Topic: media

What Your Favorite Drink Says About You, According To Stock Photos

What Your Favorite Drink Says About You, According To Stock Photos

Across the board, stock photos are largely weird and quite often sexist. Every so often in searching for a particular type of image, we come across representations of women so weird, so sexist and just so silly that they make us either howl out loud with laughter and/or cry out in disgust (often both at once). There are your pregnant women smoking. Your hourglasses-over-the-uterus fertility photos. There’s the infamous women laughing alone with salads. May we now present you with women drinking various alcoholic beverages. Click through to find out what media types think your favorite drink says about you. More »

Daily Fail: Study Finds 29-Year-Old Women Are Hideous, Need More Anti-Aging Products

Daily Fail: Study Finds 29-Year-Old Women Are Hideous, Need More Anti-Aging Products

Crusading against the idea that all women over 30 are old hags has been something of a hobby horse of mine lately. It’s a fight that’s generally met with ‘Amen’s’ from Gen X and Y women and skepticism by similarly-aged men (note to guys: just because you personally don’t subscribe do the idea that it’s all downhill for women’s looks after 23 doesn’t mean we’re not bombarded with that message from myriad directions). Well, lo and behold — as if to perfectly illustrate my point — this Daily Mail article about how women worry about the visible effects of aging “at just 29 YEARS OLD.” Like so many pieces in our favorite tabloid, the writer is ostensibly credulous at this phenomenon while backhandedly exclaiming at how old and ugly 29-year-old women are. More »

The Cosmo Effect: Readers Find Sex Less Risky, Less About Pleasing Men

The Cosmo Effect: Readers Find Sex Less Risky, Less About Pleasing Men

When I think of Cosmo, the first — or second, or 36th — thing that comes to mind isn’t “female empowerment.” But a new study on the effects of women’s magazines on sexual attitudes finds the lady mag we most love to hate may prime women to prioritize their own sexual pleasure. Could all those “576 Ways to Please Your Man” articles be secretly subversive? More »

Why It Matters That Jesse Jackson Jr. Has Bipolar II, Not Bipolar I

Why It Matters That Jesse Jackson Jr. Has Bipolar II, Not Bipolar I

The news that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is being treated for bipolar disorder has been making the rounds, after the Mayo Clinic of Minnesota — where Jackson is being treated — released a statement about it Monday. What’s interesting to me is how little has been made of the distinction between bipolar I, which is what most people think of as bipolar disorder, and bipolar II, which Jackson has. For a politician who ever wants reelected, the difference between the two could be crucial. More »

Jennie Garth’s Weight Loss Fuels Absurd “Divorce Diet” Chatter

Jennie Garth's Weight Loss Fuels Absurd "Divorce Diet" Chatter

In an interview with Canada’s Entertainment Tonight, actress Jennie Garth explained that her recent weight loss was not intentional but, rather, a byproduct of rough times. Garth’s husband, Twilight actor Peter Facinelli, filed for divorce in March after 11 years of marriage and three children. “I think anybody who has been through something like what I’m going through and have been going through for the past couple years, can definitely relate that your body changes with your emotional state of mind sometimes,” she said. More »

Yes, Women Can Be Pretty AND Strong (Even The Media Won’t Show It)

Yes, Women Can Be Pretty AND Strong (Even The Media Won't Show It)

Will the media ever stop portraying beautiful women as those who are skinny, frail and dainty? Will we ever see an athletic body walk the runway? We hope so! Occasionally stars like Noomi Rapace (in this month’s Prometheus) or Angelina Jolie (in Mr. & Mrs. Smith–where she had the best line ever, “wait, why do I get the girl gun?”) are given the chance to challenge those norms, adding a little diversity to the big screen. It’s a start, but not nearly enough from an industry that more often tells women that thin and weak equals pretty. More »

Teen Against Seventeen’s Photoshopping Makes Notable Ally: The Mag’s Former Editor

Teen Against Seventeenâs Photoshopping Makes Notable Ally: The Magâs Former Editor

Seventeen magazine may have hoped to shut down 14-year-old Julia Bluhm‘s request for authentic images with a nicely worded “no,” but the conversation surrounding Photoshop is still ongoing. Even though the magazine has announced no further plans to meet with young feminist, Julia’s petition continues to grow with now over 66,000 signatures demanding one unphotoshopped photo spread a month. Seventeen‘s editor in chief famously – and laughably — refused to even admit that the publication used photoshopped images. But a former editor of the magazine has since teamed up with Julia, sharing her own story of why she eventually quit the magazine.

The Jane Dough‘s Amy Tennery reports that DeDe Lahman, a former editor at Seventeen and now bakery owner, offered the following statement asserting that girls should be better educated on how these images are manipulated: More »

Hillary Clinton Responds To ‘No-Makeup’ Headlines; Tells CNN ‘Let Others Worry For Once’

Hillary Clinton Responds To 'No-Makeup' Headlines; Tells CNN 'Let Others Worry For Once'

The top post on Drudge yesterday was “Hillary Au Naturale,” a snarky critique of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s appearance in Bangladesh,supposedly wearing no makeup. The Daily Mail and Fox News followed suit, critiquing her looks, instead of reporting on her talks about Iranian nukes. And in an interview with CNN, the Secretary of State politely brushed off everyone’s concerns over her beauty routine. More »

Seventeen Finally Responds To Teen Protest, Swears Up And Down They ‘Celebrate Girls’

Seventeen Finally Responds To Teen Protest, Swears Up And Down They âCelebrate Girlsâ

Considering that 14-year-old feminist Julia Bluhm started her protest against Seventeen magazine’s photoshopped images two weeks ago, the publication is responding pretty late. The teen’s request that Seventeen publish one un-photoshopped spread a month has quickly caught on with a new astounding 43,000 signatures, nearly doubling in a day. Granted, her protest didn’t really start to pick up in those thousands of signatures until earlier this week, but even from Tuesday to Thursday is the equivalent of six months in Internet time. More »

5-Year Engagements And $30K Weddings: Better Media Fodder Than Reality

5-Year Engagements And $30K Weddings: Better Media Fodder Than Reality

USA Today yesterday ran a fluff piece as an excuse to promote the release of a new Jason Segal movie, The 5-Year Engagement, which while astonishing in its transparency was sadly typical in terms of the wedding narrative it pushed. The gist of the piece was that couples are having longer engagement periods in order to save up for ‘dream weddings,’ which now cost an average $26,500. But who are these people allegedly spending so much? More »

Please Give Your Full Attention To Ashley Judd’s Essay About Her Puffy Face

Please Give Your Full Attention To Ashley Judd's Essay About Her Puffy Face

Ashley Judd retaliated against the nasty media coverage surrounding her “puffy face” with a killer essay on The Daily Beast yesterday, calling it “a misogynistic assault on all women.” Her essay has invoked fist pumps—literally and metaphorically—all across the internet; her concise tear-down doesn’t read like a sob story from an actress with a bruised ego, but a call to arms for all of us (men, women, boys and girls) to stand up for our own dignity. More »

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