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Facebook to Crack Down on Hate Speech

Admits previous moderation has failed

(Newser) - Facebook came under fire last week—or more fire than usual—after feminist groups demanded the site take action against pages promoting violence against women, prompting Nissan and other companies to pull their ads from the site until the issue was addressed. Response has been swift: The social media service...

20% of South Korean Women Have Plastic Surgery

K-Pop fuels the obsession

(Newser) - Just how popular is cosmetic surgery in South Korea? So popular that one in five women there have had it, compared to one in 20 in America, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. The statistic comes courtesy of the Atlantic , which mentions it in a broader look...

The Life and Death of a Feminist Fighter

Shulamith Firestone helped start the movement that rejected her

(Newser) - A woman who helped spark radical New York feminism in the late 1960s—and inspire the entire movement that followed—was devastated and left to die in isolation after her fellow activists rejected her, writes Susan Faludi in The New Yorker . Less known today, Shulamith Firestone started early feminist groups...

Pope Again Champions Women

New speech again speaks of their role as witnesses to resurrection

(Newser) - Just days after (figuratively) stepping on some toes by (literally) washing some women's feet , Pope Francis has done the sisterhood another solid: In his weekly address at St. Peter's Square, he once again recognized women as the first witnesses of Christ's resurrection and emphasized their "special...

Men, Women Equal With One Exception: Cleaning
Men, Women Equal With
One Exception: Cleaning
OPINION
Mar 21, 2013 1:15 PM CDT

Men, Women Equal With One Exception: Cleaning

Jessica Grose calls housework 'the final feminist frontier'

(Newser) - The world is becoming more egalitarian, with men doing a much larger share of things like cooking and childcare these days. "It’s seen as socially admirable and masculine for a man to be on diaper duty or to sous-vide a steak," writes Jessica Grose, whose own husband...

Why We Might Regret Delaying Parenthood

Feminist victory brings physical, financial hardship: Allison Benedikt

(Newser) - Having kids later may mark a feminist success, and it certainly gives young couples more freedom. But it carries a heavy price, writes Allison Benedikt for Slate . A New Republic cover story on aging parents has Benedikt reflecting on her own situation: She and her husband are 35 and almost...

Taylor Swift: Songs Are Like 'Messages in a Bottle'

'Maybe the person ... will hear about it'

(Newser) - With songs like "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," Taylor Swift's new album expresses her "girl-power angst" and proves "she's ready to grow up," writes Ramin Setoodeh at the Daily Beast . An unabashed fan of the record—called Red—he talked to...

Beyond Mitt&#39;s Binders: Women Lost the Debate
Beyond Mitt's Binders:
Women Lost the Debate
OPINION
Oct 17, 2012 12:58 PM CDT

Beyond Mitt's Binders: Women Lost the Debate

Apparently, single moms cause gun violence?

(Newser) - By now you've probably seen some snarky jokes about Romney's " binders full of women " comment, but that wasn't the only thing making feminists cringe in last night's debate . Romney's entire answer on pay equity "was pretty amazingly retrograde," writes Matthew Yglesias...

Naomi Wolf Whiffs Badly With New Vagina Book
Naomi Wolf Whiffs Badly
With New Vagina Book
OPINION
Sep 13, 2012 1:06 PM CDT

Naomi Wolf Whiffs Badly With New Vagina Book

Her 'Vagina' tome makes it an even stranger time to be female: Meghan Daum

(Newser) - With women's issues and rape definitions in the national conversation, this would be the perfect time for a prominent feminist voice to come forward, writes Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times . Too bad Naomi Wolf chose to write Vagina: A New Biography instead. Let's see, she wrote...

Bloggers Give Newsweek S&M Story a Good Spanking

Katie Roiphe ties female submission to feminist victories

(Newser) - Author Katie Roiphe has whipped up a storm with her Newsweek/Daily Beast cover article on submissive female sex fantasies. Roiphe's argument: "that huge numbers of women are eagerly consuming myriad and disparate fantasies of submission"—think Girls, A Dangerous Method, Fifty Shades of Grey—"at a...

