Tag Archives: Sexism
Quick Hit: Why do men keep putting me in the girlfriend-zone?
TweetI love this brilliant reversal of all the Nice Guy whining about the how terrible the friend-zone is. It really gets to the heart of why I think complaints about the friend-zone are just so obnoxious. Even more than the sense of entitlement–that men are owed sex or a relationship for being “good guys”–it’s the idea [...]
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Disney gives Brave‘s Merida a princess make-over
TweetFor fuck’s sake. Brave‘s heroine Merida is getting a make-over before she’s officially inducted into the Disney Princess collection. The character’s creator Brenda Chapman, who became the first woman to win an Oscar for an animated feature for the film, said Disney should be ashamed of the decision. “It’s horrible! Merida was created to break that mold — [...]
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Quick Hit: What Can you do with $443,360 and 12 years?
Tweet That’s how much money some working women are missing out on as a result of wage disparities among genders. According to the Huffington Post: “The typical full-time working woman stands to miss out on $443,360 over 40 years because of the gender wage gap, according to an April report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC). [...]
Coverflip challenge reimagines famous dude book covers as by and for women
TweetYesterday author Maureen Johnson, fed up with sexist responses to the perceived gender appeal of her books covers, issued a challenge to her followers. She writes: You are informed about a book’s perceived quality through a number of ways. Probably the biggest is the cover…. And the simple fact of the matter is, if you [...]
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