Unilever Has Sworn to Remove Gender Stereotypes From Their Ads

Unilever has considently won awards and taken over my Facebook timeline with advertisements like the one above for Dove, in which women are forced to confront the low self-esteem embedded in their psyches by advertisements.
Sky Ferreira to L.A. Weekly, All of Us: 'I Am Not a Think Piece. I Am Not a Fucking Example'
Last week, L.A. Weekly published a profile by Art Tavana about pop musician Sky Ferreira, which largely focused on Tavana’s extremely edgy horniness. (Julianne explains it here.)
Ivanka Trump, For One, Is Convinced Her Dad Is ‘Not a Groper'
You know what’s bad? When you are so numb to the fact that a pair of chapped lips superglued to a hairball is running for president that you don’t even find it all that weird, at first, that his daughter Ivanka is going around clarifying that said hairball does not “grope” people. But it is weird! America, let us…
Trump Organization Won't Sue Over Times Story About His Gross Behavior With Women After All
Donald Trump, a horsehair mattress stuffed with molding copies of Hustler, is deeply upset by a New York Times story suggesting he can be sexist and somewhat creepy in his private dealings with women. After petulantly tweeting about the story for a while, then calling CNN to yell about it, he moved on to the part…
Priyanka Chopra Recalls a Producer Telling Her 'Girls Are Replaceable'
In an interview with Time as part of its Time 100 feature, Priyanka Chopra recalled a moment earlier in her career when a Bollywood producer referred to actresses as “replaceable.”
Report: Ole Miss Sororities Banned From Speaking About Sexist Derby Days Video, 1 Sister Kicked Out
According to a report from the University of Mississippi’s NewsWatch, many campus sororities responded to the backlash against Sigma Chi’s sexist Derby Days competition by instructing their members not to share the initial Facebook post about it, or publicly comment on the incident on social media or to the press.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Her SNL Years: 'It Was a Very Sexist Environment'
Though she spent three years as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, sketches like “Big Zit” didn’t make Julia Louis-Dreyfus a household name in the 80s. No, that came later. In an interview published today in the Times, Louis-Dreyfus (who hosts Saturday’s SNL) was asked whether she looked back at her prosthetic…
Meet the First Female Orthodox Jewish Rabbi
Orthodox Judaism is not known for being particularly progressive—women and men are typically not allowed to sit next to one another if they aren’t married; women abide by strict dress codes; women haven’t been allowed to hold the highest title of rabbi in congregations. In fact, they still aren’t, but Rabbi Lila…
Metal Band Frontman Calls Feminism 'Cancer,' Band Then Self-Destructs
On March 30, Dale Lyons, frontman of the Fredericton, New Brunswick metal band Siegebreaker, took to the band’s Facebook page to express his grievances with “modern feminism.” In the post—now deleted—he delicately refers to it as “The Cancer of Mankind.” As a result of these comments and the fury they ignited, the…
Cool: Journalist Gay Talese Cannot Name One Woman Writer Who Inspires Him
At an April 2 conference held at Boston University, literary journalist Gay Talese remarked to his audience that he could not name a single woman writer who inspired him. Wow guy!
