You know what’s really been lacking on television lately? White, straight men. At least according to the co-creator of Two and a Half Men, Lee Aronsohn. In an interview with the Holl...
This post is part of Teen Week 2012: Words that Heal. Hey there. Yeah, you, the fierce teenager I know so well. I know you are having a time of it, trying to find your way out of the vituperative si...
This post is part of Teen Week 2012: Words that Heal. Originally posted at Proud2Beme.org. Dear Sweet 16, It’s me, the 39-year-old you with a little advice, lots of love, and tons of gratitude. I don...
Originally create for and posted at Proud2Bme.org. By Melanie Klein–My students and I talked back to mainstream media by creating our own messages. We let them know that we’re fed...
Originally posted at Proud2Bme. “Are you sure you’re not hungry?” he asked with grave concern as chicken grease ran down his fingers and his chin. We’d just finished a rigorous hike and I was starvin...
On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Pia Guerrero, Hugo Schwyzer and I discussed our upcoming Men and Feminism Panel at Santa Monica College with hosts Christene Kings, Susan Kraker and Denise Zepeda. Tun...
My body is a battleground. I have spent most of my life waging a war on it. I have vivid girlhood memories of my worth being measured by my waist size and numbers on a scale. I was taught that I must...
How many times have you looked at a model in a magazine or an actress on TV and thought, “Hey, that doesn’t look like me or anyone I know”? This group of students decided to talk back about the diffe...
I wasn’t trying to make a political or intellectual statement when I decided to get rid of my television in college. I was trying to send a message to my live-in boyfriend, the one who was perpetuall...
The image above was created with a sample of recent post titles, and the comments I found on those posts. Gawker has 8 different blogs, each with a different focused topic. Kotaku is Gawker’s ...
I went to Comic-Con this year; on Thursday, I attended a panel titled “Oh, You Sexy Geek!” a discussion of the implications of “sexy women” in geek/nerd culture, and ho...
“Look! I married you a certain way! I like women who look a certain way! It’s my right to like women who look a certain way and I shouldn’t have to spend the rest of my life not being happy,” Brad ex...
On Monday, The Supreme Court announced their ruling in the case of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (representing the video game industry). I was ecstatic. Despite how often I write abo...
“Kid, you’ll move mountains! So…be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ale Van Allen O’Shea, You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your w...
Trigger Warning: The following video contains nudity and sexual violence. This is actual gameplay footage of Duke Nukem Forever. Anyone who keeps up with my “Rants of a Gamer Girl” series...
I feel his body against mine, and then I feel his erect penis on the small of my back. I squirm, pressing myself against the wall, but he puts a hand over my mouth, hissing into my ear to be quiet so...
I attended Slutwalk in my jeans and Converse, a flower in my hair and a camera posed before my eye. Frankly, I didn’t feel like I needed to be adorned in something revealing in order to take back my ...
Image taken from JCrew.com – featured in the June 2011 catalog. Lately J. Crew has featured content on their website and in their catalog that steps outside the “norm” of wha...
By Sarit Rogers. Originally posted at Visions Adolescent Treatment Centers. Cross-posted with permission. I know an 8-year-old who’s been known to choose an outfit specifically because it makes...
In keeping with the WAM! LA tradition, attendees and presenters of WAM! LA 2011 had a n opportunity to talk back to the mainstream media. Check out what they had to say! Related: Media Democracy: The...
Originally posted at Ms. Magazine. The sweet J. Crew ad I celebrated last week has ignited a “pink scare,” with socially conservative commentators outrageously upset. The ad features a mother– J.Crew...
My toddler son has a penchant for all things wheeled. He can easily distinguish a skip loader from a backhoe and a semi-truck from a dump truck. He’s also intrigued by my jewelery box, stackin...
Because I’m a gamer, I spend a lot of time reading reviews, blog posts, and articles about video games. However whenever media critical thought or even gender enters the conversation, the same...
Dr. Robyn Silverman was featured on a segment of the Today Show on MSN this morning in response to the controversy over Abercrombie + Fitch’s “push-up” kiddie bikini. She makes a po...
I came across this display at The Gap a few days ago. Not exactly subtle, eh? From skinny pretzels and skinny soda cans to skinny water (yes, skinny water) and Skinnygirl Margarita, courtesy of reali...
Following the incredibly sexist strip-club press event held for the release of the upcoming video game, Duke Nukem Forever, I thought we had finally hit rock bottom. I was wrong. This week, develope...
On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 I joined Feminist Frequency‘s Anita Sarkeesian on KPFK’s Feminist Magazine in Los Angeles with host Lynn Harris Ballen. Anita discussed critical media literac...
Originally posted at Pigtail Pals by Melissa Wardy. Cross-posted with permission. My view of a day spent in a Cape Town township, South Africa. Today is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s...
Via Reality Bites Back author, Jennifer L. Pozner–>>START A NEW FB MEME: Jersey Shore’s Snooki sold approx. 9,000 copies of her book. Her costar, The Situation, sold 12,000 copies o...
Originally posted at Gender Focus. Cross-posted with permission. For the two years I’ve been on Twitter, I’ve found it to be a really great place for keeping track of news about gender issues ...
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