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April 07, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Miley Cyrus is glamourous!
I don't want to be a hater. I also don't want to give off the impression that I specifically hate Miley Cyrus, because in reality I don't hate Miley Cyrus. I don't know Miley, and besides her proclivi...
WMC News & Features
Communicating with Jane Fonda
Not content merely to speak to her Broadway audience eight times a week through a critically acclaimed performance, Jane Fonda is blogging daily and twittering nightly. She finds herself hooked on the instant feedback.
WMC FBomb
March 16, 2009 | Hannah S |
Arts and culture,
Media
Hannah Montana Sucks
It really bothers me that a couple of years ago I would have bought a ticket to see a show like the Jonas Brothers or Hannah Montana or whatever that girl goes by now. Not only is she completely self-...
WMC News & Features
Finding a Media Career that Suits Me—Not My Image of Myself
From an early age, the author had a particular kind of career in mind. And, rapidly, she was realizing her dreams working in network television—until she stepped back and took another look at what she wanted in life.
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February 28, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Men Who Roam Times Square are Winners...
Feminists are lesbians! We can vote, why don't we just shut up?
And my personal favorite quote: "They got their amendment passed in 1920 why are they still bitching about equal rights?"
Um, becau...
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February 27, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like…
Look guys Juno's mom!!! And I think I counted, like, half the cast of Ugly Betty. And they look normal...even...pretty (WHAT A CONCEPT!!!)...
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February 27, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like…
Look guys Juno's mom!!! And I think I counted, like, half the cast of Ugly Betty. And they look normal...even...pretty (WHAT A CONCEPT!!!)...
WMC FBomb
February 27, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Chuck Norris
Urban Dictionary Says:
"Chuck Norris uses Tabasco Sauce for eye drops. Chuck Norris can sneeze with his eyes open. Chuck Norris got a perfect score on his SATs simply by writing Chuck Norris for...
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February 27, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Midwest Teen Sex Show
http://midwestteensexshow.com/
I love this website. Funny...and informative.
Usually when adults try to reach out to us it's ridiculously ineffective and funny for a different reason but this one is...
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February 27, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Diablo Cody
I love Diablo Cody. Everyone has an opinion on Juno- considering the whole teen pregnancy thing. I've heard everything from how implausible it is for a teenager in Juno's situation to be that smart (b...
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February 27, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
He Was Actually Our President…
The best of George W. Bush
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
"You work three jobs?...Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." - to a ...
WMC FBomb
February 27, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
He Was Actually Our President…
The best of George W. Bush
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
"You work three jobs?...Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." - to a ...
WMC FBomb
February 27, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Oldies But Goodies
These are some of my favorite idiotic celebrity quotes of all time. They're not recent but every time I read them I feel better about myself. Enjoy.
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Cana...
WMC FBomb
February 26, 2009 | Aly G |
Arts and culture,
Media
Teeny-Boppers
In the last year I think I've started to find myself as a person, as cheesy as that sounds, and my taste in music has changed a lot, it's gotten a lot better! I used to just listen to all the tee...
WMC FBomb
Love Twilight?
I do. There's a lot of shit in there I don't agree with- for one Bella is probably the stupidest protagonist ever, and of course, that her one goal in life is to give her soul to a guy, sacrificing ed...
WMC News & Features
The Fox Disconnect
As part of a Women’s Media Center campaign demanding that Bill O’Reilly apologize for his personal, sexist attack on the legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas, Courtney Martin, a member of the WMC Progressive Women’s Voices program, appeared on The O’Reilly Factor this week to drive the message home. Here is Martin's account of the experience and its aftermath. (The WMC also received hundreds of hateful, profanity-laced, sometimes threatening emails and calls after calling for O’Reilly’s apology)
WMC News & Features
Changing the World, One Blog at a Time
The author, WMC’s media manager, understood the potential of networking. But the true power of the web for advocacy hit home when an injustice threatened her family. Here she describes how anyone can use the process.
WMC News & Features
Mothers Linked World Wide
They met in Toronto and cemented a movement of mothers that now promises a global network, with a website and a wide-ranging set of objectives. The author helped film a documentary tracing their progress.
WMC News & Features
NBC Looks Backward with “Meet the Press” Pick
Another white male journalist is about to join the TV networks’ Sunday morning lineup—and it’s not as though there were no women, or men of color, to choose from. NBC demonstrates, at the very least, a surprising lack of imagination in this year of diversity.
WMC News & Features
November 24, 2008 | Hamedah Hasan, Melissa Mummert |
Arts and culture,
International,
Media,
Politics
Concrete Bed
As a result of Draconian federal sentencing laws imposed since the 1980s, the author, caught on the edges of her cousin’s cocaine-selling operation, remains locked up despite what her trial judge called her “extraordinary rehabilitation.” While we seek out family during this holiday season, she longs for her three daughters and hopes that a documentary about her case will influence judicial policy makers.
WMC News & Features
What Is the True Story of McCain’s Wartime Experience?
Journalists have had years to vet John McCain’s account of wartime heroism in Vietnam. But no real critique of its veracity has emerged from leading media outlets. Reporters and commentators remain remarkably disinclined to investigate a major underpinning of McCain’s argument that he is qualified to be commander-in-chief. Here, historian Mary Hershberger questions why.
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The New Media Message For Women
While the old boys’ network continues to dominate mainstream media, women are tending to look elsewhere for their news and information. This year, the blogosphere has emerged as a powerful venue for women’s political activity as well.
WMC News & Features
Speaking of Change: Women Broadcasters Deliver
Two thirds of the way through the male-moderated presidential debates, history has turned in this election when women broadcasters played a role.
WMC News & Features
Keeping Hold of Your Vision—the Making of Hounddog
One of the dirty secrets of the film business is that it takes women directors a long time to get their films made. The Women, which opened recently, took Diane English 14 years to bring to the screen; other examples include Tamara Jenkins award-winning The Savagesand Kimberly Peirce's Stop-Loss, which took 10 years each. Writer/director Deborah Kampmeier joins this illustrious club with her own decade long trek to see her filmHounddog starring Dakota Fanning finally released in theatres.
WMC News & Features
Women Film Critics: An Endangered Species?
Mainstream media paid scant attention to Martha Lauzen's "Thumbs Down: Representation of Women Film Critics in the Top 100 U.S. Daily Newspapers" when the report was published on July 28 by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ), although the posting was supported by simultaneous distribution to 500 entertainment media and movie industry A-listers.