Earlier this month Dove released a video titled “Patches” as part of their campaign for “Real Beauty,” which has been the recipient of much criticism from feminist circles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyHYWXie-Mw
Read More Apparently, Dove Thinks You Need a Patch to Feel BeautifulDid you know April is National Poetry Month? To celebrate, Ms. Magazine has chosen five pieces by feminist poets to feature each week for the whole month. If you are like me, you probably enjoy both poetry and feminism, so you should totally check these out.
Read More Quick Hit: Feminist Poetry for National Poetry MonthAs a self-proclaimed major TV buff, I’m not above the occasional hate watch or simple guilty pleasure (read: my undying commitment to both Teen Wolf and The Bachelor). But this week I watched something so appalling I cannot, in good conscience, continue to subject myself to it. Although, I must admit I never had any […]
Read More MTV’s New Show Faking It Completely Drops the BallJust yesterday I came across an article on Buzzfeed called “11 Things You Should Understand About Female Sports Fans” and opened it almost immediately. The title appealed to me for two pretty simple reasons: 1) Sports are very important to me, and 2) I’m a female. As a female sports fan, I often find myself being […]
Read More Quick Hit: Reppin’ the Female Sports FansSaturday Night Live is my personal pick for best comedy television series of all-time, but despite my opinion on the show I feel it is important for us to be critical even of the things we love, and in a lot of cases we should probably be especially critical of the pop culture events we […]
Read More “Black Jeopardy”: A Look Into SNL’s Most Recent Controversial SketchNigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, possibly best known for her TED Talk “We Should All Be Feminists” sampled in Beyoncé’s song “***Flawless”, wrote an editorial in the February issue of ELLE Magazine recounting her struggle to reconcile her interest in fashion with feminism and furthering her career as a writer.
Read More Fashion and Feminism are Not Mutually ExclusiveLast weekend De Morgen, a top news source in Belgium, published a rather offensive piece that was meant to be a satirical political cartoon. The premise of the article was based on a fictional scenario where Russian president Vladimir Putin had been asked to write a piece on President Obama, but instead submitted two racist […]
Read More Quick Hit: Apology Not Accepted, “Satire” Is No Excuse for RacismEvery so often I read an article so outrageous I’m left unsure as to whether it was meant to be a satire of some sort, or if the author is truly that out of touch with reality.
Read More Choose One: Family or CareerIn an interview for April’s issue of ELLE Magazine, Pamela Anderson muses about life as a short-haired chick since cutting off her long blonde tresses back in October. The former Baywatch star (I’m not really sure she’s done anything since then? Home Improvement?) reportedly thought her short hair would have an impact on her sex […]
Read More Quick Hit: Sex Isn’t Just For Women With Long Hair, Says Pamela AndersonAmerica’s resident batshit crazy Congresswoman, Michelle Bachmann, said in an interview last week that—get this—the nation is not ready for a female president. This is a particularly shocking statement by a woman who’s essentially built her career on saying almost exclusively shocking and offensive things, because well, correct me if my memory is wrong…but wasn’t […]
Read More But Really…Are We Ready For A Woman President?
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