But Yabroff also notes that the women writing these memoirs are generally amateur cooks, who may need the hook of emotional drama to get published. Men, who are much more likely to be professional chefs in the first place, can publish straightforward food writing.

Why do women get so little notice for doing the vast majority of the world’s cooking, while men get fancy hats and equipment, and get to be jerks on their own reality shows, just because they cook?

Apparently Ms.’ justification for this cover pick is that Obama told Feminist Majority Foundation chair Peg Yorkin in a meeting, “I am a feminist.”

Only time will tell what Obama will do for women as president, and this bold cover based on 3 words seems premature.

Not to mention that using the classic image of Superman  is quite demeaning – it implies that Obama will swoop in a one-man feminist to change women’s lives for all time. This is not how change happens, as grassroots feminists have always known.

Seems like Ms. is reaching pretty low to jump on the Obama bandwagon. If Ms. wants to celebrate Obama’s work for women, perhaps a more fitting cover subject would be a woman in his life who has inspired his feminism – his mother, wife, or daughters would be obvious examples.

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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 for charity?

Julie Bindel takes PETA and other charities on in Prostituting for Charity, published on truthout.org.

As a young and idealistic vegan, I was shocked when Pamela Anderson posed naked for PETA. But I was too embarrassed to complain. I figured I would sound prudish, square, or worst – jealous of her “sexy” body and ashamed of my own.

I’ve been trying to figure out if pornography can be feminist. When Julie Bindel confronted many of these companies and charities, she heard over and over, “It was their choice to pose/run/be in a cage naked.”

Choice. Is that the key?

Many people believe that sex workers can be empowered by stripping, live or for a camera, or being paid to have sex. And I believe being naked in front of friends, strangers, a camera, etc. really can be an empowering step for the scores of people who are told that their bodies are shameful. Loren Cameron’s Body Alchemy: Transexual Portraits is a great example of this. The Womyn’s Center art show at Earlham College is another.

But in a consumer culture, how empowering can stripping and prostitution be? Where is the power? If customers don’t like the look, style or responses of the strippers at a club, they’ll go somewhere else. If the management understands why, the strippers will be fired.

If the customer doesn’t like the look, style or responses of a prostitute, the prostitute won’t be hired or paid, and a real need for money hasn’t been met.

Is it possible for commercialized sex to be empowering/feminist in a consumer culture?

The Geena Davis Institute on Media held a conference recently that discussed the potrayal of women on TV and in movies. They found all sorts of frustrating things:

• the ratio of men:women on screen is 3:1 (apparently up from 1:5 twenty years ago)
• females are over 5 times more likely than males to be shown in sexually revealing clothing (about 4 times more likely in TV and movies aimed at children)
• in animated material for children, females are far more likely to have unrealistic (and hypersexualized) body shapes – 22.7% vs. 1.2%

Lynn Ziegler has a great article about the conference on truthout.org, On-Screen Sex Ratios Add Up to One Big Minus.

Reuters also offers an overview of statistical findings from the conference.

It’s a good thing Geena Davis is the figure head for this work – doesn’t she look great?!

Hari reminisces about Bette Davis’ bad-ass characters on-screen, and her boldness off-screen. I’ve never seen a Bette Davis movie, but I’m going to rent one this weekend. But, Hari wonders, “Who are our female icons now? Nicole Kidman, whose career is epitomized by her role in ‘Moulin Rouge’, where she plays a limp, passive prostitute, waiting to be saved. Julia Roberts, whose only iconic role is as a screwed-up prostitute, waiting to be saved. The women of ‘Desperate Housewives’ – chaotic ditzes, who are either jobless, or have jobs where they merely spread chaos. The women of ‘Sex and the City’, who are obsessed with shoes and – in the end – have to compromise their careers for men. The popular women are numb blondes or bony little girls with submissive smiles. If a female star becomes too ‘tough’, she becomes box-office poison: Demi Moore was seen after G.I. Jane as too hard, too ‘male.’ Even Thelma and Louise had to drive into the Grand Canyon in the end.”

Hari credits Aaron Sorkin with the toughest female characters on TV these days, though points out some disappointing developments in the West Wing, for example, “C.J. has to be given a sick father to humanise her – unlike any of the men – and in the end has to choose between Washington and love.”

He also discusses Hillary Clinton’s approval - “when we found out her husband was cheating on her, and in New Hampshire, when she cried. When Hillary is strong, we loathe her. When she is weak, we warm.”

Particularly impressive, Hari names his own privilege through a reader’s comments: “I think it’s great that you, as a man, write about these issues. But imagine a situation where you were exactly the person you are now, but female. Imagine you were comparably overweight, took comparably little care over your appearance, were comparably aggressive in your opinions, admitted to a history of depression, and were a lesbian. You would not be writing for a national newspaper at all.”

This is the sort of analysis that makes me proud to be a feminist! I feel a bit giddy to read someone just lay it all out there, no shame or ameliorating about it. While the facts are disturbing as ever, the article’s forthrightness is empowering. As Hari quotes Ariana Huffington, “For a man to be called aggressive, he has to be Joe McCarthy. For a woman to be called aggressive, she has to put you on hold.” Hari’s gender is certainly a primary reason why he writes this way.

I realize I’ve pasted a bunch of quotes – they’re just so juicy I couldn’t resist. But I guarantee there’s more – check out the full article.

The article points to some important concepts for anyone attempting to work, act, love or create with another gender. My favorite quote: “Intimacy just isn’t possible under patriarchy.”

This approach to patriarchy is wonderfully simple and inviting – we all want intimacy, and we want it across gender lines, so let’s take patriarchy on!