Hello Beautiful Bloggers! I wanted to share with you a recent controversy that has sparked the attention of many people who are fans of the show, The Biggest Loser. The winner of the show, Rachel Frederickson, is 24 years old and now weighs 105 pounds. The transformation brought her from 260 pounds and a loss […]
Read More Biggest Loser, Losing Too Much??Check out our bloggers’ top reading picks of the week! Tohellwithsugarandspice and SarahStar77 feel that for this week in feminism an important highlight was that Jewel a junior in college from Virginia has started a petition to have Disney create a plus size “Disney Princess.” They think this is important as all of Disney’s princesses […]
Read More Sunday Night SpotlightHey everyone! This is my first post and entrance into the Blog world and I’m so happy that my first post on ShoutOut! is going to be about the one, the only – Beyonce. So unfortunately I missed the Grammy’s this year. But one’s never-to-fear in this social media era we’re living in, my twitter […]
Read More And the Grammy goes to… Beyonce’s Big Anti-feminist MistakeCheck out what our bloggers found most newsworthy in this week’s edition of Sunday Night Spotlight! Houseofadoll wants to share this link. It takes a brief look at the role Miley Cyrus has, and is, playing in shaping the feminist world today. She, unlike many female pop stars, even admits to the public that she […]
Read More Sunday Night SpotlightHello, loyal readers! Check out what our bloggers found interesting in the world of feminist news this week: ElFeministo found this amazing look on the scarring effect childhood bullying can have on the psyche from an adult who still relives the haunting taunts from 4th grade. Luckily growing up is a blessing and parenthood changed […]
Read More Sunday Night SpotlightVirgin-whore dichotomy: It’s an old, run-of-the-mill, jargon-y term used quite frequently among feminists with intense lexicons. It’s defined pretty well in Stephanie Stroud’s post on cultural stereotypes on Miss Representation: “The virgin-whore dichotomy…details that women fit neatly into the role of either an innocent, passive, selfless good girl or a hedonistic, morally-void, sensual bad girl. Unsurprisingly, these roles do […]
Read More Sluts on Halloween: The Virgin-Whore DichotomyThis past weekend, Forbes Performing Arts Center hosted a rather interesting guest. My mother knows that my sister and I are both feminists, and she thought it would be particularly interesting for us to go to this event – a long comedy sketch, really – because of the strong opinions that my sister and I […]
Read More Hunters, Gatherers, and GeneralizationsAs Mental Health Awareness Week draws to a close, I decided to do a post on my relationship with mental illness, and the role it plays in my feminism. If you don’t know me very well, you’re probably under the assumption that I’m silly, playful, easy-going, and carefree. You probably wouldn’t think that there are […]
Read More Anxious that this post isn’t good enough…In 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?I was going through my Facebook feed the other day, procrastinating instead of writing a six page paper, when I came across an interesting link that an acquaintance had posted on her wall. The phrase “gender expectations” was what initially attracted my interest…and so naturally, being all procrastinate-y, I clicked the link. It was a […]
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