Eye | Mami Wata Resurgence As Global Goddess | 55,000 Years-Old Female Skull Provides Critical Link In Human Evolution & Migration Out of Africa
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Carmelita Mendes Is Beauty Goddess By Mari Queiroz For Amuse Magazine AOC GlamTribale
A Female Skull Closes Migration Link Out of Africa and Into The Levant
Female Skull In Israel’s Manot Cave Links Humans & Neanderthals 55,000 Years Ago AOC GlamTribale
In a series of coincidences that are peppered throughout my life, scientists have threaded another needle in the highly-probable story that human life originated in the region of Lake Turkana bordering Kenya and Ethiopia before migrating into a region known today as The Levant.
In a very real sense, today’s religious wars are going on in the very region that is the cradle of human civilization. My own relationship with The Levant area is most focused on studying the evolution of the goddesses and the rise of monotheism.
Kenya, Lake Turkana and the Omo Valley people of Ethiopia are a much stronger connection — one revealed through my inexplicable connections with the young photographer Dan Eldon. Here is a sampling of our journey.
Mami Wata Moves Into Anne of Carversville
Aphrodite Joins Mami Wata For A Swim in Human Consciousness AOC Sensual Rebel Nov. 2009
Men have always been ambivalent about mermaids, the mythological aquatic creature with a female human head and torso but the tail of a fish. In many ancient cultures, mermaids were regarded as semi-divine aspects of the Goddess.
Carl Jung’s theory of the feminine unconscious describes this oceanic-subterranean womb of creation as an unfathomable place of ancient wisdom but also fear.
The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BC. The goddess Atargatis, mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, loved a mortal shepherd and unintentionally killed him.
Distraught and ashamed, Atargatis jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine beauty. Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid—human above the waist, fish below—though the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian Ea. The Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo.
Prior to 546 BC, the Milesian philosopher Anaximander proposed that mankind had sprung from an aquatic species of animal. The scientist and highly-regarded critical thinker thought that humans, with their extended infancy, could not have survived otherwise.
Mami Wata Resurgence In South Africa
Steve Marais Celebrates African & Global Goddess Mami Wata As Mermaid In Gaschette Magazine AOC Salon
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Female Skull In Israel's Manot Cave Links Humans & Neanderthals 55,000 Years Ago
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Female Skull In Israel's Manot Cave Links Humans & Neanderthals 55,000 Years Ago AOC Muse
Israeli researchers published a critical article this week, arguing that a 55,000 years-old, female skull found in the Manot Cave of Israel’s Western Galilee is a crucial link in understanding the evolution of the human species. Scientists believe that the skull offers definitive proof that anatomically modern humans coexisted with Neanderthals in the same geographical area.
It’s widely accepted science that human origins date back about 200,000 years to Africa. However, there has not been agreement about which migration model of early Homo sapiens led to the population of our planet, accompanied by the extinction of Neanderthals.
The morphology of the skull indicates that it is that of a modern human of African origin, bearing characteristics of early European Upper Palaeolithic populations. This suggests that the Levantine populations were ancestral to earlier European populations,” said Prof. (Israel) Hershkovitz (of Tel Aviv University). “This study also provides important clues regarding the likely inbreeding between anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals.”
The Manot Cave, where the skull was unearthed, was discovered accidentally in 2008 when a bulldozer struck the cave roof, revealing a time capsule tens of thousands of years old. “This is a goldmine,” said Prof. Hershkovitz. “Most other caves are ‘disturbed caves,’ but this is untouched, frozen in time — truly an amazing find. Among other artefacts found there, the skull, which we dated to 55,000 years ago using uranium thorium methods, was astonishing. It provides insight into the beginnings of the dispersal of modern humans all over the world.”
South African Photographer Koto Bolofo Intrigues Me With Numéro #160 'Atelier D'Artiste'
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Aneta Pajak In Atelier D’Artiste By Koto Bolofo For Numéro #160 February 2015
Visual cues run wild in these images: is Aneta exploring a gender-neutral, artistic studio or is she in the fashion-predictable studio of a male artist? Is she the prototypical muse of the male mind? What is the significance of a large — presumably male — hand at her throat and in her face? How has this male artistic vision — and the powerful art world institutions behind it — defined Aneta and millions — no billions — of female identities worldwide and for the last 3000 years?
