December 2009
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2010 New Year's Resolution
I’ve been thinking a lot about the disturbingly Photoshopped images Ralph Lauren has been using in its ad campaigns. Two Sundays ago, roughly 30 NOW protesters stood in front of the 72nd Street flagship store the day after a snowstorm because Ralph Lauren, no, the people who work for Ralph Lauren (real people, not a faceless brand), are making standards of beauty for women even more...
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Three Reasons to Love Nancy Meyers
In Sunday’s The New York Times Magazine’s Daphne Merkin profiled Nancy Meyers, calling her “the most powerful writer-director-producer currently working” in Hollywood. She is the voice behind “What Women Want,” “Something’s Gotta Give,” “The Holiday” and the Christmas ‘09 release, “It’s Complicated.” Her...
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Ten Firsts for Women in 2009 →
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Every So Often a Woman Does Not Stand by Her... →
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Why the Fuss Over Tiger Woods is a Good Thing
Photo by Jon Super/Associated Press
I haven’t written anything about Tiger Woods because I don’t care about his private life and, frankly, I’m surprised at all the fuss. But a friend of mine pointed out that the fuss is important because famous people (all people) should know that if they cheat on their significant others, there will be repercussions. Part of being a heroic...
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“We just want to know that when we come home, America has our back. That’s...”
– Genevieve Chase, 32, female veteran who served in Afghanistan and was treated completely differently from her male military buddies upon her homecoming.
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Failing Better
NY Times film critic Manohla Dargis wrote a piece this past weekend on women in Hollywood, in which she argues that women filmmakers are consistently ignored by production companies, by the Academy, and by critics (only 10% of the 600 movies reviewed by the Times this year were directed by women). She also argues that it is much more difficult for a woman to recover from a box office...
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A female writer gets more money for the same work... →
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Men are from Mars, So On and So Forth...
The following are ways in which men and women are wired differently, from Dr. Daniel G. Amen’s book Sex on the Brain (Three Rivers Press, 2007). Not sure how feminist this is, but I found it interesting:
“With the lower overall brain function, a man needs more stimulation.” Whereas a woman is content to watch a single television program with a relational story line where...
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“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
– Marie Curie
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What the Feminist Movement Needs
Photo by Night Owl City on Flickr
Cross posted on feministing.com and the YFTF blog.
When I had dinner with my brother last week he asked me what battles were left for feminists to fight. To him, to most people, the very term “feminism” sounds outdated. Like “civil rights” it doesn’t get much airtime outside of the 1970’s chapter of American History textbooks. I gave him a summary: abortion,...
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The Real Pro-Lifers, Pro-Choicers and People... →
New York magazine takes a look at the reality of the current abortion controversy. An informative read if you can get past the tasteless photographs of women’s stomachs.
As one commenter said:
Although I appreciated the author’s efforts to present the complexity of the abortion issue, I was appalled at the editorial choice of illustrations. Are women really nothing more than their...
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“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
– Gloria Steinem
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Ethnic-Fetishism
Photo by Matt Gunther for Details
Jezebel’s Irin Carmon takes Details to task for its increasingly misogynistic tone, focusing primarily on the sexual trend story about Jewish women in its recent issue. Carmon’s article makes several strong points and I recommend reading it, but I was more interested in the comments. There was a lot of talk about the “You don’t look” (in this case,...