Equality Myth

huffingtonpost: They’re more likely to be seen in sexy clothing...

jessbennett — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:46:17 -0500

They’re more likely to be seen in sexy clothing (25.8 percent to men at 4.7 percent) and more likely to be partially naked (23.6 percent to 7.4 percent).

Is it time to change that ratio?

Women Are Underrepresented, Oversexualized In Top Films: Study

"At the time, the explanation [for an off-color joke Paterno made about beating his wife] easily..."

jessbennett — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:47:14 -0500

“At the time, the explanation [for an off-color joke Paterno made about beating his wife] easily satisfied JoePa supporters—who’d become used to this kind of banter. But in the wake of 40 counts of sexual assault against Paterno’s longtime defensive mastermind, Jerry Sandusky, the toxicity of that testosterone-steeped sports culture, and the role it might have played in this scandal, isn’t very funny. The comparisons between Penn State and the Catholic Church may have become too many to count, but perhaps the biggest one is so obvious we don’t see it: Football, like the priesthood, is one of the few places in our culture where being a woman is actually more sacrilegious than saying you’re going to go home and beat one.”

- Could Women Have Saved Penn State? - The Daily Beast

(via notadinnerparty)

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jesseellison — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:35:45 -0400

40 Under 40: Business's hottest rising stars

jesseellison — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:18:28 -0400

40 Under 40: Business's hottest rising stars:

angelawublog:

I was clicking through the slideshow today, and around #10 (Sid Sankaran of AIG) I realized that I hadn’t seen a single woman.

So I kept clicking. No. 11, Sergey Brin of Google. No. 13, Ryan Seacrest of…RYAN SEACREST??? OK, whatever, sure. No. 18, Daniel Elk of Spotify…

It took me 20 clicks to find one woman—Marissa Mayer, long-time Googler.

On Fortune’s list of the 40 hottest business stars under 40—a list that, with a few ties, actually includes 45 people—there were six women! That’s 13 percent! That’s shocking to me!

Now, I like Fortune. I’ve also never bothered to count the number of women on any list before. (But now that we’ve started—Fortune’s covers for this feature give us 3 men and 3 women, and the homepage for the list features 4 women, 2 men, and what appears to be Mark Zuckerberg as a baby.)

But I’m just pretty sure there are more than six women who might qualify for this list of FORTY-FIVE people.

jesseellison: “I wonder what it would be like if I were a male rock star? Maybe I just could be...

jessbennett — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:32:40 -0400

jesseellison:

“I wonder what it would be like if I were a male rock star? Maybe I just could be like ‘fuck it’ and keep someone hanging there. But, I don’t know… It just doesn’t feel right. And I definitely don’t have groupies. No, the evening always ends with me and my friend in my hotel room watching romantic comedies going, ‘We’re never getting married.’”

This was fun.

Check out Jesse’s profile of Florence Welch in this week’s Newsweek.

longreads: This June, the paper’s publisher, Arthur...

jesseellison — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:51:06 -0400

longreads:

This June, the paper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., announced the appointment of Abramson and of Dean Baquet, who is black, as the new managing editor. Many who gathered in the newsroom that day were thinking of this history. Not a few women cried. Susan Chira, an assistant managing editor, says that she kept thinking that when she joined the Times, in 1981, manyTimes women were “sad, bitter, angry people who were talented but who had been thwarted.” Editors openly propositioned young women. “I can’t believe how far we’ve come. To see Jill take the mantle, I felt tingling. You have to praise and savor when a woman can earn it through merit. No tokenism here. Jill studied for this job. She earned it.”

“Changing Times.” — Ken Auletta, The New Yorker

Feminist Ryan Gosling: what timing! A week from today is annual...

jessbennett — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:45:35 -0400

Feminist Ryan Gosling: what timing! A week from today is annual Love Your Body day, sponsored by the NOW Foundation.

Nancy LeBrun: How the Vacuum Changed the World

jessbennett — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:20:41 -0400

Nancy LeBrun: How the Vacuum Changed the World:

nlebrun:

No matter how much we may think we still feel the yoke of housework, electric appliances like the vacuum helped fling open the window for women back in the early part of the 20th century.

Think of it! No more dragging heavy Persian rugs outside to beat the bejesus out of them for hours on end. Finally! Some help cleaning the endless soot that settled from gas lamps and fires.

