kournikova for example. She makes more money from doing photo shoots than she does from tennis. She's actually not even that good of a tennis player. She's a complete sell out.
The good female tennis players, Serena Williams and Venus Williams, meanwhile are widely ignored because they're black and there's the belief in western culture that black isn't beautiful. Complete nonsense of course, but thats the situation.
"How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?" - Feminist Quote.
Just recently Billy Jean King was on Oprah and then talked about the historic moment in 1973's "Battle of the Sexes" when she defeated male champion Bobby Riggs. Billy Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an outspoken advocate against sexism in sports and society.
And she's absolutely right. There's a tonne of sexism in the sports industry and a lot of it shows up in the mass media in the form of women athletes (who aren't wearing very much).And you will note quite a few of them are in Billy Jean King's profession: tennis. Also a lot of swimmers and golfers too who are willing to show a lot of skin. Check out the list at: Female Athletes, who takes them seriously?
Frankly there's a lot of myths and lies about women and exercise period. Like the myth that women's weightlifting will make you look like a man.
And the mass media/men's magazines certainly don't help by publishing images that show women athletes as sex objects.
Its bad enough that men's magazines are dictating who are "best" female athletes based on how good they look in a bikini, but they're also setting beauty standards for a new generation of women (and in particular women athletes).Not every woman falls into the Sports Illustrated ideal of what is beautiful, and certainly not every female athlete falls into that either. Its simply unrealistic.
How about more images of women athletes doing what they do best? Being athletic. Lets see more shots of them lifting weights, running, swimming, jumping.
Relaxing on the beach in a bikini or wearing white shirts and getting soaked in the rain hardly seems on topic and certainly isn't going to inspire the next generation of female athletes.
Women like Billy Jean King, Serena Williams and Venus Williams. Thats what we need more of.
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