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“Shiny Suds” advert now out of circulation
Via Jezebel: Cleaning products company Method has apologized for its controversial “Shiny Suds” video, which depicted fratboy-like chemical bubbles harassing a bathing woman, and has pulled the video from all “controlled sources.” We’ve still got it, though, plus a statement … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sexism in the Media
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Don’t believe anyone who tells you to put mints in your vagina.
Does hatred of women know no boundaries? Apparently not: I recently got a press release from the makers of Linger, an “internal feminine flavoring” that promises to keep your vagina in mint condition. Think of it as an Altoid for … Continue reading
“Sex and Scoliosis”
Really informative, interesting post by this title here at the FWD/Forward blog.
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Medicine, Feminist Blogs Of Interest, Women's Health
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The Pornification of the Household Product Labeling Acts
Another instance of Supposedly Liberal Doods humiliating naked women for a good cause. –Ann Bartow
About that study which purportedly found that “Men married to smart women live longer”
The actual title of the paper is: “Marital partner and mortality: The effects of the social positions of both spouses,” by Robert Erikson and Jenny Torssander From here: Abstract: Background: Individual socioeconomic position -like education, social class, social status, and … Continue reading
“The Hard Sell”
Check out Stiletto Revolt for a stunning collection of ads with phallic imagery. Two examples below: –Ann Bartow
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sexism in the Media
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“Films for the Feminist Classroom”
The “Films for the Feminist Classroom” Collective has made available (here) its second issue of its review periodical. Here’s a general description of the periodical: Films for the Feminist Classroom (FFC) is an online journal hosted by the Rutgers-based editorial … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and the Arts
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“The gunman and the dead woman apparently had a “relationship,” Tualatin Police Chief Kent Barker said.”
Yet another man murders yet another woman.
Posted in Acts of Violence, Feminism and Culture
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Yes the violence used by this soccer player is chilling, but her gender is what some find the most shocking.
YouTube commenters are writing things like “I WOULD FUCK HER UP!!!!!…what a bitch!” and “Bitch. Kill her!” apparently without irony. A number of copies of this or related video clips are titled with references to “cat fights.” This NYT article … Continue reading
Dang.
From a post entitled “Coffee and Consent” at Female Impersonator: From Until Someone Wakes Up, a play written by Carolyn Levy and a group of Macalester College students: Waiter: Would you like some coffee? Woman: Yes, please. Waiter: Just say … Continue reading
Posted in Coerced Sex, Feminism and Culture
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“Her Secret? Photoshop”
Watch the actual photo shoot at this site, then see if you can figure out what has been changed. Via. –Ann Bartow
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sexism in the Media
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Gender Bias Bingo
“Share your experiences of at least three bias types listed below, and you will win the highly coveted “Real Professors Play Gender Bias Bingo” T–shirt!” Preview bingo card here. Play here!
Book Review: The Trouble with Boys by Peg Tyre
Read Roni’s thoughtful review over at Viva La Feminista.
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“At this moment, there are more females serving on the United States Supreme Court than there are writing for Late Show with David Letterman, The Jay Leno Show, and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien combined. Out of the 50 or so comedy writers working on these programs, exactly zero are women.”
Via TGW: In this Vanity Fair article, Nell Scovell talks about the sexual politics and “hostile work environment” that she experienced while writing for David Letterman. –Ann Bartow
Law and Order’s Shameful Abortion Episode
I’ve never really been a Law and Order fan. The combination of the sensationalistic (not to mention completely uncreative) “ripped from the headlines” approach as well as Sam Waterson’s sleepwalking/drunk/both acting style has kept me from watching it. … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Reproductive Rights
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Women, Happiness, and the Marketing of Positive Thinking
Barbara Ehrenreich has a great debunking of a study that purports to show that women have become unhappier since 1972 – – – as a result, most likely, of feminism. Ehrenreich writes that the statistical variable (one percent) … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Economics, Feminism and Politics, Feminism and Science, Links, Sexism in the Media
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Pepsi Amps Up the Sexism
See this post at Tennessee Guerilla Women (the frat boyz at Pepsi provide a little how-to manual to help frat boyz “score” with 24 “types” of women.) For similar posts at this blog go here, here and here. –Ann Bartow
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The Pornification of a High School Sports Rivalry
Actual “show your school spirit” shirt sold by students to “support team.” Via an anonymous and concerned parent. ETA: To be clear, the parent is not anonymous to me, s/he simply prefers not to be named. Another artifact from the … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Sports
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The Problem Is That Women’s Choices “All Suck”
Over at the Huffington Post (here), Marcus Buckingham explains reports of (white) women’s declining happiness (previously noted by Ann here and here, for example). He says, “The hard-won rights, opportunities, and advantages were supposed to have netted women more than … Continue reading
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The NYT Adulates Christie Hefner, Delicately Refrains From Substantively Mentioning the Hardcore Porn that Generates Most of Playboy’s Revenues
Here’s a curious and alarming excerpt from this incredibly sycophantic article: Her father lent his support to causes like birth control and abortion rights, but activism was at her core. She campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment and gay rights … Continue reading
IF SHE DIES, HER PRETTY BOOBIES GO WITH HER.
That’s the theme of a new breast cancer “awareness” campaign, and Kate Harding is not amused. Here’s an excerpt from her fantastic post at Jezebel: … This boobtastic Rethink Breast Cancer ad “and a couple more like it,” according to … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Medicine, Feminist Blogs Of Interest, Women's Health
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“Happiness Gap” Truthiness Check
In a previous post I posed the question: Why is less educational achievement and diminished career success making men happier? Over at Language Log the “happiness paradox” data is debunked: If we sum up all the GSS responses across years, … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sociolinguistics
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Today the Army will make Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King commandant of its drill sergeant school at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. It is a first. No woman has previously run one of the Army’s rigorous schools for drill instructors.
