Sarah Seltzer's blog
Bump+'s Creative Director Chris Riley talks about the show's intentions to open a "common ground" discussion on abortion based solely on the stories of characters portrayed.
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Two weeks ago, a DirecTV episode of Friday Night Lights very quietly made television history with a sensitive episode about abortion. As the Super Bowl approaches, with its Focus on the Family finger-wagging, we can look to FNL for reality.
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The Pregnancy Pact provides a stereotypical and shallow view of teens and a false view of teen sexuality. It's another supposedly educational film made more to shock and titillate and make us feel superior to those stupid girls in Gloucester.
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Big Love shows that sometimes religion is directly to blame for misogyny and that having the tenets of extreme patriarchy imbued at an early age is tantamount to a form of abuse...a pretty radical idea for a soap opera.
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The American media's obsession with turning all of our politicians into psuedo father figures is making babies of all of us.
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For many of us, the December holidays offer a chance to break from constant news and analysis and spend time at the movies! Instead, it's been spent at the movies. So how did this year's crop of movies stack up, feminist-wise?
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The Washington Post's Richard Cohen pondered "Why is there no female Tiger Woods?." After a bunch of ill-researched speculation, he concludes cheating and power are linked, and makes gross generalizations about women.
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For the third year in a row, we present a holiday gift guide for those who want to bestow seasonal joy and support reproductive justice and positive progressive values, all at the same time.
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Campus rape continues to be a widespread problem exacerbated by shame, secrecy, and victim-blaming. Efforts to curb rape on campus include mandatory education programs and student-led initiatives like Men Against Rape.
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Gail Collins book covers the recent revolution in women's roles without the burden of someone trying to advance feminist theory or muse on the movement from within.
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