Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Here’s an excerpt from a 5/1/06 NYT article by Julie Bosman, entitled “Beer Ads That Ditch the Bikinis, but Add Threads of Thought”: If Miller Brewing is to be believed, the days of beer commercials stocked exclusively with brainless party … Continue reading →

A documentary looking at Chinese stereotypes in North America. Via Reappropriate.

She tried to get pregnant. When that seemed impossible, she hoped to adopt. Then she just wanted to stay alive. That didn’t work out, either. She was a wonderful writer. She called her blog, “Cancer, Baby.” She died last friday.

Read In Honor of Mother’s Day and Mother’s Day is a Pinko Feminist Holiday, both at Pinko Feminist Hellcat.

Before Bush began the Iraq war, when many people naively thought there might be a way to prevent it, people who opposed the war used a variety of approaches to draw attention to their messages, inluding nudity. Here are just … Continue reading →

At Unfogged, in a post called “Live my glamorous NYC life vicariously through me, please.”

According to this NYT article, it is Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” Most of the runners up were by white guys. The only other book by a woman, “Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson, seems to be the only one on the list that … Continue reading →

From this column at “Sequential Tart” we learn more about female comic book characters, to wit: Rule Number Two discusses a simple concept: exaggerate the breasts by putting them atop a disproportionately thin waist. The subject is the female spinal … Continue reading →

From here. –Ann Bartow

According to this CNN article: An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report. American … Continue reading →

Since DC Comics will use this drawing on the cover of “All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder #5” (July 2006): Karen at Oddity Collector wonders if we will also be seeing comic book covers like this anytime soon: … Continue reading →

At Center of Gravitas, Gayprof writes: …According to anonymous testimony from one of his graduate students, this particular professor has been starting his classes by telling his women students,”In my class, you check your vaginas at the door.” I don’t … Continue reading →

While unwinding after a weekend full of empirical research, I saw a new commercial for Heineken Light, which involved sexualizing a beer bottle and playing a song by the Pussycat Dolls with the refrain ‘Don’t you wish your girlfriend was … Continue reading →

Blogging under a pseudonym is appropriate and understandable in many circumstances, especially if the blog engages with controversial issues, and the blogger has reason to fear for her personal safety and well being. Lobbing nasty personal insults from behind a … Continue reading →

Geena Davis founded an organization called “See Jane” with this mission statement: See Jane seeks to engage professionals and parents in a call to dramatically increase the percentages of female characters — and to reduce gender stereotyping — in media … Continue reading →

“The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism” was written by Carrie Lukas, who works for the Independent Women’s Forum. She says she wrote the book in part to keep feminists from deliberately misleading women about their fertility. Nope, … Continue reading →

“Sadly Normal” is a website for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Learned about it via Angela Shelton. Angela Shelton made this documentary.