This piece originally was posted on the author’s blog, Tennessee Guerilla Women.  The author’s opinions are her own, not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
I’ve been crazy about Geena Davis ever since Thelma and Louise. In the clip below, Geena Davis — founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media – tells graduates at Bates College that if we continue at the current pace, we’ll achieve gender parity in 500 years. That sounds about right. And on the subject of all that talk about change, Geena Davis says …

This essay is cross-posted from Tennessee Guerilla Women.  The author’s views are her own, not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Quote of the Day:
Some lawyers just don’t like to be questioned by a woman
– Judge Guido Calabresi, former dean of Yale Law School, sits on the Second Circuit with Judge Sotomayor.
Judge Calabresi was defending Sonia Sotomayor from the charge that she is a “temperamental” shrew or a woman with a “sharp tongue.”  In an article in the New York Times, Judge Calabresi added that the charge that Sonia Sotomayor is too …

(Originally posted at Tennessee Guerilla Women)
What do Sarah Palin and Hillary Rodham Clinton have in common? The reptilian brain in charge of the national discourse can’t ensure that uppity women are literally burned at the stake these days, but it can do its damnedest to make Sarah into an extremist radical witch rivaled only by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Because it’s just not scary enough or entertaining enough that Sarah Palin is a Republican pol with all the usual Republican positions. (And some of her positions are remarkably similar …