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It's Not All Skinny Love
The fashion world is oft misconstrued as lovin’ on the skinny-types and leaving us with un-concaved bellies and fleshy arms feeling lovelorn. However this is an undue misconception which must be elimi...
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Justin Bieber and Double Standards
Justin Bieber may be the closest my generation will ever get to Beatlemania. The kid sings purely romantic non-graphic songs about his "baby" (that would be you, dear 13 year old girls of the world) a...
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Anybody Else Freaked Out By Child Beauty Pageants?
I have to ask this question: am I the only one who's completely freaked out by child beauty pageants? I mean, whenever I'm flipping through our 900 channels (887 of which are useless) and happen acros...
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Sexism in Science
You know what makes me angry? The fact that I apparently can’t do science because I have a vagina. Now, I didn’t think that my gender was damaging my math and science skills, but I guess having breast...
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Banish Girl Hate Today
I’ll admit it: I used to be a hater. After I hit 13, for whatever reason, I started to really, really dislike other girls. I was constantly jealous of them, hated when they talked to my array of (of...
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Female Chauvinist (Caramel Colored) Pig
I'll admit it. The first time I watched the video for California Gurls, I thought it was pretty cool. Until Katy Perry went crazy with the whipped cream on her boobs. Of course, from the beginning of ...
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"Phat" Girl in a Skinny World
When you're the only fat girl in your 2nd grade class, kids can be pretty mercilous. As someone who's been overweight their entire life I've heard every joke and jab imaginable: ugly, fat-ass, puffer ...
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Sparknotes Gender Test and Gender Stereotypes
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Ok, the gender test on the Sparknotes website really pisses me off.
Their claim: "Guys...
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Teen Girls and Twilight: Why Do We Buy It?
After reading Dodai at Jezebel's minute-by-minute blog of Eclipse, I thought that I could finally pass on an opportunity to fund Twilight mania. Alas, I was wrong: the dark cyclone of doom that is Ste...
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July 01, 2010 | Rachel P |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
Seixsm and the Double Bass
Like Esperenza Spalding, I too, am a female double bassist, with the greatest of respect for the wonderful things that Esperenza does - especially with first-hand knowledge of the blatant misogyny tha...
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Is This A Problem of Education?
I know this is a common topic of feminist conversations, but the problem comes back very often in my daily life: jealous (I should say almost mad) boyfriends who alienate their naive girlfriends.
Gra...
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June 20, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Girls,
International,
Violence against women
An Interview with Zainab Salbi
When Zainab Salbi started Women for Women International, an organization that provides women survivors of war and other conflicts with tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability ...
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Quite the (Un)Feminist Dilemma
As much as I try, I cannot live in a void. Sure, I can keep to myself, read when none of my LadyFriends are around, ignore the douche dude in class when he's mumbling, "You think so because you're a w...
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Indian Muslim Women: Excluded from Indian Feminism?
In India, the Dar-ul-Uloom's (an Islamic school propagating Sunni Islam in India) recently declared a new fatwa which states that it is un-Islamic for women to work with men and talk to them. The fatw...
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June 06, 2010 | Anne C |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism
Body Acceptance
Body image is an issue for a lot of teenage girls, and especially for me. After struggling with a weird relationship with food for the past few years, I’ve recently tried to stop worrying about what ...
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Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
Some of you may have already heard about the awesome new anthology "Click: When We Knew Were Feminists" edited by Courtney Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan. The FBomb is lucky enough (and let's just sa...
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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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Brilliance is Human
We’ve all read about the studies and statistics on girls in school- that we self-defeat in math and science, that we don’t speak up in class. That we’re afraid. But what about when our teachers and ...
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May 11, 2010 | Morgan SW |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism
A Good Look In The Mirror
Big. Small. Fat. Ugly. Moles. Flat. Round. Mediocre.Voluptuous.
I’d say I think about my body and my body size at least 10 times a day. After all, any time I go out (or stay in my house) I see images...
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Why Was I The One Who Was Ashamed?
The other day, I was home from college and sitting at the back table with my mother where we were talking about the state of the world. I had brought up an article sitting before me in The Week about ...
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How Feminism Helps Everyone (Not Just The Women)
Feminism has changed and evolved throughout history; so has public regard towards it. From the suffragettes to the reproductive revolutionists, all feminists, though separated into many facets all hav...
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Prom, Dresses and Body Image Issues
I’m looking for a prom dress at the moment. Okay, maybe I’m not. Perhaps a more accurate description of my current activities is that I’m writing this lot a rambling spiel, whilst conveniently skiving...
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April 15, 2010 | Christina B |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Equality
I am a face of change
No you are not deranged
Change of what? you ask
Change that the underanged see
Female Stereotypes
I am still a face of change
And you are still not deranged
You tell me you don’...
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Jessica Simpson and "The Price Of Beauty"
VH1 is notorious for its truly amazing decisions about television programming, and now it can add “The Price of Beauty” to its track record.
Jessica Simpson makes the argument that her new show is go...
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Hot Topic Thinks Cutting Is Cool
I didn't even know what "cutting" was until around middle school when a friend of mine casually called a girl in our grade a "cutter." When I asked her what a cutter was she told me it was a person wh...