It's unproductive to expend our energy criticizing female pop stars for profiting off of their sexuality: they're just navigating an existing system, and if they don't do it someone else will.

As the author pointed out,

This just changed my life.

Former Victoria's Secret associate here! I worked there all through college (which was not that long ago), and I can vouch for the store that this absolutely is not what is taught from the corporate level. Their verbiage is all about making "customers for life" by really listening to them and making a personal…

The video with the CEO is worth a watch (http://www.goldieblox.com/pages/about) to know from where she's coming. She studied engineering at Stanford and felt the reason 80 percent of engineers are male has a lot to do with young boys being introduced to these ideas and ways of thinking much more than girls. It's not…

Women. We HAVE to start supporting each other when this stuff happens. It breaks my heart that other women in this workplace probably saw a lot of this happen and offered no support, are still offering no support (as far as I can tell?). While I don't believe in putting blame on anyone but the person committing…

The "didn't happen on school grounds" excuse for the first report seems predictable. Except you know what, school authorities? You won't convince me that, even if you didn't owe that girl help because it isn't under your jurisdiction as a school administrator, you owed her help as a FUCKING HUMAN BEING. From the very…

Wait. I love this professor right now.

I'm so glad he called out Katy Perry. I am in love with her, and a lot of that is because I think she exemplifies some (not all) strong feminist ideals in a world of pop gals where that's really difficult. She even tweeted a Jez articled once, and my world was complete. When that, "I'm not a feminist but..." line came…

One of the rules of thumb I have for myself is that I don't say anything that I "could only allow myself to (say) because I'm a woman." Anybody else?

I'd be interested to know if there is a widespread study on race in media like there is gender with the Bechdel Test. I'd guess the list of movies/shows that fail this test (but in relation to race) would be even more appalling than it is with gender. Anyone know if this kind of thing exists?

Ugh. Why did I go read Deadspin's post and discussion of this story? I know better than that. WHYYY?

I've been following this story a little bit this afternoon and, while I'm glad there's an outcry against these boys, I wish we could get off the, "What if that was your daughter/mother/sister?" rhetoric. I've seen it SO much reading the discussions about this particular incident.
And screw that.
What if it was a…

I could not get even get through that entire interview. YUCK. Thankfully, the irate comments below it gave me some sort of faith in humanity.

I absolutely agree with you. For me, it's about protecting the women. Point blank.
But there's a fine, fine line between a.) women who are protected/safe, free to make decisions about their body and b.) women who are forced into the practice, abused/mistreated/enslaved by the men protecting them.
The brothels who are…

Basically, yes. It's one of the approaches countries have taken in an attempt to decrease prostitution...but to also protect the women. There are a few other countries who decriminalized prostitution completely but who made it illegal to operate a brothel or solicit sex. In Brazil, I believe it's just illegal to…

I hate that anyone buys into this mentality, but I especially hate when it's the victims themselves buying into it.

You do have a point. Rape culture exists EVERYWHERE. The difference between jock culture and a lot of the others you named, however, is that athletes usually have such an army behind them, even when they're young. If a gamer in high school is affected by the disgusting "culture" in video games and sexually assaults a…

This is part of the male gaze theory! We view and judge each other as objects of beauty for heterosexual men...and we often do it in an even harsher way than a man would, as we all know from experience. A woman gets all judge-y of her sloppy looking friend because she's viewing her using the gaze of a heterosexual man…