Topic: Sexism

Author Gets Followers To Flip The Genders Of Authors On Book Covers, With Depressing/Hilarious Results

Author Gets Followers To Flip The Genders Of Authors On Book Covers, With Depressing/Hilarious Results

The sexism that goes into deciding what an author’s book cover will look like is really quite astonishing. I wasn’t totally aware of this fact until I read this heart wrenching piece on Jezebel by author Deborah Copaken Kogan, which, among other things, detailed just how little control an author has over the marketing of her own book. It seems the literary establishment has yet to meet a new female author it can’t chicklitify.

To bring this issue to the forefront, author Maureen Johnson put out a call on Twitter for her more Photoshop savvy followers to switch the genders of the authors on the covers of well known books. And switch the genders they did. The results are as amusing as they are depressing, because they are totally spot on. Click through to see some of your favorite male authors given the chicklit treatment, and vice versa. More »

BareMinerals Wants You To Run For Fraternity Boys’ Viewing Pleasure Because You’re ‘Beautiful When You Sweat’

BareMinerals Wants You To Run For Fraternity Boys' Viewing Pleasure Because You're 'Beautiful When You Sweat'

This kind of obnoxious campaign doesn’t encourage anybody; it just tells us that we should don our hair and makeup according to what dudes like. Look, if I want to wear red lipstick to go running (and I most certainly have), then I will, and it won’t be because I want to look “cute” in my adorbz wittle lady wunning gear. More »

Drew Barrymore Unsure How Men Deal With Female Moodiness, And No This Isn’t A Line From A Period Commerical

Drew Barrymore Unsure How Men Deal With Female Moodiness, And No This Isnât A Line From A Period Commerical

Oh so you wanted to get angry at Drew Barrymore today over something other than the fact that it’s unethical to have a child when you forget the child exists every single day a la 50 First Dates. Great! Then I have just the treat for you. It’s a decently offensive (and unnecessary quote from a cooking video with Eric Ripert. I know, you didn’t see that coming as the source. I didn’t either. But sometimes the best things to inspire a little afternoon internet outrage come from the strangest places. Or so I remember Mrs. Frizzle saying to the kids on the Magic School Bus one day as they drove through a human’s nervous system. More »

Conan O’Brien Made A Bad Joke About Janet Napolitano’s Looks At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Conan O'Brien Made A Bad Joke About Janet Napolitano's Looks At The White House Correspondents' Dinner

Last night’s White House Correspondents’ dinner contained the usual mixture of gentle jibing and goodwill, with jokes that were humorous in a way that was not likely to actually offend anyone. Which is why I was so surprised that Conan O’Brien “went there” with a joke likening Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano to Paul Giamatti. More »

Electronic Wizardress Grimes Writes Amazing Treatise On Sexism In The Music World

Electronic Wizardress Grimes Writes Amazing Treatise On Sexism In The Music World

Grimes is pretty much the best. Through a combination of technical wizardry, obsessive perfectionism, vocal prowess, and pop sensibility, she makes music that feels like having your dancing muscles lovingly prodded by Korean computer ghosts from the nineties. She’s also an accomplished artist and jewelry designer with a great sense of style. But in case you needed another reason to love her, she’s also an outspoken feminist who is not afraid to call out the indie music world for sexism, despite the fact that it has granted her a livelihood. More »

State Penis Representative Peter Hansen (R) Refers To Women As ‘Vagina’s’

State Penis Representative Peter Hansen (R) Refers To Women As 'Vagina's'

While I prefer to be called a woman, I acknowledge that because of colloquialisms and our culture, at 23, I will often be referred to as a “girl.” I will accept this, as well as “lady,” “female,” “chiquita” and “Chiquita Banana.” I will not, however, accept being referred to by my reproductive organs, particularly when I have already offered so many lovely alternatives.

New Hampshire State Representative Peter Hansen (R) unfortunately feels otherwise. More »