just when i thought i was ‘over’ glee…

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newyorker: The Woman Who Is Obsessed with Her Career and Is No Fun at All I regularly work sixteen hours a day. Yet, like most people I know who are similarly busy, I’m a pleasant, pretty normal person. But that’s not how working women are depicted in movies. I’m not always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and yelling, “I have no time for this!” Often, a script calls for this uptight career woman to “relearn” how to seduce a man, and she has to do all sorts of crazy degrading crap, like eat a hot dog in a sexy way or something. And since when does holding a job necessitate that a woman pull her hair back in a severe, tight bun? Do screenwriters think that loose hair makes it hard to concentrate. - Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor of “The Office”) on one of the many specimens of women who exist in romantic comedies, but do not exist in real life. Click here for the rest of Mindy’s guide to women in the movies.

newyorker:

The Woman Who Is Obsessed with Her Career and Is No Fun at All

I regularly work sixteen hours a day. Yet, like most people I know who are similarly busy, I’m a pleasant, pretty normal person. But that’s not how working women are depicted in movies. I’m not always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and yelling, “I have no time for this!” Often, a script calls for this uptight career woman to “relearn” how to seduce a man, and she has to do all sorts of crazy degrading crap, like eat a hot dog in a sexy way or something. And since when does holding a job necessitate that a woman pull her hair back in a severe, tight bun? Do screenwriters think that loose hair makes it hard to concentrate.

- Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor of “The Office”) on one of the many specimens of women who exist in romantic comedies, but do not exist in real life.

Click here for the rest of Mindy’s guide to women in the movies.

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Women are taught so many messages about how we need to behave in order to “prevent” sexual assault and sexual harassment in public spaces. How we need to look, how we need to dress, how we need to walk, how we need to make ourselves small and unremarkable, how we need to anticipate the behavior of others, how we must not “attract” the wrong kind of attention. Even though I resent that these messages fundamentally imply that women bear responsibility for insuring sexual assault does not occur, I still, almost in spite of myself, take all of these things into account when I get dressed and when I go out in public. To have already engineered your behavior to meet the threat of assault and then to still face criminal harassment just feels like an added injustice.

A Guy Jerked Off To Me In The Subway, And NYPD Didn’t Do A Thing (via Jezebel)
Originally Posted By mollylambert

They’re fucking gross, man. Look, I love beautiful girls too. I think everyone should be free to have their knee socks and their sweaty shorts, but I’m over it. I’m over this weird, exhausted girl. I’m over the girl that’s tired and freezing and hungry. I like bossy girls, I always have. I like people filled with life. I’m over this weird media thing with all this, like, hollow-eyed, empty, party crap.

Amy Poehler on American Apparel (via mollylambert)

i so love amy poehler.

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Thanks to simple laws of supply and demand, it is often the women who must assert themselves romantically or be left alone on Valentine’s Day, staring down a George Clooney movie over a half-empty pizza box.

UGH. this article, and in particular the use of quotes, is so bad i could barely finish reading it. is this seriously nyt journalism? women-to-men imbalances are interesting and have some serious implications (as gawker much more succinctly points out), but the article is just demeaning and, at this point, cliché.
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sprachkrise: Refinery29: Plus Or Minus, One Size Fits All With Terry Richardson’s Latest V Shoot damn, crystal renn is kicking ass all over the place. i’m not down with the too-skinny-vs-plus-size debate, because hopefully the idea is more of a “look how beautiful women of all sizes are” thing than anything else, but it’s also really great to see healthy looking women (like renn, who is glowing) in magazines, and maybe someday girls will stop starving themselves to be unnaturally skinny. we can only hope. (btw, what the eff are they wearing? and also i’m pretty sure they still photoshopped the shit out of both girls, but one step at a time i guess.)

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Refinery29: Plus Or Minus, One Size Fits All With Terry Richardson’s Latest V Shoot

damn, crystal renn is kicking ass all over the place. i’m not down with the too-skinny-vs-plus-size debate, because hopefully the idea is more of a “look how beautiful women of all sizes are” thing than anything else, but it’s also really great to see healthy looking women (like renn, who is glowing) in magazines, and maybe someday girls will stop starving themselves to be unnaturally skinny. we can only hope.

(btw, what the eff are they wearing? and also i’m pretty sure they still photoshopped the shit out of both girls, but one step at a time i guess.)

The federal government would provide $25 million a year for a “pregnancy assistance fund.” The money could be used for “maternity and baby clothing, baby food, baby furniture and similar items.”

- There are 4,058,000 live births per year in America,

- 1,200,000 women experience pregnancy loss through termination,

- And 468,988 babies are born to teenage mothers each year (via)

so…who gets the money? my guess is that it’s aimed at reducing the number of abortions, but maybe it’s just a good-will gesture to teen mothers and women in poverty. either way, that’s only $53 per teen mother or about $20 towards preventing each abortion. it’s a really nice thought, but probably not a particularly helpful one.

(it should also be noted that this fund is only included in the senate plan, which does, in a round-about way, allow plans to cover abortions, whereas the house plan neither allows coverage nor provides a consolation fund for women who actually carry out their pregnancies)

sprachkrise: adelicatething: sexismandthecity: Women on Waves is a Dutch non-profit organization. Its mission is to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the world.Women on Waves sails to countries where abortion is illegal, at the invitation of local women’s organizations. On the ship - where Dutch laws are in effect - early medical abortions are provided safely, professionally and legally. WoW has so far sailed to Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Ecuador and Spain. WoW also provide online abortion services for women in countries where abortion is illegal. The organization recently opened abortion hotlines in Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. Nearly 70 000 women die every year due to unsafe abortions. Between 2 - 7 million women survive but sustain long-term damages. http://www.womenonwaves.org/http://www.womenonweb.org/

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adelicatething:

sexismandthecity:

Women on Waves is a Dutch non-profit organization. Its mission is to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the world.

Women on Waves sails to countries where abortion is illegal, at the invitation of local women’s organizations. On the ship - where Dutch laws are in effect - early medical abortions are provided safely, professionally and legally.

WoW has so far sailed to Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Ecuador and Spain.

WoW also provide online abortion services for women in countries where abortion is illegal. The organization recently opened abortion hotlines in Ecuador, Chile and Argentina.

Nearly 70 000 women die every year due to unsafe abortions. Between 2 - 7 million women survive but sustain long-term damages.

http://www.womenonwaves.org/
http://www.womenonweb.org/

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