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Shh, Don't Say the F-Word
I'm a feminist. Man, that feels good.
I've been a feminist all my life but didn't realize it until a few weeks ago when I checked out a twenty-pound stack of books from the library (everything from J...
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June 18, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Violence against women
Perez, Miley and Slut Shaming
Last Sunday, gossip blogger Perez Hilton made the controversial decision to post a photo of Miley Cyrus exiting a car on his twitter, implying that she was not wearing underwear. Now, the internet is ...
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Hayley Williams' Topless Photos: Who Cares?
So, as you may or may not have heard, a topless photo of Hayley
Williams was posted on her Twitter. The post was deleted fifteen
minutes later, and thirty minutes after that, another post appeared sa...
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Language Matters
Barack Obama was my sisters 2010 University of Michigan commencement speaker. He was incredible, but he said one thing that I immediately had a negative reaction to. He said, "Through periods of great...
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Female/Male Brain?
When I took an online 'female/male brain' quiz for class, it told me I have a male brain. I have a strong visuospatial sketchpad - I got nearly 100% on both an angles task and a rotation one. This is ...
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All The Way
Therese Shechter, the awesome documentarian who brought us I Was A Teenage Feminist, is it again, and this time she's tackling virginity with "How to Lose Your Virginity":
Our new trailer! "How To ...
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Belgian Burqa Ban
I just read an article about the vote in Belgium that led to a nationwide ban of wearing burqas in public.
On one hand, I can see where people who are for the ban are coming from. The burqa does have...
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May 16, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Misogyny,
Online harassment,
Science and tech,
Violence against women
National Punch a Slut Day
The facebook trolls who think they're hilarious for their misogynistic groups and events are at it again, folks!
Some FBomb readers and a recent Jezebel article alerted me to a series of "slut punchi...
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Owning Up to My "Number"
A few days ago, I took a huge step in the self-confidence department. I was reading Jessica Valenti’s Full-Frontal Feminism (a particular favorite of mine) for the fifth time, and her chapter about wo...
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March 04, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism
But You Don't Act Like A Feminist?
High school is a magical place. Throw a bunch of horny teenagers who are trying to figure out who the hell they are into a building that looks more like an insane asylum circa 1960 than a place of edu...
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The Healthy Aesthetic?
I’ve had a theory brewing in my head recently: if all the women in the United States were a size 2 yet as a society we still struggled with heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers then the “health...
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A Walking Chest
I was on an online forum when I saw that a girl asked the question: "Girls: would your life be easier without boobs?"
I thought about this for a moment. My chest is awkwardly large, a pain when it co...
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Uganda Be Kidding Me
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Let me see if I have this...
There exists something called the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009" in Uganda and through this...
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Back On Track
"And you know what they say--it's in your DNA!"
-Avenue Q, "If You Were Gay"
I stumbled upon this rather classic questionnaire here:
I decided to fill it out both to
A) Have some fun looking at hete...
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July 14, 2009 | Baykan O |
Feminism,
International
The Social Politics of Young Turkish Women
Being that I am ethnically Turkish, to grasp precisely what the "Western" view of its social attitude toward women is, poses a number of difficulties. In casual conversation, people are far more comfo...