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We Don't Perceive Women in Sexualized Imagery as Human Beings
Posted on the May 23, 2012 by Carlin Ross
I used to think that feminists who got their panties in a bunch over T&A pictorials were a bit sexually repressed but they may be on to something.  Researchers have found that we process...
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Next Stop in Feminist History: Pola Illery
Posted on the May 17, 2012 by Carlin Ross
You can really see who a woman is in a photograph. I knew instantly that I loved her. Meet Pola Illéry - an exotic silent film star in France and Romania during the 1920s. She was known for...
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Next Stop in Feminist History: Kang Tongbi
Posted on the May 08, 2012 by Carlin Ross
This is a picture of Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, circa 1905. She was a feminist and the first asian student to study at Barnard. After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Tongbi returned...
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Catherine the Great: Did the Empress Really Die From Doing Her Horse?
Posted on the May 06, 2012 by LilithLand
Catherine the Great was a woman of unbridled sexual passion, according to Tony Perrottet's hilarious little book on history's most tawdry sexual scandals, Napoleon's Privates. And one unsavory rumor...
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Frida Kahlo as a Young Girl
Posted on the Apr 26, 2012 by Carlin Ross
Some people look totally different in adulthood but Frida - it's the same exact face.  Beautiful
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PinkStinks: A Campaign to End Gender Stereotyping of Children
Posted on the Apr 24, 2012 by Carlin Ross
I was in the elevator headed out to walk my dog when the doors opened and there was a little girl in full Spider-man regalia on her bike.  She had short hair but I knew instantly that she was a...
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Competing at the Olympics in 1956
Posted on the Apr 23, 2012 by Carlin Ross
This is a picture of Swedish high jumper Gunhild Larking at the 1956 Olympics. I love the look of determination on her face. You had to be so strong to make those inroads.   I think...
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The Women's Vote
Posted on the Apr 18, 2012 by Betty Dodson
I so admire Jon Stewart. His brilliant skit last night dealt with the all male panel that debated women's use of contraception. It was fucking hysterical. You know, the kind of humor that is so real...
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The Way She's Looking at Her
Posted on the Apr 14, 2012 by Carlin Ross
The way this little girl is looking at this female soldier in Afghanistan....just melts me. 
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Ashley Judd & Woman Hatred
Posted on the Apr 11, 2012 by LilithLand
I just finished reading Ashley Judd's article in the Daily Beast. And I had to blog about it. For those who haven't heard, there has been a lot of media speculation over the last few weeks that she...
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Rachel Maddow's Year Book Photo
Posted on the Apr 09, 2012 by Carlin Ross
She looks like a surfer girl in high school.  Would anyone have guessed she'd become the media titan she is today?  Love you, Rachel
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My Thoughts on The Female Brain Part I
Posted on the Apr 07, 2012 by Eric Amaranth
I just finished reading Dr. Louann Brizendine’s book, The Female Brain, and in this post, I’ll focus mainly on her section about female sexual response and orgasm. The preceding chapters were...
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The Sexually Promiscuous Female
Posted on the Apr 05, 2012 by Carlin Ross
Yes, this is a real book cover and for $0.50 you could read the case histories of real "promiscuous" women. In today's political climage, I think this book would sell off the shelves.  You'd...
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Some Feminists Border on Female Supremacy Over Gender Equality
Posted on the Apr 03, 2012 by VirginMonoblogger
New discoveries worth mentioning: I absolutely HATE medical-surgical nursing, The Amazing Dr. G is moving away, and my therapist is probably the most awesome fucking feminist in my area. I don't have...
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First Person Feminism
Posted on the Mar 29, 2012 by Marisa Black
Many a writing teacher told me to limit my number of sentences and paragraphs beginning with "I." Since posting here and on my own site, I've tossed that directive aside, embracing I-statements...
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