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Whassup, Bitches?: Female Chauvinism's Place is in the Garbage.

This poll discussed over at Slate in the article “Man Up!” found that “Despite the recent frenzy of media attention over the issue of race in America, a new poll by CBS (PDF) suggests that gender may cause more problems for contemporary presidential contenders. Thirty-nine percent of those polled think that a woman candidate would [...]

Bitch Is The New Black, Says Tina Fey

I gotta say, I’m not a huge fan of Hillary, but I would vote for Tina Fey.

Our Masculine Systems: Women's Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution

Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]

Gender Normativity, Post-Mrs.Doubtfire Doubts, & A Drive-By Fruiting

I went to a dinner party a while ago, and it was really nice. I was camoflaged in adult clothes, and standing around with adults, chatting, and this child ran through. The child hesitated on the edge of our circle of tall obstacles, and then darted into the middle and out the other side. The [...]

Haha . . . not funny.

Feministing’s Weekly Feminist reader alerted me to F Word’s recent posting “Har Har,” in which Sara Anderson holds advertising exec Gerdien responsible for making a visual joke about the abuse of women by beating them with keyboards. Gerdien argues that since the ad was made by three women, it can’t be sexist, and states, “Because [...]

Color Me Beautiful: MakeUp, Fact & Fiction.

So, there’s this thing that I put on my face in the evenings these days, before I go out to shake my thang or down some burrs. The fact that many women feel dependent on this stuff – I have heard countless women explain that they feel incomplete or “naked” without their lipstickeyeshadowmascarafoundationconcealerblush while most [...]

"G.s Up, Hos Down, While You Muthafuckahs . . . Seek Gender and Racial Equality"

I just got back from NYC’s incarnation of the Rock the Bells Hip Hop Festival on Randall’s Island this weekend, where I was struck by the ways that the mainstream, commercial hip hop scene differs from the “underground” or “conscious” hip hop scene that I stood for hours in mud and pouring rain to dance [...]