Chloe Angyal of Feministing.com has some thoughts about young women's continued willingness to suffer for beauty. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul.

Nearly a month ago, the National Enquirer broke the news that a massage therapist in Oregon claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Al Gore. Since then, the media has snickered, rolled its eyes, and steadfastly refused to report the story. Instead, they've trotted out excuses in Gore's defense, often treating it as a simple choice between defending Gore's integrity or indulging in a base appetite for celebrity scandal, as if there wasn't a real possibility that a real 54-year-old woman had suffered a very real and violent assault. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Cathy Renna and Miriam Zoila Perez discuss the need for a transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act, why it matters, why it's hard to get, and why little steps do help. Distributed by Tubemogul.

What's up with all these arguments over feminism these days, anyway? The Daily Show and Gawker blog Jezebel have an argument over its representation of women; meanwhile, Sarah Palin is a feminist! Except when she's not! And the Atlantic has declared The End of Men. What's it all about? Who better to discuss all this than blogger and author Amanda Marcotte, who joins us in studio to talk about The Daily Show's hiring Olivia Munn, Sarah Palin's fundraising skills (or lack thereof) and the latest battle over reproductive choice, as well as her new book, Get Opinionated: A Progressive's Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action). Distributed by Tubemogul.

Sarah Palin's always been using the language of empowering women, notes Rebecca Traister, author of the forthcoming "Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women." Distributed by Tubemogul.

Have you read the Newsweek article, Are We There Yet?? It is a milestone. It explores the 40th anniversary of 46 women at Newsweek who filed a sex discrimination case with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. What the article uncovers is that room still exists for improvement despite the progress from the 1970 action. Acknowledging that women's rights are far from won is a major admission within mainstream media. It usually bends over backwards to declare feminism dead. The most startling fact is that young women at Newsweek had no inkling of the 1970 discrimination case. Feminists—old and young alike—have to ask, how did this happen? How is our collective memory lost so readily? If no women's history is taught in high schools or colleges, how can we, in a feminist consciousness raising way, fill this void? Maria Frazer Dougherty, my paternal grandmother, died in 1959. I was eleven. Not until the 80s did I learn about her Votes for Women work or her activism in the wets campaign to repeal prohibition. Today, women who waged the discrimination case at Newsweek are still alive. Much of the activism that surged then has participants, sages available for live history lessons. Five documentary films about the Second Wave struggle for completion funds. But here, too, discrimination is great. Theme not universal the filmmakers are told repeatedly by funders. Young women are deprived of seeing this vital era on celluloid. In the 70s, we resurrected the stories of women who went before us. We built institutions in order to share those stories---The Feminist Press, Triple Jeopardy, Olivia Records. While we did not always succeed, when we did, it was joyous. Yes, much work still needs to be done. Here, stand on my shoulders. But, please, avoid my toes. Ariel Dougherty is the Director of the Media Equity Collaborative. GRITtv with Laura Flanders. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul.

The House passed its version of health-care legislation Saturday night by a vote of 220 to 215 after the approval of an amendment which amounts to a not-very-back door abortion ban for everyone but the very rich. Presented by Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan with the strong backing of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the amendment would prohibit abortion coverage in the government-run plan and any private plan on the new marketplace that accepts people who are using government subsidies to buy coverage. It's sexist, it's classist, it goes well beyond the heinous Hyde Amendment ban on public funding for abortion--and it passed with the support of 64 Democrats, roughly a quarter of the caucus. House liberals say they voted for it to keep the process of reform moving forward towards a majority but women are the majority -- of Americans, of voters, of Democrats, and pro-choice women outnumber the other sort. The House move had less to do with majority than it had to do with theocracy. Why is it that from Bangor to the Beltway, church pressure works on even liberal Democrats, even as no politician in America seems to be afraid of losing votes over being anti-choice? Obama left the abortion issue unmentioned Sunday when he appeared in the White House Rose Garden to congratulate the House on its "courage." Bunk. "Now it falls on the United States Senate to take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people," said Obama. Now, it seems to me it falls on pro-choicers to demand an answer to the question raised by Jodi Jacobson on RH Reality Check. "What does Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi or any other member of Congress owe the Catholic Bishops that they do not owe the majority of women in this country? What does Obama owe the Bishops that he does not owe you and me?" It's not too late for voters to lay siege to their Senators. And it's not too late for the liberal campaign contributors to close their wallets until they find out.

Kate Clinton is back with some thoughts on Tiger Woods' image rehabilitation, sports fever, women's history month, and the Oscars, as well as Jim Bunning's singlehanded choice to deny unemployment benefits to over 400,000 people.

Sonia Sotomayor's nomination gave media pundits another excuse to shout about the role of race in Obama's politics. The Global Affirmative Action Praxis Project of the African American Policy Forum has convened scholars, professors and students to have an intelligent, inclusive and just discussion on issues of racial and social equality around the world. Today on the show, Prof. Kimberle Crenshaw of UCLA and founder of the African American Policy Forum, Martin Macwan, founder of the Navsarjan Trust of Gujurat, India and recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and Dr. Jurema Werneck, physician and black feminist activist from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and Founder of Criola.org.