Happy day, women

Today is International Women's Day. I refer those who may be unconvinced about the need for such a designated day to feministing's post about KDGE's Pimp My Ride contest (via After School Snack).


The prize? Plastic surgery, of course.

As an aside, the US dropped its insistence that an anti-abortion amendment be added to the Beijing Declaration. The lie our representative is telling is that we "accomplished what we set out to do," that being garnered support for our prohibition. The reality is that the EU, South America's Mercosur and the Group of 77 developing nations were all opposed. It's nice to know we can count on South America for progressive attitudes toward women, anyway.