2008 March Archive | Feministing

We’re on our way to WAM!

If we’re a little slow on posting today, it’s because about half of the Feministing crew is en route to Boston for the super-fabulous WAM conference. But don’t worry, you can expect some live-blogging this weekend…

By Jessica • 16 years ago

Playboy launches in the Philippines

Playboy magazine is launching in the Philippines, though I’m not sure that’s what I find so disturbing…

“Maxim and FHM are called laddy magazines. We can be called a Dad magazine,” Beting Laygo Dolor, Playboy Philippines’ editor, told Reuters on Thursday.

Now, Dolor said that they’re calling it a “Dad” magazine because the publication will be marketed to men 30 years-old and over. But still – ew.

Playboy magazine is launching in the Philippines, though I’m not sure that’s what I find so disturbing…

“Maxim and FHM are called laddy magazines. We can be called a Dad magazine,” Beting Laygo Dolor, Playboy Philippines’ editor, ...

By Jessica • 16 years ago

Irish poll: Rape victims partly to blame

This is definitely depressing: A national poll in Ireland showed that a shocking (well, I guess not) number of people think that rape survivors are totally or partially responsible for being attacked.

More than 30% think a victim is some way responsible if she flirts with a man or fails to say no clearly.
10% of people think the victim is entirely at fault if she has had a number of sexual partners.
37% think a woman who flirts extensively is at least complicit, if not completely in the wrong, if she is the victim of a sex crime.
One in three think a woman is either partly or fully to blame if she wears revealing clothes.
38% believe a ...

More than 30% think a ...

By Miriam • 16 years ago

Wanderlust reproductive justice bike tour!

My friend and colleague Nora Dye, along with the Pro-Choice Public Education Project is organizing an amazing bike tour this summer and she wants YOU to join her. She and a group of 10-15 people will be riding from New Orleans to New York City and doing amazing work along the way. Nora did a cross country trip last summer and it served as the inspiration for this year’s group trip they’re calling Wanderlust.

Wanderlust is usually described as â€œdesire to see the worldâ€?, or â€œhaving an itch to travelâ€?. Some people call it itchy feet. I chose the name Wanderlust to represent the spirit of this trip, which is dedicated to talking to people about ...

My friend and colleague Nora Dye, along with the Pro-Choice Public Education Project is organizing an amazing bike tour this summer and she wants YOU to join her. She and a group of ...

By Jessica • 16 years ago

Making girls skinnier, one Sweet Valley High book at a time

I don’t know about you, but I was obsessed with Sweet Valley High when I was a kid. (Though I was always pissed that the Jessica character was the vapid one, while Elizabeth was the cool, smart reporter type.)
Well, it seems that Random House is re-releasing the series with a new modern twist: skinnier twins.

To publicize the re-release of teen fiction series Sweet Valley High, Random House Children’s Books sent a letter to journalists highlighting the changes made to the content of the 1980s paperbacks. New cover girl Leven Rambin (pictured) was not mentioned, but just to make sure preteen and teenaged girl readers are sufficiently insecure about their bodies, the publisher made the “perfect” clothing ...

I don’t know about you, but I was obsessed with Sweet Valley High when I was a kid. (Though I was always pissed that the Jessica character was the vapid one, while Elizabeth was the ...

By Samhita • 16 years ago

Prisons and STDs

Check out my latest at the Nation. It is about the connection between rate at which STDs spread and its relationship to the rate of incarceration in communities of color and how prisons are a feminist issue and should be on the agenda of the feminist movement.

By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Quick Hit: NY Times Takes on Sexist Vegans

The New York Times has a piece in the Style section today (as usual) about sexism within some vegan/vegetarian circles like Johnny Diablo, owner of the new vegan strip club in Portland, who just loves using the word “feminazi” and signs his name “Lord & Master.” Check out Ann’s great post for more background.

By Courtney • 16 years ago

Thank You Thursdays: Women in Hip Hop

As anyone who listens to the music knows, it tends to be a man’s game, but there are a few brave women who have shown that MC-ing isn’t sex-linked to the Y-chromosome. In my book I talk about the negative affects of growing up listening to a music that essentially told me: “Your role in the music of your generation is as eye candy, the cute girl at the party who gets freestyled about [thanks Che DeLeon], not the one who does the freestyling. Your body is your voice.” There were some spit-kickin’ women, and more to come, who give young women a different message, that they have every right to make their voices and lyrics and stories heard within ...

As anyone who listens to the music knows, it tends to be a man’s game, but there are a few brave women who have shown that MC-ing isn’t sex-linked to the Y-chromosome. In my book I talk ...