Add this to the ridiculous things Herman Cain has said. In an interview in GQ, Cain says that “The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is.” Being a “manly” man, he is also against vegetables: “A manly man don’t want it piled high with vegetables! He would [...]
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At a panel on Women In The Media that I attended a year ago, sports columnist Christine Brennan was asked who her favorite feminist hero was. “My father,” she responded. Brennan went on to explain that her father, a Republican who voted for Goldwater and Nixon, had been her greatest inspiration and largest factor in [...]
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According to BBC, Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of the West Bank has recently banned women from running in elections in his community. After an anonymous woman wrote to him, expressing her interest in running for Common Secretary, Rabbi Levanon said: “The first problem is giving women authority, and being a secretary means having authority. The second [...]
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As many of you know by now, this year’s Super Bowl featured an onslaught of sexist commercials, apparently geared towards men who feel ‘emasculated’ by the women in their lives. (For more on the word ‘emasculated,’ check out Mike’s previous post). One of the offenders was this Dodge commercial…”Man’s Last Stand,” which features a list [...]
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Rush Limbaugh, no friend to progressive thought, feminism, or intellectual discussion, told Fox News earlier today that he is “a huge supporter of women.” Limbaugh was being questioned about his role in judging the Miss America pageant, and whether or not it was “appropriate,” given the fact that he does not have a reputation of [...]
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My dad, ever the technologically savvy geekster, forwarded me this article about the ‘masculine’ advertisement campaign for the new Droid phone– the latest and greatest smartphone from Verizon that should encroach on sales of the iPhone and Blackberry. “Do you think this would be good for your blog?” he wrote me. The ad campaign for the Droid [...]
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This book has been out for a while, but I saw a review today. Julia Savacool wrote “The World Has Curves: The Global Quest for the Perfect Body.” The review starts with: When journalist Julia Savacool asked women from around the world to describe their ideal body, diverging portraits emerged — from a curvy, Coca-Cola [...]
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Since moving to New York City, I’ve caught quite a few TV ads for both Jon Corzine and Chris Christie’s campaigns in the NJ gubernatorial race. Jon Corzine began a steep uphill battle, due to NJ’s poor economic situation, as well as the July 2009 corruption scandal involving 40-something NJ officials, rabbis, and possible organ [...]
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Sure, Lady GaGa, Elle MacPherson, and even Margaret Atwood all shy away from the label “Feminist,” but the Dalai Lama sure doesn’t! At the International Freedom Award ceremony, he ended his remarks with: “I call myself a feminist…Isn’t that what you call someone who fights for women’s rights?” He did go on to say that women [...]
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Via Sociological Images: Check out these two examples of urinals in men’s bathrooms. Want to pee in a woman’s mouth, or in her genitals? Take your pick!
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