A great piece on feminism, porn, and this year's Feminist Porn Awards.

I'm not going to say who's playing top or bottom in that statement, but feminism and porn have been like Crisco and condoms for decades, and feminist positions (ahem) on porn are diverse. They often boil down to the notions that porn is degrading to women, abusive, encourages ( Read more... )

This commercial, aside from being catchy and all that, really has got me thinking about the message behind the songs/images.

Lyrics:

Sometimes I'm right, but I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
A blue one, a pink one, a purple and then...
Makes no difference what group I'm in
We gotta live together
I am everyday people
and then the ( Read more... )

Hi everyone. I'm not a regular poster but I read this today and wanted to share it. Male magazines are one of things that get me absolutely fuming, and this very good article about them set me off.http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1596384,00.html

Something's been praying on my mind ( Read more... )

Warning: Movie synopsis may be triggering (mentions abuse...obviously ( Read more... )

I didn't watch the entire thing, but did anyone watch the new show with Freddy Prince Jr.? It was really disturbing. The first stereotyped women where the two rich bimbos that just wanted money and that the two main characters were trying to hook up with. Then when they ditch the guys the men decided to go for poor girls, but not "sad poor". Of ( Read more... )

Does anyone know a good source for % of directors/producers/ect. being female in film and television?

This is a pretty interesting article from Slate.  I bolded the part of the article I found the most insightful.

( Kate Moss: The Ironies of Her Downfall )

I assume by now most of us hae heard of North Country? If not, this is a pretty good summary ( Read more... )

You know what bugs me? The term actress. I only say it when I don't feel like explaining to people why it's sexist, because it's one of those "givens", something that's not considered even remotely sexist by most people.

Why is it sexist, you ask? I answer. Because actor is not a gender-specific term! It's not actman. So saying actress creates ( Read more... )