You’ve heard the tag line in the news, The War on Women. It really does seem there is one. It’s hard to believe that after all humanity has accomplished in the last century, to include women’s rights to vote, right to choose (abortion), education and employment rights, women in leadership roles both economically and politically […]
May, 2014 | 2 Comments
I was sitting at the salon last week and therefore thumbing mindlessly through the requisite fashion mags there when I came across the recent issue of Bazaar (Harper’s Bazaar before they dropped the full portion of their name) and was confronted by the solitary image of Kate Moss. Immediately I was offended by the cover […]
July, 2012 | 0 Comments
Recently I viewed Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new documentary Miss Representation. I referenced it in an earlier posting and like the message it provides: girls and women are dramatically underrepresented in politics, horribly devalued in the media and generally still valued as objects by mainstream society. Not that I like that women are portrayed in this […]
April, 2012 | 0 Comments