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Last night, Samantha Bee, Cybill Shepherd, Dr. Ruth, Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief, and a lot of rich people gathered to wish the Pill a happy 50th over steak and cocktails. It was pretty fun, especially when Samantha Bee laid into Cosmo. More »
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If we want to get anywhere, feminists need to quit fighting about waves, generations, and other nonsense. Luckily, we've already started. More »
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Washington Post writer Anne Kornblut moderated an alternately infuriating and inspiring panel discussion Tuesday on reproductive rights, Sarah Palin, and what it will take for a feminist to win the presidency. More »
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What is it about poetry that brings out the worst in people? More »
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Cathy Young defends men's rights groups in Reason, and her article's subhead reads, "Feminism should be about equality for males, too." So should it? More »
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In this week's New Yorker, Ariel Levy complains that feminism has turned into "identity politics," focusing on getting women in positions of power but not on what they should do when they get there. More »
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Yesterday the Planned Parenthood NYC Action Fund brought together Jessica Valenti of Feministing, Lynn Harris of Broadsheet, and longtime reproductive rights activist and writer Gloria Feldt to discuss everything from feminist pop culture to whether "feminism" is a dirty word. More »
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In Saturday's NY Times, former Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman attempted to critique the stalling of feminism in America. The result was so ham-handed and contradictory, it read like a tutorial on How Not to Talk About Sexism. More »
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Well, not really, but Janice Turner of the Times of London is asking readers to submit examples of sexism. She says that women are encouraged to ignore such examples — or risk looking like "a strident old ranty-pants." More »
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Recently relaunched "pro-feminist" men's site XY has a lot of great content. But what's a "pro-feminist" anyway? Do men who support women's rights need a special word? More »
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The White House's new Council on Women and Girls is designed to ensure that government programs do enough to aid women. Between this and the Lily Ledbetter act signing, is the Obama Administration embracing feminism? More »
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The Guardian is worried that "if Margaret Atwood isn't sure she is a feminist anymore," feminists might be "an endangered species." But Atwood's take on the f-word is more complicated than the Guardian implies — and so is ours. More »
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In a short but nasty Wall Street Journal editorial, Charlotte Hays opines that Eat Pray Love writer Elizabeth Gilbert has deserted her feminist readers by getting married — thus revealing that the feminist = man-hater canard will basically never die. More »
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Writing in The American Prospect, Feministing's Courtney E. Martin writes that Sarah Palin can teach us three important lessons about feminism. I disagree. More »
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Broadsheet pointed us to Lynn Crosbie's bizarro piece in the Globe and Mail, which alleges that Kate Winslet and Holly Peterson's The Manny signal the death of feminism in pop culture. More »
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What do you think of this list of Top 10 Feminist Icons...From A Male? And can we get rid of the arbitrary "top ten" designation? How about just "10...amongst many." [Nerve] More »
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British blog The F Word reviews Maria Raha's Hellions: Pop Culture's Rebel Women, and concludes that "loner" white guys aren't the only rebels — and they may not be rebels at all. More »
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Should all feminists be lesbians? It's a very second-wave idea, but according to Julie Bindel in the Guardian, its time has come again. More »
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I've made irreverent remarks about Gloria Steinem in the past, about how she's a dinosaur. I just don't think she's interested in some of the more specific aspects of feminism that I and some other younger women are. But that doesn't mean I don't know or appreciate what she's done for the women's movement. Today, on Oprah, Steinem put my thoughts into words when she said, "Gratitude never radicalized anybody." Because if we spend too much time and energy being so grateful that we have the right to an abortion or the right to vote, then there's the possibility of that gratitude turning into complacency. We need to move beyond what we've accomplished thus far, and look toward the changes we need to make in the future. Because, as Steinem puts it, today's feminism it isn't about women doing it all. It's about women not having to do it all. Clip above. More »
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I happened upon this old episode of Politically Incorrect that originally aired in July 2001, in which the panel—Sandra Bernhard, Michael Moore, The War Against Boys author Christina Hoff Sommers, and actress Yancy Butler—discussed the evolution of the feminist movement. It's super interesting, because Bill Maher is talking (out of his butt) about how the new face of feminism is the unrealistic idea that women are ass-kickers. Hoff Sommers disagrees, saying that the new face of feminism being taught on college campuses is that women are victims and men are predators, and Michael Moore is surprisingly annoying in his assessment that men are evil and women are gentle, as though women aren't capable of blood lust and war. Whatever the case, my love for Sandra B. seems to grow in leaps and bounds whenever I watch her talk…or dance (that link is kinda NSFW). Clip above. More »
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