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Really, Urban Outfitters?

While Urban Outfitters find shirts supporting marriage equality too controversial for their store shelves, apparently selling father-daughter purity grossness is all good. Whether or not this was meant to be funny, it really missed the mark; all it does is give me the ickies.
Related:
Vintage Video Sexism: Kissing is for Whores
Time Magazine hearts Purity Balls
The Purity Myth!
My hymen belongs to Daddy
h/t to Charlotte.

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

“Slut Panel” postmortem: Shame, shame, go away

As Lori wrote yesterday, the two of us spent Monday in Cambridge, MA, at the Harvard Rethinking Virginity conference. I, along with Lux Alpatraum of Fleshbot, Therese Schechter of Trixie Films and Sady Doyle of Tiger Beatdown, was on the panel entitled “Debunking the Virginity Myth: Feminist Responses to Slut Shaming” and my goodness did I have a great time. It was a real honor to be on a panel with such smart, funny ladies, and a privilege to be able to talk some of these issues out in a safe and supportive public space.

If you were to ask me what my biggest takeaway from our panel (which was lovingly nicknamed and introduced on the day ...

By Lori Adelman • 13 years ago

“Queer Sex Doesn’t Count” And Nine Other Myths Uncovered- And Debunked- at the Harvard “Rethinking Virginity” Conference

Yesterday, Chloe and I had the privilege and honor of speaking at the Rethinking Virginity Conference at Harvard University. The conference was organized by Lena Chen, blogger extraordinaire and recent Feministing Five interviewee, and brought together an incredibly diverse and impressive group of feminists, who dropped some serious knowledge on all things virgin-themed. One of the most interesting parts of the panel was learning how much misinformation exists around issues of virginity, sex, and our bodies. This isn’t exactly breaking news- in fact, our very own Jessica Valenti wrote an entire book about it. But the quest to educate and rethink harmful cultural norms and standards is never finished. So I’ve compiled ten myths ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

Et tu, Gaga?

Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper were in London over the weekend to promote their admirable work with MAC cosmetics. Each woman has had a lipstick color created for her, and all proceeds from the sales of those two colours will go to the MAC AIDS Fund. The Gaga-Lauper campaign specifically targets women, encouraging testing and condom use and attempting to break misconceptions that women and older people are less at risk of HIV infection:
The Daily Mail reports:

“The rate of infection worldwide is higher than ever for women in our particular demographic,” says Gaga. “Those most at risk are women in my age bracket, 17 to 24 [she is 24], and Cyndi’s, which is 38 to ...

Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper were in London over the weekend to promote their admirable work with MAC cosmetics. Each woman has had a lipstick color created for her, and all proceeds from the sales ...

By Lori Adelman • 14 years ago

In Today’s Alternative Advice Column, What Lies Behind “Slut”

A while back, Chloe wrote a terrific piece about the gap between increased awareness about unhealthy beauty standards in the media, and the unhealthy messages they’re actually internalizing. I think a similar gap exists regarding sexuality; many of us are able to articulate pride in our sexuality or pontificate about sex positivity, but we’re still internalizing harmful messages about sexuality and what these messages says about us and our value. We still buy into the Madonna/whore complex. We still believe purity and goodness reside with virginity, and dirtiness and badness reside with sex. We still feel shame about our desires, and feel less and less proud of ourselves as our “number” climbs higher and higher (and I’m not talking ...

By Jos Truitt • 14 years ago

Bristol Palin: Don’t get pregnant unless you’re privileged

Bristol Palin has shot a new PSA for the abstinence pushing and just generally creepy Candie’s Foundation. And it is so not OK:

Transcript after the jump.
Even entertainment website E! Online recognizes that this add is messed up, saying the message is:

“I’m privileged, so it’s OK that I got pregnant, but you’re not, so don’t.” (We paraphrase…but just barely.)

Apparently you should keep your legs crossed (Candie’s Foundation’s preferred method of birth control) if you’re poor, don’t have family support, or are not a celebrity. What a despicable, classist approach.

Bristol Palin has shot a new PSA for the abstinence pushing and just generally creepy Candie’s Foundation. And it is so not OK:

Transcript after the jump.
Even entertainment website E! Online recognizes that ...

By Jessica • 14 years ago

Victim-blaming in Starbucks case

We’ve linked to this story previously: A teen and her family are suing Starbucks after she was harassed and assaulted on the job by her boss, who demanded sex from her. (She was 16, he was 24.)

There’s lots to discuss obviously, but I just wanted to highlight something the teen, Kati Moore, said the article’s accompanying video – she’s responding to Starbuck’s claims that this was her fault.

“Because I had had sex prior to working at Starbucks, then obviously that means I was okay with it.”

This makes me want to bat the Starbucks people over the head with my book. I just think the quote is so telling; it speaks volumes about what Moore is ...

We’ve linked to this story previously: A teen and her family are suing Starbucks after she was harassed and assaulted on the job by her boss, who demanded sex from her. (She was 16, ...

By Jessica • 14 years ago

Teen Vogue features pregnant covergirl, moral panic ensues

Seems that some people are upset that one of the models on Teen Vogue‘s November cover is pregnant.
19 year-old Jourdan Dunn isn’t visibly pregnant, but talks about her pregnancy in the magazine.

The cover has raised eyebrows among some parents, teens and advocates against teen pregnancy.
“There’s no message to send to them that that’s not OK. Maybe if she’s on the cover to tell them ‘Be careful,’ that’s one thing,” said Catherine Essig, a 19-year-old sophomore at Dallas’ Southern Methodist University, who was concerned about 15- and 16-year-old readers.
Many advocates said parents should use the cover as a way to talk to their kids about sex and the importance of planning pregnancies for the right moment in ...

The cover has raised ...