Category Archives: Sexism in the Media

Keeping Women’s Voices Out, Supposedly Liberal Dood Edition

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Ann Bartow

I went to what I understand to be The American Prospect’s main page today, here. There seem to be twelve “current” articles. As far as I can tell, ZERO were written by women. Scrolling down the page to the “recent” … Continue reading →

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About”this weird fear of opposing views.”

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Quotation fragment from this article in which Andy Rosenthal defends the NYT’s hiring of Bill Kristol as a regular op-ed columnist. Welp, that would make ten columnists, as I count them. Eight men and two women, and only one of … Continue reading →

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Did “Feminists” Attempt to “Censor” Santa Claus?

Posted on December 29, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Despite reports like this and this, the Snopes account is quite different. Via the Hathor Legacy. Naturally crap like this is for sale, but obviously feminists are supposed to be intimidated into silence about it. Cartoon from here. –Ann Bartow

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New Year’s Resolution: To More Rigorously Critique Celebrity Culture

Posted on December 29, 2007 by Ann Bartow

As this NYT article, “A One-Way Ticket To Disaster,” aptly demonstrates, one of the only areas of the entertainment industry where women are proportionately represented (at a minimum) is in “scandal coverage.” The story is even accompanied by a “timeline … Continue reading →

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Another Reason Not To Eat At Burger King

Posted on December 28, 2007 by Ann Bartow

In case you needed one…

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Great Jackie Fleming Cartoon

Posted on December 25, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Many more here.

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Monopoly: Pink Boutique Edition

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Via Lilith Attack,where it is observed: Let’s face it. Monopoly is HARD. All that investing and big bucks and jail time… commercial real estate; it’s a white collar man’s business. Good thing Hasbro has come out with Monopoly: Pink Boutique … Continue reading →

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Dick Cheney Accuses Two Male Democratic Pols Of Having Tiny Wieners

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Ann Bartow

And apparently he thinks Nancy Pelosi shrunk them. Below is an excerpt from this article: Most striking were his virtually taunting remarks of two men he described as friends from his own days in the House: Democratic Reps. John Dingell … Continue reading →

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Avoid Spirit Airlines

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Here’s why. And, see also. Gee, what island is that exactly? The one that looks like a reclining woman?

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“Hillary Hatred Finds Its Misogynistic Voice”

Posted on December 1, 2007 by Ann Bartow

At Newhouse News Service, Jonathan Tilove writes: In the coming months, America will decide whether to elect its first female president. And amid a techno-media landscape where the wall between private vitriol and public debate has been reduced to rubble, … Continue reading →

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Details, details

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Bitch, PhD noted: … I just feel so much better about my feminism now that I know that Details doesn’t approve of breast implants. Whew. The article, if you’re bored shitless and don’t have anything else to read, is here. … Continue reading →

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Hey MSM, can you please stop referencing her “secret life as an Internet porn performer” now?

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Ann Bartow

She’s dead. Her body has been recovered. This article notes: Police insisted that Sander’s Internet activity had no connection to her disappearance. “The issue of the Internet and the spinoff of that has been literally crippling our investigation,” Boren said. … Continue reading →

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The Hypocrisy of Unilever, Illustrated

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Ann Bartow

When it is pushing Dove products through its Campaign For Real Beauty, Unilever is all about female empowerment and sisterhood, as in this ad entitled “evolution”, and this ad, “onslaught.” (NB: There is a decent parody of “evolution” here.) But … Continue reading →

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Creepiest Wonderbra Commercial Yet

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Here. Other contenders for the title include this and this and this.

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“Hefner expresses a mixture of bewilderment and bitterness about feminists’ longtime criticism of his magazine, adult-only networks, Web entertainment, videos and Playboy Clubs staffed by women in revealing costumes.”

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Ann Bartow

That’s a sentence from this article about Playboy’s 50th Anniversary. Here is a longer excerpt: … At the same time that the company is adding harder-core material to its TV networks and Web sites, the anniversary issue trumpets the Playboy … Continue reading →

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From the Department of Life Is Strange: The Documentary Filmmaker Who Pornified Torture is Now Criticizing Fox For Pornifying the News

Posted on November 11, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Via The Garance, Robert Greenwald, who via Brave New Films produced this rather disgusting spectacle, has produced this video clip, which “argues that all FOX shows use gratuitous sexual images : mainly women in bikinis, from the look of it, … Continue reading →

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Mainstream Magazine to Drop Ads Selling Sex

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

From a local NY television station: A popular magazine has agreed to stop running sex ads in its back pages. New York Magazine said it will no longer accept the classified ads, after the local chapter of the National Organization … Continue reading →

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Porn Star v. Television Anchor

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Over at Bitch, Ph.D. guest blogger M. LeBlanc contemplates this horrible “quiz.” Update: Watch a supposedly liberal dood television anchor treat a colleague in a sexist manner here. Could he be confused about what her job is, for some reason?

