Category: #MediaMatriarchy
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Meryl Streep Calls Out Walt Disney As Sexist, Anti-Semitic
from latimes.com: One of moviedom’s modern icons called out one of Hollywood’s historic heroes Tuesday, as Meryl Streep delivered a sharp rebuke to Walt Disney for alleged sexist and anti-Semitic views at the National Board of Review awards gala in New York. Streep was on hand to present an acting award to Emma Thompson for…
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Marissa Mayer reveals Yahoo’s big plans for 2014 at CES
from money.cnn.com: Marissa Mayer took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show Tuesday not to revisit the last year spent at Yahoo, but to look at the future. Joined by the likes of Katie Couric, David Pogue, David Karp, Nick D’Aloiso and SNL’s Weekend Update team, Mayer and company rolled out Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500)’s…
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Adds Sasheer Zamata, First Black Female Cast Member Since 2007
from tv.yahoo.com: After facing criticism over a lack of color in its female cast, “Saturday Night Live” has added Sasheer Zamata, an African-American from Brooklyn, to its lineup as a featured player, NBC announced today. Zamata is the late night sketch show’s first black female cast member since the biracial Maya Rudolph departed in 2007.
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Ani DiFranco Cancels June Retreat at Plantation
from sunherald.com: Activist singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco has canceled plans for a retreat at a former plantation near Baton Rouge after heated online protests about the venue. Three days and four nights of songwriting and performance workshops had been scheduled in late June at Nottoway Plantation and Resort in White Castle, about 20 miles out of…
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Data Brokers Selling Personal Info of Rape Victims to Marketers
from rt.com: “Data brokers” track, categorize and sell personal health information for marketing use, a new US Senate report reveals. Data groupings include rape victims and HIV-positive individuals, those with depression and dementia, and womens’ gynecologist visits. Hundreds of so-called “data brokers” in the US maintain databases made up of Americans’ sensitive health details. A…
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How The Media Failed Women In 2013
from huffingtonpost.com: It’s been quite the year for women in the media. Some things, like the popularity of “Orange Is The New Black” and Sweden’s new film rating system are worth celebrating — but let’s not forget all of the outrageously sexist media moments from 2013. The suggestion that women should pay more for health…
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Prehistoric Cave Prints Show Most Early Artists Were Women
(Note: This is our first #MediaMatriarchy post.) from nbcnews.com: Alongside drawings of bison and horses, the first painters left clues to their identity on the stone walls of caves, blowing red-brown paint through rough tubes and stenciling outlines of their palms. New analysis of ancient handprints in France and Spain suggests that most of those…