Tag Archives: Ageism
Nancy Pelosi shuts down Luke Russert for sexist question
Tweet “Let’s for the moment honor it as a legitimate question although it’s quite offensive but you don’t realize it, I guess.” — Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) That was Nancy Pelosi yesterday responding to a sexist question by NBC reporter Luke Russert. Russert’s exact question, at Pelosi’s announcement that she was not stepping down [...]
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The Wednesday Weigh In: Birthdays and aging
Tweet Yesterday I turned 25. My birthday was lovely, with friends, family, and my Feministing crew really going all out to celebrate my day of birth. It was quite humbling and made me really grateful to have these people in my life. It also, being my 25th birthday, made me think about aging and ageism. [...]
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Older women, blacks unhappy with their portrayal in films
Tweet Some new research provides definitive proof of what many media watchdogs and feminists have been saying for awhile: media representation matters, and especially in regards to portrayal of sex and sexuality, certain groups seem to continuously get the shaft (NO pun intended, I swear). In this case, older women and black people expressed the [...]
Young women are the future of feminism
TweetOn Wednesday night, I attended a panel at 92Y Tribeca called “Young Women, Feminism and the Future: Third Wavers Then and Now.” It was convened to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the publication of Manifesta, by Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner, which the pair wrote together to draw attention to the ways that feminism was [...]
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Ageism and the magical invisibility cloak