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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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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You might know from some of my posts that I’m a fan of women’s (and men’s) sports. But it’s always been frustrating for me to find the results of women’s events. CNN.com is my primary source for sports but there is almost no women’s coverage there. On its main sports page, CNN has these tab [...]
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I always have a problem with Bill Maher. I almost always agree with what he says. And I thought his movie “Religulous” was hilarious. But I don’t like his “style” as a comedian and he sometimes is unnecessarily “anti” particular individuals. And his comments on women sometimes (often?) sound sexist. But, on his HBO show [...]
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There is a company in Reston, Virginia, named the Austin-Weston Center for Cosmetic Surgery. It frequently runs full-page ads in the Sunday Washington Post Magazine. The latest series of ads caught my feminist-attentive eye and appear to me to be at the least, strange, and at the most, stereotyping and discriminatory. The thing that caught [...]
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Friends of mine were showing me their photos from a recent trip to Spain. One of the photos was taken in the Church of Santa Maria la Mayor in Ronda, Spain. Remarkably, the photo is of a painting in the church that depicts the “Last Supper,” but with all women, including a female Christ. I [...]
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I was doing a crossword puzzle recently and one of the questions was to name the person who said: A woman’s place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight. I didn’t know the answer, but it turned out that the speaker was former “first [...]
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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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Periodically, I have written about language and feminist issues. For instance, see this post about the terms to use for the opposing sides in the abortion issue, this about “Stereotyping by Pronouns,” and this about jumping to conclusions about whether a flight attendant is female or male. It’s an interesting subject and one that contributes [...]
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