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Saturday Vids: SMART GIRLS AT THE PARTY IS BACK!!
Wow, I think I got a good portion of my excitement out in the caps-heavy title, but SERIOUSLY, SMART GIRLS AT THE PARTY IS BACK!!! I love it.
Find more videos like this on Smart Girls at the Party...
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Saturday Vids: Feminist Attack on Snack Factory's Pretzels
In case you haven't already seen Snack Factory's disgusting new ad for their "thin" pretzel crisps, have a gander:
Disgusting, right? Well, thankfully, one guy decided to fight back with creativity ...
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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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Saturday Vids: Nona Willis Aronowitz & Feminist Experimentation
You may remember Nona from the post I wrote about GirlDrive (her really super awesome book) and her guest post about Hooking Up. Well, Nona recently did some social experimentin' involving feminism, t...
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Saturday Vids: Modern Lady & Beer Ads
When Sarah Haskins and Target Women left Current TV, a little part of me died. But then they found Erin Gibson and I'm slowly learning to love again! Enjoy!
Oh, by the way, this whole "Saturday Vid...
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Huge and Feminist Stereotypes
Yet again, the media continues to fail with another horribly unrealistic feminist character. I was interested in the new series "Huge" and how this show would portray body image issues. However, when ...
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Forever 21's Materntiy Line and the Normalization of Teen Pregnancy
I am 17, and when I close my eyes and think of what my life would be like if I were to become pregnant in the near future, my cynical mind goes here: I am holding a tiny child that is crying and spitt...
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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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Unnatural Causes: Feminism and Health Care
Health care reform is on everyone’s radar these days after we’ve watched Obama’s plan go through change after change before being passed this year. It’s been on my radar as a feminist because of the w...
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Pretty Little Liars and Teen Sexuality
Pretty Little Liars-- yes, that Pretty Little Liars, the one on ABC Family with the ads that looked like it was a show about undead prom queens-- is, at least kinda, doing teen sexuality right.
I’m j...
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Shh, Don't Say the F-Word
I'm a feminist. Man, that feels good.
I've been a feminist all my life but didn't realize it until a few weeks ago when I checked out a twenty-pound stack of books from the library (everything from J...
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June 23, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Economy,
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Science and tech
Girl Scout and Dr. Phil to Testify at Congressional Hearing on Cyberbullying
The advent of new media in recent years has been both a blessing and a curse to the youth of the world. Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites, we can hop on the computer and ha...
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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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Ladette to Lady: How to be an Acceptable Human Being
A while ago I was off school ill and, in the grips of extreme and irreversible boredom, I started browsing through 4OD (for those who don’t know, that’s the website of the UK Channel 4 which allows yo...
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Owning Up to My "Number"
A few days ago, I took a huge step in the self-confidence department. I was reading Jessica Valenti’s Full-Frontal Feminism (a particular favorite of mine) for the fifth time, and her chapter about wo...
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A Generation of Prosti-tots
Last year, I worked at an after-school day care center for kids in preschool-6th grade. Basically, after a long day at school, I hauled my ass to work where for 3 hours I was surrounded by a bunch of ...
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Feminist Vlogging
It seems like blogging is a pretty accepted form of spreading the feminist word. However, we don't talk about those who are doing some awesome feminist vlogging. I thought today I'd share some of the ...
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Questions about Lesbianism
My name is Vanessa Fernando. I’m a writer, a dark chocolate addict, a vegetarian, a lady-loving lady, a repressed cat lover and an undergrad at McGill University majoring in History and Women’s Studie...
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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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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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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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September 19, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Mary Travers
On September 16th, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary passed away. This Support Women Artists Sunday goes out to her. I respect her not only because Peter, Paul and Mary had some bangin tunes (serio...
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September 04, 2009 | Becka W |
Media
Forget Those Toolkits, Ladies: He's Broken
I’m hangin’ out, watching TV, and as I flip channels I just happened to come across the season premiere of the TV Show Tool Academy.
I’ve always had issues respecting the people who go on these kinds...
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August 28, 2009 | Becka W |
Media
Mad Men Puts Things in Perspective
So recently on my Netflix account (how did we ever live without this miraculous invention?), I’ve been taking out every DVD of the TV show Mad Men and watching them incessantly with my roommate. As...
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The Archie-type
When I was in third or fourth grade, my Dad brought home an Archie comic, with some kind of sentiment like, "These used to be around when I was little!" I vividly remember being confused by phrases su...