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Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to be President of Argentina

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Kathleen Bergin

  Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became Argentina’s President-elect on Sunday, sailing past 14 other candidates with 40% of the popular vote – nearly twice as much as her closest rival. The Senator is, well, a Senator. But she’s been … Continue reading →

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Can’t Handle The Truth, Naval Style

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Ann Bartow

FLP friend Jenn Frederick asks: “Anyone notice the headline for the AP article about the Navy shooting in Bahrain? The headline states “2 US Sailors Shot to Death in Bahrain” — kind of sounds like maybe they were killed by … Continue reading →

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Two Links About Crones

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Evolution Depends on Crones The Grandmother Hypothesis: Part 1

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Tucker Carlson Is A Sexist Jerkish American

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Here is an excerpt from a transcript of his show: CARLSON:   That was Hillary Clinton talking to women, the women who host ABC‘s”The View”and the millions of American women presumably who watch that show.   According to polls, Mrs. … Continue reading →

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Lolita Buckner Inniss, “A ‘Ho New World: Raced and Gendered Insult as Ersatz Carnival and the Corruption of Freedom of Expression Norms”

Posted on October 14, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The abstract: Carnivalization, a concept developed by literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and later employed in broad social and cultural contexts, is the tearing down of social norms, the elimination of boundaries and the inversion of established hierarchies. It is the … Continue reading →

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“Modern Bionic Woman, Retrograde Feminism”

Posted on October 6, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Annalee Newitz has a column with this title up at Alternet. Below is an excerpt: … Now ultimate women’s lib heroine Sommers is back, all spruced up for the 2000s, and the results are rather strange. Thirty years have passed, … Continue reading →

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Dove Using Feminism To Sell Soap…

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Ann Bartow

…with this commerial. Ann at Feministing notes: …as with all of these “body-positive” Dove ads, this message is coming from a company selling beauty products. A company that wants you to believe your thighs need firming and your underarms need … Continue reading →

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Ken Burns’ “The War – An Intimate History” Overlooks Women

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Read Heart’s post here. Read Dr. Violet Socks’ post here. And while you are at it, read Are Women Human?, about which this reviewer notes: … A recurring theme of MacKinnon’s book is that it is extremely difficult to get … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Thomases

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

Yesterday a jury determined that Isiah Thomas sexually harassed Anucha Browne Sanders and that  Madison  Square  Garden management  fired Ms. Sanders in retaliation for reporting the harassment.   According to this story in the New York Times: Mr. Thomas emerged … Continue reading →

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Above The Law Finds Hilarity In Law Firm Lactation Rooms

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Yep, more humorless feminism. The jokey and idiotic ATL post is here, and naturally many of the comments are hideous. You are probably expecting the sexism, but maybe not the racism. I think lactation rooms are great and also important … Continue reading →

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“Batgirl” clip from 1966

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Ooooof! Kapow! The sexism! And, best avoided if you are allergic to ham.

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Is “Maureen Dowd” Deemed a “Progressive” by Media Matters For America To Alienate Feminists?

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From this MMFA page: I sure don’t read Maureen Dowd as “progressive” but that is how she is categorized in this study of political bias in syndicated Op-Ed columns. Do the Supposedly Liberal Doods (44 out of 59 staff/advisors are … Continue reading →

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“Bill Maher = Woman-Hating, Child-Hating Idiot”

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Ann Bartow

You can read the post by this name here. Or you can read one entitled “Bill Maher is a Misogynistic Anti-Breastfeeding Pig” here.