There are no answers in ‘Atelier D’Artiste’, a Numéro #160 February 2015 fashion editorial that may be nothing more than a celebration of the male mind and fashion’s support for traditional gender-based power relationships. This isn’t how these images strike me, however.
Do I share a vibe with photographer Koto Bolofo? Rest assured that I will answer that question for myself and AOC readers. ~ Anne
Boys Club | Blogger Raif Badawi Case Referred Back To Saudi Supreme Court
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The second lashing of Saudi blogger and father of three young daughters Raif Badawi has been sent back to Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court. Badawi was not flogged yesterday, based on a doctor’s assertion that it might kill him, after last week’s 50 lashes.
Given the lack of a penal code in the Saudi court system, we’re not exactly sure what this means. All are hopeful, however, for the release of Raif Badawi.
The current punishment calls for Raif Badawi to receive 1000 lashes over a period of 20 consecutive weeks, along with 10 years in prison and a fine of about $260,000. Badawi, 31, was found guilty of offences related to his blog, the Saudi Free Liberals Forum, as well as accusations that he insulted Islam.
Protests erupted worldwide and on AOC, as news of the punishment came via UK’s Amnesty International. To add insult to injury, Saudi leaders marched in Paris last Sunday in support of free speech. Thankfully, the whole world was watching the ultimate in national hypocrisy by the Saudi government!
Protests to free Raif Badawi erupted around the world in front of Saudi embassies. Ensaf Haidar, the blogger’s wife, believes that if leaders such as UK Prime Minister David Cameron and — presumably — US Secretary of State John Kerry put pressure on the Saudi government, her husband would be deported to join her in Quebec, Canada.
Haidar and their three children fled to Canada after a Saudi cleric issued a fatwa against her husband in 2011, leading to an attempt on his life. The Guardian writes:
Haidar revealed that because of the attention the case was getting she had to tell her young children – Najwa, 11, Terad, 10, and Miriam, seven – what was happening. “Raif is all over the internet, so I wanted them to hear from their mother and not from someone they don’t know. It was very hard for them to understand. It’s a very brutal thing for children to hear and they were very sad. They had a lot of questions and they were very worried for him.”
Haidar’s own family have been forced to disown her and Badawi’s father had to appear on Saudi television to condemn his son – the Saudi authorities will punish entire families of those they see as dissidents.
Eye | Lara Stone In Vogue China February 2015 | Warwick Yarn Bomb Kitchen |
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Ultimate Warwick UK Yarn Bomb Kitchen For Jumpers & Jazz Featival
The project is on display at Warwick Art Gallery in England as part of the city’s Jumpers and Jazz art festival. Gallery director Karina Devine says the project is a bold take on a global trend: yarn bombing, or knitting and purling sweater-like wraps for inanimate objects. “Yarn bombing is an international phenomenon,” she says. “This wasn’t about going out in the middle of the night and whacking something up on a fencepost. This was carefully planned.”
Lara Stone By Mario Testino In Vogue China February 2015
Israeli Newspapers Photoshop Out Women Leaders From Paris March
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Israeli Newspapers Photoshop Out Women Leaders From Paris March
The actual photo from Sunday that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and EU foreign affairs, security chief Frederica Mogherini and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Self-Moderation & Democratic Principles Under Assault In Paris & Around the World
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On this sad Friday in January, we share news that Saudi blogger Raif Badawi received the first 50 lashes of his 1000 lashes scheduled over the next 20 weeks. The world is rallying on Badawi’s behalf, but there is no evidence that we will be successful on Badawi’s behalf. Please sign the petition in our article.
Sad Day in Paris
This moment the terrorists behind the Charlie Hebdo have hostages in a small printing factory near Charles de Gaulle airport. However, a new hostage takeover by their associates at a Jewish grocery store near Porte de Vincennes. Of course, we are all concerned about these events.
Anne of Carversville: Telling Women’s Stories From Fashion to Flogging
Anne of Carversville has a long history of writing about the conflict of civilizations colliding and the fundamentalists at work in each of them. We are as concerned about the spread of Christian fundamentalism in America as Islamic fundamentalism in Paris.
