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This week fans – and alumi – of higher ed are fixated on gendered education. A Monday New York Times article describes the academic and social implications of a gender shift on college campuses, painting college women as hapless creatures subject to social subjugation by their outnumbered male peers.  Candid quotes from UNC students make college women seem like victims of circumstance, helpless to resist the whims of the boys they want to date.
While it’s …

Thank you Mr. O’Reilly!
Finally someone addresses this! I’m shocked how few people have. For me, Senator Scott Brown posing in Cosmo was just not a big deal EXCEPT for the fact that it would have been treated very differently had it been a woman. A woman politician would have been raked over the coals for even appearing in a swimsuit competition (hmmm like Sarah Palin…) but Senator Brown gets a pass. I’m not even taking a side on whether he SHOULD get a pass, I’m just saying let’s be FAIR.  …

I would just like some clarification from all of the pundits on their use of the term hooker or ho?  It seems that when a woman is the negotiator of a financial deal in the Senate or the House that they find it convenient to label her as some type of prostitute.  I don’t hear that kind of language in regard to men?  I don’t care if you agree with the negotiation process or not; or if you agree with the politician accepting a financial deal in order to vote …

It’s now been a year since the 2008 elections have been
over and almost two years since the politicking for it took off.  We all remember the early primaries.  I, and many of you, can sadly recall the moment when we realized that Hillary Clinton was in some serious trouble from the sexists in the Democratic Party.  We didn’t even know about Sarah Palin yet.
It’s instructive and actually exhilarating to look back at it all now.  Yes it was devastating and horrifying to watch in disbelief as the sexism and misogyny …

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And now, an entirely new argument for sexism:  She asked for it!   Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Sarah Palin complains that her Newsweek cover is sexist.   The magazine borrowed a photo from Palin’s Runner’s World interview last year, showing the fit governor in running shorts next to the question:  How do you solve a problem like Sarah? ***Journalist David Frum scorns Palin’s complaints, and did not correct Judy Woodruff’s summary of his …

Bumped and updated  from an earlier posting.

Okay everyone, fasten your seatbelts.  We’re in for quite a ride this week now that Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life has come out.  The book is officially out on Tuesday, and Palin will be making her first appearance of the week on Oprah Winfrey tomorrow.  We’ve gotten snippets from both the book and the interview, and the assault has begun.  The worst thing is this disgusting cover from Newsweek, who as you see has decided to run a picture of Palin …

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Here we go again… I don’t even know what to say about the video from MSNBC’s Morning Meeting with host Dylan Ratigan.  Will the war on Sarah Palin ever end?  I’m starting to wonder if they are just trying to wear us all down so we will just stop fighting sexism entirely?  Ok!  We get it, you hate Sarah Palin!  But the war on Palin isn’t really the only point is it?  It’s the …

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Diane Sawyer was born in December 1945 in Glasgow, Kentucky. Her father was a county judge, and her mother sought to give her the best education possible to inspire her creativity and individuality with “piano lessons, voice, ballet, tap, horseback riding, fencing, classical guitar and children’s theater.”
In 1967, she landed her first broadcasting job in Louisville, Kentucky with the local WLKY-TV for three years. She found the weather to be dull and …

Many words have been used by the media to describe Latinas.  Among other things, I have heard us called “saucy,” “hot,” and “spicy.”  It’s enough to make one feel like a burrito.
There is a stereotypical way that the Latina woman is portrayed in the mass media and most of these portrayals have to do with looks rather than our abilities and knowledge, which is why it is exciting to see Latinas claiming a phrase used by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that portrays us in a positive light.
“…Wise Latina…”
When else have Latinas …

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The media’s sexist reporting of the Bridgeville, PA murder rampage is another example proving they won’t acknowledge hate crimes against women. A male blogger who wrote for months about his inability to relate to women then walked into an all-female dance class and shot twelve women, yet none of the articles I read mention the words hate crime, bigot, sexist and the reporters didn’t call feminist groups for a quote.
The media reports the details …