By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“Until entertainment’s most powerful institutions decide that it’s simply wrong (or else bad for their brands) to keep working with harassers, the Terry Richardson news cycle will keep repeating itself.”

David Brooks says Obama has “a manhood problem in the Middle East.” In other news, David Brooks continues to be the worst.

One girl’s long fight to get McDonald’s to quit giving out “boy toys” and “girl toys” with their Happy Meals.

First there were World Cup t-shirts objectifying Brazilian women, and now there are some that call soccer players “faggots”.

8 absurd lessons Americans teach kids about sex.

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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