Public health consultant Mary Carothers, in the youth health café she helped open in the Northwest Territories this past November. (Photo by Shawn Bell.)
What would possess a girl from the sunnier part of the Great White North to conquer a small gold rush town (population 2,300) on the 60th parallel? My interest was piqued when I found out the answer might involve straight talk, free condoms and a rather dignified cup of tea.
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Women make up a large percentage of sports fans. (Photo by barcoder96)
Female sports writers abound in the blogosphere
Watching a Major League Baseball game in the downward dog position seems like a very uncomfortable way to spend an afternoon.
The same goes for knitting a sweater while you bake in the stands under a blazing sun.
That’s how the LA Dodgers tried to attract female fans (but less exaggeratedly)—with yoga sessions in the outfield and Stich ‘n Pitch nights.
News flash—women already make up a huge majority of sports fanatics. And they have the blogs to prove it.
“The women’s sports blogosphere has grown tremendously over the past few years and the content is absolutely amazing,” says Fat Louie, who operates Women’s Sports Blog.
“There are some dedicated, hardworking . . . bloggers out there. The community online mirrors the one in the real world: it’s passionate, polite and thoughtful.”
The stats, courtesy of U.S.-based marketing blog She-conomy, show women are a big part of the population when it comes to the number of them who love sports.
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Mark Hug and May Charters star in the Canadian feature Lovers in a Dangerous Time. They also wrote, directed and produced the film.
Canadian filmmakers Mark Hug and May Charters found each other unconventionally. The duo met when they attended an acting class in Los Angeles. Hug decided to wear crazy, wool-striped socks, hoping they would attract a special girl. Charters noticed them and commented on his keen attention to detail. They worked on a gallery portrait project together, and then began their next creative endeavour—independently producing a feature film.
Lovers in a Dangerous Time is about two childhood friends, Todd and Allison, who reunite at their 10 year high school reunion in Creston, B.C. and find themselves wondering if they were meant to be more than just friends. Hug (who actually grew up in Creston) and Charters play the lead characters. They produced the film without any government funding, and it recently took home awards at the Port Townsend Film Festival in Washington State and the Okanagan International Film Festival in Kelowna, B.C.
Charters talked to Dollmag.ca about love, filmmaking and what else—socks.
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Kind Campaign founders Lauren Parsekian (far left) and Molly Stroud (far right) with a group of cheerleaders in Portland, Oregon. Their aim is stop girls from bullying one another.
Bullying comes in all shapes and forms. For males, it’s often about pushing, shoving and hitting. But among girls, there’s also a lot of gossiping, rumours and social exclusion.
The difference between bullying among boys and bullying among girls is quite extreme, says Pepperdine University’s marriage and family therapist, Robert Scholz. While boys want to appear “macho,” girls often want to get ahead in the race for “queen bee.” With that comes the idea of social exclusion, best described as the situation where certain groups of friends exclude others based on popularity rankings and differences.
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Photo courtesy of Nicholla Johnson
Anandi Carroll-Woolery has been educated at both all-girl and all-boy schools
By the time I was eight years old, I had already attended five different elementary schools. That statistic would produce yawns from seasoned Army brats. But could they beat this? By age 19, I had attended all known gender combinations of learning institutions—coed, all-girl and all-boy schools. Let me take you on a journey through all three.
My coed experiences all occurred at elementary schools in cities in Southern Ontario. Being the new kid at the beginning of every grade meant I was an easy target for bullies looking for fresh prey. As a girl with a tan complexion, I easily provoked these bullies into punching me and shouting “Go home, gay Paki!” once the teachers were out of eye and ear shot. I lived in fear of elementary school boys.
When I was nine, Dad found a lucrative job in his birthplace, Trinidad & Tobago, and relocated the whole family. The first tip-off to my new school was when Grandma had me fitted for a royal blue checkered tunic, a crisp white shirt and hair ribbons. It was the uniform that impressed me, more so than the lack of boys. I was happy with the trade-off.
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