Category Archives: Media/Media Criticism

My TED Talk on the Lie that Sexy = Empowering

Posted on January 21, 2013 by
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Football Star Lawrence Taylor Gets Off Again

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

Never mind that Cristina Fierro was 16 years old. Never mind that she had been beaten by her trafficker, with fresh marks on her face, and was in a state of panic. Football Hall of Famer, Lawrence Taylor paid $300 to … Continue reading →

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Explaining Sexism 101 to Ali Velshi

Posted on September 3, 2012 by

I don’t want to be writing this post. I was hoping this Labor Day would truly be free of labor, but I woke up to another dismissive Tweet from CNN Senior Business Correspondent Ali Velshi that compels comment. I’ve always enjoyed … Continue reading →

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Sexual Objectification, Part 4: Daily Rituals to Start

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

This is the fourth part in a series about how girls and women can navigate a culture that treats them like sex objects. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) Daily Rituals to Start This post details some daily rituals that girls and … Continue reading →

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Sexual Objectification, Part 3: Daily Rituals to Stop

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

This is the third part in a series about how girls and women can navigate a culture that treats them like sex objects. (Part 1, Part 2). This post outlines four damaging daily rituals of objectification culture we can immediately … Continue reading →

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Sexual Objectification, Part 2: The Harm

Posted on July 6, 2012 by

This is the second part in a series about how girls and women can navigate a culture that treats them like sex objects. (Part 1). After nearly three decades, the feminist “sex wars” are back.  This fiery debate from the 1980s pitted radical … Continue reading →

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Magic Mike: Old Sexism in a New Package

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

Magic Mike is “wildly overperforming” because women and gay men are going to see it in droves.  Thank you Hollywood executives for finally noticing that there’s plenty of money to be made off of heterosexual female and gay male sexuality.  Magic Mike purports to … Continue reading →

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Sexual Objectification, Part 1: What is it?

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

This is the first part in a series about how girls and women can navigate a culture that treats them like sex objects. Around since the 1970s and associated with curmudgeonly second-wave feminists, the phrase “sexual objectification” can inspire eye-rolling. The phenomenon, however, … Continue reading →

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“The Hunger Games,” Hollywood, and Fighting Fuck Toys

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

“The Hunger Games” is Hollywood’s wake-up call that female action hero movies can be successful if the protagonist is portrayed as a complex subject instead of a hyper-sexualized fighting fuck toy (FFT). In its first weekend, “The Hunger Games” grossed $155 million, making … Continue reading →

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Rush Limbaugh’s 20 Year War on Women

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

After Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law school student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” for believing that insurance should cover the cost of birth control, pundits on the right and left quickly pointed out that liberal media figures have … Continue reading →

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