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Feminists Need to Stop Being So Mean And Have Sex with This Guy

by Cara November 10, 2008

I just read this AlterNet article about a phenomenon of which most feminist are aware: the use of evolutionary psychology to excuse offensive mainstream male sexual attitudes towards women.  It’s a pretty good article, but that’s not what I want to draw your attention to.  I want to draw your attention to this comment by [...]

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Strip Club Holds Sarah Palin Lookalike Contest

by Cara October 29, 2008

Via Sociological Images — a truly great blog I discovered recently — comes this story about a Sarah Palin lookalike contest held at Vegas strip club (oh, sorry, “gentleman’s club”).  Lots of bikinis, sexualized use of guns and sexism abound.  You can view more photographs of the event here. The saddest thing is that it’s [...]

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15-Year-Old Arrested for Pornographic Photographs . . . Of Herself

by Cara October 20, 2008

Okay, so this? Is not okay. A 15-year-old Ohio girl faces felony charges and may have to register as a sex offender for allegedly taking nude photos of herself and sending them to her high school classmates. The girl, whose name has not been released, was arrested last week and charged in juvenile court with [...]

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Rape Culture In Unexpected Places: New Pepsi Ad

by Cara October 17, 2008

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Pepsi has responded by denying and denouncing the ad.  Please see this post. Whoa. Other ads in the series show a monkey trading a Pepsi for the keys to a truck carrying bananas, and a young male trading a Pepsi for an astronaut’s space suit. This ad is hugely offensive on its very [...]

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Woman’s Murder a “Sordid Soap Opera”

by Cara September 6, 2008

A Lebanese singer named Suzanne Tamim was murdered through decapitation. Senseless. Vile. Not quite what this story over at CNN calls it: It’s the Mideast version of a sordid soap opera. A Lebanese pop star is brutally slain in her luxury Dubai apartment, her throat slashed. Arrested in her death: One of Egypt’s most politically [...]

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More “All Women Are Manipulative Whores” — This Time With Science!

by Cara August 27, 2008

A note to CNN: if you have an article that contains a sentence beginning with “Call it crass, sexist or gender stereotyping all you want,” chances are that you do not want to print the rest of that sentence, and most likely do not want to print any of the article. You see, according to [...]

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Are they serious?

by Cara August 14, 2008

When I saw an email in my inbox with the subject “BEAUTY SECRET Bust-Firming Bra: 4 Weeks to a Firmer You,” I thought it must be spam with strangely correct spelling. But then I saw that the email from from Victoria’s Secret (whose emails I get virtually daily and delete unless they actually happen to [...]

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Judge Calls Sexual Harassment “Gallant,” Not Criminal

by Cara August 7, 2008

UPDATE: See Natalia Antonova’s post for several important clarifications and corrections. As I suspected, some of the claims are exaggerated, but the general gist of the story is correct. (Thanks Lisa.) HuffPo informs us that a Russian judge has ruled that sexual harassment is a-okay because it ensures the survival of the human race. You [...]

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HRC: And One Other Thing

by Cara July 24, 2008

I’ll be entirely honest: when I saw Hillary Clinton, one of the first things I thought after “wow, that’s Hillary Clinton” was “wow, she’s so pretty.” Hillary has been attacked for her appearance an awful lot throughout her career. She’s been called ugly, “too” masculine, fat and so on. Allow me to be clear: even [...]

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Don’t Blame Men, Blame the Bikini

by Cara June 19, 2008

Okay, this article pissed me the fuck off. “Science proves that bikinis turn men into boobs.” I know that the media has a way of misreporting scientific studies to their own means, so I’m not bashing on the study — I am directing my rage at the article. Now, the original assessment is that images [...]

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