Monday, NPR’s Linda Holmes issued an open letter to Pixar asking for a movie about a girl who “isn’t a princess.” Titled “From all the girls with band-aids on their knees,” Holmes’ piece asks Pixar to make a movie about little girls and things that happen to them, just like they’ve made movies (a lot [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Sexism and Media’
November 28, 2008
Feeling Thankful
First, please allow me to appologize for my silence here lately. Now that the election is over and Obama is doing all the right things, well… some of the pressure is off. However, I just saw HBO’s Iron Jawed Angels and… well, it might be the red wine, but I loved [...]
November 17, 2008
Michelle Obama As Model and Role Model
I’ve been holding off on sharing my thoughts on Michelle Obama, not because I don’t think she is an unbelievable woman but because everyone from Feministing to Jezebel to Salon has noted how a woman with degrees from Princeton and Harvard, a successful career, two beautiful daughters and an accomplished husband is now talking a [...]
October 13, 2008
A Little Foe Outrage For Your Monday Morning
There have been a couple of posts over at the gnovis blog about what this election has actually done to the role of women voters. We aren’t really hearing about choice issues, food stamps, child care, medicaid, etc. While I understand that the economy and security will always be at the [...]
September 10, 2008
Sorry Sarah
Man, this whole week is all about me apologizing to Republicans…
Anyway, Feministing pointed me to this charming website selling Sarah Palin dolls in a variety of outfits?! The school girl outfit just doesn’t even make sense– when was she in Catholic school?
Just the other night I was complaining to someone about how hard it is [...]
