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Anyone Care For a Vaginal Mint?
Scared of how you smell “down there?” Not satisfied with your oral sex life or foreplay? The makers of Linger, “Internal Feminine Flavoring,” have found a “solution” for this problem: Linger Inter...
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Billboard of aborted fetuses outside Phoenix high school
A few weeks ago, this 22-foot billboard truck, showing a first trimester aborted fetus, circled a Phoenix area high school. The billboards were sponsored by The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) [Wa...
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October 31, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley is one of my favorite singers of all time. I got the chance to see Next to Normal this past summer, and the entire show was insanely incredible - from the way they handled the topic o...
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Speaking Out Against CPC's
The Feminist Majority Campus Team has declared the week of Halloween (October 25-31) The CPC Week of Action, aimed at exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centers for what they really are: Pro-life organizations...
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The Disney Princesses and Sexism
I found this picture on feministing yesterday. Considering the response to my last post about Disney, I thought you guys might find this pic interesting.
I think the sexism they point out in the pi...
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October 26, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Economy,
Gender-based violence,
Media,
Online harassment,
Science and tech
That's Not Cool
It seems to me like our parents, and other various adults, are freaking out about the technology we have available to us today. I've always thought that if you're responsible --- you put up all the pr...
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From Media Blitz to Women’s Conference: Has Maria Shriver Discerned a Watershed Moment?
A Time magazine cover story and a week of programming on NBC immediately followed the release of The Shriver Report. This week, California’s First Lady will use the findings to engage participants in her annual conference on women. If the continuing activity fails to “ignite a national conversation,” it won’t be for lack of planning and effort.
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October 25, 2009 | Sarah F |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
International,
Media,
Violence against women
Feminist Action Can Save Lives
Living as a white teenage feminist in America, surrounded by so many other white teenage feminists, it's so easy to forget that feminism is so much more than just you and me. It's easy to forget that ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Kissing Cousins
Kissing Cousins front-tress Heather B. Heywood grew up in the ghetto-rural outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama in the home of her step-father, a charismatic Pentecostal preacher. Most of the congrega...
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“Why Aren’t You Smiling, Honey?”
The media and the blog world have been discussing women’s “happiness” quotient since a headlined Huffington Post item offered cumulated poll data indicating they weren’t. The author, who writes about and speaks to women now in their fifties and sixties, reports that she hears quite a different story.
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Artificial Virginity?
In this nation so full of blatantly sexualized imagery, it's hard not to feel numb when talking about sex. From the pretty graphic jokes that circulate through my high school (and, of this I'm sure, e...
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October 18, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday (On Monday!): Chix 6
Okay, I keep dropping the ball on Sundays. It's mostly because that's when I get more than 4 hours of sleep and do work for SCHOOL (not the fbomb...school...weird).
Anyway, I've been following this ...
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Mookychick Banned For Adult Content
Three years ago, I founded Mookychick.co.uk as an alternative online finishing school. I believed that, hey, all alternative girls are linked by curiousity, intelligence and a tiny feeling of 'the out...
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Julie Z on Feminist Magazine Radio
Wednesday night, I was a guest on Feminist Magazine Radio! Feminist Magazine Radio is "on the air to educate, advocate, inform, and entertain through a variety of feminist lenses. We provide the tool...
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Ralph Lauren...WTF?
Ralph Lauren has created some seriously disturbingly photoshopped ads lately:
Ralph Lauren's defense? They released this statement:
For over 42 years we have built a brand based on quality and inte...
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It’s Not a Man’s World or a Woman’s Nation
You’re going to be seeing a multimedia blitz about a new national study of women’s status called The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. Gloria Steinem gives you a preview of this project created by Maria Shriver and a D.C. think tank, and suggests ways you can use it and also judge its success.
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The Boy's Club of Comedy
Last night, at a stand up open mike, a kid I’d met just before doing my set told me afterward, “Nice job! I didn’t think you’d be funny!” I didn’t take this offensively. It was a compliment - a “NEG...
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Feminism and the Fashion Industry
I’m a fashion journalist. This is not, I’m guessing, exactly a great opening statement for a blog on a feminist website… Sorry.
The good news, though, is that I’m a teenage feminist fashion journalis...
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Gwen: The Homeless Doll
I'm not kidding. The same people who brought you Rebecca Rubin, Jewish doll by day, eco terrorist by night, are now introducing Gwen, the Homeless Doll.
Now, I've had my problems with the American G...
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Why I Want to be Swedish
Lemondrop.com is reporting that Swedish-based consumer advocacy group Reklamombudsmannen (love the name...) made a claim against Toys 'R' Us for featuring "outdated gender roles" in their 2008 Christm...
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October 03, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Karen O
It was as I was waiting in line at Starbucks this weekend (coffee is life), that I picked up a copy of the "Where The Wild Things Are" soundtrack. Considering that the song in the trailer was Wake Up ...
WMC News & Features
October 02, 2009 | Marcella Chester |
Arts and culture,
International,
Media,
Violence against women
What Consequences Should Roman Polanski Face After 32 Years?
The author, a rape survivor, takes a clear-eyed view of the Polanski case, sorting out both the needs of his victim and those of a society that cannot afford to tolerate sexual violence.
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Homecoming Week Montgomery Blair High School Style
My name is Diane A, and I lead the Women's Advocacy Group at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring Maryland. One of our most active members, Nellie B, is already a contributor to the f-bomb.
...
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Bust Magazine: Ellen, Alia and Teens oh my!
Every so often, a magical thing happens. I open the mailbox and buried beneath bills that have no relevance to me and the catalogues that try to sell me more useless crap, there is Bust Magazine. Toda...
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