Guest Post by Lyz Lenz When my daughter was three months old, my older sister came to visit. My sister has a five year-old son, who lives, eats and breathes Batman. My nephew is a wonderful creature, who is constantly damp with exertion and barrels into any room holding before him a fierce imagination that [...]
August 13, 2012
There’s discussion-a-plenty this week in the women’s section of the internet, debating whether or not cheerleading should be deemed an actual “sport.” The argument isn’t just coming out of nowhere–the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals recently upheld a ruling against Quinnipiac University–the university wanted to swap competitive cheerleading and get rid of women’s volleyball. The [...]
August 2, 2012
There’s a new phrase in our house and though I am rarely surprised anymore, after douche made it’s debut, I was initially taken aback. I was listening to my daughter share a sticky social situation. She felt the girl in the story was being too timid and needed to: pussy-up. take a stand, share their [...]
June 29, 2012
Remember when your daughter came home from school and was all, “Hey mom, I want to be an economist?” Oh, that doesn’t ring a bell? Why is that–because girls don’t “like” computers. Uh, wrong again. According to statistics, women use the Internet 17% more than men and create two-thirds of the content on social media [...]
June 13, 2012
Jezebel editor in chief, Jessica Coen, wrote a great opinion piece yesterday about how she felt jaded by the blatant sexist, misogyny found all over the internet. You Tube, Facebook, and yes, folks, even right here on our blog. Some of the spam we get from this article is particularly gross. Jessica was writing in [...]
June 11, 2012
Despite my cocky son teasing me about not being as strong as him because I’m a woman–yes, that’s right my 8-year-old believes he’s the Hulk–I’ve got some news that might rock his ego. According to researchers at Indiana University who analyzed data from 1.9 million swim meets, there was no gender difference in the performance [...]
May 8, 2012
Just as Vogue announced a ban of under-aged and thinspo-leaning models from its pages–a “triumph” according to Slate’s Libby Copeland–Seventeen magazine shut down 14-year-old Julia Bluhm, a ballet dancer who attempted to convince Seventeen magazine to hire “real” models instead of using photoshopped girls. Bluhm, who supplied Seventeen editor Ann Shoket with 25,000 signatures, was [...]
April 24, 2012
Girls on HBO? Did you watch the show? I did and I was uncomfortable, a sign of good art! I was watching what I thought was a comedy, ha, ha, and then I started watching privileged, college educated young adults, whose parents pay their bills and whose endless unpaid internships keep them busy’ish; young [...]
April 23, 2012
Guest Post by Julie Z. Rosenberg Will someone please tell Peggy Orenstein that Hello Kitty can’t eat my daughter because she has no mouth? Like many little girls, my three-year-old daughter loves Hello Kitty. About a year ago I introduced her to the demure feline via a t-shirt bought without much thought. I liked Hello [...]
April 17, 2012
When Mattel unveiled the new Katniss Everdeen Barbie this past week, I expected another hyper-sexualized Barbie that looked like Jennifer Lawrence. Eh. But who am I to dismiss a feminist Barbie? So I took another look. The characteristics are standard Barbie. Swathed in mascara? Check. The waist of an unrealistic waif? Check. Slightly resembles a [...]
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