Modern Day Nuns
By Sarina Smith When one pictures a nun in this day and age, what is it that comes to mind? Personally, I start envisioning Julie Andrews running around on mountain tops, but when I…
Gender Stereotypes
Join the Women’s Center for a screening of Miss Representation
By Carolina Costa [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiD9SbeaDEs&feature=fvst[/youtube] Miss Representation is a 2011 award winning documentary written and directed by women’s advocate, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Miss Representation challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls;…
Leave Your Lipstick At Home
By Courtney Neaveill “Gwyneth Paltrow lipstick lesbian”: Google that and you will get over two pages of results – all of which reference a recent interview that Ms. Paltrow gave with Harpaar’s Bizarre. The 39…
New Year’s Resolution: We should all be as vocal…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srnaXW9ZgZc[/youtube] by Arzie Umali Happy New Year! It’s that time again when many of us are making our New Year’s resolutions. If you haven’t made your resolution yet, or you’ve decided not to make any…
I don’t really want to ‘Think Like A Man’
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JX4HzF0Kmg&feature=related[/youtube] By Bonnie Messbarger A new film is coming out this Spring called Think Like A Man which is based off the book by Steve Harvey titled Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man:…
Did You Miss These?
A trailer for the film “The Invisible War” about sexual assault in the military. Gloria Steinem talks about feminism and women and aging at the TEDx Women event. The plan to allow Plan B to…
Dr. Pepper Ten, “It’s Not for Women.”
By Kristina Gardner Dr. Pepper is telling ladies that they shouldn’t drink Dr. Pepper Ten. They are also saying that women don’t like action films, and asking if you are “manly enough”. Of course as…
Beauty vs. Brains?
By Lakhvir Kaur It seems like lately we are back to the beauty versus brains saga, in which girls entering middle school feel forced to ask themselves, “‘Do I want to be smart in math,…
Gender Stereotypes In the Classroom
By Bonnie Messbarger Recently I was reading some of the blogs on Ms. Magazine’s blog site, and found this article to be really interesting. It talks about the new book written by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind…
1972 Wasn’t That Long Ago
Sports in my house only meant one thing, hockey. I grew up with it. I watched my brother play from the time I was a baby until my high school years. My dad and my…