Category: #MediaMatriarchy
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‘#Cockblok’ Commercial Parody Takes On Street Harassment
from huffingtonpost.com: Are you tired of getting cat calls and inappropriate comments from guys when all you’re trying to do is walk to work? Is the harassment inhibiting you from living your life? Introducing new CockBlok! Simply apply the moisturizing lotion and let the pheromones do their job. Guys will friend zone you before they…
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#GetYourGameFaceOn: CoverGirl Ad Gets Disturbing Photoshop Treatment, Calls Out NFL On Domestic Violence
from huffingtonpost.com: A marketing campaign for CoverGirl’s football-inspired collection of game day looks has taken on an entirely new pall in the wake of video footage showing former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée in an elevator. CoverGirl’s slogan for the ad series — “Get your game face on” — was meant to…
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Will the Makers of Superhero #Movies Consider a Female-Led Movie?
from superherohype.com: Back on August 1, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was asked how close he thought they were to getting a superhero movie out there with a female lead and he replied as follows: “I think it comes down to timing, which is what I’ve sort of always said, and it comes down to…
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This Woman Has Been Confronting Her Catcallers — And Secretly Filming Their Reactions
from buzzfeed.com Several weeks ago, 28-year-old Minneapolis resident Lindsey was standing on an escalator when a stranger began touching her hair and calling her “blondie.” When she told the man he “could just say ‘hi’ next time,” she said, he began screaming at her and calling her ugly. The situation reminded Lindsey — a longtime…
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Charlize Theron on press intrusion into her personal life: ‘You start feeling raped’
from nydailynews.com: The star of ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ made a questionable analogy over the constant presence of photographers and gossip reporting that envelops her life with her son, Jackson, and her boyfriend, Sean Penn.
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You Can See Actual Women In Movies This Weekend
from forbes.com: …the good news is there are a few other options if you are not in the superhero frame of mind. Last weekend the comedy, The Other Woman was smartly counter programmed against Captain America 2 and was able to take in over $24 million on over 3,000 screens. The reviews have been brutal…
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Pentagon Study Finds 50% Increase in Reports of Military Sexual Assaults
from nytimes.com: A Pentagon study released Thursday showed a sharp increase last year in reports of rapes and sexual assault — they were up by 50 percent — but the study immediately came under fire for what critics said were significant limitations. White House and Defense Department officials characterized the much-anticipated study as a welcome…
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New Kenya Law Legalizes Polygamy; Women’s Group Applauds It
from cnn.com: A new law that went into effect in Kenya this week makes it legal for a man to marry as many women as he wants. And a leading women’s group is applauding it. President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the polygamy measure into law Tuesday, formally recognizing what has long been a cultural practice in…
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Simply Being Called ‘Fat’ Makes Young Girls More Likely to Become Obese
from sciencerecorder.com: The results of a study led by UCLA psychologist A. Janet Tomiyama and colleagues show that girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are “too fat” at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19. The data used in the study came from…
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Lily Allen Releases Sheezus… and Everyone Misses The Point
from bust.com: The title track off Allen’s upcoming album, Sheezus, calls out everyone that’s tried to create unfriendly competition among women in the music industry. The media often pits women artists against each other, leaving only one number one spot. So it comes as no surprise that most of the media outlets reporting on Allen’s…
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New Seasons to Sponsor Oregon Latina Entrepreneurs
from bizjournals.com: New Seasons Market will sponsor Latina entrepreneurs through the nonprofit Adelante Mujeres for the next five years. Wendy Collie, CEO of the Portland grocery, will announce the sponsorship of Adelante Mujeres’ Empresas Small Business Development program today at the Portland Business Journal’s Women of Influence luncheon. Check back later for more news from…
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Late Night Remains a Men’s Game
from huffingtonpost.com: The major networks have yet to place a woman behind the desk of a late night show. With the exception of Chelsea Lately who is not aired on one of the three major networks [and is also reportedly ending her show anyway], late night television is absent of women, which means that the…
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Former #PaulAllen Bodyguard Cites “Rampant Mistreatment, Sexual Harassment and Illegal Activity”
from seattlepi.com: After years of acrimonious litigation, Vulcan Inc. has made onetime Paul Allen bodyguard Tracy Turner pay. Turner was among 15 former bodyguards to leave the Seattle Seahawks owner’s firm claiming rampant mistreatment, sexual harassment and illegal activity. Unlike the rest, Turner will have to pay her former employers $45,000 for their trouble. A…
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Republicans Kiss Votes from Women Goodbye
from washingtonpost.com: This was not the way Republican leaders had planned to observe Equal Pay Day. On the eve of Tuesday’s commemoration — the day symbolizing how far into 2014 women must work to catch up to the wages men earned in 2013 — a small newspaper in Louisiana, the Ouachita Citizen, reported that its…
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Dems, Repubs Both Trot Out Women to Prove They’re Not Sexist
from thewire.com: In attempts to prove they’re not sexist, both parties are inviting their female leaders to speak out about how happy they are. Republicans have been accused of waging a war on women, but the White House has been under scrutiny lately for paying its female employees less than men. President Obama says he’s…