• Residents of Mansfield, MA are not happy with a new salon about to be opened in their town. "Knockouts" is a Texas-based chain that offers "haircuts for men" from women dressed in boxing gear. •
Life for disadvantaged Muslim girls in India, says the WSJ, follows this pattern: stay at home, help your mother, and, hopefully, marry a man who can care for you. But some are actively finding, and fighting, a different way.
Saturday night, for the first time ever, two women were the main event at a major mixed martial arts bout. MMA is a full-contact, male-dominated sport:
Doctors in India fear that Suman Khatun, a five-year-old girl who weighs 168 pounds — at three and half feet tall — is eating herself to death.
[Mexico City, May 27. Image via Getty]
Kazumi Izaki, described as a "Japanese housewife and mother of two," is 45 years old and attempting to beat George Foreman's record as the oldest fighter to win a World Boxing Association title. [BBC News]
• This poor otter was near death when Camilla Ravenshear found him wandering alone on the road. He is now feeling much better, and is now taking comfort in his new teddy bear friend. •
The Amateur Boxing Association of England has refused Sarah Blewden, 25, permission to compete. They claim her boob job as their reason.
A story on black and blue makeup in the February issue of Allure shows just how beautiful a black eye can be. After all, nothing says sexy like a woman being battered and bruised!
[New York, October 14. Image via Splash.]
Does this photo of the 2008 US Womens Olympic Gymnastics Team piss you off? If so, you're in agreement with Feminist Law Professors, who wonder if a photographer would ever ask the men's gymnastics team to stick their butts out like that. • Melvina Lathan will be the first black woman to chair the New York State…
Brides-to-be in Hong Kong find that boxing is a good way to tone up before their wedding days...and kick some serious ass should their groom sget out of line. • Preconception care is becoming an important part of healthy planned pregnancies. • The Guardian claims that Mr. Methane, is the world's only "professional…
UK drugstore chain Superdrug has pulled a woman's boxing set off the shelves after receiving complaints from ManKind Initiative, a support group for male victims of domestic violence. The Hers Boxing Set comes with a set of gloves and a man-shaped punching bag, with an insert on the face for women to put pictures of…
Boxer Esther Phiri is a role model to Zambian girls. Not because she's lithe and blonde and poses in a bikini and shills for Lycos, but because Esther (the slugger on the left) actually kicks major ass. She's a former street vendor with almost zero education who is currently the Global Boxing Union super featherweight…
Thai boxing — also known as muay Thai — is a popular sport worldwide, but has taken off recently for females in Thailand, reports the International Herald Tribune. "In a country where femininity is highly prized and girls are often told by their parents to be discreet, obedient and gracious, female boxing is now a…
