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Opting in: Get involved in dialogue about media and the body
by Nina Bahadur Narratives about the body are everywhere. Billboards, TV adverts, newspapers, blogs, and movies objectify and sexualize the female body. Reality shows like America’s Next Top Model and Extreme Makeover promote a worryingly narrow representation of beauty. Magazines … Continue reading
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Quick Hit: A Mormon Virgin’s Visit to Planned Parenthood
By K.b. Rodriguez There’s a beautiful piece in the NY Times about a woman’s visit to Planned Parenthood. The article discusses how she chose to visit Planned Parenthood despite her being a virgin and single, and it really touches on … Continue reading
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Tonight I’m ‘Loving’ You?
by K.b. Rodriguez Over break, I finally had a chance to catch up on some new-ish top 40 hits. Among them was Enrique Iglesias’ ‘Tonight (I’m loving you)’. I found it really catchy and knew most of the words by … Continue reading
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UConn women’s basketball team sets record with 89th straight win; media doesn’t care
by Lydia Dallett In case you don’t read ESPN.com or watch Sports Center regularly, you might have missed the history made a few weeks ago when the UConn women’s basketball team won their 89th straight game, routing Florida State 93-62. … Continue reading
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Rape is a Very Serious Issue
by Katie B. Rodriguez *Trigger Warning* Rape is a very serious issue. In her Democracy Now debate, (which I highly recommend watching) with activist Jaclyn Friedman, Naomi Wolf, a feminist journalist, repeats this phrase multiple times. Friedman, the keynote speaker … Continue reading
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“The work of a school”: Punishing a victim of sexual assault
by Kristen McCarthy Could you cheer at a basketball game for the student who raped you? Could you shout his name when he took free throws? What happens if you choose to remain silent when the rest of the cheerleaders … Continue reading
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Princeton’s No Fat Talk Week (and its backlash)
by Shirley Gao 54% of women would rather be hit by a truck than be fat. 81% of 10 year olds fear being fat. 90% of high-school-aged girls think they are overweight. These are the statistics that motivated the Eating … Continue reading
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Spotted: Feminists at Princeton
Check out blogger Lydia Dallett’s article in the Daily Princetonian! It’s a fantastic response to the recent discourse on Princeton feminism.
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One man’s response to the “Two Kinds of Feminism”
by Charles Du What is feminism? You could get a million different answers, all complicating each other, challenging each other, each a part of the mosaic that makes up this thing called “feminism” – whether second-wave, third-wave, fourth-wave, or whatever. … Continue reading
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