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To Educate A Girl
I’ve often wondered if those who are provided with less, make more with what they are given. A few weeks ago, I went to a screening of a documentary called To Educate A Girl, and was convinced once ag...
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The Flip Side of the Coin, or Just Because I'm Skinny Doesn't Mean I Have An Eating Disorder
It’s a common presumption in our society that if you’re female, tall and skinny, you have it all. You are the perfect woman: you have the attributes of a high fashion model, and you should be extremel...
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Sexist Memes: Funny or Not?
While I understand that there is humour in provocation, this meme (the picture to the left) that's been making the rounds on websites like 9gag and We Know Memes made me throw up in my mouth a little....
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March 18, 2012 | Callie B |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Media
Why the Jersey Shore is No Longer On My DVR List
When I first saw Miss Representation it stunned me—in the best of ways. I didn’t immediately take the time to reflect on it, but then a few nights ago I was unlucky enough to witness the newest Carl’s...
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Saturday Vids: Meghan McCain On Media's Criticism Of Body
Political disagreements aside, I have to respect Meghan McCain's recent discussion about her body: specifically her criticism of the way the media has responded to her body and her refusal to change a...
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Lewd, Hateful Language Should Have No Place in Campus Debate
An anticipated commencement address set off a rhetorical firestorm that sickened the author, a Barnard undergrad who calls for action by her campus community.
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Small Steps On The Feminist Journey
I can’t pinpoint one event that transformed me into a feminist activist – rather, a succession of small personal events led to a decision to co-found my own women’s rights organization and make a life...
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Yorkie: Not Just For The Blokie
The majority of us in the UK will remember the controversial 2002 campaign for the chunky, ‘King size, not Queen sized’ Yorkie chocolate bar. This campaign's primary slogan stated daringly: ‘It’s Not ...
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Saturday Vids: Awesome Teen On Relationships
densing11 on "our culture's expectancy of marriage & relationship and how it affects the self-worth of particularly younger girls." Some damn good advice.
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Doctors, Nurses And One Terrific Professor
Recently, I was taking a course on linguistics, and we were discussing syntax. My professor asked the class-- a room of roughly a hundred English students, mostly female-- what pronoun to use when rep...
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Oscar and the Usual Suspects
Women's absence from Best Director nominees only reflects the industry's dismal hiring statistics, as demonstrated in the author's annual Celluloid Ceiling study.
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Jean Kilbourne's "Killing Us Softly"
As Grand Rapids, Michigan yawned good morning at 7:45 am and the sun began blinking hello, I sat in my human sexuality and relationships class, watching one of the best videos I have ever seen in an a...
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Maybe SHE'S Just Not That Into You
A friend of mine recently created a zine about the slut/stud double standard for a electives course called Feminisms that she’s taking. She included various fairy-tale-esque ads she found in magazines...
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February 12, 2012 | Colleen L |
Arts and culture,
Education,
Feminism,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours
In its formative days (in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and then in the 1960s and ‘70s), feminism was, above all, about promoting equal social and political citizenship for women. Contempora...
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Transgender: An Overview
Many people don’t know what being transgender means. I, not being transgendered, don’t fully understand every aspect of it either but my fiancée is in the middle of transitioning so I want to express ...
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January 24, 2012 | Ashley B |
Feminism
Let Me Buy You Dinner
“Let me buy you dinner,” he said with a smile. He looked at me with confidence. He was close to me in age, and handsome. His actions were presumably innocent. On the surface, there was no reason for m...
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January 22, 2012 | Toni FG |
Education,
Feminism,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Science and tech,
Violence against women
I Am A Huge Slut
Recently, I participated, in a willing, great hook-up. The week before I participated in a willing make-out session. I just moved to a new town. I don't know anyone around here that well, and the unfo...
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Saturday Vids: Riley On Marketing
In which a little girl realizes gender is a construct and that girls and boys can both like pink and superheros. I want one just like this.
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Countering Hatred on the Internet
Let’s face it: hatred on the internet is big. Hatred of all varieties including sexism, racism and homophobia (etc.) are found everywhere online, and some sites in particular are known as a breeding g...
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Is This Really What I'm Going To Face?
I've always wanted to be a historian, and not just your run of the mill historian but one that changes the study and review of the discipline. But I've faced a problem, it's such a subtle problem that...
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Rudolph the Sexist Reindeer
With the holiday season just behind us, we’re all probably a little tired of Christmas movies. Many, it seems, are tired of one specific movie: Rankin/Bass' "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". As a you...
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December 13, 2011 | Rebekah R |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
Way Too Teeny Weeny Itsy Bitsy
A few months ago I was watching TV while running on my basement treadmill when a news story flashed across the screen. The breaking story? Bikinis for babies.
Needless to say the feminist in me was f...
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Saturday Vids: How To Hit On An Asian Girl
It's sad that these things need to be spelled out, but there it is.
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Saying No To Rape Culture
My name is Brenna, I'm eighteen, and I've been glossy-magazine-free for nine months now. That's right. Back at the advent of 2011, I decided to eschew Cosmo, Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Marie Claire, L...
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A Rant About My Sexist Week
There has been too much sexism is surrounding me this week and it's really getting me down.
To start, a boy I know who I considered one of my friends and who knew about my intolerance for sexism thou...