You guys! Remember when the Spice Girls were big and we all went and saw their movie in the theater ten times and then bought it on home video? Remember when we bought the lollipops and the t-shirts and just screamed "GIRL POWER!!!" at everything? (Pepperidge Farm remembers.)
Like most consumption trends presented to women as a rah rah girl power way to do man things like a man, cigar smoking doesn't do anything to combat sexism. It does, however, still give ladies various cancers. You've come a long way, baby.
Hey, ladies! C'mere, Microsoft wants to give you a big you-go-girl high five. Oh, but first—have you considered switching to BING?
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I hope you're all prepared to happy-weep with hot tears of pride and encouragement, because here's a video of Malala Yousafzai, education rights advocate and bottomless well of courage and inspiration, declaring that she wants to be prime minister of Pakistan one day.
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All the way back in 1842, when humans still spent all their time huddled around in the dark, gnawing on potatoes and reveling in abject confusion (basically), brilliant genius Ada Lovelace penned the world's first computer program. Nowadays, Ada Lovelace is a women-in-STEM hero; annually, we honor her and celebrate the …
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New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg is taking a stab at dismantling unattainable beauty standards through an uplifting campaign aimed at improving girls' self-esteem that's way less of a bummer than the city's anti-teen pregnancy PSAs.
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This morning on Today featured a discussion about post-baby body acceptance and included an interview with 4th Trimester Project's Ashlee Well Jackson. After an impassioned speech by one woman about how she wanted to respect and honor her body after making it through two home births, cohost Mel B (aka Scary Spice from …
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Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in over two decades — which they say confirms their belief that powerful women ruled the region 1,200 years ago. WHO RUN THE PRE-HISPANIC REGION OF PERU? PRIESTESSES.
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We're so glad that a Redditor dad posted his daughter's "unexpected response to a writing assignment about being female":
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Most of us have received a crap email or two in our day. You know the type — the ex who tries to make you feel bad about yourself, the forgotten hookup who's convinced he was the most important person in your life, the date who inelegantly demands a second chance. But these are all garden-variety assholery compared to…
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Finally, we've made it. Feminism has won. We can all march forward in solidarity with other people of all genders as we appreciate each other as fellow members of the human race rather than degrade each other as slaves to rigid social categories.
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The artist writes "In a world where girls grow up feeling like their value is how they look these are meant to be a friendly reminder that they can do anything." Great message, pretty art. Win-win.
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We can't help it: our fascination with the ever-growing American Girl empire continues into adulthood. And when we heard they were colonizing the 'net with something called InnerStar University, we had to take a tour.
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Here's a fantastic and entertaining example of resistance: in the video below, a Columbia University a cappella group sings Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit."
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I've never met anyone who has overwhelmingly fond memories of middle school. That's not to say that the entire experience was horrible—it's just that for many people, middle school was a bit of a challenge in various ways.
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According to Brian Cherry, "the left is losing the pop culture media war in this country." But they have a nefarious plan! And that plan, ladies and gentlemen, is Miley Cyrus.
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Writer Marisa Meltzer, author of the new book 'Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music', has curated a miniseries of contemporary women's music for us this week. After the jump, Marisa's third feature, the debut videos of favorite teen pop-stars.
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Writer Marisa Meltzer, author of the new book 'Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music', has curated a miniseries of contemporary women's music for us this week. After the jump, Marisa's first contribution, a gallery of boys who sing girl-songs.
On last night's episode, First Lady Michelle Obama made a trip to Springfield to give a pep talk to Lisa Simpson, after learning (by following Lisa's FarmVille-esque blog) that the little feminist was embarrassed by her own intelligence.
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One of the books we're most excited about is Jezebel fave Marisa Meltzer's Girl Power, an exploration of the 90s Riot Grrrl revolution. Join us as Marisa talks Grrrls, the world's coolest mom, and "selling out."
