September 2010
12 posts
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In Which We Get a Little Love from the Clinton...
K, we know this is really no big deal, but it’s been a rough couple months, so damn if we didn’t get a tickle after discovering that we were on the required reading list for the Clinton Global Initiative’s “Empowering Girls and Women” Action Area. We heart you too, Bubs.
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“They have all been smash hits: Finding Nemo, Madagascar, Ice Age, Toy Story....”
– Why family films are so sexist (via newsweek)
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Thanks, Christina Hoff Sommers, But Most of Us...
We just about spat out our feminist Wheaties this morning, reading Christina Hoff Sommers takedown of the Paycheck Fairness Act on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times.
A scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Hoff Sommers argues that Paycheck Fairness—which would make it easier for women to file class-action suits against employers they accuse of wage discrimination,...
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In Which Spike.com Declares the 'Top Seven Cutest...
Um ya, that is not a joke. And Nicole Kidman is #1!
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It's Man Week! (Sort of.) Starting With: the...
“With the frontier closed and women beginning their long push into the workplace, men obsessed over Tarzan, cowboy literature, and bodybuilding, even if they were sitting in offices all day. Eugen Sandow, a precursor to Charles Atlas, was the first fitness guru for men.”
So, women are responsible for this? Schwarzenegger et al. might not have existed had we not up and started...
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“It’s usually brought on by, I don’t know, like shots or drinking or people kind...”
– A real person, quoted in a real story, from the real Time Magazine, attempting to “explain the trend” of girl-on-girl making out. Can we say, holy shit?
(via devingo)
Other gems from this story:
LGTs: an acronym for “lesbian till graduation”
That the story is linked to a timeline...
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“…what the 90 percent statistic really means is that women, if they want...”
– Gender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality by Joan Williams (via femphil)
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Will Feminists Rally Around Sarah Palin? →
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Abolition, The Declaration of Sentiments, and...
Don’t be fooled by the title. In “What Hath Feminism Wrought,” a post yesterday on the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about a new book (“What Hath God Wrought”) about the history of the antebellum south. It includes a long exploration of the links between abolitionists and the early women’s rights movement, and ends at the 1858 Seneca Falls Convention,...