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Raising Trouble: Is My Four-year-old a Budding Hate Criminal?

Social Commentary post by Liza Featherstone, March 19, 2010 - 6:49pm; tagged boys, gender identity, gender variance, Princess Leia, violence.
“I want to shoot Iggy*,” Ivan often tells me. He and his friends want to shoot Iggy, he says, because “we don’t like princesses.” Iggy is a boy in my son’s preschool class who wears dresses to school – often bringing several, as he may want a new look by midday -- and likes to play princess with the girls.

Why does my son have violent fantasies about this kid? It’s disturbing, to say the least.
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The Biotic Woman: What the Hell is a Femivore?

DigiBitch post by Brittany Shoot, March 19, 2010 - 6:39pm; tagged chickens, femivore, food politics, language use, reappropriation of language, this is feminism?, urban homesteading, veganism.
I mentioned over the weekend that I was a little too miffed after reading the terribly myopic piece in the New York Times Magazine last weekend, "The Femivore's Dilemma," to write about it then. The internets move quickly, but I figure a few days late is better than never. Since my time here is quickly drawing to a close, I figured I’d revisit the piece because it really deserves some ecofeminist deconstruction.

First, the obvious: "Femivore" is a dumb word. Why? Because it implies a diet of women.
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Reproductive Writes: Sexed Up: An Interview with Leonore Tiefer

Social Commentary post by Holly Grigg-Spall, March 19, 2010 - 6:27pm; tagged female sexual dysfunction, Flibanserin, Leonore Tiefer, Reproductive Writes, sexual disorders, The New View campaign, Viagra.
Leonore Tiefer is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with an international reputation as a lecturer, author, activist and theorist in the field of sexuality. She has written widely about the medicalization of female sexuality and heads up the New View Campaign, which is a grassroots network challenging the distorted and oversimplified understanding of sexuality promoted by the pharmaceutical industry as a means to profit. In this interview she talks about her work and the race to produce a 'female Viagra.'
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Bitchtapes: Cover to Cover

Music post by Kjerstin Johnson, March 19, 2010 - 3:39pm; tagged BitchTapes, covers.

Wrap your work week up with an *extra special guest Bitchtapes!* Misty, a Bitch mag reader and winner our subscription contest last month for a Bitch goody bag and a shot at Bitchtapes, has handpicked a great selection of covers side-by-side with their original. Here's Misty's mix in her own words:
My choices are 5 original songs and 5 covers (though as I created this playlist, I saw some songs that I thought were originals were not, so there may be versions of even these songs from way back when). As I have no talent for music, I have always found it interesting how one musician can put out a song and another artist takes it and really makes it their own. With instantly-recognizable classics, a musician must possess a self-confidence in their abilities to take a song that so many people relate to or love and put their mark on it. Though I wouldn't describe all these originals as timeless classics, I like how each of the covers are so much more than just repeated lyrics.

Check out Misty's track list below and enjoy this reader-deejayed Bitchtapes!
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Heather Cassils in Out: Kissin' Gaga and Pushing Envelopes

Music post by Kjerstin Johnson, March 18, 2010 - 7:36pm; tagged Heather Cassils, Lady GaGa, Performance Art, queer.
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While the blogosphere is still wrapping their head around the epic Telephone video, Out Magazine got a hold of Heather Cassils, whose prison-yard smooch with Gaga is one of the most talked about portions of the video. A long-time performance artist, Cassils went to the "Telephone" audition on a whim, and the kiss she and Gaga shared was completely unscripted. While her interactions with Gaga are worth a read, Cassils also speaks about her art ("I use the fact that the image is live to try to capture and transfix people, because people can walk away from a painting.") representation ("binaries are dangerous across the board"), about the co-option of queer identity for pop stars. ("That's been going on since the dawn of time.")
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Douchebag Decree: DOUCHEBAG SHOWDOWN EDITION

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace, March 18, 2010 - 6:20pm; tagged Douchebag Decree, Erick Erickson, Margaret Wente, showdown.
Someone should make a bumper sticker that reads So many douchebags, so little time. I'd buy it. Every week when the Douchebag Decree comes around, there are too many douches and it's almost impossible to determine who deserves the honor most. This week, we have two very strong contenders, which is why we need YOU to vote for your (least) favorite in a DOUCHEBAG SHOWDOWN. Two douches enter, one douche leaves!

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In one corner: Erick "Ugly feminists return to their kitchens" Erickson! The fightin' feminist-hater!

In the other corner: Margaret "Blogs are a guy thing" Wente! The super cybersexist!

Ladies and gentlemen, place yer bets!
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New and exclusive: Enlightened Sexism excerpt, and an interview with author Susan Douglas

Books post by Kjerstin Johnson, March 18, 2010 - 5:05pm; tagged Enlightened Sexism, feminism and pop culture, Grey's Anatomy, media sexism, Susan Douglas, The Bachelor, why pop culture matters.
cover of Enlightened Sexism, a white cover with a superwoman figure on the front

Susan Douglas's seminal 1995 book Where the Girls Are: Growing Up with the Mass Media explored how woman see and are seen in pop culture, tracing feminism in pop culture from the 1950s and '60s through the 1980s.  Her newest book, Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work is Done, revisits the subject of women's representation in the mass media, and finds a troubling series of mixed messages, empty "empowerment," and consumer imperatives masquerading as postfeminist power.

As longtime fans of Douglas's wit, irreverance, and spot-on critique, Bitch is thrilled to feature the epilogue of Enlightened Sexism. It's after the jump, as is an interview with Douglas by Andi Zeisler.

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