According to J. Lo, the solution to female objectification is simply more universal objectification of everybody. Objectification of women in music videos: It seems like everybody’s talking about it these days. Last year, it was Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and the string of parodies it inspired, followed by Lily Allen’s “Hard Out Here” and the ensuing […]
This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. Chances are, most of you have heard the phrase “rape culture.” It’s used often in feminist circles, and it describes a very important social conditioning that we experience culturally. But how many of you know what it actually looks like? In reading through feminist forums and […]
I define bossy to mean carrying a ferocious work ethic, being a person of conviction, and having a clear vision of how to solve problems. Much digital ink has been spilled over the Ban Bossy campaign—both for and against the campaign. I honestly felt a little betrayed by the Girl Scouts when I read about […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Sheryl Sandberg Launches ‘Ban Bossy’ Campaign To Empower Girls To Lead by Cynthia McFadden and Jake Whitman of “Good Morning America” asks: Can banning one school-yard word really change the world? Sheryl Sandberg says yes. […]
This originally appeared on Eat The Damn Cake. Republished here with permission. Is it really necessary to advertise everyday products using naked women? I’d like to raise my daughter in a world that didn’t force these images down her throat everywhere we look. My husband, Bear, opened his new headphones. “Check it out!” he said […]
Tyler Perry’s films propagate capitalism, greed, colorism, abuse, patriarchy, and the perpetuation of stereotypes. So why exactly was the director chosen to headline a women’s empowerment luncheon this weekend? Many words reverberate when I find the strength to watch a Tyler Perry film: violence, misogyny, HIV/AIDS, stigma, stereotypes, dependency, greed, classism, and others. The one […]
They’re not all lazy and entitled. Today’s young adults are just another generation of people, trying to do the best they can, in a world with really screwed up priorities. According to a recent New York Magazine article entitled “The Collateral Damage of Teenagers,” I am supposed to be unhappier than “regular” parents because my […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. What used to be a mundane part of our lives has become the source of constant conversation, comparison and one-upmanship. Being a workaholic isn’t cool anymore. Once upon a time overachievers would casually, on purpose, drop into water cooler conversations how late they worked. […]
