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Tag Archives: feminism

Representations of the Women’s Movement Are Often Too Reductive

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Much has been made about Obama’s victory and the female voting bloc that helped him get re-elected. Relevant meme after meme, like the one above, has sprouted across social media. The gist: If you’re happy about Tuesday night’s victory, thank a woman. Women usually make up about 54 percent of the electorate, and this time [...]

It Doesn’t Matter If Lady Arm Wrestling Is Feminist. It Matters That It Works.

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(Ed. note: After much debate on this site and elsewhere over the nature of feminism and ladies’ arm wrestling, we give the final word, fittingly enough, to a ladies’ arm-wrestling referee.) A couple weeks ago, women from nine U.S. cities gathered in Charlottesville, Va., for the national championship of ladies’ arm wrestling. It was mid-June [...]

Russell Simmons Says “Get Off Rihanna’s Dick” — Is He Hip-Hop and Pop’s New Unwitting Feminist?

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Yesterday in a rare self-penned post, entertainment heavyweight Russell Simmons took to his own GlobalGrind news. The title? A simple “Get Off Rihanna’s Dick!” The pointed, two-graf screed addressed an amorphous mass guilty of criticizing her recent supposed “good girl gone bad” streak. “It’s just that she is out there allegedly fuckin’ the rockstars of [...]

Jesse Lee Peterson Is Yet Another Reason Feminism Exists

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If you haven’t heard of Jesse Lee Peterson, all you need to know is that he is the crazy, sexist preacher who’s been in the media recently for his barely intelligible diatribes against women. In a now infamous video, first uploaded in March, Peterson rambles for 12 minutes about how women are destroying America, how [...]

Ovarian Gang Signs Are a Whole Lot of Awesome

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Vaginal ultrasounds, talk of “getting rid of Planned Parenthood,” protection for lying doctors, slut-shaming, birth control debates instead of mandates, March is shaping up to be the shittiest women’s history month ever. And, well, we’re pissed about it. All this anger, properly channeled, can be good, though, allowing for something productive to come out of [...]