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You Really Got Me

by Cara October 29, 2007

I don’t think anyone would ever make the mistake of calling me a gamer. I’ve never been very good at them, and with the exception of puzzle-type games like Tetris and Mahjong, they just don’t interest me. It’s not my thing. But I love Guitar Hero. My husband got me hooked on it a couple [...]

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Halloween and Racism: Both Scary

by Cara October 27, 2007

So this is interesting: with all of the recent hate crimes involving nooses, some Halloween decorations are gaining increased scrutiny. All over the country, displays that include corpses hanging from nooses — very similar to the one at the left — have caused furor and distress over their racial connotations. In a dozen incidents during [...]

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Love Your Body Day

by Cara October 18, 2007

Happy Love Your Body Day! The annual Love Your Body Day by NOW is a celebration of female bodies in all their natural forms, an opportunity to raise awareness about harmful media images and a day to fight back. To the left is my all-time favorite winner of the Love Your Body poster contest. You [...]

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Poison Makes Me Pretty

by Cara October 12, 2007

So lipstick not only tastes like a bizarre combination of paint, paste and chalk, costs way too much money and dries out your lips, according to a new study it might also be dangerous to your health. Maybe all of that lead makes it last longer? Or makes the color prettier? Lipsticks tested by a [...]

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Beer Ad Misogyny-Off

by Cara September 29, 2007

vs. I found this tidbit from an AlterNet article about the new Bionic Woman show and the history of fembots to be interesting. It’s about those Heineken ads that featured a female robot dancing for its male audience while serving out beer. I’m not about to argue that fembots are a positive trend in advertising. [...]

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Where are all of the feminists?

by Cara September 22, 2007

I know that you’re here. And I’m here. And lots of other kick ass feminist bloggers (whom I admire greatly) are here. And I have a bookshelf filled with books by modern feminists who are here. But where the hell are they? Because they’re sure as hell not in the mainstream media. This morning, my [...]

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Security Shoes for Sex Workers?

by Cara September 5, 2007

Here’s something that I’ve been trying to wrap my head around since coming across it in the Weekly Feminist Reader: new security platform shoes for prostitutes. They’re called Platforms and are made by The Aphrodite Project. Says the copy from their website: Platforms, the latest series of work in the ongoing Aphrodite Project, is a [...]

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Heineken does not think very highly of you

by Cara August 27, 2007

At least, that’s my personal interpretation of this ad for the Heineken DraughtKeg: I found it via Bob Garfield at the Advertising Age. He calls this ad out for “portray[ing] a woman’s uterus as a beer keg” and being “arguably the most sexist beer commercial ever produced.” Unfortunately, he also second-guesses several times, and asks [...]

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Ads That Really Suck

by Cara August 6, 2007

[Cross-posted from Feministing] This advertisement (larger image with full text) for QSOL.com appeared in the August issue of the Linux Journal. Let’s tick off the most offensive points. The misogyny is obvious, since the ad treats women explicitly and entirely like sexual objects. The themes of objectification and comparing women to machines continue throughout the [...]

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Pharmacists, unable to discriminate, claim discrimination

by Cara July 27, 2007

Pharmacists in Washington state have sued over a new regulation that requires them to dispense emergency contraception. My first reaction to this news is to start cursing. But in all honesty, it really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Over-zealous religious pharmacists have long threatened to sue in the face of such a law. And the [...]

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