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A Mother, A Media Circus and the West Virginia Hate/Abuse Case

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

AnxiousBlackWoman has this trenchant commentary on the behavior of the mother of the woman who who was held captive, tortured and sexually abused for over a week in a West Virginia trailer: It wasn’t until yesterday that I tuned into … Continue reading →

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Goldman Family Publishes O.J. Simpson Book, “If I Did It,” To Punish O.J., But Inflicts A Lot of Pain On Nicole Brown’s Family As Well

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The WaPo reports: … The book — in which Simpson wrote of how he might have killed Nicole Brown, his ex-wife, and Ron Goldman the night of June 12, 1994 — prompted so much negative reaction that the original publisher, … Continue reading →

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If You Dare Wear Hair There

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

Today’s New York Times carries this article about “Nair Pretty,” the new depilatory product aimed at “first-time hair removers,” aka girls 10 to 15 years old.   The product comes in kiwi and peach scents, in packages that show illustrations … Continue reading →

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American Apparel’s Ad in New York

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

From wcbstv.com: A viewer email to wcbstv.com brought us to one of the new “city sights” on the Lower East Side. An American Apparel billboard shows a topless woman in a provocative pose. “I guess sex sells,” resident Peter Malade … Continue reading →

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“Mujeres Making Movies”

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From Colorlines: … Chica Luna’s signature program has become the F-Word, a multimedia justice project in New York City for 16-25-year-olds across the racial, sexual, economic, and linguistic spectrum. For five months, the young women learn about screenwriting, directing, producing, … Continue reading →

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“Runaway Bride” Inspires Albuquerque PD

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

From the  Albuquerque Official City Website (here): The Albuquerque Police Department is using a new recruitment technique that features APD spokeswoman Trish Hoffman unveiling a woman wearing running shoes and a wedding gown. “Running away from your current job? Call … Continue reading →

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“Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.”

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Ann Bartow

So says writer Ian McEwan in this Guardian article. The NPR website currently hosts an op-ed by Eric Wiener entitled “Why Women Read More Than Men” which reports: Among avid readers surveyed by the AP, the typical woman read nine … Continue reading →

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Antiperspirant and the Sexiness Factor (Or Am I Just Shvitzing?)

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

Yesterday at a bus stop I saw the new ad for Secret ® Antiperspirant.   The classic label, shown  at left, is embellished with swirly flower designs  and the words “because you’re  hot” (online version here).   From the company’s … Continue reading →

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Economist article entitled: “Sex, shopping and thinking pink” reports alleged biologically based talent for shopping and preference for pink within “female brains.” Nope, I’m not buying it either.

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Ann Bartow

I plan to obtain the actual data supposedly supporting what strikes me as completely preposterous conclusions in this article (chock full of evo-psych phrases like “the primordial bargain of human hunter-gatherer societies”), so that I can get a second opinion … Continue reading →

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Don’t Congratulate Nike So Quickly

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

Today’s New York Times carries this story on Nike’s new ads featuring female athletes.    According to the Times, the Nike ads  proclaim the message that  “We’re athletes, so ditch the female modifier.”   The new ads sound great, and … Continue reading →

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What Does One WaPo Writer Think Is The Best Way To Critically Describe Cheney’s Foreign Policy Views? A Quote About Him Having “this little-girl crush on strongmen.”

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Here. Below is an excerpt: … By fall, the compromises grew more serious. When tanks rolled through Bangkok in a military coup overthrowing Thailand‘s elected prime minister, Bush was at the United Nations delivering a speech on democracy. But Bush … Continue reading →

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Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Trailer here and webpage here.

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“Trembling in your schoolgirl uniform”

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Girl in the Machine has a good but depressing post about the different ways game producers treat female and male protagonists. Here are two excerpts: … A Surivival Horror game that features a female protagonist tends to be slower-paced with … Continue reading →

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Antagonistic men valued, while angry women perceived ‘out of control’

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From Scientific American: A man who gets angry at work may well be admired for it but a woman who shows anger in the workplace is liable to be seen as “out of control” and incompetent, according to a new … Continue reading →

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Porn Company Uses Photo of 14 Year Old Without Permission

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Ann Bartow

According to The Consumerist: When Lara placed a self-portrait taken at age fourteen on deviantART, she never expected it to be stolen by TVX Films and placed on the cover of the DVD porno “Body Magic.” Lara asked the President … Continue reading →

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Evidence that Hillary Is Not A Humorless Feminist!

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Via Feministing.

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Man of Popsicle

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Watch (e.g.) Channel 1 at this Popsicle webpage where the Man of Popsicle addresses “beaver trouble” whose “behavior bites.” Here is what a textbox at this associative webpage says: “Your taste buds are sure to blast off with Firecracker Exploding … Continue reading →

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Front Page News In South Carolina: “Girl Violence On The Rise In Schools”

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Here is an excerpt from a story by Devon Marrow published on 2006-10-16, Page A1, in The State newspaper (Columbia, SC): Girls today, according to national crime statistics, are more violent than girls of two or three decades ago. The … Continue reading →

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Cleavage, Cleavage Everywhere

Posted on July 21, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

-Bridget Crawford

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