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A little-noticed Supreme Court ruling may fundamentally undercut the ability of women (or anyone) to band together in the workplace to fight harassment, pay inequity and discrimination.
News managers feel the need to highlight, with little if any criticism or context, pro-Trump extremists who’ve been emboldened by his campaign and subsequent election.
In the flurry of career-ending sexual assault claims coming out of Hollywood, it may seem natural for the media to overlook a little awkward groping from an aging former president. But there’s something unnerving about the assumptions surrounding the non-coverage of the Bush Sr. “Cop-a-Feel” story.
Almost as soon as Donald Trump won the election last November, corporate media began to concoct a collective narrative that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner would exert a strong moderating influence on the new president.
“We’re finally getting to the point where we’re starting to see sexism in tech is actually an issue we have to look at, and we can’t turn away from, or see it as a niche or a women’s issue anymore.”
In all the chatter about Afghanistan, the idea that there are other ways for a country to show strength besides killing people, or threatening to, is the worldview that dare not speak its name.
“We create this distinction between misogynists who are enemies and misogynists who are friends, but to Afghan women, there is no difference.”
What have decades of unending war in Afghanistan actually done toward the ostensible goal of liberating Afghan women? Plus: The weaponization of space and the constraints on the healthcare conversation.
“What we need to do is stay strong and stay united, and actually support one another and support women in taking some forms of collective action…because fighting these things alone is always more difficult than fighting them as one.”
Corporate media’s cartoonish portrayal of North Korea doesn’t help as we try to understand how things came to this pass, and how to get out of it.
While there’s a lot to be said about the sexism that professional women face in the workforce, if media are interested in “persistent anger toward women who step outside conventional roles,” more striking examples than Kellyanne Conway come to mind.
With an avowed misogynist in the White House, International Women’s Day got more media attention than it usually does. What we didn’t see was media taking the day as a chance for serious self-reflection.
The New York Times didn’t apologize when the paper was criticized for misrepresenting the lives, not of couples in an upper-middle-class suburb, but of impoverished food-stamp recipients.
For the tenth time in as many months, the New York Times let David Brooks take a current issue—in this case, the worldwide Women’s March—and jam it into his boilerplate grievance against what he perceives as ineffectual, harmful “identity politics.”
If the Hollywood Reporter was planning to be asking questions like, “How do you approach different ethnicities and cultures in animation?” you’d think it would try to get to get some kind of diversity in its panel of animation directors.
“The fact is that the gap is substantial, and even if you account for things like occupation, that the gap is still there. And so some of the gap is, we’re pretty sure statistically, due to actual bias and actual discrimination.”
After more than a half century of bloody conflict that saw more than 200,000 mostly poor civilians killed, Colombia has a chance at a peace accord between the government and the FARC, the region’s oldest insurgent movement.
Many were taken aback to read the New York Times‘ summary of what its team of reporters gleaned from interviewing neighbors of the man arrested for murdering three people at a Colorado Springs women’s health clinic: Acquaintances described Robert L. Dear Jr., who was arrested in a fatal rampage at a Planned Parenthood center in […]
Daniel Holtzclaw evidently selected his victims because he believed no one would care about them. Media shouldn’t prove him right.
“The moment this becomes a law enforcement issue, that becomes the moment where the student’s future is placed at risk. And that means our institutions are underserving students.”
