Objectify This

Are women’s magazines bad for women? It might seem like a stupid question. But when, as the New York Times reports, a University of Missouri study “found that looking at women’s magazines for 1-3 minutes had a negative impact on women’s self esteem. So imagine what happens if we’re bombarded by these images every day.” [...]

Hat tip to Bust for their coverage of this well-heeled event in their August/September issue: there’s a a new annual parage of feminist men who strut their stuff and walk the walk, literally. The “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” which bills itself as an “International Men’s March Against Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence” [...]

So Lena Chen. Here’s a refresher course. She’s a sexblogger from Harvard who tells stories about her sexploits, with strategically placed psuedonyms and (presumably) enough privacy to retain her sanity and, oh yeah, sell some advertising. Recently, some trouble was roused when her vindictive ex published naked pictures of her on the internet, thus ruining [...]

Recently, I won some money and decided to visit a friend who is finishing up her semester abroad in Argentina. While, as one mentor of mine in high school put it, “Every woman has a funny relationship with food,” in Argentina, it’s an understatement. Somethingfishy.org, a website about eating disorders, reports that “In Argentina the [...]

Flying makes a lot of people nervous. One of the strategies that airlines employ to help people relax is to objectify women all around them. This is still practiced at Hooters Air. According to Wikipedia, “In the 1960s and 1970s, many airlines began advertising the attractiveness and friendliness of their stewardesses. “National Airlines began a [...]

Right. So recently, my eighteen-year old little brother left home on his first major excursion without adult supervision. I was talking about this trip with my momma, and she asked me if I would be willing to give my bro the sex talk and drop him some condoms. Of course, I was totally cool with [...]

When Fafi was eighteen, she started sneaking out of her parents’ home to make public art. Her work, which is cartoonish, features what her myspace page calls “powerful and active” images of girls. Fafi, now thirty-one, lives in France with her husband and children and travels the world to install her rogue pieces, which she [...]