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Norway’s Women’s Soccer Team Just Obliterated Sexist Stereotypes in Sports

by AdrieneTrevascu Posted on June 23, 2015

Mother Jones

The Norwegian women’s soccer team may have lost in spectacular fashion to England on Monday. But the team’s contribution to this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup will go on, in the form of this hilarious attack on sexism in sport, above.

In a four-minute mockumentary aired on Norwegian television in the lead-up to the team’s match against England, the players make fun of sexist stereotypes in women’s soccer. “We’re shit, we suck. Plain and simple,” admits captain Trine Ronning. In emails to FIFA, the players offer suggestions for making the women’s game less boring. For instance, they could play on smaller fields or use a smaller, lighter ball. Or FIFA could allow goalkeepers to swat incoming goals away with collapsible light reflectors.

Oh, and what was (potentially) outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s comical response to the suggestions, according to the segment? “HAHAHA these suggestions made my day. LOL.”

h/t The Guardian

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Sunday Hummingbird Blogging

by AdrieneTrevascu Posted on March 8, 2015

Mother Jones

I’m feeling just energetic enough today to actually eat lunch (hooray!) and take a picture of the baby hummingbirds in our backyard. They sit there all day with their beaks stuck in the air waiting for mama to come home and deposit something yummy.

Hummingbirds must be pretty stubborn critters. Last year’s crop of hummingbird eggs never hatched because the nest was on a thin branch that blew away during the first decent storm of the year. So what happened? This year’s nest is in exactly the same spot as it was last year. I guess mama is lucky that we’ve had pretty mild weather this year.

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Republicans Attack Democrats For Supporting Republican Demands

by AdrieneTrevascu Posted on October 31, 2014

Mother Jones

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Getting deep into the weeds of local congressional races isn’t my thing, but it’s certainly been intriguing this year watching Republicans attack Democrats for being willing to accept Republican positions on various issues. Until now, the most egregious example of this came from Karl Rove’s Super PAC, which has attacked several Democratic senators for supporting a plan to raise the retirement age of Social Security—an idea that Republicans have been promoting for years. Chutzpah!

But now we have a new contender in the sweepstakes for sheer partisan hypocrisy. Dylan Matthews tells us today that in Arizona a Republican contender is attacking Democrat Ron Barber for…. supporting a budget compromise engineered by tea party darling Paul Ryan.

The flyer, which apparently comes from the Arizona Republican Party, is on the right. Note the Arizona GOP’s thundering denunciation of Ryan’s “bone-chilling” budget, which “cut vital assistance programs.” That’s all true, of course, and many Democrats held their noses and voted for the deal. But there’s no question that all the bone-chilling stuff came straight from the fever swamps of the Republican Party. They’re the ones who refused to extend unemployment benefits and demanded cuts in food assistance.

We’ve heard a lot this election cycle about Democrats running away from President Obama. Are we now going to see stories about Republicans running away from Paul Ryan and his fellow budget ideologues? Probably not. But we should.

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