Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Yes, there are “Feminist Porn Awards” and if you are interested you can read more about them here, at Feministing.

“Women Accused Of Stealing Yarn” A grandmotherly-looking woman is one of the two people accused of stealing thousands of dollars in yarn from stores in metro Atlanta. Skeins and skeins of yarn has become the target of thieves in Woodstock. … Continue reading →

“The Tribe: Barbie’s 5000 Year History” Per this site: It’s the unorthodox, unauthorized history of the Barbie doll! Here’s the synopsis: What can the most successful doll on the planet tell us about what it means to be Jewish? The … Continue reading →

From Jessica at Feministing: This weekend was the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, where folks do a footrace while dressing up and doing some outdoor partying. Apparently some guys thought this was a great opportunity to dress up … Continue reading →

First read this (excerpted from here): …Somewhere out there in America, a person who we will never meet gave part of their own body to save this little girl. Asking nothing in return, a person signed up for the bone … Continue reading →

Read Kameron Hurley’s post here. If you have any of the symptoms she describes, get medical attention.

Pink’s “Dear Mr. President” The Dixie Chick’s “Not Ready To Make Nice”

If you want to read another defense of Caitlin Flanagan and her dumbass book, at a website Peggy Noonan apparently calls “the best magazine in America” no less, click here. The essay is called “The Mommy-Wars Insurgency” and in it … Continue reading →

Over at Feministe, blogger and twenty-something NYU law student Jill has posted very interesting and compelling commentary about tensions related to feminism and heterosexual dating. Though her post has attracted a few clodlike comments, I’m happy to see she is … Continue reading →

Over at Common Dreams, Kevin Mattson posted an essay entitled “What The Jungle Tells Us Today.” Mattson asserts that Upton Sinclair’s goal in writing “The Jungle,” which exposed unsanitary conditions and unsafe practices (for bother workers and consumers) in the … Continue reading →

An event created by women and for women, the Heart & Sole Five Miler donates a portion of its proceeds to help fight heart disease, the number one killer of women. So I did an all-women five mile race this … Continue reading →

This BarbieCollector.com exclusive Lounge Kittiesâ„¢ Collection doll”slinks”through the urban jungle in a sleek leopard-print catsuit with faux-fur accents and tail. A black choker necklace adds to her hypnotic allure while she’s”out on the prowl”. And when she’s ready for a … Continue reading →

“Lara Croft: Feminist Icon or Cyberbimbo? On the Limits of Textual Analysis” by Helen W. Kennedy is a really interesting read. Lara Croft is a little passe these days, but the analysis remains quite trenchant. Here is the intro: As … Continue reading →

The website for the Third Annual Ms. Magazine Cruise is here. And here is a video critique, and a fairly angry one at that. From this site. Just links at this post today, no commentary implied or intended.

At Women’s eNews, Paula J. Caplan argues in an op-ed that: “women are over-diagnosed with psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. Many problems, she writes, are not inside women’s heads. They are in external conditions crying out for remedy.” Here is an … Continue reading →

Anne Applebaum says it is in the WaPo. First she (astutely) observed: …anyone who lives a real life in the real world knows that most women make choices about working and not working on a non-ideological basis. Many with children … Continue reading →