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Supermodel Speaks Out Against That "Meaningless" Phrase, Feminism

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:30:00 EDT

"[Feminism] is one of those coined phrases that has a lot of innuendo and not much meaning...I believe men and women are different and they have different needs, therefore the concept of equal rights doesn't really sit with me..." [Guardian] More »

Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:30:00 EST

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• We'll point it out again for those who missed it: The First Couple are strict parents. Sasha and Malia have to make their beds, scoop dog poop, and be in bed by eight. • More »

British Feminism Is Totally Effed, Says UK Observer

Jessica G. — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST

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The Guardian's Sunday magazine, the Observer, devoted almost every article this past weekend to the state of feminism in Britain, and the picture they paint is pretty bleak. The lead essay, by 39-year-old Rachel Cooke, claims that the gains made by earlier feminists are quickly losing ground. "Are we going backwards? Are we not waving but drowning? Yes, in a word," Cooke writes. More »

Gender Trouble

Jennifer — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:45:00 EST

Do you use the increasingly omnipresent "he or she" in lieu of the more common (more traditional? more misogynist? more simple?) "he" when writing? David Gelertner of the American Enterprise Institute has some major beef with you: He insists that those who use words like"chairperson" and "firefighter" instead of "chairman" and "fireman" are doing nothing but eroding the English language with their half-ass "feminism." Says Gelertner: "How can I (how can any teacher) get students to take the prime rule seriously when virtually the whole educational establishment teaches the opposite? When students have been ordered since first grade to put "he or she" in spots where "he" would mean exactly the same thing, and "firefighter" where "fireman" would mean exactly the same thing?...The fixed idea forced by language rapists upon a whole generation of students, that "he" can refer only to a male, is (in short) wrong." [The F Word] More »