A pregnant woman in underpants on all fours in a cage on the sidewalk.
A woman wrapped in cling film to resemble cuts of meat in a supermarket.
Mel B gets her “tits out for trafficking.”
Most of us have come to expect the exploitation of women’s bodies to sell everything from cars to cleaning products - but […]
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What we see on TV becomes normalized. This is troubling when TV is full of violence, sex, violent sex, alcohol (most common beverage seen on TV), etc. Men are seen on TV more than women, and sexualized women are seen more than sexualized men.
The Geena Davis Institute on Media held a conference recently that discussed […]
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I don’t understand how one article can leave me feeling such delight and such anger simultaneously! Johann Hari’s “Where Have All the Stong Women Gone?” is a searing and straightforward critique of patriarchy’s destructive and completely unfair expectations of women.
Hari reminisces about Bette Davis’ bad-ass characters on-screen, and her boldness off-screen. I’ve never seen a […]
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Christie Church’s article “Feminism Keeps My Marriage Together” is conversational and honest. I think this is a perfect example of a story being both personal and relevant. She shares particularities that make this her story, but has enough self-awareness to make her own story more widely relevant. I also appreciate that she names the privilege […]
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