Misogynists are Cads, Racists are Monsters.
Jeremy Levine and Latoya Peterson, friends of ours over at PostBourgie, are both winding their ways through the second season of “Mad Men” ahead of the coming third season premiere. (It’s about time, y’all. Damn.) There are articles clogging up my Google Reader ahead of the show, so I’m feeling the crush of media hype for the new [...]
...read moreBecause She Had It Coming, Right?
A few weeks ago, someone posted a video online of Erin Andrews, an ESPN sideline reporter, in the nude in a hotel room. The video was taken without her knowledge, and the whole incident has left her understandably shaken. She has said she will sue the person responsible, as well as anyone that spreads the [...]
...read moreCovering Rape.
Samhita is rightly bothered by the unfortunate, predictable response (and ESPN’s non-coverage) of the lawsuit against Pittsburgh Steeler’s QB Ben Roethlisberger for an alleged rape. We can still evaluate the way the media portrays women when they bring about rape charges, the extent to which the general public will defend and accept athletes that have [...]
...read moreWhen the Outside Looks Like The Inside
A few years back, my co-blogger quadmoniker worked for New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which is supposed to act as a watchdog group for the city’s police department. If a citizen wanted to file a complaint against a police officer, she would do so with the CCRB, who would then dispatch an investigator [...]
...read moreNow Here’s a Funky Introduction of How Nice I Am.
Greetings, good folks at Feministe! My name is G.D., and I’m still really humbled that I was invited to do a guest stint over here, which is one of my daily reads. I’m a Brooklyn transplant by way of South Philly who works in journalism. I’m also the founder of PostBourgie, a blog that I [...]
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