Category Archives: Feminism and Culture

New Low for the Huff Po?

Ugh.

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Remember when Ray Comfort claimed bananas proved Darwin wrong?

Well now there is a handcrafted product commemorating same, the Ray Comfort Tampon Case! Minds out of the gutter; that is a banana on the front of his pants. Order yours here. The artist says: “Materials: felt, fabric glue, thread, … Continue reading

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Lessons for Girls

Compiled by Historiann: A Feminist Vade Mecum: Anger, by Historiann. Opting Out, by Dr. Crazy. On Pity, by Professor Zero. Independence, by Sutton. Trust Your Instincts, by Undine. No Apologies, by Exile in Academia. It’s okay if not everyone likes … Continue reading

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Ellen DeGeneres Commencement Speech at Tulane University – May 16, 2009.

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What the World Has Badly Needed: The Pink Ouija Board

Wonderfully described here, by the Onion.   An excerpt: In case you’re wondering, girl, about what makes this Ouija game different from other Ouija games, girl, besides the fact that the whole thing seems to have been dipped in Pepto … Continue reading

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Comic Relief

Judge Judy learns about feminism here. –Leigh Goodmark

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“”Home Game” ends with Mr. Lewis’s description of getting a vasectomy — at the request of his wife, naturally. Having submitted to metaphorical castration, he decides to go the whole nine yards.”

That’s a sentence from this review of this book. Here’s another excerpt: “Home Game,” Mr. Lewis’s account of becoming a father to his three children, begins promisingly. “At some point in the last few decades, the American male sat down … Continue reading

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The science of sales, 1950s style.

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“Oldest depiction of female form shows that modern archaeologists are pornsick misogynists”

Dr. Violet Socks lays it down here.

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“At least 84 Afghan girls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks, officials and doctors said.”

That’s a sentence from this frightening NYT article.   Here’s another excerpt: Tuesday’s apparent attack is the third alleged poisoning at a girls’ school in less than three weeks. It comes one day after 61 schoolgirls and one teacher from … Continue reading

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“… it’s okay to opt out of toxic situations and conversations. Opting out doesn’t mean that you’re weak, nor does it make you a bad person. Sometimes, the most advantageous position is, in fact, one in which you don’t resist, in which you don’t explain, in which you don’t try to justify your position, in which you don’t bother trying to help others see your point of view. Or, conversely, in which you don’t try to be inclusive, to give antagonists a forum, or to apologize to diffuse a situation.”

More Lessons for Girls here at Historiann.

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On Carrie Prejean

Pageant Hypocrisy at Feminist Jayhawk; The Carrie Prejean Shaming Has Gone Too Far at Washington City Paper; more to come. Yes, she’s a bigot. Calling out her bigotry does not require disgustingly sexist insults. –Ann Bartow

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Justin-Jinich filed a harassment complaint on July 10, 2007 against the man now believed to be her murderer, asserting that he was calling her repeatedly and sent her insulting e-mails for at least a week.

Story here.

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“Eat First – You Don’t Know What They’ll Give You: The Adventures of an Immigrant Family & Their Feminist Daughter” by Sonia Pressman Fuentes

Reviewed at Viva La Feminista!

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What do Hooters and the Supreme Court Have in Common?

According to some, there’s an appearance test to qualify for employment by both–at least for women. See Paul Campos’ article (but not his opinion!) on why “fat” women need not apply for Souter’s job. –Leigh Goodmark

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“White Castle Pulled Pork BBQ” Commercial Completely Sickening

Via Phyllis Jeden, who will no doubt ace her law school finals.

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After Just 341 Years, Britain’s Poet Laureate Is A Woman

She is   Carol Ann Duffy, a poet, playwrite, and children’s author, originally from Glasgow, Scotland. From the  New York Times: Ms. Duffy, 53, is known for using a deceptively simple style to produce accessible, often mischievous poems dealing with … Continue reading

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Marilyn French has died.

Feminist author Marilyn French died yesterday. NYT obituary here. From the Telegraph (U.K.): … Marilyn French was born on November 21 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, the elder of two daughters of an engineer. Her mother, a clerk in a … Continue reading

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Carol Ann Duffy will be the UK’s first woman poet laureate!

From Yahoo News: The centuries-old post of British poet laureate, bard to kings and queens, has been held by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes : but never, until Friday, by a woman. Carol Ann Duffy said she … Continue reading

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An Answer to a Man’s Question,”What Can I Do About Women’s Liberation?”

An Answer to a Man’s Question, “What Can I Do About Women’s Liberation?” by Susan Griffin Wear a dress. Wear a dress that you made yourself, or bought in a dress store. Wear a dress and underneath the dress wear … Continue reading

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The Dos and Don’ts of using women announcers in 1950s television advertising

Via.

