By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Little girls learn very quickly not to ask so openly for praise, and to modulate their excitement if they want to be acceptable. Anne Hathaway seems to never have quite ingested this lesson… She wants praise. That’s Sasha Weiss, at The New Yorker, in defense of the Oscar winner everyone apparently loves to hate.

A new study finds that gay soldiers who stay in the closet suffer worst mental health outcomes than those who serve openly.

Girls are just as good at maths as boys are! Suck it, sexist conventional wisdom!

Members of the extended Feministing family have been keeping busy:

Jessica has two pieces out today, on Sheryl Sandberg and battling feminist burnout.

Contributor Silpa Kovvali explores death and female orgasms in a new essay.

Miriam Perez dissects feminism’s gender identity crisis.

Have a great weekend!

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Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

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