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The Practical Feminist?
A Guardian article on the editor of Cosmopolitan. Peronsally I find it hard to understand how you peddle such narrow images of women and believe you are helping the cause….but none the less… more →
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Debunking the Beauty Myth and Standing Against the Sentinels
Ecumenical Women wrote 4 days ago: by Onleilove Alston Naomi Wolf author of The Beauty Myth discusses how images fueled by consumerism … more →
Anger is an energy.
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emandink wrote 5 months ago: (Originally titled “I think you owe me a great big apology” – a quote from the NIN … more →
The Practical Feminist?
genderstudies wrote 5 months ago: A Guardian article on the editor of Cosmopolitan. Peronsally I find it hard to understand how you pe … more →
Better Sex Starts With the Mirror
Ms. Feelgood wrote 5 months ago: Oh, negative body image, my old and pesky friend. Most women get acquainted with it before adulthood … more →
Burlesque....just stripping?
genderstudies wrote 6 months ago: Interesting article from a former burlesque dancer about how it is nothing more than stripping … more →
'I Wish I looked like That'
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Chloë wrote 6 months ago: These words are too often uttered by women. I think every woman I know has said something along thes … more →
"The Beauty Myth" Haunts Women More Than Ever
femininsight wrote 6 months ago: I have to admit that when Dove first began its “Campaign for Real Beauty” a few years ag … more →
Girlation - what London's girl teens are up to....
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genderstudies wrote 7 months ago: creepy … more →
Miss Great Britain is retro and ironic, they claim. But misogyny with irony is still misogyny
genderstudies wrote 8 months ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/30/beauty-pageant-women … more →
Mantyhose?
genderstudies wrote 8 months ago: Increasing pressure to look good….on men? … more →
Airbrushing
genderstudies wrote 8 months ago: Thinner, smoother, lighter… … more →
Why don't women vote for women?
rosemarymaccabe wrote 8 months ago: According to Naomi Wolfe, one of the main issues is this: If the public woman is stigmatized [sic] a … more →
Dumbbells vs. Liposuction
skepticcon wrote 9 months ago: I’ve heard people say that the flood of women getting cosmetic surgery is not a big deal, that … more →
From east to west. . .
rosemarymaccabe wrote 9 months ago: In 1990, Tatiana Mamanova, a Soviet feminist, responding to a question about the difference between … more →
It's food. Not a hand grenade.*
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emandink wrote 10 months ago: I’ve been blogging elsewhere about my desire to lose weight. At least that’s what it st … more →
Why you all gotta hate on me? And on you?
rosemarymaccabe wrote 1 year ago: So, Perez Hilton loves to hate Rumer Willis. And, while we’re on the subject of Perez’s … more →
Tragedy and Triumph at Fraser Highway and 176th
mackereleconomics wrote 1 year ago: A couple of things. First, I have to remind everyone to check out the following websites, becau … more →
The Terror Dream
Karen wrote 1 year ago: By Susan Faludi I am partway through this book and full of things to say about it, and the thought o … more →
Mythical Feminists
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emandink wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to a discussion elsewhere on-line, I’ve been thinking on The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolfe … more →
