The 2007 Femmostroppo Awards are up!

Oh, yays! TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES is coming back for a second season! Don’t fuck this up, Fox.

ZOMG! Oprah is going vegan! Errr, wait. Oprah is going vegan?

Headline of the day: “Psycho Christians and the media; Why the press gives McCain a pass for consorting with batshit holy men, but condemns Obama to talk-show hell for the same sin.”

What’s so bad about “sweetie,” anyway? I was *this close* to writing my own post on the topic (working title: “Don’t call me sweetie, sugartits.”), but Rebecca Traister nailed it, so go read her instead. While you’re at it, this too, via.

In addition to causing cervical cancer in women, researchers have found that HPV may also lead to oral cancers in men. PZ wonders, “Shall [the religious right] encourage this vaccination to protect their precious boy-children, or will it be sufficient to scream against the sin of heterosexual oral sex from the pulpit? And can they even bear to talk about such ‘bizarre’ sexual practices in church?” Tough call.

In Myanmar, where at least 134,000 people dead or missing, and 2.5 million survivors are in need of aid, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is expected to meet with head of state Senior General Than Shwe during his trip there this week. The goal? “To convince the country to accept a full-scale cyclone relief operation.”

Wiki has a helpful entry on Cyclone Nargis, including a section on relief organizations working in the area. If you’d like to make a donation, start there.

Meanwhile, the death toll in China is at 40,000, with 250,000 people injured and 5 million homeless. CN Reviews has a list of 24+ ways to give here.

And, shockingly (not – that was sarcasm, people), misogyny flourishes in the wake of a natural disaster:

A Chinese magazine has been shut down for printing pictures of scantily clad women posing in rubble for a special report on the country’s devastating earthquake, officials said on Wednesday.

The New Travel Weekly, a small lifestyle magazine, ran photos of sultry models in their underwear amid the debris in an issue that hit the stands on Monday – the first of three days of national mourning.

Way to keep it classy, New Travel Weekly.

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