My own editorial position is not one of being anti-Islamic. I am anti-fundamentalist because adherents of those principles do not believe in free societies. British radical Muslim cleric and lecturer on sharia law Anjem Choudary has written an open letter, published by USA Today, in which he says:
“Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people’s desires.”
Soul Spirit Beauty
Being committed to the women of Sudan — to the 40,000 of them that are brutally lashed every year for inappropriate dress and without the world rallying of their behalf as we are for Saudi blogger Raif Badawi — I want to share extraordinary images of the beautiful Sudanese model Ataui Deng, originally from Sudan. (See more on flogging women in Sudan here.)
At this moment, it’s easy for me to explain what ‘fashion to flogging’ is all about at AOC. As Smart Sensuality women and men, we understand that images of Ataui are considered to be heresy in the world of Anjem Choudary.
We see only beauty and not disrespect of any kind in these photographs. And we share a collective belief in self-moderation and democracy — not the lash — as our guide for living and advancing humanity in the 21st century. ~ Anne
Photographer Jamie Nelson & Model Ataui Deng Create Saturated Beauty Magnificence
Ataui Deng By Tibi Clenci In ‘Art About Heart - La Maison Rouge Paris’ For Exhibition September 2013
Lady Liberty Collides With Fundamentalist Hardliners In Paris
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Lady Liberty Collides With Fundamentalist Hardliners In Paris
Our thoughts are with the people of Paris today, the dead satirists who pushed the envelope of free speech and free expression will speak no more, although a request has gone global for media outlets to publish the anti-Islamic, Charlie Hebdo cartoons tomorrow.
Anne of Carversville will not be among them, as I am blacklasted in the Arab world already and my focus is women’s rights. If Islamists had launched a terrorist attack against the women of Paris for not wearing burquas, we would print anything needed against these brutes who kidnap little girls and decapitate aid workers on international TV.
Probably no single issue in France has done more to divide Muslims and non-Muslims than the burqa ban, a topic at the core of Anne of Carversville’s values and dialogue with women worldwide. Read on for a look at AOC’s long history on the topic of banning burqas in France.
Eye | Spring 2015 Designer Brands | Ralph Lauren
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Ralph Lauren brings safari splendor to new heights — or volumes — with Bruce Weber’s kickoff of the first image of Sanne Vloet surrounded by camels and the incredible safari-inspired gown that closed out Lauren’s Spring 2015 designer show.
As we wait for more images from the Ralph Lauren Spring 2015 campaign, enjoy Lauren’s safari-inspired glamour from the ready-to-wear collection.
Ralph Lauren Spring 2015 Polo Restaurant
The Polo Bar is located just a few steps east of Ralph Lauren’s flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street. WritesThe New York Times:
“I’m about longevity, I’m about timeless,” Mr. Lauren said, sipping a cup of his own brand of coffee. “It was not my idea to be trendy. I don’t want to be the hot restaurant. I want to be the restaurant you want to go to twice a week.”
Ralph & Ricky Lauren: 50 Years and Counting
RedTracker | Femen Feminist Arrested At Vatican | Quiet End To American Nun Investigation | Pope Francis Rebuke
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FEMEN activist Iana Aleksandrovna Azhdanova is chilling out in a Vatican cell, awaiting possible trial for “disturbing the peace, obscene acts in a public place, and theft.” Her crime? Naked from the waist up in traditional Femen fashion, Azhdanova stormed the Vatican’s nativity scene and plucked the baby Jesus statue out of its crèche. The message “God Is Woman” was written on her torso.
Eye | Pope Francis & Dolce & Gabbana Both See Red | Are American Nuns Off The Hook?
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The Captivating Beauty of Libraries Around the World My Modern Met
DesignTracker
Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2015 Campaign
Dolce & Gabbana up the ante on family celebrations, embracing mature mamas with a love of Italian/Sicilian glitter. Add bullfighter José Maria Manzanares and models Bianca Balti, Vittoria Ceretti, Irina Sharipova and Blanca Padilla — then let it rip to welcome spring 2015. See the rest of the images at Dolce & Gabbana website. 
Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2015 Collection
Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2015 Style.com
Today there was a black net sheath, a black corset paired with thigh-high black stockings, a black jacket and pencil skirt combination that had the sexy severity of the racy widow—all of it adding up to enough Catholic guilt to choke a pope.