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On Groping

A nervously jokey post at Jezebel brings up the topic of mass transit gropers and frotteurs. Here is an excerpt: The first time this ever happened to me – and it’s happened to every woman I know, although men are … Continue reading

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“Vajayjay Meets Registered Trademark”

MoJo reports: … Firmly in pop culture verbiage, the vaginal euphemism has now seen its first official product (though not its first trademark application, apparently) as the Vaj-j Visor. The visor, which is meant to cover the goods during waxing, … Continue reading

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I Shouldn’t Be Surprised

I get the strangest ads as my 40th birthday approaches. -Bridget Crawford

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Miss Subways in New York

In the midst of what may be the last gasps of beauty pageants, the NY Times ran this article on “Miss Subways” in New York, which was the first integrated beauty contest.     The winner’s photo would appear all … Continue reading

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“For years, I could think of nothing more humiliating than being a woman with a $75,000 education who got caught reading a book cleverly titled “The Throbbing Pirate”, for which the cover art is just a close up of an improbably bulging codpiece.”

Post title extracted from this post, which robustly praises romance novels. Here’s another excerpt: Then when I was sixteen, after a few years of not reading any romance novels, I picked up Judith McNaught’s Something Wonderful on a complete whim. … Continue reading

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“Where Have All of the Female Rappers Gone?”

See this post here at the new(ish) Hip Hop Law blog! Another recent post is titled: “Candy Girls Are Not Made of Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice.”

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Fashionable Feminism

Threadbared is a   blog by two academic women with teaching and research interests in the politics of fashion and beauty, incluing representations of race and class.   Via.

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“The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Many Facets of Raced and Gendered Tele-Identity (Or, Nemos, Nomos and Narrative)”

New post by Feminist Law Prof Lolita Buchner Inniss, here.

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Dating Advice For Teenaged Boys

Here. Wonder if the local high schools would distribute the linked post. Probably not, but they should.

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The Colbert Coalition’s Anti-Gay Marriage Ad

“There’s a giant gay storm gathering, and before long the winds will be blowing each other.” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Colbert Coalition’s Anti-Gay Marriage Ad colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name … Continue reading

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Why buying shoes online is increasingly popular.

Many sites allow free returns, and also this.

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Free Speech and the Internet: Public Radio Interviews of Gary LeBeau, David Rosen, Danielle Citron and Brian Leiter

Listen here.

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“It wasn’t singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain’s Got Talent so much as our reaction to her”

Tanya Gold in The Guardian: … When Susan had finished singing, and Piers had finished gasping, he said this. It was a comment of incredible spite. “When you stood there with that cheeky grin and said, ‘I want to be … Continue reading

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Best Sarah Haskins Video Yet

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Miley Cyrus: A”Little White”What?!

According to People Magazine (here), Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx expressed some pretty negative opinions about various female performers on his Sirius radio show, advising actor Miley Cyrus to “make a sex tape and grow up. Get like Britney Spears and … Continue reading

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“Pornocalypse Now”

Over at Adbusters, Douglas Haddow talks about masculinity and porn. Via.

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The Triumph of Talent Over Sexism

Watch the looks of shock come over the faces of the judges…and question why anyone thinks talent is related to someone’s external appearance.  Video here. –Leigh Goodmark

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“Friday Night Lights and the Teenage Virgin”

That’s the title of this Freakonomics post by Ian Ayres. In it he writes: … I was somewhat concerned that the last senior on the show lost her virginity. The show has reached what the Supreme Court calls the”inexorable zero.”I … Continue reading

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Schick Outdoes Itself

Now public hair is racialized as well as pornified. (For a prior ad, see this post by Bridget): –Ann Bartow

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“Impossibly Beautiful”

On photo retouching.

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Another reason to avoid Burger King…

Via the f-word blog, which notes: This is Burger King’s new ad for its 99-cents kids meal. Yes, because nothing sells fast food to children better than provocatively-dressed women shaking their asses to a remix of Sir-Mix-a-lot’s”Baby Got Back”: the … Continue reading

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Effective or Offensive?

The text of the ads reads: “Protect your valuables.” The press release from the Quebec Coalition Against AIDS (COCQ-Sida) explains: “The campaign focuses on objects highly appreciated by homosexuals, using evocative symbols to offer the target audience a different take … Continue reading

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A short compendium of sexist magazine ads.

Here, at Stiletto Revolt.

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Documentary About the Porn Industry to be Offered Free to College Campuses

From the FLP mailbox: CONTACT: Media Education Foundation Dr. Chyng Sun (617)733-8091 | email: cfs1@nyu.edu The way filmmakers Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker see it, the cure for bad speech is more speech. That’s exactly why they’ve come up with … Continue reading

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Men and Murder

See e.g. this. Between March 10th and April 7th, this newspaper reports that mass shootings have claim 57 lives. Given the limits placed on the count, “mass” and “shootings,” the number almost certainly underestimates the number of people who were … Continue reading

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Infecting Children With the Bug of Show Business

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A Pole-Dancing Mother of 14: Performing Gender (Topless)

The Boston Herald reports here that Nadya Suleman, the California mother of octuplets, performed once in a topless club: Back when she was 18, Suleman was in an”investigative”stage of her life and thought she’d try out exotic dancing. “I had … Continue reading

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Goofy but cute.

Via.

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Sexting and the Magdalene Factor

The news in recent weeks has reported a spate of child-porn prosecutions against teens accused of”sexting”:sending nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves to friends and classmates:typically using their cell phones. According to a study by the National Campaign to Prevent … Continue reading

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