Regurgitated Headlines: Stop Body Shaming Celebrities
By: Kiki Kirk The other day I was taking the Metra to work, as I do every day. But this particular day I left my head phones at home. This […]
Category Archives: Feminism
Unmaking Equality: Now All Can Kill
by: Agnieszka Karoluk On Thursday, January 24th Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the US military will lift the ban on women serving in combat. Many women’s groups and feminist […]
Being Seen as a Moral Equal, and the Freedom of Choosing to Participate:Views on Women in Combat
by: Mariann Devlin Once I got into a long-winded Facebook debate about equal pay with a friend who was a liberal activist. It began when he posted a chart showing […]
A Clearly Confused Paglia: Examining Her Latest Critique of Popstars
by: Mariann Devlin Camille Paglia, in a piece for the Hollywood Reporter, slammed both Taylor Swift and Katy Perry for lacking the kind of gritty eroticism as their pop-music colleagues […]
Cat Marnell and “Fifty Shades”: Why I Can Be A Kinky Feminist and a Messy Human Being
by: Clarisse Thorn Note: This was originally published at The Frisky. * * * A few years ago …. Today, in 2012, I avoid him as much as I can. But my […]
Feminism For Everyone: A Response to Taylor Swift
by: Mariann Devlin “I’m not a feminist, but I believe in equality.” We’ve all heard those words before, by skeptics of feminism who are almost as frustrating to me as […]
How to Accidentally Raise a Feminist Daughter
by: Emily Heist Moss Note: This post was originally featured on Role/Reboot and was republished with permission. You can find the original here. In this piece, Emily Heist Moss explains […]
Street Harassment and Being Treated Like a Lady
by: Rebecca Kling I was listening to Citizen Radio while driving down to the Chicago Fringe Festival tonight. It’s a fantastic, independently-produced, liberal news and commentary podcast, and I highly […]
We’re Not Really Going To Kill The Heckler: A Defense of Crass Humor
by: Mariann Devlin I’m hard to offend. Even when I do draw the line between funny and not-funny, it’s usually on account of the joke being tired and unoriginal, not […]
Guess What: Rape’s Not Funny When the Victim is a Man, Either
by: Miriam Mogilevsky I know Jezebel is low-hanging fruit, but I can’t resist picking apart their new “Sexytime Dilemmas” column and its endorsement of sexual assault, which apparently is okay when […]
