I am seriously regretting that I didn't at least tell these folks to lower their voices. Their sizeist, racist, classist, awful people voices.
racism
pet names
To me, pet names sound patronizing. They make me feel about two feet tall: worthless and pathetic, something that needs to be patted on the head and tucked into bed with a hot water bottle
issues
Women look sexy and feel sexy when they're being themselves. If a dude is turned off by my bold lip, wait until he gets a load of my bold personality.
the onion
Warning: contains strong language.
feminism
When people can’t even engage respectfully with a woman saying she’s harmed by something people in her environment are doing, it’s kind of impossible to hope for any meaningful change.
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Issues,
feminism,
words mean things,
misogyny,
sexism,
eating disorders,
you keep using this word...
Feb 12, 2013 at 11:30am | 276 comments
classy drinks
I hate how "girly" is supposed to be an insult. So let's talk drinks. Plus recipes for three of my fave cocktails.
teen pregnancy
First of all, this is a campaign designed to make people feel bad.
s.e. smith in
Issues,
teen pregnancy,
pregnancy,
seriously just stop talking now,
badvertising,
sexism,
fill-in-the-blank-shaming
Mar 6, 2013 at 5:00pm | 260 comments
women
When I hear other women say they can’t stand women, it makes me sad because what they’re really saying is that they can’t stand parts of themselves.
geekery
Actually I'm probably not good-looking enough to properly qualify as a "fake geek girl," but I'm giving it a shot anyway.
cosplay
Women in cosplay are treated as pieces of meat, on display to satisfy a man's fantasy of that character.
racism
Lucy Liu is perfectly happy naming, and talking about, the elephant in the room: racism is a problem in Hollywood.
names
Especially now, when ambiguously gendered names are actually extremely common and names that were historically masculine are commonly used by women and girls, names and salutations are even more of a minefield than they were before.
father daughter bond
In New York City recently, a father showed up at his daughter’s school swinging, I kid you not, a chain and padlock, demanding to know who was having sexual intercourse with his daughter/
hooters
I for one cannot see any possible problems with encouraging people to stay late and drink lots of alcohol in a restaurant catering to the male gaze and fantasies about well-endowed waitresses.
advertising
Every major retailer seems to feel a need to make massive sexist gaffes on a regular basis, like they somehow haven’t learned from the gazillion cases before, or they think people have suddenly decided not to care about sexism.
vaginas
Someone wrote a post about how "nasty" my "axe wound" is. Really.
american apparel
Everyone I worked with basically looked like a model, because American Apparel treats their employees like working models and assumes that if customers see “attractive” girls wearing their clothes, people will want to buy the clothes so they can look like them.
douchebag feelings
This probably would have been way better if only I'd had a man to help me write it. KIDDING!
sexism
In a world where sexism is always satirical and satire is always sacred, hipster sexism becomes nearly impossible to challenge. It’s not only okay, but appropriate and even necessary, to incorporate other work people have produced on the subject into your own discussions.
comics
Can we still be friends if I admit I've never read the Arthur Conan Doyle versions of "Sherlock Holmes?"
calling yourself a woman
Ever since I turned 20 or so, I started making a conscious effort to try to call my lady-identifying peers "women" instead of "girls" when talking about them in the third person. It's had a weird effect on the way I think of them.
#notbuyingit
On Sunday, while my boyfriend was paying attention to the Super Bowl, I was paying attention to my Twitter stream's reaction to the Super Bowl, which was filled with feminists utilizing the #notbuyingit hashtag to call out sexism in advertising.