From the NYT: … The eighth of 12 children, the sergeant major is the daughter of a sharecropper who grew cucumbers and tobacco near Fort Bragg, N.C. Her first job in the Army was as a postal clerk, a traditional … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Firsts, South Carolina, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Mermaid or Whale?
Via this blog: Recently, in large French city, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It said: ¨THIS SUMMER DO YOU WANT TO BE A MERMAID OR A WHALE? ¨ A … Continue reading
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Bud Light Lime Commercial: Sexist and Homophobic Even By Beer Ad Standards
Ugh:
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Why is less educational achievement and diminished career success making men happier?
Over at the HuffPo Marcus Buckingham asks: What’s Happening To Women’s Happiness? In the linked post he flogs this study by Wharton Professors Betsy Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, which purportedly shows that as women begin to catch up with men … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Women and Economics
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Men’s Boogers Present Special Challenges
Via Lisa at Sociological Images who notes that the idea of marketing Kleenex for Men has apparently been resuscitated from 1964. Can you say “backlash”? –Ann Bartow
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sociolinguistics, Yep, sarcasm.
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“Maggot Lace”
A few weeks ago I read a piece by Caitlin Flanagan in the September issue of The Atlantic, entitled: Sex and the Married Man. Like about everything Flanagan writes it was awful, full of lurid and venemous speculation about the … Continue reading
“Missing Woman – Amelia Earhart’s flight” by Judith Thurman
In the New Yorker – read it here.
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminist Legal History
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Twilight: The Feminist Remix
Because stalking just isn’t a turn on. –Ann Bartow
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MAOAM
“The other day, while doing our weekly shop, I bought for my two children, Benjamin & Ofelia, a packet pf Haribo Maoam lemon-and-lime confectionery. It was only after I was leaving the check-out that I noticed the appalling illustration on … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggenpheffer, Feminism and Culture
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In Which the NYT Notices the Politics of Black Women’s Hair
It’s news at the NY Times this week, even if it’s not news to those who have been living these conversations for generations. In “Black Hair: Still Tangled in Politics,” reporter Catherine Saint Louis frames the discussion this way: “For … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Race and Racism
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Jessica Hester, “Sex and Food: What Feeding Porn Tells Us About Our Moralistic, Thinness-Obsessed Culture”
Article here. I don’t agree with all of the assumptions Hester makes but it is a thought provoking piece, anyway. –Ann Bartow
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Masculine, Feminine, or Human? (or Private Parts)
In a previous blog I wrote about horsey feminism and concern with a female horse winning a major horse race. (see Bully for You, Filly For Me). In that entry I discussed the disquieting effect of anthropomorphism that brings biology-as-social-destiny … Continue reading
Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan
Vitaphone newsreel from 1930. In this footage Sullivan and Keller demonstrate how Helen Keller learned to talk.
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminist Legal History
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Deborah L. Rhode, The Injustice of Appearance
INTRODUCTION “It hurts to be beautiful”is a cliché I grew up with.”It hurts not to be beautiful”is a truth I acquired on my own. But not until finishing the research that led to this Article did I begin to grasp … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Law, Feminist Legal Scholarship, Feminists in Academia
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“The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck”
That is the title of a brilliant post by Melissa McEwan at Shakesville, here. And there is a follow up here. –Ann Bartow
Posted in Feminism and Culture
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PETA gets the Onion treatment.
The line “We have no intention of changing our tactics until every last animal on the planet is given more respect than woman” barely registers as satire, PETA’s ads are so awful. Via this Jezebel post, which also has a … Continue reading
Marie Claire magazine is featuring an article entitled “The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women”
Written by a woman named Ying Chu and accessible online here, the theme of the piece is reflected in its final sentence: “Asian women dating white men may never really know if it’s a fetish thing.” There are a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Race and Racism
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“Wilder Women”
That’s the title of this interesting New Yorker article about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose. Via.
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Families
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“‘Women are getting more beautiful’ – Getting the story right”
I blogged about this previously, and found a response by the study author, Marcus Jokela via a link to my post, the title of which is misunderstood, as I was accusing the Times Online of sexism, not the researcher. Anyway, … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Science, Sexism in the Media
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“REAL VS. FAKE: Photoshopped Celebrities, Before & After” at StilettoREVOLT
Terrific post here, below is a short excerpt: [1] Jessica Alba Repositioned her head, eyes, and hair strands, Thinned waist, thighs and knees, Raised and enhanced chest/cleavage. [2] Penelope Cruz De-frizzed and repositioned hair strands, Lowered neckline, enhanced cleavage, Thinned … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sexism in the Media
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Women are supposed to be sexually available to men, that’s our assigned role; if we are hot, we are supposed to put out since we are signaling we want sex, and if we are not hot, we are supposed to be so grateful for male attention we do anything the attending dood wants. Otherwise, death to us…
Some links and post excerpts about the Sodini murders: Anna N. at Jezebel: Sodini was clearly disturbed, but his bilious diary displays an extreme version of a type of grievance misogyny that is all too common. His conviction that all … Continue reading
Not So Old-Timey Sexism
Spotted yesterday on a man in my neighborhood. -Bridget Crawford
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Tagging, Tiffany Style
I laughed out loud today when I read Cintra Wilson’s review (here) of the Tiffany & Co. branch on Wall Street. She compliments the interior design for its accommodation of the building’s original Beaux-Arts details. She restrains herself in talking … Continue reading
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“I Was A Teenage Feminist”
More here! Via.
Posted in Feminism and Culture, If you're a woman, Sociolinguistics
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More “How to strip for your husband”
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