It’s been a week since I’ve seen Janine Latus and her testimony is still at the forefront of my mind. Now the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of partner violence is a man hitting a woman, but the whole concept of partner violence is way more complex then my first […]
Read More Don’t Ever Tell pt. 2I have been thinking about the intersections of marketing and gender and thought I’d talk about it at some point, but thehouseofadoll’s post yesterday just geared me up for the topic! I think the most interesting area within gendered marketing is toys and products for children. Children are strongly socialized into gender through material possessions […]
Read More Where Are the “Gender Neutral” Toys?It’s a relatively common occurrence to analyze how marketing / advertising is affecting feminism and the feminist movement. But we can’t forget that the impact goes both ways: feminism is also affecting marketing. How, you might ask? It seems impossible… video games and Easy Bake Oven’s marketing plan can’t possibly be affected by the feminist […]
Read More You Can Do Anything: How Feminism is Affecting MarketingI was scanning through blog posts this week and was excited to find the CW channel is planning on launching a new television series titled Ze, with the focus on a transgender teen and his life with his chaotic, dysfunctional family in Texas. This will be the first show that features a trans* person as […]
Read More Trans* Characters Take the MainstageI walked in to CVS on Easter Sunday, dressed to the nines in my good friend’s dress. I wasn’t much into the holiday, but I went home to NJ to get out of the dorm. In her purse sat a wad of cash and her nerves were aflame in the tiny town. She probably knew […]
Read More What’s the Plan? B, that is.What happens when 9 friends with different backgrounds, interests and aspirations come to live in a 100-year-old house? No, it’s not another predictable season of Real World (or any other train-wreck of a reality show MTV produces), no it’s actually my current living situation. As I’ve mentioned before, I live with eight other guys and […]
Read More Judge a Man by the Quality of His Dishwashing: Politics of HouseworkBefore you are even born choices are made for you because of your gender. Girls wear pink and boys wear blue. Boys play with toy cars and girls play with baby dolls. Boys wear camo pants and girls wear dresses. These expectations continue on throughout the rest of our lives influencing how we talk, dress, […]
Read More Sexism: Now Served DailyIn my humble opinion, nothing brings folks with seemingly varying backgrounds all together quite like the topic of sex. Aside from breathing and eating, and setting aside any wise crack on potty humor, what’s more universal than human sexuality? The feminist view on sex adds another interesting element to the already juicy conversation. So when […]
Read More Feminism and Porn: Mutually Exclusive?Check out what the bloggers found most interesting in feminist news this week: Redheadfemme thought this article brought up a really interesting point that Rom Coms ( and other genres) need to have more female directors! ElFeministo read through this article on Slate.com claiming “The Patriarchy is Dead,” with conflicted emotions. He later found this […]
Read More Links Round UpOh the quintessential romantic comedy, the most original movie plot to ever hit the big screen. Here’s how it normally breaks down: girl meets boy and they originally hate each other, then something magical happens and they start to fall in love (BUT WAIT) some terrible misunderstanding occurs and postpones their happy ending for a […]
Read More The Trouble with Rom-Com’s
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