Tag Archives: gender policing
Quick Hit: Awesome big brother stands up against gender policing
TweetVia Shakesville comes this really sweet story. Two brothers were happily shopping for a video game with a female character and a “girl color controller” for the younger one–and then dad got all gender police-y. The boys had been taking awhile, so their father eventually comes in. He see’s the game, and the controller, and [...]
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Hillary Sexism Watch: Tim Gunn says she dresses like she’s “confused about her gender”
TweetThis shit might be why women don’t run for office nearly enough. Tim Gunn and George Lopez have a few laughs about Hillary Clinton’s fashion choices. Oh the lolz! Gunn referred bitingly to her “Jersey Shore style,” and Lopez compared her prints to No Bugs M’Lady. It got worse. After paying lip service to Clinton’s [...]
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Student cut from high school football team for wearing pink cleats
TweetCoy Sheppard, a Mississippi high school student, has filed suit against his school district after he was kicked off the football team for wearing pink cleats. Seriously. Oh, and the cleats were given to Sheppard by his great-grandmother and worn in honor of her and Sheppard’s grandmother, both cancer survivors, as part of Breast Cancer [...]
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More Gender Policing for Shiloh from Life & Style Magazine
Tweet After receiving some backlash (plus a response from Angelina Jolie herself) for gender policing celebrity child Shiloh Jolie-Pitts, it looks like Life & Style Magazine wanted to follow up for more attention by implying that Angelina Jolie is the one gender policing her child — to wear boy’s clothes. And what is the proof [...]
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The Olympic Games are obsessed with policing femininity