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Too Sexual or Not Sexual Enough?
I recently saw a commercial for lingerie football. Basically, it's a bunch of "hot"women running around playing tackle football in their underwear. At first I was appalled. Why is it that women don...
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Anorexia and Bulimia In Our Culture: Unspoken Questions
There isn't exactly a "name" for this topic so, here, i'll try to spell it out for you. It's a topic that affects me personally and deeply, but also something that is very rarely talked about in the e...
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Military Draft and Reverse Sexism
One or two years ago, I was taking my first Women’s Studies class at my college and it began my infatuation with feminism. Naturally, I had mixed feelings at first between agreeing with my teacher’s p...
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Being A Gay Teen at Homecoming
I was at homecoming this past weekend and, given my miraculously heightened sense of male gender roles, I made a few interesting observations that I would like to share with the wild internet west. Al...
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October 11, 2010 | Courtney F |
Feminism,
Violence against women
A Modern Rant on Modern Feminism
The past few days I’ve noticed some hating going on towards modern feminism on tumblr, and hey, everyone’s entitled to their own opinions, but it still frustrates me. I don’t think people really under...
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Street Harassment and Sluts
I’m currently studying abroad in Quito, Ecuador, and I love nearly all of it so far. One of the things I do NOT love, however, is the prevalence of harassment here. I'm kind of accustomed to harassmen...
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Easy A and Teenage Sexuality
Whether we were actually at the party where it went down or heard about it at school the Monday after, we've all witnessed it. Two people hook up. As they walk into school, the rumor spreads with thei...
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Bitches Get Stuff Done
Just do a search on Facebook with the name of Australia’s new Prime Minister Julia Gillard and you’ll get a page full of results that poke fun at her due to her gender. To pick the two most popular pa...
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Women in Pre-Code Film
Pre-production code films were made from 1929-1934. They were interesting, because they explored subjects that would be relevant in today’s society. They had themes of violence, drug abuse, and sexu...
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September 14, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Violence against women
Political Correctness: Where's the Line?
This past week, my school’s website posted a link to my blog. This resulted in many of my peers who to my knowledge had generally thought of me as the random girl who sits in the corner (or hadn’t tho...
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Purity Balls: Why is our viriginity anybody's business but our own?
I’d be surprised if this is your first time hearing about
Purity Balls. The issue has been beaten to death - both by Christian conservatives who think they’re the keenest thing since toilet paper, an...
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Swiffer Brings “Sexist” a Whole New Meaning
I love television. I willingly gave 6 years of my life to Lost, watch the Daily Show for ALL of my news, and I can’t even do my homework on my laptop without first checking Hulu for updates on shows ...
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"The Woman": Feminism and Fashion
As the season changes, so do fashion trends; Elle, Vogue and many other magazines have shifted focus from bikinis to boots. This brought a thought to my mind about something that is supposedly back in...
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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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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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Julia Gillard and Why We Still Need Feminism
As of June 24th, Australia now has a female Prime Minister. I’m not sure how big the news is overseas, but here, there’s been a lot of commotion. Julia Gillard is the 27th Prime Minister of our countr...
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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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Affirmative Action?
Maren H. wrote a great piece on the importance of feminism and focused on gender discrimination in hiring. It coincided with something that ticked me off today so here is my rant.
As my tradition-bou...
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Nickels for Change
We would like to see some change in the world.
And that's why we have started Nickels for Change.
We go to a science and engineering school, chock full of boys who perpetuate rape culture. Rape joke...
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How Are Teenage Girls Supposed to Identify as Feminists With These Role Models?
She’s staring at me like I’ve just insinuated she embodies the anti-Christ. “A feminist? No, I’m not a feminist. Oh my God.” Despite the fact that this classmate of mine just spent ten minutes ranting...
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March 28, 2010 | Vimbai D |
Feminism
A Sibling Comparison
During a fairly casual History lesson, a few classmates, my teacher and I were talking about our families, in particular how our parents treat us in comparison to our siblings. All the expected things...
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