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August 30, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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(500) Days of Summer is revenge disguised as a cute, indie movie
I enjoyed (500) Days of Summer. It had its moments despite the fact that the entire film was essentially an extended explanation for the writer's hatred of one woman, because she was crazy enough not...
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August 30, 2009 | Danielle C |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Porcelain and the Tramps
The first time I ever heard the name 'Porcelain and the Tramps', I was randomly searching YouTube (as one does on a boring Saturday morning) and their song Gasoline popped up in that Related Videos ba...
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August 28, 2009 | Becka W |
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Mad Men Puts Things in Perspective
So recently on my Netflix account (how did we ever live without this miraculous invention?), I’ve been taking out every DVD of the TV show Mad Men and watching them incessantly with my roommate. As...
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The New Miss Universe Thinks We're Post-Feminism
Stefania Fernandez, the 18-year-old Miss. Venezuela, won the 2009 Miss Universe crown on Sunday.
Normally, I'd probably just sigh and say something sassy. To me, the reasons why beauty pageants ar...
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August 22, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Jenny Owen Youngs
Born in New Jersey in 1981 and raised in the usual suburban surroundings, Youngs first picked up the guitar at the age of 14 and attended the music program at the State University of New York at Pur...
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Glamour Magazine's September Issue Gets it Right
I do not read Glamour magazine. My sister's friend, however, does. So when flipping through the September issue with them, I was happy to see this:
A non-airbrushed photo of model Lizzie Miller.
M...
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The Archie-type
When I was in third or fourth grade, my Dad brought home an Archie comic, with some kind of sentiment like, "These used to be around when I was little!" I vividly remember being confused by phrases su...
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it's funny cuz it's true...?
Apparently, there’s a whole range of animated sketches about Jordanians (and Arabs in general) up on Youtube. Now, I’m not saying they’re not humorous at all—a lot of people think they’re absolutely h...
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August 15, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Little Jackie
Blend the old-school R&B sound with a quirky hybrid of hip-hop and pop and you get Little Jackie, the creation of genre-defying singer-songwriter Imani Coppola and collaborator Adam Pallin.
Th...
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August 14, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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They tried that in the 90's
I'm always complaining about how Gossip Girl and 90210 and that crap are completely unrealistic to teenagers' lives. They depict angst...but not the angst we feel - the superficial angst that everybod...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Bikini Kill
It's baaaaaaack.
This week - a little history lesson. The post on Care Bears on Fire, and the comments about the riot grrrl movement got me thinking. Most girls my age don't even know what the riot ...
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The Sodini Killings
You probably have already heard about the kilings that took place by the hand of George Sodini in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania on Tuesday night.
Sodini, a 48-year-old man entered an LA Fitness center ...
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Care Bears on Fire
It was a summer afternoon like any other. I was sprawled across the couch with a pack of twizzlers in one hand and a large iced coffee in the other, two food-items that are essential to my survival. T...
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The Fatal Generalizations in the Teen Movie
Teen movies very obviously base themselves on harmless stereotypes: the jock, the bitch, the nerd, etc.-- stereotypes so deeply rooted into our expectations of the genre that we can't be bothe...
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Assiya Rafiq is my hero
Assiya Rafiq of Pakistan was sold at 16 by a female family friend to two criminals who were related to prominent politicians. The men beat and raped her for the next year, un...
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Twitter and gendered language
Of all the things to spark a debate over the lack of gender neutrality in language, I really hadn't expected Twitter.
Twitter seems to get a lot of flack. Upon telling people that I have a twitte...
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Carol Smith: Women are Better Managers
The New York Times has an interview with Carol Smith, the senior vice president and chief brand officer at the media company the Elle Group. And she makes some pretty admirable statements.
I think it...
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Vandalize Gay
In my nominally liberal suburb of Washington, D.C., the sight of two mommies or daddies and their adorable offspring is not uncommon. In fact, the suburb adjacent to mine, renowned as a bastion of hi...
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Joss Whedon's Equality Now Speech
Joss Whedon is the creator of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dollhouse. He's also awesome. I'm not too familiar with his work, but I've always admired him as a feminist icon, as ...
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feminist chat with the rad Nikki Darling
Nikki Darling recently interviewed me for her blog, and we had a very cool chat.
Nikki Darling is a feminist music critic who writes for the LA Weekly and was the former interviews editor at LA Rec...
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MTSS goes CC
Remember when I posted that video from the fantabulous Midwest Teen Sex Show? Well, I just found out, thanks to WMC, that Comedy Central invited MTSS to make a full-length pilot episode this summer ...
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Midwest Teen Sex Show: Can Sex Ed Actually Be Entertaining?
As the author reports, the creators of the podcast believe humor and honest information about sex for teens do mix, and programmers at Comedy Central think they may be on to something.
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The REAL Ugly Truth
Has anyone else been seeing the commercials for the Ugly Truth movie and been worried about it?
Ever since I first saw an ad for it, I got the feeling that it was another movie that exploits the ster...
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Maddow v. Buchanan over Sotomayor
I'm honestly not even sure I can articulate my feelings about this video. It makes me sick that this is how some people view affirmative action. It makes me sick to see how white supremacy is still al...
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The Music Industry and It's Best Friend, Sexism
Despite my passion for music, I doubt I could ever succeed in the music business. My reasons for this are very simple: I am overweight, I don’t wear makeup and I don’t keep up with current trends, and...