RedTracker
Pope Francis Delivers Blistering Rebuke to Roman Curia
Pope Francis delivered a stunning pre-Christmas speech to officials of the Roman Curia, accusing them of succumbing to greed, jealousy, hypocrisy, cowardice and “spiritual Alzheimer’s”.
If the NYPD felt that New York cops were the most beleaguered and unappreciated work force in the world, they had major company among the Roman Curia, after Pope Francis challenged the prelates to make “a real examination of conscience.”
The popular CEO pope basically accused his workforce of a host of deadly “illnesses”, including the fault of feeling “immortal, immune or even indispensable”. Not stopping there, Pope Francis accused the prelates of pursuing wealth, showing off and leading double lives in a mindset leading to “existential schizophrenia”.
Prior to the papal tongue lashing, Pope Francis gave a speech of gratitude to the lay Vatican staff including gardeners and cleaners — with whom the pope often grabs lunch. In great contrast, he asked “forgiveness for the shortcomings of my colleagues and myself, as well as for some scandals, which do great harm. Forgive me.”
Complete text of Pope Francis’ 2014 Christmas Speech to the Roman Curia via Vatican Radio
Related: Rome’s Scrutiny of American Nuns New York Times
For the past six years, AOC has followed the Vatican’s investigation of American nuns, a report that has ended with a generally positive report under the guidance of Pope Francis and not the more authoritarian Pope Benedict.
Alas for AOC, the report comes at a time when I have not only returned from a difficult 2014 and actual hiatus from writing, but also in the midst of a major move of AOC articles into a much simpler organizational format. All of my RedTracker writing on feminism in America, international feminism, religion and women, the lives of women in Africa and the Middle East, female sexuality, women and philanthropy has been moved — but not properly tagged — into my Sensual Rebel blog. Therefore, I can’t link to all the tagged writing at AOC about the Catholic Church and the investigation of American nuns. It’s a goal to complete this tagging by Jan. 1.
These moves are a larger part of my own second look at what AnneofCarversville.com should be to readers going forward. I will explain the new (old) strategy in a separate post.
Redtracker | Women & Subway Safety | Bishop Abby Lane @ Church of England | Banned In Belarus
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Redtracker | Women & Subway Safety | Bishop Abby Lane @ Church of England | Banned In Belarus
On average 65% of the 6300 women surveyed believed no one would help them if they were attacked. in Seoul, 90% of respondents believed no one would help them. Paris was in third place at 85%. In London, the ‘no help’ reponse was 74%. via Madame LeFigaro
Boys Club | Henceforth, Let Women Make The Trades | Lehman Sisters Wouldn't Have Failed | Uber Update |
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Best Wishes For Wall Street
Eight Things I Wish for Wall Street Bloomberg View
BoingBoing directed me to Michael Lewis’ new prescription list for Wall Street, along with this priceless view of Arturo Di Modica’s ‘Charging Bull’, located in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
3. Women will henceforth make all Wall Street trading decisions.
Men are more prone to financial risk-taking, and overconfidence, and so will be banned from even secondary roles on Wall Street trading desks — though they will be permitted to do whatever damage they would like in their private investment accounts. Trading is a bit like pornography: Women may like it, but they don’t like it nearly as much as men, and they certainly don’t like it in ways that create difficulties for society. Put them in charge of all financial decision-making and the decisions will be more boring, but more sociable. Of course, this raises a practical question: How will our society find enough women older than 35, with no special intellectual ability, to fill all of Wall Street’s trading jobs? Well …
4. Wall Street will take the resources it once hurled at Harvard and Yale universities, to recruit their students, and invest in America’s leading retirement communities, to recruit their swelling population of elderly women, most of whom are currently wasting valuable trading hours.
Lenman Sisters Wouldn’t Have Failed Big Think
Writer John Cookson explains why women are probably better constituted biochemically to work on Wall Street as traders and fund managers. You see, men tend to go all hormonal!
Men’s cortisol levels respond very powerfully from competitive situations, and women not so much. Women’s cortisol responses and stress responses seem more powerful from social stressors.” According to this theory, which (John) Coates has begun testing, a male’s cortisol-fueled stress response might exacerbate a bear or middling market by responding with skewed memories and anxiety to events, whereas a female risk response would be more stable across a variety of circumstances.
