NOW Responds to Jerry Brown’s Apology
NOW President Terry O’Neill comments on California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown’s apology to opponent Meg Whitman and calls for an end to anti-women hate speech.
Category: Media Activism
Aack — Cathy is Gone!
As the comic strip Cathy retires, the dearth of women cartoonists becomes more noticeable.
The Media’s Feminist Generational Divide Conspiracy
It seems the only topic on which older and younger feminists can definitively agree is that we have opinions about young feminism. Older feminists are the most likely to get air time, which is unfortunate, indefensible, and yet understandable.
KFC, Double Down and Are You Married? This Is What Sexism Sounds Like
KFC gave college women $500 to wear sweatpants with “Double Down” written on the butt, and distribute coupons to men who stare at their butts–and when interviewed about it by John Carlson of KOMO Seattle, he also felt it necessary to ask if I’m married.
Let Young Women Speak for Ourselves
Newsweek made several conclusions about young feminists, all without asking a single young woman. This is hardly the first time the media has painted a picture of abortion rights activism, or for that matter feminism in general, as a few grannies in a moving truck stalled somewhere between the assisted living facility and the nursing home. It is a serial genre novelette we can only call Invisible Young Woman.