Ashley Judd Takes on Puffy-Face Haters

Who, she notes, are mostly and sadly, women

(Newser) - Ashley Judd made a TV appearance last month looking larger than normal and with a puffier face, and the ensuing criticism of her appearance led her to write a scathing but eloquent response in the Daily Beast . Judd was on steroids due to an illness (leading some to assume her...

Phyllis Schlafly Warns Men: Don't Date Feminists

Conservative 'godmother' slams liberals over contraception flap

(Newser) - Phyllis Schlafly's advice to young men: Don't date feminists, even though "some of them are pretty." Speaking to an all-male student crowd at The Citadel college in South Carolina this week, the so-called "godmother of conservatism" also blamed feminists for drumming up the recent contraception...

Feminist Poet Adrienne Rich Dead at 82

Ground-breaking writer fought for women's rights with words

(Newser) - As a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew, Adrienne Rich felt triply excluded by society, and she used her long and influential career as a poet to fight for change. Rich, who has died from complications linked to rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 82, was one of America's...

Modern Domesticity: Liberating, or a Step Back?

Progressive women bake and sew to resist industrial influence

(Newser) - Peek into your neighbor's house these days and you'll find a progressive woman canning jams, baking breads, knitting, or sewing. But "my baby boomer mother does not can jam. Or bake bread. Or knit. Or sew," writes Emily Matchar in the Washington Post . "Not did...

Officials Cave to Sex Strike, Agree to Pave Road

Colombian women's 'strike of crossed legs' lasted 38 days

(Newser) - Never doubt the transformative power of sex—or lack thereof. Local authorities today agreed to appease the women of the Colombian town of Barbacoas, who in an effort to get a road to their town paved have spent the past 38 days swearing off sex in a so-called "strike...

SlutWalks Are the &#39;Future of Feminism&#39;
 SlutWalks Are the 
 'Future of Feminism' 
OPINION
Jun 4, 2011 5:40 PM CDT

SlutWalks Are the 'Future of Feminism'

Young women are angry and organizing themselves: Jessica Valenti

(Newser) - There's no stopping SlutWalks now, and they're starting to look like the "future of feminism," writes Jessica Valenti in the Washington Post . What began as a single protest in Toronto over a police officer's safety tip—to avoid rape, don't dress like a "...

Why I Loved Being Called a MILF
 Why I Loved Being 
 Called a MILF 
essay
Apr 2, 2011 1:00 PM CDT

Why I Loved Being Called a MILF

Some find the term 'gross,' but Wilson Diehl needed to hear it

(Newser) - Since becoming a mom, Wilson Diehl had “internalized the wildly sexist notion that moms are unsexy,” she writes on Salon . “Maybe I could be a hot 35-year-old married lady, but a hot 35-year-old married mom?” But on a ladies’ weekend in Chicago with friends, Diehl found herself...

These 'Hard-Core Women' Are the New Feminists
 These 'Hard-Core 
 Women' Are the 
 New Feminists 
kathleen parker
Feb 20, 2011 4:48 PM CST

These 'Hard-Core Women' Are the New Feminists

And they're 'annoying,' writes Kathleen Parker

(Newser) - There’s a new type of feminist taking Washington by storm, though these women would never stoop to the level of actually calling themselves feminists. These are the “gun-toting, breast-feeding” supermoms who “condemn government for being a ‘nanny’ and tell men to man up,” all while...

Battle in Germany: Is Sex Sexist?

German family minister calls Alice Schwarzer's comments 'absurd'

(Newser) - A female clash of the titans has erupted in Germany over one of the nation's top feminist's declaration that heterosexual sex is, well, sexist. "Heterosexual sex is hardly possible without the subjugation of women," leading women's rights advocate Alice Schwarzer, 67, says in her classic feminist tome. Now...

Palin Is 'the Perfect Feminist&rsquo;
 Palin Is 'the Perfect Feminist’ 
victoria jackson?!
Sep 16, 2010 10:49 AM CDT

Palin Is 'the Perfect Feminist’

Says Victoria Jackson, former SNL cast member

(Newser) - Victoria Jackson—you might remember her from her time on Saturday Night Live —declares Sarah Palin "the perfect feminist" in a column on Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood . Palin "is beautiful, thin, even athletic, successful, happily married, a good mother and a grandmother. She’s got it all—...

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