The UN Women Google auto-complete campaign showed that people searched for some pretty back asswards things in relation to feminists. I'm surprised the computer keyboards of the world haven't short circuited under the strain of typing "feminists EAT MEN FOR BREAKFAST" and "Do feminists get THEIR PERIODS FOR YEARS AT A…
Meghan McCain has a talk show now. But before you dismiss the notion of a daughter of extreme privilege who lacks both originality and the self-awareness necessary to recognize her own lack of originality having a platform from which to spout beige banality under the guise of EDGINESS, listen up! According to Raising…
Welcome to Girl Dicks, a new Jezebel series in which amateur gumshoes Madeleine Davies and I investigate a variety of pressing women's issues. We're here to solve sexism, no matter how much work it takes. For our first case, we find out what happens when a couple of feminists burn their bras.
Meet Georgetown Law Professor and aspirant federal judge Nina Pillard. If you don't know who she is, here's the short version: she's a brilliant, kickass law scholar (and feminist) in the tradition of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And naturally, conservatives are flipping out about her nomination to the federal bench.
Ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer who paid to have sex with women and then paid the price by resigning from his job because this is America, is back in the spotlight, this time running for New York City Comptroller, which is basically a glorified (?) accountant. Of course, because of this, he will be asked to — and…
Just in time to celebrate Mother's Day (if you do celebrate Mother's Day!), this new documentary short Tidal Wave Girls, shows young women and men discussing the women who inspire them and the future of feminism.
Speaking at a press conference for a fundraising event for Chime for Change, a charity that seeks to improve the lives of women worldwide, handsome musical wunderkind John Legend said: "All men should be feminists. If men care about women's rights, the world will be a better place." Thoughtful, succinct, and lovely.
If you believe the children are our future, here's a reason to hope the earth doesn't get melancholia'ed anytime soon.
You may remember the delightful Generations Radio duo Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner as the super-conservative wackadoos who hated and wanted to eat the Muppets
The February issue of Glamour features Zooey Deschanel on the cover, and inside, she talks about what all lady-celebs find themselves talking about these days: Body image and feminism.
In Portlandia's holiday special, "Winter in Portlandia", our favorite feminist bookstore openers, Candace and Toni, try to ply Candace's son, played by Bobby Moynihan, with free vagina pillows. But he's already got too many vagina pillows. Annnnd take it away, Candace and Toni!
Another day, another female pop star denouncing feminism. Whereas last time, it was Taylor Swift
Who hasn't enjoyed a good meme? Probably people with really fulfilling lives, but the rest of us, well, we can enjoy a pleasant giggle with a just clever-enough Scumbag Steve, Success Kid, or Philosoraptor.
Just as matching genitalia is not enough to get a lady feminist to support a female candidate, it turns out that so too is matching religion not enough to convince a Mormon feminist to vote for Mitt Romney. Not only is the small, but active community of American Mormon feminists not going to vote for him, they're…
Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot
Madonna — in the middle of a world tour — has just arrived in Moscow, where she did, indeed, make some statements regarding the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, as some hoped
A Moscow judge has ordered three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot—who were arrested in March 2012 after staging a political protest against Vladimir Putin— to remain in custody for the next six months. In a pre-trial hearing on Friday, prosecutors said they needed more time to prepare their case and…
Unintentional hilarity machine Phyllis Schlafly issued a dire warning to cadets at the Citadel yesterday, explaining to students that they should never, ever, under any circumstances, even in case of emergency or possible decapitation, date a feminist. What makes them even more dangerous is that nowadays, you can't…
Today in hateration news: people really, really don't trust atheists. In a new study, the only group participants found as untrustworthy as nonbelievers were rapists.
On last night's episode of Sister Wives, the Browns visited Tufts University, where they'd been invited to be part of a discussion about their religion and lifestyle. When asked if they were nervous or scared. Christine said she was "imagining an audience full of feminists." OH NO OH MY GOD ANYTHING BUT THAT. She…
What we know of the story of Vivian Maier's life and work, and of how 30,000 of her negatives came to be acquired at a Chicago estate auction by a 26-year-old real estate agent and amateur historian, is breathtaking.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London in connection with Swedish rape allegations, and guess who's to blame? Feminists, of course!
Lately, the definition of the word "feminist" has become somewhat vague.
Kavita Ramdas: "Unlike almost every other social movement, [it's] not a struggle against a distinct oppressor...It's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions...This is the ultimate gift of feminism, that the personal is in fact the political." [Ted]
Hissa Hilal, a Saudi housewife and a contestant in an American-Idol-style poetry competition, read an incendiary 15-verse poem that criticized clerics who issue ever-more-restrictive fatwas, and referred to clerics as monsters "wearing death as a robe, cinched with a belt."
• Even beauty queens are feeling the pinch of the recession: CBS reports that many pageant contestants have been forced to wear their dresses more than once or, worst case scenario, sell their costumes. •
"Being a role model is complicated cuz it involves thinking of oneself like a character in a novel and can be really dehumanizing...If I am a role model, I want to be one who is unafraid to make mistakes." [Rebel Grrrl Italiana]
Opium! Lurid pulp fiction! Rags to riches and a schoolgirl crush on Thoreau! According to a new film, Louisa May Alcott's life was a lot more interesting — and a lot more depressing — than Little Women.
"I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?" said the Dalai Lama to an audience in Memphis yesterday. "We all come from the same mother. That creates the basis for compassion." [FeministLawProfessors]
