The BBC has an articlewritten by Mary Beard, who is a writer and Professor of Classics at Cambridge and has been a feminist since the 60’s. She writes about the 2011 Miss World beauty pageant recently held in London and how her views about it have changed since she was a “radical feminist teenager” in [...]
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The Nation is conducting a survey of the top protest songs of all time. If you want to tell them your choice, go here. And here are the choices of one of The Nation editors along with the choices of some people he surveyed. Some of those mentioned are Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” Sinead O’Connor’s [...]
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Until I read a recent article by Monica Hesse in the Washington Post, I had never heard of Allison Pearson. But I learned then that she is a British author who wrote the novel “I Don’t Know How She Does It” about ten years ago and that the book “became the millennium’s first mommy [...]
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I’m only about a year behind the times on this, but, when I was in my health club last week, some TVs were showing the video for the Silversun Pickups’ “Substitution” song. It’s the video where the group is playing and, on the floor in front of them are eight short-skirted, low-cut, high-heel-wearing women playing [...]
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Many months ago, I started to write a post about whether someone should change his or her last name when getting married. I gave up when I finally realized that all I could write about were the different options. In other words, the entire subject had so many different personal options that it seemed foolish [...]
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Well, this is classy: The Republican website for a Minnesota Senate race posted a video, highlighting the latest reason you should vote for a GOP candidate this election cycle: Republican women are hot; Democrats are dogs. The YouTube clip shows photos of Republican women in flattering glamorized poses (frequently in bikinis), juxtaposed with purposely unflattering– [...]
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This is such a ridiculous story that it must be true. A strawberry farmer in Austria has banned women in skirts from picking strawberries at his pick-your-own fields. (He first instituted the ban in 2008, but the ban recently became news again.) This article from the Croatian Times gives the farmer’s reasons for the ban [...]
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Via Jezebel: Today Spirit Airlines came out with this advertisement for coastal flights, featuring a greased-up woman in a bikini, with the header: “Check Out The Oil On Our Beaches.” This ad is particularly tacky for multiple reasons– exploiting women as well as the oil crisis. This time, it’s not just the feminists who are [...]
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Following in the very noble footsteps of Pat Roberston, Jerry Falwell, and their ilk, a Houston minister has declared the latest oil spill crisis was the fault of…abortions! Preacher Joseph Herrin has announced that the Spirit of Christ revealed to him a parable in the BP Oil Spill: that Planned Parenthood, and abortion-rights advocates were [...]
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In 2009, Reuters wrote that Elton John receives a $2 million fee when he performs at private weddings. (Only the Rolling Stones receive more, a reported $8 million.) And almost all of the proceeds from his private concerts go to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. So, what happened this weekend when John performed at Rush [...]
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