Check 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 SpotlightWarning: A fair amount of foul language is used in this post. I’m going to echo a sentiment shared by any rational, free-thinking human being capable of reason and common sense: I fucking cannot stand Rush Limbaugh. In light of his recent slam against women who voted for Terry McAuliffe, I thought it would be […]
Read More An Angry “Feminazi’s” Attack on Rush Limbaugh’s Most Offensive Attacks on WomenShockingly, when I was growing up I was a huge Disney princess lover. Just as thehouseofadoll described in New Perspectives on Disney a couple of weeks ago, Disney is and always will be a huge fan favorite. Belle, Cinderella, Ariel, Pocahontas, Jasmine, Snow White, Mulan…these were all pretty common household names when I was growing up. In fact, Disney’s princess movies […]
Read More Ladies, We Can Rescue Ourselves!Lady Gaga criticized her airbrushed photo on the cover of Glamour magazine, and says that the image doesn’t represent “what I really look like.” Learn more about the buzz here.
Read More Mother Monster Calls for Culture ChangeHello, 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 SpotlightSo I know we have all heard of Dove’s Real Beauty Campaign. In fact, I believe that some of my fellow bloggers have previously written about it, or at least mentioned it in their posts. As a female who has lived her entire life having beauty ads crammed down her throat (as most female have) […]
Read More Axe and Dove – Two Messages, Same Company*TRIGGER WARNING* Imagine a world without the option of rape. Men and women are educated from an early age that forcing someone to have sex without consent is very wrong, and should never happen. Everyone abides by all aspects of this rule, including the least known: intoxicated consent is not consent. I’m also imagining a […]
Read More AR Underwear or Chastity Belt?I know what you are thinking; you could not have possibly read that correctly because there is absolutely no way I just stated that feminism is about men. Even as I wrote the statement that tiny little feminist inside me shouted to the heavens asking how I could take this one thing away from women. […]
Read More Feminism Is About MenLast week, I wrote a piece on why unchecked chivalry should be dead. I’ll spare you a re-hash of my points in that post, but essentially, I asserted that an agent of a chivalrous act should consider the agency of the individual receiving that action. While some men assume that chivalry is an archaic, albeit […]
Read More I’m a fighter, not an oppressor.I was doing my usual Facebook stalk when I stumbled upon this wonderful little gem through Huffington Post…
Read More How Many Times Do We Have To Say This?
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