Oct. 3 marks the 112th anniversary of the patent for the first vacuum.

Our Bodies, Ourselves Turns 40

jessbennett — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:00:14 -0400

Our Bodies, Ourselves Turns 40

The Global Women's Progress Report: Newsweek Ranks the Best and Worst Places to be a Woman

jessbennett — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:42:06 -0400

The Global Women's Progress Report: Newsweek Ranks the Best and Worst Places to be a Woman

Nora Ephron on the premiere of NBC’s The Playboy Club, in this...

jessbennett — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:37:53 -0400

Nora Ephron on the premiere of NBC’s The Playboy Club, in this week’s NEWSWEEK:

I worry (as someone who was an adult in the 1960s) that young people will see The Playboy Club and think that this is what life was like back then and that Hefner, as he also says in his weird, creepy voice-over, was in fact “changing the world, one Bunny at a time.”

So I would like to say this:

1. Trust me, no one wanted to be a Bunny.

2. A Bunny’s life was essentially that of an underpaid waitress forced to wear a tight costume.

3. Playboy did not change the world.

More: A history of the Playboy club (photos).

"It’s that whole flowery sundress, nerdy horn-rims, bicycle basket, put-a-bird-on-it tweeness of the..."

jessbennett — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:08:00 -0400

“It’s that whole flowery sundress, nerdy horn-rims, bicycle basket, put-a-bird-on-it tweeness of the forever child. Also, she records indie rock albums and makes a point of singing a lot in the new show — tra-la-la-la — which only makes it more awful.”

- Hank Stuever explains what he finds so awful about Zooey Deschanel in his look at the horridness of female characters in television’s fall lineup - The Washington Post. (via washingtonpoststyle)

Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou, Hank Stuever. “Put-a-bird-on-it tweeness.” Perfect.

READ THIS

"It’s sad, because it feels like there are people all over the world who can sympathize with us, but..."

jessbennett — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:36:14 -0400

“It’s sad, because it feels like there are people all over the world who can sympathize with us, but not in our own community.”

- Craig Soignet, the father of the girl who roiled a small town in Texas when she refused to cheer for the boy she told police had raped her. The girl was kicked off the cheer squad.

Three years later, cheerleader rape case still stirs flames in Silsbee, Texas.

(via newsweek)

theswingingsixties: How To Stay Younger And Prettier For Your...

jessbennett — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:20:17 -0400

theswingingsixties:

How To Stay Younger And Prettier For Your Man, 1963.

Is Marriage for White People?

jessbennett — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:03:48 -0400

Is Marriage for White People?:

A controversial new book suggests that interracial marriage may be a solution for middle-class African-American women who can’t find a suitable black husband.

I find women with big brains to be sexy- does that count? This also presupposes that men dont recognize women who work this angle- and that it doesnt make them look a little silly. But thats cool- Im wearing my speedo to the office today so everyone can see what Im working with.

jessbennett — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:09:55 -0400

I find women with big brains to be sexy- does that count? This also presupposes that men dont recognize women who work this angle- and that it doesnt make them look a little silly. But thats cool- Im wearing my speedo to the office today so everyone can see what Im working with.:

cheatsheet:

A commenter responds to our review of Erotic Capital, a new book that argues that women should use their sex appeal to level the playing field at work.

What Makes Mean Girls Tick When it first hit bookshelves, Odd...

jessbennett — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:40:36 -0400

What Makes Mean Girls Tick

When it first hit bookshelves, Odd Girl Out sparked a national debate on girls and bullying. Ten years later, girl expert (and Equality Myth girlcrush) Rachel Simmons talks about the updated text—and what drives today’s girl aggression.

And in stories in this week's Newsweek that are NOT about Michelle Bachmann, this profile of Gloria Steinem

jessbennett — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:13:17 -0400

And in stories in this week's Newsweek that are NOT about Michelle Bachmann, this profile of Gloria Steinem

Beyonce wants to invent a new word for feminism. Like "Bootylicious."

jessbennett — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:14:29 -0400

Beyonce wants to invent a new word for feminism. Like "Bootylicious."

In which the “Mancession” turns into a...

jessbennett — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:56:38 -0400

In which the “Mancession” turns into a “Mancovery”

thenationmagazine:

Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn