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March 17, 2011 | Hira B |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Violence against women
My Body Isn't An Invitation for Sexual Harassment
I’m a fourteen year-old girl and I wear a DD bra. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked what bra size I wear, and my response has always been, “It’s none of your business.” No matter how f...
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What Is Rape Culture?
There is a married woman and her husband works long nights and doesn’t return until the early morning. When her husband is away, the wife gets dressed up and goes to an island where she has affairs wi...
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March 09, 2011 | Dina L |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Race/Ethnicity
GaGa: The Image of a Pop-Star
I was lucky enough to recently see Lady Gaga in concert–it was fantastic. She was fantastic (her voice is really good), the show was fantastic, and the world that she created onstage was fantastic. If...
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From the Paris of the Middle East to Bacha Posh
Afghanistan has had a rough time in recent history. The sudden transformation from fashionable escape for the West to war-torn warlord-ruled landscape to complete Taliban control (and now it seems tha...
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March 02, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Arts and culture,
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
International,
Misogyny,
Politics
Mary Cassatt: Where Are The Female Artists?
This semester in school I'm taking an Art History class. Full disclosure: I actually did not choose to be in this class, but because of scheduling conflicts was funneled in. In fact, I'm artistically ...
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Rebuttals to Sexist Arguments
I have this friend who's in the year below me who insists that certain sexist institutions within society should be tolerated based on the fact that a couple million years ago there was a biological b...
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February 22, 2011 | Regina |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity,
Religion
The Link Between Beauty, Privilege and the Media
We don’t live in a vacuum. Our ideas, our lexicon, and our beliefs are shaped by outside forces like society, culture, environment, and religion. Fields like sociology and anthropology prove that.
Wo...
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February 21, 2011 | Lindsey T |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Health,
International,
Media
Paris Gyms: Enter At Your Own Risk
From a very young age my mother instilled in me a certain logic, if you can call it that. There were clothes that could be worn to school, to friends houses, out to dinner and to events and then there...
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February 20, 2011 | Jenae S |
Body image and body standards,
Education,
Feminism,
Health,
LGBTQIA,
Misogyny
More Than A Vagina: A Critique of the Vagina Monologues
For anyone who doesn't know, The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler. Each monologue deals with an issue relating to the vagina. Topics cover everything from love and masturb...
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Silvio Berlusconi and Italian Women
You may have heard about the private behaviour of Silvio Berlusconi - the male chauvinist politician that opened his door to protégées and lovers. Add this to Italian culture of degrading media and th...
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February 15, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Economy,
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Misogyny
Masculinity: From A Feminine Perspective
It pains me a little bit to say this, but I have to admit it. I'm kind of a hypocrite. I've spent over a year on this blog exploring most every facet of being a teen girl in this culture through a fem...
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Notes on Beauty
When I was nine years old, I secretly dreamed of becoming a model.
I still wanted to be a writer, of course, but hey, a girl can dream, right? My family doctor had told my parents that because of the...
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February 13, 2011 | Marie L |
Body image and body standards,
Education,
Feminism,
Health,
Politics,
Violence against women
Cut Title X? I Don't Think So.
First the Hyde Amendment, then the reduction in women's services under the new health care bill, and then the attempt to redefine rape - this is really getting under my hackles. Here comes the GOP men...
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Saturday Vids: Katie Makkai "Pretty"
I came across this video while researching performance poetry for a competition I'm involved in at school, and I was floored by how truthful and beautifully written and performed it is.
...
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The Future West Point Cadet and Military Axe Grinding
Not a single female was to be found in my first semester history course.
Our class discussed this curious state of affairs extensively, and it was decided after much deliberation that another history...
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February 06, 2011 | Alana M |
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Misogyny,
Online harassment,
Science and tech
"Smack A Slut Week" is No Laughing Matter
These days, the only way I can get my friends together is through Facebook. That handy little "Events" section has really helped organize my social life. So, imagine my surprise when I logged on tod...
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What Penalty For Sexism in Sport?
Anyone living in Britain at the moment would have to be hiding under a rock to have missed the current Sky news sexism row. It hasn’t quite got its own ‘-gate’ suffix yet but it’s surely only a matte...
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Femen: How Ukraine Does Feminist Protesting
The relationship between feminists and our bodies is a complicated one. Where as our general goal is to have ownership of and the ability to make choices about our bodies, we're stuck in a society tha...
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Girls and Geekdom: The Team Unicorn Conundrum
The girls of Team Unicorn just can’t seem to win. They are hot girls and nerds, yet they find themselves rejected by both women and nerds. Team Unicorn’s video Geek and Gamer Girls made its way thro...
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Effects of Feminism Not Reachable to All Indian Women?
Recently Indian newspapers have been flooded with reports about the Dar-ul-Uloom?s (an Islamic school propagating Sunni Islam in India) fatwa stating that it is un-Islamic for women to work with men. ...
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Saturday Vids: Kids Interviewed About Gender
*Sigh* looks like gender stereotypes aren't exactly being alleviated with the next generation. I mean, seriously, the parents who let their child wear safety goggles to the TV interview weren't open m...
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January 19, 2011 | Cherokee S |
Body image and body standards,
Economy,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Science and tech
Get Thin or Die Trying
In outrage, my mum showed me an article in UK newspaper The Evening Standard and told me to read it. More or less, after finishing the article, I was in shock. I couldn’t believe what I had just read....
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January 18, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
Health,
International,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Violence against women
Beauty Pageants: What You Should Do Instead
I usually don't pay attention to beauty pageants anymore. My reasons for hating them are pretty obvious and I've written about them here before. They blatantly objectify women. If they're boosting "se...