On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup

Here’s all the feminist news we’re reading today!

• German Chancellor Angela Merkel is being denied access to the NSA file detailing spying on her phone records. [Guardian]

• The FBI is tweaking its racial profiling rules, prompted in part by Attorney General Eric Holder’s own experiences with racial profiling as a child. [Colorlines]  

• In a very funny evisceration, Writer Roxane Gay explains everything that’s wrong with The Biggest Loser. [xoJane] 

• “Could America become Mississippi?” asks writer Jamelle Bouie. A new study shows that white people become more conservative if they’re aware of demographic changes that put them in the racial minority—this could lead to more polarization nationwide. [Slate] 

• Sheryl Sandberg and FOX’s Megyn Kelly debated the realities of the gender wage gap last night. Kelly argued that laws guaranteeing equal pay “infantilize” women. Yikes! [Salon] 

• The next episode of Germany’s Next Top Model ships aspiring models to Utah to do a “Native American” photo shoot. Problems. [Clutch] 

• Digging into Victorian era magazine The Pearl reveals early pornography at its finest (and most bizarre). [The Toast]  

• In praise of the female screwballs: Here are 10 movie and TV clips about women gloriously and hilariously screwing things up. [Grantland] 

What did I miss? Add what you’re reading to the comments.