This article by The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind is posted in full at The Daily Beast.
You’ll be curious to know how I first learned of the gang rape of a 15 year-old girl in Richmond, California.
A few days ago, the blog for The New Agenda, a women’s advocacy organization that I helped co-found, got hundreds of hits from search engines looking for “gang rape teenage girl.” Regrettably, our stories show that the Richmond attack, while horrific, is not an anomaly. Young women are more vulnerable to violence than any other …

The bouncing ball of Obama’s “Bunk” moment continues….
Yesterday, Hall of Fame Basketball Player Nancy Lieberman announced a challenge to Obama:  Bring it!
In an Open Letter published at MORE, Lieberman has this to say to Obama:
Some women are saying you need a time-out. Your men-only basketball games have been scrutinized—and criticized for consistently leaving women out.
And so:
I would be honored to get on the court with you, Mr. President, not just to play but also to help you make change. It’s what I’ve done my whole life as a woman in …

The New Agenda continues to speak out on violence against women and teenage girls.
Our collective action on Monserrate is in the New York media:
Women’s Groups Start Petition To Oust Monserrate
Sen. Krueger’s Call for Monserrate’s Resignation Catalyzes a Movement
Siskind said that the trial outcome wasn’t what she or her group expected. “We were very surprised that he got away with it,” Siskind said. “He deserves to be in jail plain and simple — this is a text book, gender-based, violence-type case where the girlfriend is abused and initially speaks out and …

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On the evening of Saturday, October 24th, a 15 year-old girl in Richmond, CA was brutally gang raped by as many as 10 men/boys outside her school after she had attended her homecoming dance.  No one who was outside the school at the time came to help the young girl or stand in the way of her attackers to stop the abuse and get the girl immediate medical attention.  Bystanders either lined up for …

In a truly positive step towards protecting women from gender based crimes, yesterday the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed into law.
This Act gives the Department of Justice (DOJ) the power to investigate and prosecute bias-motivated violence by providing the DOJ with jurisdiction over crimes of violence where the perpetrator has selected the victim because of the person’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
Prior to the signing of this bill, “gender, …

Three prominent women’s organizations, NOW-NYS, The New Agenda and Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee have created an open letter that will be presented to the entire New York State Senate. We are inviting organizations and individuals to sign our Open Letter here.

OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR JOHN SAMPSON
Dear Senator Sampson:
A court of law recently found Senator Hiram Monserrate guilty of domestic violence-a vicious crime causing serious injury to his girlfriend. Despite the calls by many of our leaders for his immediate resignation (including Senators Gillibrand and Schumer, Congressional members and many …

Welcome to our friends who are joining us from Free Republic.
With their help, we have just surpassed 700 signatures to our Jail Polanski Petition.
Here’s the terms of our boycott:
The New Agenda invites you to join us in sending a loud and clear message that CHILD RAPE IS WRONG AND PERPETRATORS SHOULD BE PUNISHED. We are asking organizations, blogs and individuals to sign our petition. In doing so you are expressing your displeasure with the signatories of Free Roman Polanski and therefore agreeing to BOYCOTT films that such signatories …

Just like Whoopi’s: It wasn’t “rape-rape”.
And Rep Alan Grayson: She’s not a “whore-whore”.
I’m starting to get the feeling that Hillary Clinton isn’t “out-out“.
Yesterday, RealClearPolitics had this to say about the most recent belittlement of Hillary:
Hillary Clinton did not need another man stealing her thunder. Last week, John Kerry earned headlines for convincing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to agree to a run-off election. The Senate’s top man on foreign affairs looked more like the secretary of state. And naturally, political observers wondered where was the secretary of state?
Kerry took pains …

Politico reporting that Rep Alan Grayson has apologized for calling Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a “whore”:
I offer my sincere apology to Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke,” Grayson said in an emailed statement. “I did not intend to use a term that is often, and correctly, seen as disrespectful of women.”
Here’s a YouTube of the radio show (skip to 1:40 for the comment):

We’ll be watching Congressman Grayson.
As a side note, Politico also reporting that yesterday, President Obama called Grayson an outstanding member …

The opinions expressed herein and those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Reading this interesting post about how men and women signal differently in conversations where they’re interested in their partners, I came across these curious lines:
Both genders convey intended flirtation by laughing more, speaking faster, and using higher pitch. However, we do find gender differences; men ask more questions when they say they are flirting, women ask fewer, although they do use more repair questions, while men do not.
The gist of …