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1. DREAMY: You’ve probably seen it by now, but just in case, it’s Feminist Ryan Gosling and he’s saying “Hey Girl….” 2. MEDIA: Really cool analysis I wish I’d done on Sociological Images. It maps the...
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Disneyfied Dudes
We can talk for hours about princess culture and how sexualized the outfits of Disney’s female characters are, and we probably already have. But Sanjay Newton (a student I think?) made this really cool...
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1. TOLLBOOTH: Fun NPR story from Norton Juster, about the accidental way his first novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, became a masterpiece still beloved 50 years later. 2. HALLOWEEN: Great WBEZ piece from...
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I Don’t Like Places That Discriminate Against My Friends
A few months ago, we had a bad experience at a local bar when a waiter referred to my latina friend as “the tan one.” What may have just been poor word choice turned ugly when the owner of the bar...
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What’s so masculine about colored plastic blocks?
Can someone explain to me why we need special LEGOs for girls? They are still just colored plastic building blocks, right? Have they changed in some dramatic way since I was a child? Oh yes, I guess...
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1. TIM: Interview with Tim Gunn in Mother Jones about his childhood, his It Gets Better spot, and consistently being the best thing about Project Runway. 2. PEGGY: Watch Peggy Orenstein (author of...
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Sunday Scraps 48
1. OCCUPY: Guest post at Sociological Images by Celia Emmelhainz on the rhetoric of luck in the national conversation about the OWS movement. What and who do we consider “lucky,” and why? 2. ADELE:...
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1. GLOBAL SEXUALITY: New York Times report on the global domination of Cosmo and how cover to cover, mag to mag, the content shifts to accommodate cultural norms from Kazakhstan to Singapore. 2....
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1. GENDER: Watch this Time interview with Casey Legler, a woman who works as a male model, and try not to drool. 2. BOOKS: A new anthology, My Ideal Bookshelf, creates colorful portraits of authors’...
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1. TAVI: 16-year-olds have no right to be so cool and self-assured. This kid says everything I figured out ten years later about media, feminism, stereotypes, yada yada yada. 2. HEALTH: This American...
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Why can’t we have a men’s leadership group?
Man, do I hate that question; you will get my most ferocious eye-roll. I find the answer to “Why can’t we have a men’s leadership group” so painfully obvious, “Because the whole world is your men’s...
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On Wrinkles and Love Your Body Day
Today is National Love Your Body Day, which is fitting because I was going to write about wrinkles anyway! Hoorah for convergence! Use the hashtag #lybd on Twitter to participate in the conversation....
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