Category Archives: Sexism in the Media

These are a little weird: Jane Austen Action Figure Jane Austen Plush Doll The same vender offers a Jane Austen Finger Puppet as well, but that COMPLETELY freaks me out, especially the product description, which states: As magnificent of a … Continue reading →

Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care – oh, scary day care! Higher Vocabulary Is Linked to High-Quality Day Care – hmmm, that sounds good. Of course, in the ever-present battle against working women, the New York Times … Continue reading →

View the commercial here. According to Adrants: Ignoring the “don’t talk with your mouth full” childhood rule, KFC is running a commercial to promote its Zinger Chicken Salads in the UK showing call center workers singing with their mouths full. … Continue reading →

Given that the headline for the NYT article about this dating service labels True.com “Hot But Virtuous” I’m guessing it is a sizeable amount. The article itself rather repulsively starts out thusly: “The women who appear in Web ads for … Continue reading →

If not you can watch it here. Did you wonder which family member or so-called friend would put something like that out there for public consumption? Or did you realize that it was phoney, part of an advertising campaign? See … Continue reading →

Those words are from this Leonard Pitts column that was published 3/9/07 in the Miama Herald. Here’s another excerpt: … To the degree I think about her at all, it’s usually as a laugh line. People ask if I miss … Continue reading →

Today’s “not funny” entry is this post at The Cheerful Oncologist: Bad-tempered women ‘can blame it on genes’ Ever wonder why some women seem to be more ill-tempered than others? University of Pittsburgh researchers have found that behaviors such as … Continue reading →

Today’s NYT features a review by “Frank Bruni” of the restaurant at the Penthouse Executive club entitled: “Where Only the Salad Is Properly Dressed.” He claims to like the steak there, but the entire article is a platform for his … Continue reading →

Most of Oscars Best Dressed and all of Oscars Worst Dressed are women. Anyone doubt that any female nominee who tried to camouflage herself in a tuxedo like the men below would have found herself on the Worst Dressed list?

According to the NYT: The next time R. J. Reynolds Tobacco asks smokers to walk a mile for a Camel, watch how many of them are in high heels. Reynolds, eager to increase the sales of its fast-growing Camel brand … Continue reading →

An account from the Miami New Times is here, with an excerpt below: … The Bangbus formula is simple. As the bus — really, a white rental van — drives all over the Miami area, Greg Entner, who “performs” under … Continue reading →

Tonight at 10 p.m., PBS airs the Byron Hurt documentary, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes.”   One critic describes the film as “a thought-provoking look into how the concepts of sexism, misogyny, and heterosexuality manifest themselves in a black male … Continue reading →

“Axe Fantasy Mousepad” From this site, which I don’t recommend either. Then there is the “Axe Fantasy” page, which features things like “Seduction Tips” (under the “Hot Stuff” tab) that are so ridiculous it’s hard to believe it isn’t satire.

From The Chicago Reader: Debra Pickett resigned from the Sun-Times Monday afternoon, minutes after being asked to do a story she thought was preposterous.”I laughed,”says Pickett, recalling her response when features editor Christine Ledbetter called with the assignment to breast-feed … Continue reading →

Via Adrants. That small type reads: “Linda Foster, CEO, Aged 29.” The yellow box in the bottom right says “Wonderbra,” the product that is being advertised. Apparently in Linda Foster’s case, wearing a Wonderbra causes so much discomfort she cannot … Continue reading →

Play’s Controversial Title Leads To Complaints, Change ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — A modified marquee in Atlantic Beach has been drawing some attention. “Hoohaa” replaced a word in the title of a play after a driver complained about finding the previous … Continue reading →

Can’t be a real feminist blog unless body hair gets discussed once in a while, eh? Here is a link to a BBC Woman’s Hour interview with Shazia Mirza, described as follows: The comedian Shazia Mirza has decided to stop … Continue reading →

From here, via The Dees Diversion.

This time within an idiotic article at Men’s Health entitled “The Secret Language of Men.” The piece starts out: The numbers say it all: In studies, women speak an average of 20,000 words a day. Men speak an average of … Continue reading →

I say both! In any event, as was discussed here last May, the Miller Brewing Co. had been running really awful “Man Laws” advertisements, which Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon gleefully notes have been terminated. Not clear whether it was the … Continue reading →

Blech. Via Feministing.

Who knows? The only outfits mentioned in this NYT article about last night’s SOTU are Nancy Pelosi’s: Appearances were obviously important to Ms. Pelosi, who changed from the brown suit she had worn earlier in the day to a soft … Continue reading →

Note the strikingly pro-porn slant of this SF Chron article: Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor, buys historic S.F. building to film its bondage movies A friendly band of San Francisco pornographers can’t wait to get inside the old armory on … Continue reading →

From Couric & Co.: Last Wednesday, President Bush gave his address to the country about “the new way forward”for Iraq, and lots of journalists:including me, of course:were in Washington to cover it. But before the Big Speech, there was the … Continue reading →

At least according to the NYT. And looking for the film he appeared in gives the author a reason to view lots of porn, accordind to the final sentences of the piece, because otherwise he didn’t have one. Or something.

Does this make you feel empowered? Or does it make you want to pull your hair out? Three years ago I was a subscriber to The Nation, which maintains a blog called ActNow!. Then in December of 2003, I read … Continue reading →

“Yorkies” man sized chunks are for sale in my local World Market. From Nestle’s Yorkie website: YORKIE – “IT’S NOT FOR GIRLS” In 2001 the Yorkie “It’s Not for Girls” campaign was launched because, in today’s society, there aren’t many … Continue reading →