Archive for the ‘women's rights’ Category

The Real Ho

It would be fair to assume that by now everyone has heard Don Imus’ “Nappy Headed Hoes” Comment directed at the members of the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team. At best his comments could be described as disrespectful unjustified and assinie. However. since the advent of rap, lyrics have described women in worse terms than the [...]

The Ties That Bind

Recently, I read an article about female circumcision and was appalled that such egregious human rights violations against women are still taking place. It is disheartening to know that people perform practices that violate women’s bodies and sexuality for the sake of tradition and the need to be accepted by ones culture (as seen [...]