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The OTHER Teen Vampire Romance Movie
Several months ago, I remember hearing a movie reviewer say, "If you seen one teen vampire romance film this year, let it be Let The Right One In." I figured that since the Bitch site has been ... Read more »
Pink, Blue, or WTF?
Girls are pink,
Boys are blue,
I think that this new pregnancy gender test has serious social implications,
How about you?
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Boxing Through Adversity
The New York Times has a great article up about Cheryl Ziegler, an 18-year-old single mother from the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, who is also a boxer.
Ziegler is Hawk's latest prize student. She is tough and determined and fights with proper technique: hands up, chin down. She... Read more »
The Swimsuit Issue: 2009
So the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue just hit my mailbox today. And as usual, I'm not really sure what I think about it.
Featuring a near non-existant string bikini and several very tiny beautiful women of different ethnicities, this issue caters almost exclusively to male audiences.... Read more »
Mukhtar Mai's Story Becomes a Film, But She's Still Waiting for Justice
Many of you have heard of Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who was gang raped in 2002 as revenge for an honor crime, an act that was authorized by her village elders. Mukhtar spoke out about the crime and prosecuted her attackers - and won. That is, until an appeals court overturned the convictions... Read more »
Problematic PSAs
The other night I saw this in a bar, and could not figure out what it was a commercial for (especially since I couldn’t hear the sound!) It seemed kinda fishy and it turned out it was:
It’s from a 2007 PSA campaign put together by... Read more »
Sex Education
As Valentine's Day approaches, The Box addresses the question that's on everyone's mind: How feminist is the sex on my favorite teen dramas? I graded the biggest shows of the last twenty years on their sex positivity. Click to see who came out on top.
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Women and Movement Friday
I am not a biker by any stretch of the imagination, but I love biking anyway. You can find me and my family firmly in front of the television watching The Tour de France every July, and one of my big dreams to be able to someday follow the Tour in person.
But because biking is not a mainstream... Read more »
Speaking of Super Bowl Ads
The following was apparently an ad that NBC refused to show during the Super Bowl. It is a commercial featuring an ultra sound of an unborn baby–which all wraps up into an image of Obama. The basic message being: if Obama’s mother had aborted him because it was going to be “hard” to... Read more »
Challenging "Post-Racial" America
Young Jean Lee pushes and pulls the lines of cross cultural theater in her critically acclaimed, "The Shipment."
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