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Quote of the Day: Pelosi vs. Bachmann

No contest, obviously.

When asked by reporter at a Capitol Hill press conference to comment on Michele Bachmann’s statement that the DOMA ruling “cannot undo what a holy God has instituted,” national treasure Nancy Pelosi responded:

Via Buzzfeed

No contest, obviously.

By Courtney • 13 years ago

Guest Post: What It Means to be Seventeen

by Krystie Yandoli, not 17 but way closer to it than anyone else in the Feministing crew
Jamie Keiles is the much talked about 18-year-old high school senior who started the Seventeen Magazine Project. She started blogging as a means of documenting her attempt at spending one month “living according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine.”
Jamie claims that she doesn’t frequent the teen magazine genre, but prom season prompted her to glance over a few glossies. That’s what sparked her initial project idea, “I was surprised by, bluntly, how stupid most of these magazines were. I wondered if anybody my age actually followed these tips, and what happened if someone actually did follow all of these tips.” ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

Haul monitors: Young women, YouTube and price of beauty

On Wednesday night, I was honored to be a guest on CUNY TV’s Brian Lehrer Live, a weekly current events show filmed here in New York. I was there, along with Marisa Meltzer, the author of Girl Power: the Nineties Revolution in Music and Rob Walker, who writes the NYT’s “Consumed” column and is also the author of Buying In: What We Buy and Who We Are. I was there to talk about the YouTube phenomenon that is the haul video. If you’ve never seen a haul video, it’s basically a person doing on camera what you usually do when you come back from a shopping trip: excitedly show what you’ve bought to ...

On Wednesday night, I was honored to be a guest on CUNY TV’s Brian Lehrer Live, a weekly current events show filmed here in New York. I was there, along with Marisa Meltzer, the ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

The Feministing Five: Heather Corinna

Heather Corinna, a writer and activist, is the founder of Scarleteen, one of the internet’s best sex ed resources for young people, and the author of S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide for Getting You Through High School and College. Scarleteen, which Corinna started in 1998, tries to fill the gaps left – whether intentionally or unintentionally – in sex education provided by teachers and parents. Scarleteen is for and by young people, aims to equip young people with all the information they need to make the best choices they can make. It also provides a space for them to talk, in an honest and safe way, about issues that they might not otherwise be able ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

The Feministing Five: Julie Zeilinger

Julie Zeilinger is the founder and editor of The F Bomb, a feminist blog run for and by teenagers. She’s a high school junior from Pepper Pike, Ohio, which makes the fact that she founded and manages a blog with contributors from all over the country all the more impressive. Zeilinger says that one of the greatest challenges has been juggling her high school commitments and her role as editor of the blog. She’s thrilled to have so many contributions to edit and so many comments to moderate, but notes that she would have started and maintained the site “even if no one ever read it; I needed to do it for me.”
The F Bomb, as ...

Julie Zeilinger is the founder and editor of The F Bomb, a feminist blog run for and by teenagers. She’s a high school junior from Pepper Pike, Ohio, which makes the fact that she ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

It’s not sex, it’s “swagger”

The cover story of this weekend’s New York Times Style Section was a profile of Justin Bieber, the fifteen-year-old Youtube pop sensation who had four Billboard top-100 hits in 2009. The article focuses on his relationship with his single mother, and also with the unique challenges of being an international pop sensation before you’re old enough to have a learner’s permit. It covers his mentor-mentee relationship with R & B singer Usher, as well as with his image management team, which includes a “swagger coach.” But it also focuses quite heavily on the reactions Bieber inspires in his young female fans.
His hordes of female fans, some of them as young as ten, are described by the ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

The Feministing Five: Rachel Simmons

Rachel Simmons is a writer and a teacher who has penned two New York Times bestsellers. Not too shabby.
In 2002, Simmons’ wrote Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, which shed light on the “mean girls” phenomenon and examined for the first time the cliques and codes of teen girl culture in an academic but accessible way. Like Odd Girl Out, Simmons’ second book The Curse of the Good Girl, is based on hundreds of hours spent interviewing and teaching young girls, which Simmons does all over the world. At her summer camp the Girls Leadership Institute, during the months she spends every year teaching at a girls school in South ...

By Rose • 14 years ago

Precious: A Feminist Must-See

I had to post a link to the new movie, Precious:

I am halfway through Push, the book by Sapphire that the movie is based on. It is not often that so many issues women face are embodied in one character. From racism, sizism, sexual violence, domestic violence, welfare issues, colorism, ablism, and many, many more — this is the ultimate feminist primer! I am not quite sure what to make of how Precious’ mother’s character, played by Mo’Nique, is being framed as the “monstrous matriarch.” On one hand, giving her villainous character, it seems fitting. On the other hand, what does it mean that the black single mom has once again gotten this branding? This is especially ...

I had to post a link to the new movie, Precious:

I am halfway through Push, the book by Sapphire that the movie is based on. It is not often that so many issues women face are embodied ...