"feminists" Articles & Blogs:
Vamps, Vixens and Feminists: The Elephant in the Room
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This week in London the Sphinx Theatre Company, a feminist theatre company, organized a conference Vamps, Vixens and Feminists: The Elephant in the Room to look at gender and age discrimination in the arts. They seem to have gotten some high profile peo...[Read on] |
Vamps, Vixens and Feminists 2010: Fighting the Backlash
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Wish I could be in London for this. Hopefully we will have someone on site covering this for Women and Hollywood. Info here. Tickets – 5 pounds. Book tickets here.
Vamps, Vixens and Feminists 2010: Fighting the Backlash sponsored by t...[Read on] |
Supporters of Sarah Palin's "feminism" getting desperate
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It's been nearly a month since I wrote this
piece in The Washington Post about Sarah Palin's fake
feminism, and I'm still seeing responses to it - some awesome,
some...well, not. I've gotten emails calling me a jealous whore, seen
articles desperat...[Read on] |
A View from the Set: Gurinder Chadha
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There’s a special place in my heart for Gurinder Chadha the writer and director of one of my favorite films, Bend it Like Beckham. If you haven’t seen it yet, you must put it at the top of your Netflix list. That movie minted money all across the ...[Read on] |
Can Feminism and Box Office Mix?
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So Jennifer’s Body tanked at the box office. From what I can tell the word of mouth among women is way better than the word of mouth among men. Vic Holtreman at Screen Rant took a unscientific look at the breakdown of the what reviewer thought and f...[Read on] |
Tina Fey and What She Means to Women
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I’ve been watching this week at how Tina Fey has gotten bashed my my fellow feminist writers for her shtick on last week’s Saturday Night Live. Some of the criticism began even earlier with discussions of the “Liz Lemoning of TV” and her constan...[Read on] |
Feminists Talk Fempire
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The Diablo Cody Fempire story has legs. What I have been loving is seeing my fellow feminists weigh in. Most of us have been pretty positive about the piece. The film and gossip people, not so much. Even the NY Times film blog weighed in on the story...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin’s brand of “feminism” hurts women and further divides country
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While Sarah Palin’s laundry list of controversial views has incensed a broad spectrum of Americans, she has been an especially sharp thorn in the sides of feminists. And with her...
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A Little Humor Break
| Who says feminists aren’t funny.
Here’s a quick video from Megan Grano making light of the Cannes situation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iUJZpk08Ho
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Once more, with feeling: Sarah Palin is not a feminist
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Seriously, y'all - how many times does it have to be said? Sarah Palin is not a feminist. I thought we had covered Palin's gross appropriation of feminism and feminist rhetoric during the election, but media coverage of Palin's recent speech for the ant...[Read on] |
The cheerleading debate continues
| I am a little bit tired of talking about cheerleading but I have acquired a critical mass of stories (i.e. three) about cheerleading so it seemed to indicate that a blog post was in order.USA Today ran a point/counterpoint editorial on the merits ...[Read on] |
Diablo Cody IS a Feminist
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Diablo Cody is one of the figures who gets both the love and hate especially from other women. On the one side she used her sexuality (her stripper book and pole-dancing life) to get her break in Hollywood and I bet that meetings in Hollywood with Diabl...[Read on] |
Where's the feminist outrage over David Letterman?!?
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So conservatives think they're calling out feminists on the lack of response to David Letterman's recent reveal that he has slept with several members of his staff. Where are the protests, the outrage? To that, I have a similar reaction to Tracy at Broads...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminists of the Day: Eva Longoria-Parker and Rosario Dawson
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Kudos to Eva Longoria-Parker and Rosario Dawson for standing up and using their voices to protest the new immigration law in Arizona.
Here’s what Longoria-Parker said to Us Magazine:
I haven’t made it a secret that I’m strongly opposed to the Ar...[Read on] |
Pondering the Chick Flick
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Please check out my latest piece for the Women’s Media Center: Pondering the Chick Flick
Most women, including feminists, have a love/hate relationship with the chick flick. A mere mention of the term can send you into a lather bemoaning the disparage...[Read on] |
I'm Pretty. Therefore I Will Cut You.
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A sexist headline today on BBC, "Pretty Women 'Anger More Easily." A study done by the University of California found that women that considered themselves to be attractive, also seemed to have a temper, which led to the conclusion that "pretty women" are...[Read on] |
The Decisive, Successful Woman Wears Prada
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Vogue's Grace Coddington and Anna Wintour
From the day I first saw the trailer online, I was super excited to see The September Issue, the documentary about the making of Vogue's thickest issue of the year. I've long been fascinated by the popular port...[Read on] |
GirlDrive the book is out
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Two years after Nona Willis Aronowitz and the missed Emma Bee Bernstein hit the road for a journey across the country and into the minds of young women on the many states and forms of feminism, their book on their findings has been released. Here's the ...[Read on] |
Roman Polanski: The silence is deafening
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It seems that I am now officially obsessed with the Roman Polanski insanity. As I’ve gone further down this rabbit hole I find my compatriots on the internet to be with me in force but others who I expected to hear from are just silent.
The silence i...[Read on] |
Jennifer's Body
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Jennifer's Body, the latest from 31-year-old feminist screenwriter Diablo Cody (of Juno fame), is hitting theaters September 18th and already it's causing quite the buzz. The Times ran an interesting story this weekend about how Cody and her crew tried to...[Read on] |
Domestic violence survivor evicted for reporting abuser
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When Kathy Cleaves-Milan's live-in boyfriend abused her she did what society is always telling abused women to do: she reported him to the police. And what did she get for bravely doing "the right thing?" She go evicted.
A day after she told police tha...[Read on] |
Feminism, fathers and valuing parenthood
| Cross posted on PhD in Parenting.
On May 17, I participated in the Fem 2.0 chat on twitter. The topic of discussion was mommies and feminism. We talked about a lot of things, but one thing I said towards the end of the chat seemed to resonate with a l...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: Quiverfull
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Model daughters of the patriarchy movement, the Botkin girls express a hatred of feminism that is pure, and they hate it in a variety of flavors most feminists wouldn't recognize as their cause. To the Botkins, all bad women--from the seductress hoping to...[Read on] |
Will New Moon be the biggest film of the year?
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I spend a lot (too much) time in the twittersphere and the blogopshere and from the people I follow and read (lots of movie, TV and pop culture people and feminists) you’d never think that New Moon is opening next week. Granted all the movie folks hav...[Read on] |
Whip It: A great female empowerment story
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Whip It is not deep. It's not complex. It's not going to revolutionize filmmaking. Whip It is just a great female empowerment story with a simple but strong message that's also a lot of fun. And at a time when a lot of mainstream movies targeted at young ...[Read on] |
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