The Friday Five

This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women.

1. When Your (Brown) Body Is A (White) Wonderland by Tressie McMillan Cottom of Tressiemc.com discusses Miley Cyrus’s Video Music Awards performance and the objectification of female black bodies.

2. The Feminist Bean Counters Are Back by Katie Roiphe of Slate.com asks: Should we really care if Obama hasn’t appointed enough women, or there aren’t enough female bylines in the New York Review of Books? (We don’t agree with this perspective, and it’s obviously stirred up a lot of debate.)

3. How The Attachment-Parenting Debate Ignores Women Of Color by Hope Wabuke of The Daily Beast says: Discussions about breast-feeding and baby wearing as the latest fads ignore that these practices are the norm for women of color worldwide.

4. Dangers Of Traveling While Female by Tara Isabella Burton of Salon.com says: I wanted to be a fearless adventurer like my male heroes, but a voice kept warning me: Don’t get yourself raped.

5. Feminism’s Sticky Fast-Food Floor by Sally Kohn of The Daily Beast looks at how women make up a disproportionate number of those stuck in and screwed over the fast-food industry’s low-wage jobs.

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