It’s that magical time of year when baseball ends, and we watch trades, acquisitions and deals happen in preparation for the next season. In recent weeks I’ve watched excitedly as Theo Epstein was named the new GM of the Cubs and Davy Johnson was signed for another year as the Nationals manager. It also reminds [...]
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Top 25 Female Athletes
This week GQ came out with its “25 Coolest Athletes Ever” list. Apparently everyone worth being on this list was male (as Dave Zirin pointed out in the Nation)! I realize this is a men’s magazine. And not just any men’s magazine, but one that evicts a cigar smoking, back room gathering, manly men [...]
The Return of the Boys of Summer
In one week, I plan to be sitting in Nationals Park watching the season opener of the Nationals. I’ve been waiting several long, cold months for this! Baseball is one of the few sports I really enjoy watching, live or on tv. It is also one of the only sports both my boyfriend and I [...]
Banging Chicks: The Language of Violence and Sexuality
Yesterday, fellow blogger Maggie Arden wrote a post called "Words Matter" on Fem2.0 about the use of language to devalue women. She was right about the idea that our every day language and the portrayal of women even in just the written media contributes to the overall discrimination of women. But the problem is even more [...]
Competing Priorities? Feminism vs. everything else in your life
Recent estimates say that around 111 million people watched the Super Bowl on Sunday. A few were watching for the football; some for the halftime show; some for the commercials. I myself attended a “Most Sexist Super Bowl Ad” party in honor of the occasion. Some of you probably followed the proceedings on the #femsuperbowl hashtag on [...]