How men and women pitch stories
The Awl ran a piece today about inquiries they get for submission, noting the difference between emails they receive from men and from women: The emails from men are pretty direct. The emails from women are often kind of… apologetic! Inquiry letter from a man: “Do you take pitches? Should I just write something and [...]
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I don’t know why, but I’m a sucker for slideshows. Add a feminist theme, and I’m all over it. So I really enjoyed stumbling upon this collection of images of women in the military, starting way back with the American Revolution. Here are some of my faves: A women’s volunteer unit in the Civil War. [...]
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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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PETA: Fat Shaming and Consequences
As most regular readers of Womanist Musings know, I have serious issues with the way PeTA advocates for animal rights. Their common approach is to take bodies that have been socially marginalized and attack. They have sexualized women, dressed as KKK members and openly mocked the GLBT community. One of my personal favourite excuses was, [...]
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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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