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I’mma start a Pussy Riot: Harmony Korine Sets It Off with Spring Breakers

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When the Spring Breakers trailer hit, with its lewd rendering of youth culture run amok, one guess was that film director Harmony Korine was going through a midlife crisis. One forgets that Korine’s life is crisis, partly indebted to his youth (any shades of Larry Clark a callback to Kids). For instance, remember Gummo? That [...]

Q&A: Naomi Wolf Talks Vagina, Careless Critiques, and Self-Censorship in the Feminist Community; Appears at Miami Book Fair Saturday

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Naomi Wolf’s latest, Vagina, has gotten mixed — sometimes very mad — reviews both in seasoned critical circles and the blogosphere. Wolf, veteran feminist and Beauty Myth author, will appear at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, so we caught up with her to chat about the book, which has performed steadily according to several [...]

Salty Eggs Does Not Endorse the Sun Sentinel’s Endorsement of Mitt Romney

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Newspaper waif Sun-Sentinel threw what’s left of it behind Mitt Romney this morning. In the aftermath, New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Miami New Times were quick to post listicles poking fun at its inconsistencies and shallowness. The poor Miami Herald endorsement got lost in the frenzy, though. (They support Obama, by the way.) But cutting to the chase, the Sun-Sentinel piece, with all its contradictions, reads [...]

Want to Play Basketball for a Miami Team Ladies? Better Do It in a Bikini

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I won’t waste time detailing what the Bikini Basketball Association is, since you’ve probably already seen posts announcing its impending debut on any number of click-hungry websites. All you need to know is that (1) the Bikini Basketball Association (the official website of which is set to launch in 22 days) is the latest in [...]

Todd Akin’s Rights Problem

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Todd “legitimate rape” Akin is back at it again, this time claiming that employers should have the “freedom” to discriminate against women. At a campaign event Friday — the video of which seems to have been released Monday afternoon — a male attendee asked the rep: “You voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. [...]

Lady Leaders: Times Blog Asks Why There Aren’t More Women Top Docs

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Danielle Ofri, a doctor writing Thursday on the New York Times‘ Well blog, considers why women haven’t ascended the top ranks of the medical field as much as men. The post starts off with an anecdote about how bathroom-door reversal — which makes ingress and egress easier for pregnant women and those with bags and [...]

Democrats’ Position on Gender Isn’t Perfect

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When Michelle Obama spoke at the DNC earlier this week, I got more than a little pissed off by her remarks. Sure, both Dems and GOPers are courting the much-coveted “mom” vote, but I felt alienated — and almost betrayed — by the seeming emphasis on traditional family roles from the U.S.’s more liberal political [...]

Mitt Romney’s Flip-Flops Might Not Be All Bad

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At this point, complaining about Mitt Romney‘s inconsistency seems almost as fruitless an exercise as it is predictable. The GOP pick for the presidency routinely changes his positions in what can best be described as shamelessly pandering to voters. We know this — and we have known this since Mitt’s first White House bid. This [...]

Ann Romney: Must Presidential Wives Lack Identity?

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Where to begin? “Ann Romney Takes Biggest Stage Yet to Humanize Husband,” reads a recent Bloomberg Businessweek headline. Sure, this seems funny — here’s a presidential candidate who comes across more as a cold, calculating robot than a warm, empathic person. But it actually speaks to something quite sad about American politics. The relationship between [...]