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Tag Archive | "Feminism"

Naked News: The Women’s (Dwindling) Reproductive Rights Edition

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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photo via Flickr SNL has an actually funny and actually informative round-up of all the bullshit last week. The testimony Republicans didn’t want you to hear last week. Hello? Why aren’t we talking about the tons of unplanned pregnancies — and their sky-high costs — that contraception saves us from? For great coverage on all the latest [...]

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It’s You, Perfected! The Power of Photoshop

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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There are many reasons not to read women’s magazines. One of the biggies? All the retouched photos. The genetic mutants we call models and celebrities can beat the shit out your average Jane’s self image, but Photoshop can chop it up with chainsaw. This before and after cover of Red Book from a few years ago thanks to Jezebel.com [...]

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The Slow But (Hopefully) Steady Erosion of Gender Stereotypes

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Stop the presses! A detergent commercial with just a normal dad doing laundry. For our book club, we’re reading the 2003 novel “We Need to Talk About Kevin” by Lionel Shriver.* I, Lo, knowing nothing about the book or its author, began reading and was amazed that a male author could create a female narrator that [...]

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The Obvious Player vs. the Faux-Sensitive Guy

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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photo via flickr Sexuality educator Charlie Glickman, who runs the education programs at Good Vibrations (in other words, he’s got serious Sensitive Guy chops), recently published an article on his blog called “Confessions of a Former Sensitive New Age Guy.” He consciously chose to become a S.N.A.G. back in college, and his motives were initially [...]

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Question of the Week: When, If Ever, Is Nursing in Public Too In-Your-Face?

Thursday, January 5, 2012

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After a woman was recently asked to move to the changing rooms at a Texas Target to nurse her child, she and other breastfeeding advocates organized a national nurse-in at Target stores across the country last week on December 28th. A writer-friend of ours, Amy Keyishian, went to her local store and took a, shall [...]

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Wise Guys: What Do Most Guys Think of Feminism?

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “What do most guys think of feminism: a successful movement that’s not needed any more, an eternal campaign of whiney man-haters, or a philosophy that makes the world a better place for both men and women?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Single Bisexual [...]

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“Bounce That Dick,” Feminist or Not?

Friday, December 30, 2011

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When we were sent a link to the new YouTube video “Bounce That Dick” on the Jenna Marbles channel, we didn’t know what to expect: some kind of safe-for-work sexual technique advice video by a porn star turned educator? Then, during the first 30 seconds, our hopes were raised, as the young “blogger and entertainer” began [...]

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Winners of a Great Rewrite-the-Ending Contest

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Through our friend, Lynn Harris, writer, co-creator of Breakup Girl, and now communications strategist for something called Breakthrough, we heard about a “Rewrite the Ending” contest (which ended last month): Show of hands- How many of you wish that: - Andy (Pretty in Pink) had ended up with Ducky? - After Willy dies (Death of a [...]

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On Feminism, High School and Sex — and What Occupy Can Teach Us About All Three

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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“It’s not easy, in this world, to learn how to navigate our anger and attraction, to learn how to be strong, sexual women and kind, gentle men.” This is a quote from our friend Michelle Chihara’s essay, “Pieces of the Past,” published this week on her blog This Blue Angel. On the surface this essay [...]

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The Female Reproductive Tract Explained in Rachel Maddow’s Man Cave

Monday, October 31, 2011

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Wait, that title didn’t come out quite right. “Man Cave” is not meant as a euphemism here, especially for Rachel Maddow’s lady parts (for several reasons). No, the “man cave” is just one of her dorky gimmicks whereby she tells her female viewers to take a break, pops a brewskie, puts up some sport paraphernalia [...]

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