Good News: Women Bankers in India...

For your weekend reading pleasure, a heartening, insightful article from the New York Times about how in India, women in finance are “not only some of the top deal makers, they are often running the show.” It’s so good, you should read the whole thing. But here’s a sample: This...

Guilty!...

It took a Kansas jury only thirty-seven minutes to convict Scott Roeder of first degree murder in the cold-blooded murder of Dr. George Tiller. Thanks to those twelve jurors for recognizing the truth of these words: “He claims justification,” Kim Parker, a prosecutor said, calling on jurors...

Friday Fun Thread: Guest Posts!...

(That's the closest I could find to a harpy.) Via rbieber @ Flickr As we were discussing our first year, our pleasures and regrets and hopes and plans, one of the conclusions we reached was this:  we’ve got a pretty roomy nest here, let’s invite some visitors! We have amazing readers...

Parents of America, you are on notice!...

Forget hiding in an attic for two years and dying of typhus at Bergen Belsen – what’s really offensive about Anne Frank’s experience was her awareness of her vagina. Some unfit asshole in Culpepper County, Virginia became scandalized by Frank’s mention of her genitalia in The...

Harpy Book Club, January Edition...

photo via sarah.of.a.lesser.god This feature (for now in the custody of sarah.of.a.lesser.god) is our way of sharing those book titles, both fiction and nonfiction, that have been standouts in recent reading, and hopefully getting some from our readers in return. The focus is primarily, but not necessarily...

The Most Ridonkulous Op-Ed of 2010: Audr...

I'm glad I saved this image from the last time I posted about Audrey Irvine. When last I wrote about Audrey Irvine, author of the erstwhile CNN column “Relationship Rants”, she was blaming everyone from Beyonce to the US Census for the fact that no one respects unmarried relationships...

Where do you think “Barefoot and p...

Conventional wisdom holds that when a person is tricked or coerced into reproducing, that person is male and the deceiving party is female. But a study conducted by researchers at UC Davis confirms what far too many women already know: the ones trying to initiate a pregnancy against their parters’...

Abortion Politics in Australia...

Via Proggie @ Flickr. This guest-post comes from Australian harpy Mackey. It was written in the spirit of the cross-border conversations that happen at the Pursuit of Harpyness, and the sharing of experiences. In Australia, there is no federal case like Roe v Wade that establishes legalised abortion....

In memoriam: Haitian women’s right...

A survey of Haitian women and girls conducted by women’s rights organization Kay Fanm revealed that approximately 72 percent had been raped and at least 40 percent were victims of domestic violence. Haitian lawyer and actress Magalie Marcelin founded Kay Famn, which provides legal, health, literacy...

Harpy Birthday To Us!...

Via Audringje @ Flickr As we mentioned yesterday, today, January 26, is the first birthday of The Pursuit of Harpyness.  We marked our one-, three-, and six-month-iversaries, but a year?  We’re a little shocked. As before, some approximate stats (we had to change stat aggregators and I’m...

2 + 2 = Ummmm, ponies?...

Now we can blame Texas Instruments. Via stitched_pirate @ Flickr At the risk of academically crippling all of our elementary school readers, I’ll admit that math is not one of my strengths.  I don’t have any problems with daily computations, algebra and geometry are useful, but after trig? ...

The Undateable: An Overshare...

Via tbdnyc @ Flickr. A couple weeks ago, my friend Anne passed me a copy of a book that comes out in March titled Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do that Guarantee They Won’t Be Dating or Having Sex. It’s a humor book, but what makes it so laugh-out-loud funny is that the stereotypes it mines...