The Wo! Front

Safia Amajan, chief of the Woman’s Affairs department in Afghanistan was killed by suspected Taliban gunmen today.

The BBC reports that her requests for secure transport and bodyguards was rejected but The New York Times says she chose to travel in taxis to avoid being conspicuous.

Ms. Amajan preferred to take a taxi or public transport so as not to draw attention to herself, even though her office had cars and drivers, her nephew said. “She wanted to keep a low profile,” he said. “We wanted her to come and live with us in town, but she used to say, ‘If it’s God’s will, they will take me anywhere.’”

Further to my post on skinny models, in August this year a Uruguayan model died of heart failure after her turn on the catwalk during Fashion Week in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her father told police that she had gone several days without eating.

A study has found that women are more likely to orgasm if they are graduates, speak English at home, have a managerial/professional occupation or have sex with other women.

And finally, Mark Latham is a moron:

“Australian mates and good blokes have been replaced by nervous wrecks, metrosexual knobs and tossbags,” Mr Latham writes in A Conga Line of Suckholes, published today.

Mr Latham, who left politics after leading Labour to defeat at the last general elections in 2004, blamed changes in the workplace and family, a rise in left-wing feminism and the prominence of neo-conservatism for creating “a crisis in male identity” and “debilitating” Australia’s language.