A few months ago, I wrote a post for Love Your Body Day that struck some commenters as flaunting my own privilege. I discussed the matter with a few of those commenters outside of the comment section and thanked them for assuming that I had good intentions but for holding me accountable. Now, one of them, a [...]

Sociological Images reminds us that men can be sexually assaulted, too . Tim Tebow might see a future for himself in politics? Oh, good, a straight white anti-choice dude in politics! We don’t have nearly enough of those. Sex culture researcher Rachel Hills is looking for people to interview for her forthcoming book The Sex Myth . May she interview you? [...]

Since many of us spent yesterday celebrating a game that women aren’t really allowed to play, it seems fitting to spend a moments today celebrating a woman athlete. And this woman is a total badass. She doesn’t throw or catch or tackle, but she does dive 60 metres (that’s about 197 feet) down into the ocean with [...]

The weekend Times published an obituary of Una Mulzac, founder of Liberation Bookstore, the Harlem bookstore that became a well-known and well-loved for selling books about African American identity and racial justice. Mulzac opened the store in 1967 after returning from Guyana, where she participated in that country’s struggle for independence from Great Britain. It became a [...]

Superbowl 46 was yesterday, and the Giants won, and someone has really small hands, and that’s pretty much where my football expertise ends. But I did watch a number of the commercials, because – and this is a sign that American capitalism is alive and well and not at any risk of being overcome by [...]

Danya Ensing is a 19-year-old student at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and a Feministing reader. Last week, she posted this video over on the Community blog , and I thought it was so great that I wanted all our readers to watch it. Danya didn’t realize she was a feminist until a [...]

Danya Ensing is a 19-year-old student at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and a Feministing reader. Last week, she posted this video over on the Community blog , and I thought it was so great that I wanted all our readers to watch it. Danya didn’t realize she was a feminist until a [...]

Oy, really, Vanity Fair? Again?

Virginia wins the prize for the grossest, bestest poison pill ever.

Cynthia Nixon, speaking to The Advocate, clarifies her comments about choosing to be gay.

The New York Times ran  an article last weekend about why so few movie trailer voiceovers are performed by women. The article discussed the perception that women’s voices aren’t strong enough to cut through the noise of a movie trailer, and suggested that even if they can, many of us trust men’s voices more than women’s:

Do moviegoers [...]

When “The Help” hit theaters last year, there was an enormous amount of discussion about it in the feminist and progressive blogosphere. It was harshly criticized for its ahistorical depiction of the Jim Crow South, and for its implication that racism is a thing of the past (and that it is over largely thanks to the efforts [...]

Anna Howard Shaw Day , known to some as “Valentine’s Day,” is coming exactly two weeks away. I know that most of you won’t be celebrating the way Hallmark, Godiva, Zales and Victoria’s Secret want you to, by spending money traditional and tangible symbols of love. Some of you won’t be buying anything at all, because you [...]

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Congresswoman Gabby Giffords officially resigned today. Her friend, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, paid tribute to her, and read a letter on her behalf. Today is the first ever Gay Straight Alliance Day ! An Arkansas newspaper has refused to publish the announcement of a gay couple’s commitment ceremony in [...]

Do you like movies by and about women? Do you like movies about women who lead, and make change, and break down barriers? Then you’re going to love this year’s Athena Film Festival . The festival, now in its second year, is a collaboration between Women and Hollywood and the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvRj9EBQ1qY Peter Dinklage used his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday to advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. Read more about his speech here. Lowest. Bar. Ever. This new book, Ashamed to Die , about HIV/AIDS in the American south, looks like a must-read . Sure, women aren’t funny or authentic, and that’s why Melissa McCarthy just sold [...]

By Molly Knefel Last week, the New York Times published a profile of Eddie Brill, the man in charge of booking stand-up comics on The Late Show with David Letterman. The article reported that only one out of the 22 comics booked in the year 2011 were women, and included this quote from Brill:

“There are a lot [...]

SOPA is the Stop Internet Piracy Act, also known as HR 3261. It was introduced late last year and it aims to fight online trafficking of copyrighted material. So, you know that episode of Downton Abbey that you watched on Sidereel last week? If you’re in America, SOPA would make it illegal for Google to help [...]

My flight to Mumbai landed at about 4am local time. The trip from New York had been a long one: ten hours to Istanbul, an eight-hour layover at Istanbul airport, then another seven hours to Mumbai. I was, unsurprisingly, exhausted. Excited, but exhausted. I had one more flight left, to Goa, which is about an [...]

The New Yorker ’s Jeffrey Toobin on the GOP candidates’ opposition to birth control . The Pope says that gay marriage undermines the future of humanity . Shots fired in Jersualem’s “modesty wars” – in the form of a flashmob . The Directors Guild of America has announced its nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Being a White Male Movie Director! My mistake: the award [...]

But they don’t get. At least, not at the same rates as men do. Two researchers from Catalyst, a research and consulting organization that aims to make workplaces more diverse and equitable, are writing a series for the Washington Post about gender inequity in the workplace. Their first article features research from a new Catalyst report on how [...]