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The Box's Crush of the Week: Neil Patrick Harris

TV post by Juliana Tringali on November 28, 2008 - 6:48pm; tagged Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Harold & Kumar, Henry Huggins, How I Met Your Mother, Magic Castle, masculinity, Neil Patrick Harris, Old Spice, Shoe Fairy.

Neil Patrick Harris

He's taken the role of "ladies man" to new levels on How I Met Your Mother, played himself as a child actor turned mega-douche in the Harold & Kumar movies, and even used his rep for machismo to shill Old Spice.

So why should feminists be crushing? Because he's redefining the way masculinity is portrayed in pop culture.

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Consumerism turns deadly

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on November 28, 2008 - 3:34pm; tagged consumer culture, consumerism, Wal-Mart, WTF?.

A Long Island Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death this morning as over 2,000 shoppers pushed and shoved their way through the doors at 4:55 a.m., five minutes before the doors were set to open.

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Don't let another one close down!

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on November 28, 2008 - 2:22pm; tagged Broad Vocabulary, feminist bookstores, independent bookstores, Milwaukee, radical bookstores, support.

In the lovely city of Milwaukee lies an amazing feminist bookstore called Broad Vocabulary. I had the pleasure of visiting the store this summer, on a fundraising trip for Bitch. It was truly one of my highlights: I love bookstores, I love feminist bookstores, and I especially love feminist radical bookstores like Broad Vocabulary.

I guess I can't say I was too surprised when I heard the news yesterday that they might be closing -- feminist bookstores (and independent bookstores more generally) are closing left and right these days, the most recent one being Word Is Out in Colorado.

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Black Friday Feminism

Social Commentary post by Lisa Factora-Bo... on November 28, 2008 - 9:44am; tagged Deep is the Way to Go, feminisms, the FemiEconomist Speaks, Think Before You Buy.

On this Black Friday, let's take a look at why it might be a great time to get your life in the "black" instead of helping company make their end of year profit sales.

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Congrats, Andi Z/Buy this book!

Music post by Debbie Rasmussen on November 26, 2008 - 2:21pm; tagged Andi Zeisler, books, feminism and pop culture, read this.

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Pink diapers, painted toenails, and the Chicago Bears. Oh my!

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace on November 26, 2008 - 2:03pm; tagged creepiness, diapers, football, gender, nail-painting, parenting.

Behold the teaser from an article in this morning's Chicago Sun Times: "Football tough guy Brian Urlacher dresses his son in pink Cinderella diapers and paints the 3-year-old's toenails blue, the child's mother charged in Will County court Tuesday."

What?

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