"misogyny" Articles & Blogs:
The Social Network: Actually Sexist, or an Unwelcome Reflection of Our Times?
| In terms of digital cocktail conversation about success, gender, and the way we live now, The Social Network is the gift that just keeps on giving. Aaron Sorkin finally felt compelled to emerge from the lonely screenwriter’s citadel (his office) and res...[Read on] |
June 8 victories for female candidates: What will they do for women?
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Yesterday’s primaries brought huge victories for women across the country—many who succeeded against great odds, such as Sen. Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas and victim of egregious misogyny and...
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The Sex and the City aftermath — Misogyny unleashed
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No matter whether or not you liked or even saw Sex and the City 2 what you can’t have missed is the cultural conversation that film has caused in all quarters. We’ve been talking about women aging onscreen, we’ve been talking about women’s rig...[Read on] |
Why is Facebook's avatar a dude?
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Sociological Images has a great short post about Facebook's default avatar - which appears to be a white male.
Lisa makes the interesting point that when Facebook wants to represent people globally, they use avatars that look markedly different:
So ...[Read on] |
Women more likely to be discharged for Don't Ask, Don't Tell
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With yesterday's National Equality March and President Obama's promise (again) to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell (the speech transcript was released last night), we missed the story last week about government stats showing that women are more likely than men t...[Read on] |
Megan Fox on Feminism, Sexuality and How Hollywood Treats Women
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I basically dismissed Megan Fox as a pretty, not very smart young woman trading on her sexuality to become a movie star. I saw the first Transformers film and thought she and the film were terrible. But I did get interested when she was cast in Jennif...[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] |
Review: Antichrist
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Lars von Trier, the director who so famously tormented Bjork in Dancer in the Dark that she swore she’d quit acting forever, was booed and jeered at at Cannes for Antichrist. People even laughed at the private screening I attended with some of my ...[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] |
New Moon brings a new dawn in Hollywood
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On Friday morning Hollywood woke up to the realization that fangirls can be as rabid as fanboys. By Saturday morning they realized that two BIG records had been broken, including the highest midnight screening opening and the best opening date in histor...[Read on] |
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