February 2012
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Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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“My answer to that is, are you kidding? When is rape ever funny? Every topic...”
– Marnie Goodfriend, in response to whether she thinks rape jokes are funny View my previous post on the growing prevalence of rape jokes in pop culture.
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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The Nominees for the Best Performance of Gender... →
Women performers and the characters they played for us on screen didn’t just complacently inhabit gender; they flaunted, overturned, redescribed or revolted against it… ‘Masculinity’ and ‘femininity,’ these performances show, fall along a much longer line of traits and gestures, and also vary according to the actor/character’s race and class and their...
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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Trending on YouTube: Am I pretty or ugly? →
Searching on YouTube for “am I pretty or ugly” yields almost 7,000 results.
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Why women deserve a seat in the [tech] boardroom →
By adding new blood to the boardroom,these companies are getting a four-fer,or more: 1) gender diversity,and in most cases,age diversity around the table 2) better understanding of core customers 3) Social-Mobile-Local expertise and insight into digital platforms like Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Twitter,P ath, Square, Flipboard and Pinterest that are fundamentally changing business and 4)...
Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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“An educated girl will lead to an empowered woman in dev countries. This means...”
– Women in the World chat with DVF (#wiwchat)
Feb 15th
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The Best of NYFW Interpreted As Obscure... →
nyfw + architecture superlatives. very creative.
Feb 15th
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You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face →
if i have a daughter in the future, i hope i’m strong enough to be this kind of mother. When the fuck was it decided that we should start teaching our daughters to accept being belittled, disrespected and abused as endearing treatment? I want my daughter to know that the boy called her ugly or pushed her or pulled her hair didn’t do it because he admires her, it is because he is a little...
Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Future Hipsters →
social media week has started an entire blog with ‘future hipster’ memes. hilarious.
Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 10th
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Why I'm Not Married →
it’s like Melanie Curtin stole her article directly from my brain.
Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Is Great for Creativity →
this definitely explains why i was only good at taboo when i was drunk, and why i always preferred to drink a beer or two and then write papers. Once again, the explanation for this effect returns us to the benefits of not being able to pay attention. The stupor of alcohol, like the haze of the early morning, makes it harder for us to ignore those unlikely thoughts and remote associations that...
Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 26th
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The 25 Of a Kind Designers You Should be Following... →
Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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The top 30 stats you need to know when marketing... →
91% of women say that advertisers don’t understand them. Recognizing the power and influence of women needs to be a top priority for marketers if they are going to tap into the market’s full potential.
Jan 24th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Beer Run! →
Takeaway Men performed worse the morning after drinking a few postrun beers, while the women performed better. But given our small sample size, these results should be taken with a grain of (margarita) salt.
Jan 22nd
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newsflash: rape jokes aren’t funny. ever. (if you’re confused about why, let me break it down for you.)
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Flying the flag for ladyboys: Thai airline takes... →
Thai airline PC breaks down social barriers by employing Thailand’s third sex, kathoey.  “We hope this job will change [Thai] politics, that this is the first of other opportunities,” said Chayathisa Nakmai, 24, who had gender realignment surgery after leaving school and always hoped to become a flight attendant.
Jan 19th
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If the Clothes Fit: A Feminist Takes on Fashion →
i find this article more thoughtful than many feminist-musings-on-fashion write ups i’ve read before.  In U.S. politics, Hillary Clinton has experienced the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t double bind for strong women. If she wears a power pantsuit, it’s a “desexualized uniform,” but if she shows a hint of cleavage—as she famously did in 2007—it can ignite a media firestorm that...
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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this is perfect. and now i’m doubly jealous of bday cards from the pres (round 1 of jealousy was zooey deschanel’s). barackobama: President Obama to Betty White: Where’s your birth certificate?
Jan 18th
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