Anyone else suffering? Last night was the first night without the show I love, tire of, return to, much like a friendship. I’m an ambivalent fan and then I’m a huge fan, in the course of one episode. I’ll wonder, can I stand Hannah’s hypochondria, Shoshanna’s style sense, Marni’s identity crisis? Is Adam a [...]
February 26, 2013
Marilyn Monroe: A woman whose bleached hair was definitely part of her package. Hair is connected to whether or not we feel sexy. Whether or not Monroe felt sexy or just acted sexy, is debatable. But she knew what was sexy. Was Monroe, the blond bombshell, a feminist? Can a feminist also be the first [...]
October 22, 2012
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August 30, 2012
Miri’s 15-year-old Sadie and her friends began using the term “pussy up” as a replacement for “man up,” and apparently Sadie is onto a global trend. This week Slate’s Double X not only attributed the dawning of the word pussy to Pussy Riot–you know, those brave ladies from Russia–but Slate writer Lindsay Zoladz also declared [...]
June 28, 2012
Hayley and I wanted to open up the “having it all” discussion, even though every time we say it or write it, we can’t help but think of Whitney Houston’s, “Didn’t we almost have it all?” (Okay, that’s not entirely true, but slightly…) Miri: I thought a lot this weekend about the notion of women [...]
June 14, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012: NPR has Sandusky’s trial analysis on every a.m. talk show. According to an expert on men in prison, there is a huge number of men clogging the penal system who have histories of sexual abuse. All those men, untreated for sexual abuse. All those men with huge violent wounds. And while I [...]
April 30, 2012
I’m not sure which part of the interview on yesterday’s Meet The Press is more insulting. When republican strategist Alex Castellanos tells Rachel Maddow that he really “loves how passionate” she is on the topic of women’s pay disparity or when he consistently interrupts her by insisting that women don’t make as much as men [...]
March 16, 2012
M.A.C. cosmetics says they chose 90-year-old Iris Apfel “for real representation of women” for their new makeup campaign. Iris on aging: “We have an insane love affair with youth. Youth is beautiful and wonderful but there’s lots more. And life doesn’t stop when you’re 30.” This is the new photo I’m going to show [...]
March 8, 2012
Guest Post by Amy Griffiths I like having the door held for me (I’m talking to you, Bruce Springsteen) and nothing makes me blush like having my car door opened for me. However, I wonder about all the other doors that have been opened for me by my suffragette sisters and when exactly they will stop being [...]
March 8, 2012
It’s International Women’s Day, March 8, 2012. Here at Femamom we take any and all opportunities to salute the good work of others. Please check out the link below; a list compiled over at Flavowire of female literary icons. In honor of today, we’re taking a stroll through the list. Lisbeth Salander of The Girl With the [...]
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March 25, 2013
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