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Oh, Baby: "Baby Mama" Misses the Mark

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on May 1, 2008 - 9:11am
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In the new hit film "Baby Mama," Tina Fey and Amy Poehler break barriers but fail to bust stereotypes.


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True Reality Television: Where's Abortion?

Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on April 23, 2008 - 9:48am
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Through our television sets, it seems, we get nearly every possible opinion and viewpoint on nearly every possible topic. Just not abortion.


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A+ for Abortion Art

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on April 21, 2008 - 9:52am
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Yale art student Aliza Schvarts pulled off an astounding stunt -- she exploited the ambiguity anti-choicers created between menstruation and miscarriage to set off alarms all over Wingnut Nation.


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Yale Performance Art: Where Are the Grown-Ups?

Carole Joffe, University of California on April 18, 2008 - 9:58am
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All that has been accomplished by a Yale senior's art project on pregnancy and abortion is a highly visible trivialization of the issue of abortion and a phenomenal insensitivity to women who suffer repeat miscarriages.


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Surprise Hit or New Kind of Chick Flick?

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on April 17, 2008 - 9:42am
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The failure of high-budget chick flicks doesn’t prove that women don’t go to the movies anymore, but that we’ll only go if we see real women facing issues we recognize onscreen.


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Take Back the Screen

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on April 10, 2008 - 9:45am
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In order to raise awareness of sexual assault, we have to look at the images of violent sexuality embedded in our popular visual culture, images that trivialize and misrepresent reality.


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Dude, Where Are My Reproductive Rights?

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on April 3, 2008 - 9:44am
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Dudely subculture -- the smart-funny-cool-ironic hybrid that defines our age and has raised effective challenges to everything from Iraq war to the surveillance state -- has been too silent when it comes to the rights of women that have been so viciously been eroded in the past eight years.


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Trusting Teenagers

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on March 27, 2008 - 9:44am
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The very act of gaining knowledge can give girls a huge boost in self-esteem. But in order to enable them to gain knowledge, we first have to trust them. "In Treatment"'s character Sophie is one of television's few complex teenage girls.

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A Person's a Person -- Unless She Has a Uterus?

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on March 13, 2008 - 9:45am
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Can we stop the anti-abortion movement from co-opting the words of beloved children’s author Doctor Seuss?


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Backlash in Newsprint

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on March 6, 2008 - 9:09am
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"Respectable" mainstream media outlets have unleashed a torrent of misogyny. There's a middle-school mentality afoot here--a class of journalists forced by circumstance to acknowledge that there is such a thing as gender discrimination flinging back insults at their critics.


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