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Sexism in our Everyday Professional Lives

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One of the roles I think feminist blogs can play in our lives is what the “Women’s Libbers” liked to call “Consciousness Raising.” While the phrase evokes a coven of Farrah-Fawcett-haired women in an avocado and…

Feministe » The Obesity Epidemic, in pictures

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Kate Harding puts together a collection of photos complete with each individual’s height, weight and BMI. And it’s a real eye-opener.
The point of the collection is to challenge our ideas of what “overweight” and…

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Feministe » I’ll take voting rights over a knight in shining armor, thanks.

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A sophomore at UCLA has learned an important fact at college: Chivalry is dead. And hairy feminists killed it.
His piece is fascinating, but not surprising, because he is the ultimate Nice Guy™. The premise is that he…

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Feministe » Is this a good enough reason? If not, what is?

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Kat passed along this story from CNN that brings up all kinds of disturbing questions about bodily autonomy and disability and medical interventions:
LONDON, England — A mother is seeking to have the womb of her…

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Feministe » Why blame feminism for this?

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Katha Pollitt’s got a piece up at TPM Cafe discussing her new book and, in particular, Toni Bentley’s bizarre “vagina dentata intellectualis” attack on it in the New York Times Book Review. It’s an interesting post,…

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