The Morning After
Our daily roundup of sex and gender in the District and beyond. * Melissa McEwan over at Shakesville says a cat's place is in the cleavage: this morning, after [the cat had] been driving me bananas for...
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Dressing “Too Sexy”: Career Suicide Or Sexist Excuse?
Yesterday, Feminist Law Professors drew my attention to the Miami Daily Business Review's "Rodent" column, a weekly anonymous rant written by various members of the legal community. The latest...
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Sexist Comments of the Week: How Sexy Is Too Sexy?
Last week, a couple of really interesting discussions arose on this blog concerning determining consent and preventing rape. I'm going to address some of the lingering issues raised in those threads...
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[youtube:v=VMxyZQfMmM4] A couple of months ago, I was at a house party. A couple of guys I was with started commenting on the appearance of a woman sitting across the room. She was wearing what they...
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The Morning After: Boobquake Edition
* Today is "Boobquake," the day where women are encouraged to show excessive amounts of cleavage in order to disprove the theory of Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, who posited that...
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Sexist Comments of the Week: Responsible Cleavage Edition
Watch where you're tilting those things Last week, I wrote about how women with big boobs are perceived as inherently sluttier than those of us with minimal cleavage. In response, large-breasted women...
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Boobquake In Photos: “My Eyes Are Up Here”
This photograph basically sums up the scene at today's "Boobquake" festivities in Dupont Circle, where women bared their cleavage, and people paid attention to them. Feminism! City Paper photographer...
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The Morning After: Why Women Hate McMansions and Love Soft Pillows Edition
What women want. * I am in love with Kerry Howley's book review of Paco Underhill's "What Women Want"—an examination of the consumer behavior of what Underhill terms "the female of the species" of...
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