"We are mired in a repetitious pattern of hate, jealousy and resentment toward those who are plucked by media powers and come to stand — however inefficiently — for the rest of us in the cultural imagination, securing the top spots, the best exposure, the prime media real estate in exchange for opening veins of…
"Iron my shirt"; Citizens United Not Timid; steel-thighed nutcrackers... according to two feature articles this week, all that misogyny may be creating a new "wave" of the women's movement. Not only does Salon's Rebecca Traister suggest that the current election cycle may very well "give birth to a new generation of…
If I have to read another article about how some men hate Hillary Clinton for vaguely misogynistic reasons I'm going to give myself a series of tiny paper cuts with the latest copy of Ms. and rub salt in them. But lo! Rebecca Traister goes on for over 4,000 words in Salon today, parsing some young, liberal, and mostly…
"It's undoubtedly boring and hackneyed and feminaz-y to suggest that a woman in the public eye cannot win. But it's also difficult to conclude anything different as we watch the way that Clinton is alternately sexualized and then transformed into an ugly succubus of shriveled power as this race unfolds. No wonder…
For months, some of us have been defending Britney Spears to friends, neighbors, doormen... anyone who would listen, but even we were starting to question our position especially after the shit-show that was Sunday night's VMA's. Not any more. In today's Salon, writer Rebecca Traister shares our sad fury over the…
Wow. We mean... WOW. If you haven't yet read writer Rebecca Traister's piece on gorgeous conservative commentator Rachel Marsden — who, Traister says, is being groomed to be the next Ann Coulter — we suggest you scoot your virtual ass right over to Salon, where Traister documents the 31-year-old Fox Newser's long…
