"What do the 'N' word, the 'W' word and the 'F' word have in common?" asks Tim Bloedow of NoApologies.ca, a Web site dedicated to "punching a hole in political correctness." According to Bloedow, refusing to use these racial, sexist, and homophobic slurs (the 'F' word isn't fuck here) displays a "complete disregard for using [...]
Yesterday, Feminist Law Professors drew my attention to the Miami Daily Business Review's "Rodent" column, a weekly anonymous rant written by various members of the legal community. The latest missive, "Lady Lawyers Should Dress the Part," warns female attorneys that they may be sabotaging their careers with overly sexy business attire. Actually, I think [...]
Beta Testing: Brothers Zelenty, Belok, and Molldrem try something new.
According to fraternal historian Nicholas Syrett, America’s fraternity culture has thrived on a fear of homosexuality since the 1920’s. All-male fraternal organizations, Syrett writes, “compensate for what might be perceived by outsiders as either feminine or gay behavior by enacting a masculinity [of] aggressive heterosexuality.” In [...]
Tucker Max's message board has launched a Photoshop competition for the best reimagined protest signs from the "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" protests. Creative Max devotees are working off images from the film tour's photostream in order to ridicule students from the NC State women's center, which staged a Raleigh protest of the [...]
When I first learned of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' new "Save the Sea Kittens" ad campaign, I was confused—and not because re-branding one species of animal (fish) as another (kittens) doesn't make any fucking sense. No, I was confused because PETA's campaign just doesn't seem overtly sexist enough! There are no Playboy [...]
The recently-unearthed graduate thesis of Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Robert McDonnell is a treasure trove of Reagan-era Republican gems [PDF]. The paper's sexism and homophobia has gotten the most play in the press—us feminists even get a few shout-outs!—but my favorite part is McDonnell's paranoid pornographic theory:
Aww, I miss the '80s, when the media pumped a [...]
Last year, the Sexist launched Man Madness, a tournament that rated the manliness of 64 local workplaces based on the gender make-up of upper-management. How did a workplace prove manliness? Employ the most men in top jobs (and the fewest women higher-ups). It was, shall we say, a dubious honor.
Anyway, Georgetown University proved itself almost [...]
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This week, I cornered people on the street, pushed a camera into their faces, and asked them if they've ever experienced sex discrimination in their lifetimes. Most of them had at least been called a "sissy" once. Above, D.C.'s men and women tell their tales of low-cut T-shirts, unwelcome sexual fantasy, and one too many [...]
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Sexual discrimination in the office has come a long way. Once predictable—spurning male secretaries and sexually harassing female underlings—on-the-job sexism has since tackled more subtle arts, from cutting strategic holes in female bartenders’ uniforms to mocking the diet of male models. A recent hunt for sexism on the streets of D.C. revealed an evolution of [...]
Truthdig's Ellen Goodman on the Sotomayor confirmation hearings:
The would-be first Latina justice faced a committee with only two women members in order to get confirmed by a Senate with only 17 women for a seat on a court with only one woman. And yet Sotomayor had to prove that she wasn’t biased: "Men and [...]
