Further Sunday Reading: Mining the Gender Gap

Thanks to Caitlin for an interesting New York Times link investigating the issues of sex and gender that lie behind the Clinton campaign, and reactions to her campaign.
Read.  Love.  Discuss.  (Ain’t it great to find productive means of procrastinating?)

Gross T-shirts, Redux

Remember how I said that hopefully David and Goliath would learn from their mistake and not put out another offensive T-shirt? (See this post’s comments for Annie’s link as well as a discussion about T-shirts that make fun of rape.) Well, that didn’t happen. Instead, David and Goliath have linked up the now-defunct [...]

Guest Post–Women on the Bottom?

Here is a guest post from our trusty reader and commenter Ali. (I am actually copying it from her comment to an earlier post about the primary, with her permission.)She brings up a great point about how the visual culture of the media reveals sexist tendencies. Pictures say a thousand words–and the cover [...]

Race vs. Gender?

Oy.  Yet another article about whether sexism is worse than racism.Although I really, really dislike the media’s sexist portrayal of Hillary Clinton, I dislike even MORE the notion that we can quantify which kind of oppression is worse.  After all, although Barack has been treated more kindly by the media in general, the attacks against [...]