As a feminist, I could spend hours bitching about the way the advertising industry exploits women by creating unattainable standards of beauty. But today, I’d like to take a different approach. In my History of Advertising course, we’ve been learning that in the early twentieth century, during the “first wave” of feminism, advertisers used suffrage […]
Read More Wanna hear a joke? Feminist advertisingAfrica is a seriously misunderstood continent. Our knowledge of that region comes from Hollywood, melodramatic news stories and themeparks (re: when Florida’s Busch Gardens used to be subtitled “The Dark Continent”). I will be the first to admit to have fallen into the sad Africa trap: disease, conflict, poverty and despair. In my defense, however, […]
Read More African ‘Her’storyDoes anyone else feel like simultaneously crying, throwing your chair into a window, and cursing Zeus every time you hear Michele Bachmann speak about gender or sexuality? Well… I do. Michele Bachmann, topping the list of contenders for the current GOP Primary, doesn’t even consider herself a feminist. WAIT!? A woman who’s doesn’t actively strive […]
Read More Michele Bachmann: A Feminist NightmareSo, if you watched the GOP primary debate on Monday, you saw the Perry/Bachman brawl that went down over HPV. I’ll admit, I watched the recaps the next day and not the actual debate, in fear of having nightmares that night if I were to do so. However, many of us young woman have already […]
Read More Quick Hit: I knew HPV would come back to haunt me…Hey everyone! I just wanted to alert ya’ll to an upcoming feminist event at JMU. Feminist anti-porn activist Dr. Robert Jensen is going to be giving a lecture titled “Pornography’s Perfect Storm of Inequality: Patriarchy, White Supremacy, and Capitalism.” Whether you’re pro-porn or anti-porn or confused about porn (I know I have an internal debate […]
Read More Quick Hit: Pornography’s Perfect Storm of InequalityTo kick off my blogging for the semester, I’d like to start with a lighthearted topic. There are endless criticisms to be made from a feminist’s standpoint, but today I have nothing but praise for Tina Fey’s autobiographical novel, Bossypants. The author blends together what I believe to be the most beautiful combination since chocolate […]
Read More Tina Fey’s BossypantsMy mom always told me “Em, if you ever and I mean EVER beg a man for a date like the women on those trashy TV shows do, I will kill you.” And while I always knew that my mother would never harm a hair on my head, she meant business. But ever since The […]
Read More Millionaire Matchmaker: Respect for Women Mismatched?While on the phone with a fellow feminist to think of a myth to bust- we ran into some troubles. We came across this website and were floored. We sought to find myths about feminism and we found that “feminism is a myth itself.” Though we believe and know what is true, we found this […]
Read More The “Lies” of Feminism: Mythbusting Monday…or were we tricked all alongAs reported last August, medical personnel at present, can detect the sex of a baby in 7 weeks via the mother’s blood sample for fetal DNA. Currently, media sources and health agencies have discussed the fear of this becoming a mechanism to abort babies. Abort due to if the parents do not want that specific […]
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