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Bitch Popaganda: It's the Finale Countdown!

June 24, 2011 at 1:51pm

Welcome back to another episode of Bitch Popaganda! Tune in as Andi, Brian, and Kelsey recap the season finales of AMC’s The Killing and HBO’s Game of Thrones. Also in this episode: Mary McNamara’s recent LA Times article and the burning question, Why do we care about these shows so much?

Transcript available here (.doc).

On Our Radar

by Ann-Derrick Gaillot

June 24, 2011 at 1:15pm

Highlights from this week on the web.

The Root recognizes 15 years of the WNBA. Here’s to tall women!
Despite the endurance and growth of women’s professional sports, Feministing reports on Wimbledon’s contest to choose the best looking female player. One ace forward, two unforced errors back.
xoJane endorses the My Body Gallery. What do you...

Revenge of the Feminerd: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

by Jarrah E Hodge

June 24, 2011 at 11:20am

Everything has its season: ET had to go home, Sisko had to go be with the Prophets, Yoda had to become one with the force, Professer Xavier and Magneto had to go their separate ways, and so too this blog series has to come to an end.

Political InQueery: How to Stop People from Voting

by Everett Maroon

June 24, 2011 at 10:41am

This year, an unprecedented wave of voter suppression bills hit statehouses across the country, and garnered very little media attention in response, even as voting rights activists decried the shift. In 27 states, bills that will demand voters show identification, bills that require proof of citizenship, bills that will change processing of provisional ballots, and bills that are aimed...

Douchebag Decree: Scott Adams, Douchetoonist

by Kelsey Wallace

June 23, 2011 at 3:52pm

Have you been following the Scott “rape is a natural instinct” Adams story? If not, hold on to your hat barf bag. Adams, creator of the cartoon Dilbert and noted mega-douche wrote on his blog recently that, among other things, men are naturally prone to raping women (and “tweeting their meat,” which he lumps into the same sentence as rape) and society is to blame.

Pop Pedestal: Billy Elliot

by Nicole Morales

June 23, 2011 at 11:54am

Welcome back to Pop Pedestal, the blog series about pop culture personalities we admire. For our ninth week find a spot, focus, and prepare! for a post about the boy who does ballet, Billy Elliot.

BiblioBitch: Beauty Queens

by Deb Jannerson

June 22, 2011 at 1:18pm

Pageant competitors in a dire situation? It sounds like a recipe for an overly catty misogyfest (or, let’s be honest, a terrible porno). Instead, Libba Bray has crafted a complex, blistering satire that is, dare I say, one of the most explicitly feminist novels I have ever read.

Revenge of the Feminerd: Wikipedia Challenge

by Jarrah E Hodge

June 22, 2011 at 12:56pm

Earlier this year the New York Times sparked a debate when they reported on the underrepresentation of women among editors on Wikipedia: “the free site that anyone can edit”. The Times reported that just 15% of Wikipedia editors are women. The gap caused the Wikimedia Foundation to aim to raise that number to 25% by 2015, a worthy if unambitious goal.

Political InQueery: SCOTUS, Wal-Mart, and the Limits on the Rule of Law

by Everett Maroon

June 22, 2011 at 12:28pm

In what I’ll call the executive summary of the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out the class action lawsuit alleging sex-based discrimination against the female employees of Wal-Mart, Justice Scalia writes that the plaintiffs must show evidence that the company operates under “a general policy of discrimination,” and that the Court does not see this evidence. Well, how smart of...

Psst! Job opening at Bitch Media!

by Andi Zeisler

June 21, 2011 at 4:45pm

We’re seeking a senior editor to join our staff in a part-time, but ongoing, capacity.

For more than 15 years, Bitch Media has published Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, a quarterly magazine devoted to media- and pop-culture critique and analysis. Each issue of Bitch offers commentary on our media-driven world via essays, columns, reviews, and interviews with artists,...