The numbers don’t lie, says Coates. “Women have been found over a long period of time to outperform men by up to two percent return—which is a lot,” he says. According to BusinessWeek, hedge funds run by women turned an annual rate of return of 9% between 2000 and 2009—versus 5.82% from funds run by men over the same period. A study by U.C. Davis researchers also found that men in the financial industry make 45 percent more trades than their female counterparts do—a gap that reduces their net returns by 2.65 percentage points per year compared with the 1.72 percentage points women lose on their trading fees.
The truth behind testosterone: why men risk it all Wired UK
CTPartners
In wake of controversy, CTPartners loses a client New York Post
Embattled Wall Street recruiter CTPartners may have ‘mommy issues’ New York Post
After ‘boozy romp’ claims, firm’s stock takes a dive New York Post
Phallic shadows, naked scrums, and a very bad day for CTPartners MarketWatch
It all started early Monday when the New York Post reported some colorful claims of discrimination against women. Not only did female workers “routinely” have profitable accounts taken away and given to their male counterparts, they were also subjected to some inappropriate “booze-fueled” behavior, according to the complaint.
One exec called himself “daddy” and offered a spanking. Four others formed a naked rugby-like scrum in front of a mixed crowd of coworkers and ran into the ocean. Another would call women into his office to talk about how the shadows on the buildings outside looked like “penises.” All told, there were more than a dozen different sexual-harassment complaints brought internally in the New York office in 2012, according to the Post.
Have Wall Street’s Gay and Female Diversity Policies Gone Too Far or Not Far Enough Vault
Uber News
Uber’s Delhi Rape Incident Has Opened A Hidden Entrepreneurial Door Forbes
Delhi is not unlike most major metropolises in the world – safety is a matter of concern in the same way as it is in New York or London or Paris. Being street-wise and conscious of one’s movements and actions is just as pertinent here as it is anywhere.
The difference is this: the average male in a population of a billion is raised to believe that he is better than the average female, and can therefore live his life in any way he chooses, while the females are told they must remain in fear.
Uber Driver Charged With Kidnapping, Sexual Assault Boston.com
Let Uber Operate With Less Regulation And Riders Can Make Their Own Choice Forbes
Uber says it will toughen background checks CNN
He said Uber is developing biometric and voice verification to enhance driver screening, and building ways for passengers to communicate with the company immediately in case of emergency. It will also start working with partners with expertise in issues like women’s safety, conflict resolution and road safety to provide additional training to the company, he said.
After a spate of bad press for Uber, some turn back to traditional taxis NY Daily News
Vogue Model Beverly Johnson Tells Her Bill Cosby Story Of Being Drugged
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Beverly Johnson was a top model during the 70s and 80s and was the first African American woman to appear on the cover of American Vogue in 1974
Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story Vanity Fair
Model Beverly Johnson beat back her own demons, ignoring finally the voices in her head saying: “Black men have enough enemies out there already, they certainly don’t need someone like you, an African American with a familiar face and a famous name, fanning the flames.”
Beverly Johnson says that the world can add her name to the list of women drugged but NOT successfully raped by Bill Cosby because by the time she called him a motherfucker for the fifth time, he yanked her down his brownstone stairs and threw her into a cab.
For a long time I thought it was something that only happened to me, and that I was somehow responsible. So I kept my secret to myself, believing this truth needed to remain in the darkness. But the last four weeks have changed everything, as so many women have shared similar stories, of which the press have belatedly taken heed.
Beverly Johnson concludes her story, saying that she has agreed to serve on the board of the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children, where many of the young children have been sexually abused.
Rape Drugs
When a Rapist’s Weapon Is A Drug New York Times
Today’s events cause people to ask: why do date-rape drugs exist when it seems quite easy for men and women to engage in consensual sex.
Eye | Kate Middleton Art Muse | Taylor Swift 1989 & Victoria's Secret | Johnny Depp Loves Pegasus
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ArtTracker
Another People’s Princess?
Last month a spray-painted image of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge appeared on a wall in Islington, the North London borough Kate Middleton has visited several times in her charity work. The mural is not the work of the street artists Banksy or JR, but Pegasus, a 29-year-old American who goes by Chris.
He spent all night doing this image of Kate because she seems to be really supportive of this borough and people here love her for it,’ says a spokesman for the Faith Inc Gallery on whose outside wall Kate is painted.
