Tag Archives: Wednesday weigh in
The Wednesday Weigh-In: White working class masculinities
TweetJoseph Osmundson, a scientist and activist based in New York City, has penned an important and deeply personal piece for the Feminist Wire discussing the ways in which “working-class white men live their masculinities”. After sharing a story about trying out for the middle school basketball team in 7th grade and then crying when he saw [...]
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The Wednesday Weigh-In: Are female bloggers more ‘positive’ and ‘happy’?
TweetYou may not have heard of him prior to this week, but Felix Salmon is one of the most influential business writers in, well, the biz. He drew ire last week, including from prominent feminists such as Irin Carmon of Salon, for publishing the following comments in an essay on Maria Popova and her “blogonomics” [...]
The Wednesday Weigh-In: Negotiating that pay raise edition
TweetFeministing readers are pretty familiar with the wage gap. The short story is that women still earn 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, and are paid less even in the same job, working the same hours. While institutionalized sexism remains the key culprit for this travesty, it’s also true that women are both [...]
Also tagged lily ledbetter, pay raise, Wage Gap Comments closed
(Day After) Wednesday Weigh-In: Dating While Feminist
TweetDating seems to be on everyone’s minds lately. Perhaps it’s part of the new year, new me, new boo energy still lingering in the air. Even here at Feministing we’ve been talking about “Crazy Blind Dates” and the challenges to Darwin’s dating ideas. And much of what I hear about dating in hip hop revolves [...]
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The Wednesday Weigh-In: How can we give young people better sex education?