Progressive: Standing Up for Women!

Ben Roethlisberger

From Progressive Magazine - By Elizabeth DiNovella - Football season is upon us and the National Football League is out to woo female fans. It’s launching a new line of women’s apparel, meant to be “both fashionable and sporty.” According to The New York Times, the marketing blitz will feature print ads that say, “Who Says Football Isn’t Pretty?” The female fan base of the NFL is huge—more than 45 million women watch NFL games each weekend, myself included.

I’m not looking forward to this season, and not just because the Bears are going to be disappointing. I’m disappointed that Ben Roethlisberger is playing this year. The NFL suspended the Steelers’ QB for six games, since he violated the league’s personal-conduct policy. The unsportsman-like conduct charge stems from a March incident in which he was accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student. The police investigated the alleged assault but never charged him. Read more here:

Also from Progressive Magazine - By Elizabeth DiNovella, October 7, 2009  - “It is due to the wrong and devastating policies of the U.S. government and NATO countries that unfortunately today Afghanistan is a mafia state and ranked at the top of the most unstable and corrupt countries in the world," says, Malalai Joya, Afghanistan's leading democracy activist. Read more here:

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