It’s only been up since last night and I’ve already had two offers to buy it prised off the wall, which isn’t possible anyway,’ reported London’s Daily Mail.
Johnny Depp Pegasus Drop In
Fast forward to Saturday December 6th where Pegasus had his first solo show at London’s Faith Inc. Gallery. Jaws dropped when actor Johnny Depp made a surprise visit to the gallery, paying £25,000 for a Pegasus painting of a young Queen Elizabeth posing 1950s style in a bathing suit and the Diamond Diadem Tiara.
Depp also commissioned a new work of Catherine Middleton with nothing except a crown on her pregnant stomach. One assumes the final painting will resemble the Islington wall painting.
Related: If Banksy thinks he’s following in Andy Warhol’s footsteps, he’s tripping The Guardian
To quote another guru of modern culture (Marshall McLuhan) the medium is the message: what you do is less important than how you transmit it. If you make street art you instantly, by that act, proclaim so many hip affinities that your art becomes a symbol of widely admired associations and meanings. All graffiti is cool. The form, not the content, defines that coolness. Calling out Banksy as a bad artist is therefore impossible. If you say he’s crap, he will turn out to be in on the joke. He’s the perfect fraud for our time.
So it goes, to the streets of New York, and Warhol is undoubtedly amused in the great sushi bar in the sky.
View more Pegasus artwork at his online gallery.
Pop It
Givenchy 2015
Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci turns to American actor Julia Roberts for its Spring Summer 2015 ad campaign. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott capture Roberts styled by Katy England.
Asked why he chose Roberts, Riccardo Tisci told WWD:
Boys Club | US Navy Women Officers Filmed In Sub Showers | Navy Strips Bill Cosby Of Honorary Title | Men Gaga Over Women In Heels
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Navy investigating taping of female officers in submarine showers The Florida Times Union
Lt. leslie Hubbell has confirmed that a joint command and Navy Criminal investigation has commenced to investigate claims that a 2nd class petty officer secretly videotaped women officers showering aboard the USS Wyoming, a submarine ported at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base.
Ballistic missile subs typically carry a crew of up to 15 officers and 140 enlisted personnel. Officers share bathing facililities with a sign system indicating when a woman is using the facilities.
The Navy Times reports that videos are believed to show at least three female officers while showering or undressed. It possible that men were also videotaped, but their videos were apparently not distributed.
A retired female supply officer of lieutenant rank, formerly tasked with acting as a mentor to female serving on the submarines “recalled her first day on a sub when a young male sailor came into her stateroom and asked, “Where are the females?”
“I looked at him and said, ‘All right, let’s get one thing straight: They’re not females, they’re junior officers on this boat, they’re division officers, and you will address them as Ensign So-and-So, and you can tell everybody else on the boat,’ ” she said.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet the U.S. Navy’s first contingent of women submariners to be assigned to the Navy’s operational submarine force, in the Blue Room of the White House, May 28, 2012. The 24 women were accepted into the Navy’s nuclear submarine program after completing an intensive training program and serve on ballistic and guided missile submarines throughout the Navy. Also attending were ADM Mark Ferguson, left, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, right. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) May 28, 2012. Navy Revokes Bill Cosby’s Honorary Title WSJ
The US Navy has revoked comedian Bill Cosby’s honorary title as chief petty officer, as sexual abuse and sexual assault charges — including numerous charges of rape — mount against the 77-year-old comedian.
Navy officials said they were stripping Mr. Cosby of the honorary title because the allegations “conflict with the Navy’s core values of honor, courage and commitment.”
The decision comes the day after three of Cosby’s accusers have launched a drive with lawyer Gloria Allred, who told the comedian to create a $100 million fund for his victims or face new lawsuits.
Mr. Cosby was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1960 as a 3rd Class Petty Officer after serving four years as a hospital corpsman. In 2011, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus made Mr. Cosby an honorary chief petty officer.
Comedian Bill Cosby, center, is recognized as an Honorary Chief Petty Officer by Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Rick West, left, and Navy Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, in 2011. Associated Press
Science Proves It: Men Really Do Find High Heels Sexier TIME
There are truths about the Boys Club that probably can’t be changed — at least if they are French. Men like women wearing high heels.