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The Biggest Loser: Now, With More Fat-Shaming of Children!
As if on cue, NBC’s The Biggest Loser premiered the same day the JAMA study was released. Already known for promoting dangerous weight-loss tactics under the banner of “health... Read more »
Canada's Indigenous-Rights Revolution: Idle No More
Whether we like it or not, the legacy of colonization has shaped Canadian society and continues to permeate its political practices. Since 2008, the Harper government has made major cuts to aboriginal health and school funding, turned a blind eye to the over 600 missing and murdered Indigenous... Read more »
Introducing Bitch Media's New Online Editor!
Some of you know that we’ve spent the last couple of months in an intense search for a new online editor. It’s been an exhilarating and frustrating process—exhilarating because we received so very many great applications, and frustrating because we could only choose one person for the... Read more »
BiblioBitch: When She Woke
Feminist book-lovers will already be long familiar with novels depicting the rollback of reproductive rights, such as The Handmaid’s Tale, The Misconceiver, and Woman on The Edge of Time. So is there room for another book looking at a the consequences of... Read more »
Everything You Really, Really Didn't Want to Know about the Steubenville Rape Case
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard something or other in the past month about a horrifying gang-rape case out of Steubenville, Ohio, involving two of the town’s star football players, an inebriated out-of-town girl, and an alarming number of adults willing to... Read more »
Beyond the Silo
Of all the sexism-related problems we have in games, the low visibility of the women working in games steadily feeds into all of them them. And it starts with coverage.
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Lordy, Lordy, We Saw "This is 40": Some Thoughts on Judd Apatow's Latest Paean to Male Midlife
Poor Judd Apatow. He’s a marquee name in Hollywood, has a gorgeous wife and adorably precocious daughters, and recently got to guest-edit Vanity Fair’s annual Comedy Issue and interview personal heroes... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Drugs, Alcohol, Moral Panics, and Children as Property
Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
It turns out! Women drink too! Sometimes they even drink faster or more than men, according to a charmingly colloquially written science... Read more »
Where Are Her Clothes?
Art tells us a lot about game worlds—and art largely tells us that these game worlds contain highly sexualized women present for the heterosexual consumption of men.
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New Year's Resolutions for Fighting Sexism
Any day is a good one for resolutions against sexism.
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