What Doesn’t Belong? Or, that Awkward Vacant Condominium on My Block.
I live on a funny little street corner in Brooklyn. If you walk in one direction, there is Greenpoint—filled with Polish bakeries and businesses, and perhaps one of my favorite shop signs in all of New York City. In another direction is Williamsburg—filled with coffee shops, vegan restaurants, bicycles and hipsters in flannel shirts and [...]
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Women Athletes: Choose Between Strong and Sexy
Laurie and Debbie say: (Cross-posted to Body Impolitic.) Unusualmusic, blogging at The Angry Black Woman, has an excellent initial post on what we expect American women athletes to look like, and live like. One of the great problems that women athletes face is the idea that women are heterosexual sex objects. And the beauty ideal [...]
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Aging Is (Not) Unnatural
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross-posted to Body Impolitic. All photographs by Laurie Toby Edison. Some photos below may not be okay for office viewing. After our introductory post here last week, Daisy Deadhead asked if we wrote about age as a body image issue, since we hadn’t happened to mention it in that post. Great [...]
...read more“I’m Sorry, But We’ll Need to See Your Genitals”
Laurie and Marlene say: (Marlene Hoeber blogs regularly for Body Impolitic. This post is cross-posted to Body Impolitic.) From the Philadelphia Gay News comes this disgusting story of Kate Lynn Blatt, whose employer requested a photograph of her genitalia as a condition of continued employment. Blatt was working for Manpower, a temporary employment service. After [...]
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Will the Real Kelly Clarkson Please Stand Up?
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross Blogged on Body Impolitic Self Magazine isn’t ashamed that they clipped pieces off of Kelly Clarkson’s body for their current cover. They’re proud of it. Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief at Self, did a whole blog on the Self site about the decision to photoshop Clarkson’s figure. Here’s a picture of Clarkson [...]
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Feministe’s Next Top Troll, Season 2
Who will it be? We’ve played this before, but for new readers, here’s the game: We have 12 contestants for the award of Feministe’s Next Top Troll. Their comments are below the fold, along with a nice little voting thingy where you can click on your favorite. Read their comments, pick the most egregious (or [...]
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Au revoir from Mr. J!
Dear Good People of Feministe, First of all, I know some of you have been confused by my nickname, Mr. J. Despite the male connotation of Mr., I am not a gentleman. I am, in fact, a lady. A very nice lady. My name is Mahlena-Rae Johnson. I bolded the initials there so you could [...]
...read moreHello, Feministe!
My name is Mahlena-Rae Johnson. I’ll be guest-blogging here for the next two weeks, and I’m very excited. Thank you, Jill! Some of you may be familiar with the site I run at SteveThePenguin.com, where I blog about pop culture and politics. This year I self-published my first novel, Steve the Penguin. It’s about a [...]
...read moreGirls & Gangs
Preface: This is my first day of guest-blogging and I am looking forward to it a lot. I have done it before @ Feministe but this time it will be for longer and I am thankful to Jill for this opportunity. I’m a university student in a south-western town in England called Bristol but my [...]
...read moreA Christmas Pussy Carol
We have a talented and funny commentariat here at Feministe, as evidenced by the comments here in the Feministe’s Next Top Troll thread. One concept I’d like to pick up from that thread is the Christmas Pussy carol that got started with micheyd’s comment: “Fiiiiiive golden Nuvarings!” and went from there. It’s not finished, though. [...]
...read moreOngoing Issues
UPDATE: We seem to be working again, woohoo! A million thanks to our techie guardian angel, who has put in so much time and effort to keep this place up and running. If you encounter any problems, please email me at jill.filipovic -at- gmail -dot- com. In case you haven’t noticed, Feministe is a little [...]
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Feministe’s Next Top Troll – Vote Early, Vote Often!
As I mentioned yesterday, we’ve gotten an influx of trolls lately, and they are fabulously entertaining. And while all of the Special Moderation Queue posts are fun, there are just so many caustic commenters in our spam queue right now that I thought a little contest might be better than giving them all individual attention. [...]
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