Tag Archives: Popular Culture
Quick Hit: Can a lawsuit bring some racial diversity to The Bachelor and The Bachelorette?
TweetJennifer Pozner has an interesting piece up at the Daily Beast on the class-action racial discrimination suit against The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. That calculus has governed casting on The Bachelor since its 2002 debut on ABC. Ten years, one spinoff (The Bachelorette), and 24 seasons later, every star of TV’s oldest reality romance franchise [...]
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Richelle Carey asks why professional athletes are treated differently in domestic violence cases
TweetHLN Anchor Richelle Carey asks a very important question over on her new video series on The Frisky: Why do professional athletes get special treatment in domestic violence cases? This past weekend was the big fight between Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Miguel Cotto on Pay Per View. Mayweather earned a guaranteed $32 million dollars [...]
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Mad Men Midweek Fix: Lady Lazarus
TweetHere we go with this week’s take on the latest Mad Men from the Feministing crew. Let’s jump in and get discussing. As always, tons of spoilers follow. The title of the episode Named after the famed Sylvia Plath poem, I guess this episode is about almost dying but then being revived. -Samhita Megan’s career [...]
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Mad Men Midweek fix: At the Codfish Ball
TweetHere we go with this week’s take on the latest Mad Men from the Feministing crew. Let’s jump in and get discussing. As always, tons of spoilers follow. Megan’s good idea Is Megan legit boning her way to the top? It’s like Peggy is our boring, unsexy kind of feminist and Megan is the kind [...]
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Conservative moms outraged – just outraged! – by gay comic book hero