Category: Feminism

Family Parenting Feminism Misogyny Sexism Toxic Masculinity

How every parent can help get rid of toxic masculinity

sudshr47 March 16, 2019

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Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2019 and we have the entire internet to contend with.

Youth sports are often pure chaos. I’m the head coach of two girls’ basketball teams and I’ve seen my share of wild behavior. There are coaches cursing at referees like the NBA championship is on the line, and parents who think their 5-year-old is headed for a full basketball scholarship at Stanford just because she can dribble a ball without falling down. But one thing I witnessed a couple of years ago really shocked me.  Read more…

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Captain Marvel’s shallow take on feminism doesn’t land

sudshr47 March 9, 2019

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This post contains spoilers for Captain Marvel

In the pinnacle moment of Captain Marvel’s final fight sequence, Gwen Stefani’s “I’m Just a Girl” starts playing as Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers kicks everyone’s ass.

The subtext, in case you missed it, is that Carol Danvers might just be a girl. But being just a girl is pretty kick ass.

This moment — and every other one when Marvel seems to suddenly remember that Captain Marvel is its first movie with a solo female lead ever  — summons the same feelings of a modern Dove commercial. It’s a cloying sensation, the off-putting suspicion that your own crushing sense of disempowerment is being exploited to sell you soap.  Read more…

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Apps Culture Educational Apps Feminism Reviews

Women Who Changed the World is a tender app that teaches kids about feminism

sudshr47 February 22, 2019

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Women Who Changed the World
$2.99
The Good

The app is educational without being condescending • It’s engaging for both children and adults

The Bad

Navigating can be needlessly complicated • The interactive challenges aren’t always clear

The Bottom Line

The app is fun and educational for both young people and adults, but the user experience gets in the way of its promise.

👑 Mashable Score
3.25
✨Aesthetic
4.5
💅Easy to use
2.0
🎯Delivers on promise
3.0
💵 Bang for the Buck
4.0

It’s hard to talk to kids about feminism and not bore them to death. Imagine being in first grade and having to listen to your mother preach to you about suffragists, when all you want to do is eat the cold hot dog in your lunchbox. Read more…

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Feminism Internet Online Harassment Social Good Work Life

A survival guide for being a woman on the internet

sudshr47 February 4, 2019

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This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet. 

Once upon a time, in the foggy kingdom of San Francisco, I was in an Uber checking my notifications. Suddenly, I discovered a man I have never met who lived in the far away kingdom of North Carolina posted a photo of me on Instagram, claiming I was stalking him. 

The Instagram post went viral, and people started digging into this man’s (or, perhaps troll’s) online history. Soon, the Twitter kingdom would discover virtually all his social media posts were a lie. From photoshopping images of women he had never met to claims of fake career accomplishments to describing fake accidents, the distorted reality he had built for himself over the course of five years was as impressive as it was creepy. Even Seth Rogen chimed in on how he hadn’t, in fact, met this fellow at a charity golf tournament. (Surprise: The photo he shared of Rogen was actually that of a wax statue Read more…

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‘CAM’ is the feminist nightmare fuel your next girls’ night requires

sudshr47 November 16, 2018

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This is a spoiler-free review of Netflix’s CAM. 

Time to crack open the sparkling wine, pull on some comfy sweats, and fear for your safety in a male-dominated world. It’s ladies night—and we need to talk about Netflix’s CAM. 

Set in the cyber space of virtual sex work, CAM chronicles the nightmarish ordeal of Alice, an internet model or “cam girl,” who one day logs on to discover she has been replaced by a mysterious doppelgänger. As her many fans obsess over the menacing substitute, Alice fights to regain control of her image, freedom, and physical safety. 

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Dear white women: Here’s how to step up for women of color

sudshr47 November 4, 2018

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Whenever I’m in predominantly white spaces with my Salvadoran grandparents, I’m on high alert because at any second, some racist bigot can harass them for speaking Spanish. I haven’t had to defend them yet, but given the recent rise in hate crimes and related incidents, it’s likely I will one day. 

We’ve seen it happen at restaurants, retail stores, and schools, but a recent incident took place at a grocery store in Colorado, was captured on camera, and went viral. Unlike the other times, a white woman stepped up. Her name is Kamira Trent, and because she called the police, Linda Dwire was arrested and charged for bias-motivated harassment. I’m always ready to protect my grandparents, but if a white woman like Trent is fighting by my side, it will make a great difference.   Read more…

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The problem with ‘Sabrina’s intersectional feminist witchcraft

sudshr47 November 1, 2018

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This post contains spoilers for Season 1 of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina desperately wants you to know how woke it is.

From Sabrina founding the WICCA (Women’s Intersectional Cultural and Creative Association) club to help her black best friend Ros, to protecting her gender nonconforming friend Susie from bullies, she’s painted as a model of the white feminist ally.

And here’s where things immediately get iffy about the show’s supposed wokeness.  Read more…

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Why 2018’s ‘Halloween’ is the slasher movie made for the #MeToo era

sudshr47 October 26, 2018

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This article contains spoilers for the original Halloween and its 2018 sequel.

The trope of the final girl — you know, the last one standing in horror movies, who either simply survives or also kills the villain that murdered all her friends — didn’t just define the slasher formula for decades. 

The archetype was more than a staple of the great classics, from Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The final girl trope was also the key to understanding the entire genre’s psychology, and how horror movies capture our social anxieties about sex and gender.

Now, with 2018’s Halloween and the return of the prototypical final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode has ushered in a new kind of slasher flick for the #MeToo era. Read more…

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