Results for: Feel good
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Georgia Teaches Us How Not to Combat Childhood Obesity
Georgia’s new anti-childhood-obesity campaign uses stigma and guilt as its main players — what’s wrong with this picture?
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Inclusion of Trans Girl Scout Incites Outrage, Possible Cookie Boycott
In which a boycott of Girl Scout cookies is a boycott of equality.
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Birds of Prey Reboot Features Potential Lesbian, Is Also Potentially Problematic
DC’s comic book series, “Birds of Prey,” has a hard-hitting, whiskey-swilling, Betty Page-lookalike who miiiight also be a lesbian. WHAT.
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Good News, Ladies: You Can Be Good At Math, Bad At Feelings
Feel free to be a brilliant scientist and total emotional wrecking ball today as an author debunks all the gender myths about how your brain is too female to function.
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“Feminized” Workplace Hasn’t Fixed the Wage Gap for Creative Women
In which The Man does the damning.
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Joanna Brooks Proves That Feminist, Gay-Friendly Mormons Can Exist
“What’s a liberal, feminist, gay-friendly, Democratic girl like you doing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?” “I was born this way, to borrow a phrase.”
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The Playboy Club: 4 Things Lesbians Need to Know About NBC’s New Show
NBC’s “The Playboy Club” starring Amber Heard is allegedly totally degrading to women but also has a lot of homosexy stuff going on, like The Lesbian Activist Bunny!
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Geena Davis Is My Feminist Hero
Six years ago, Geena Davis — actor, Olympic archer, president on Commander in Chief — started an institute to study gender in media, in response to the inadequate representation of girls she saw on her kids’ TV shows. And now it’s doing things!
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Everything You Need to Know About the GOP’s War on Women’s Rights, Reproductive Health
Republicans in various states stepping up the war on women and this matters to you, too. Behold my extensive effort to break it all down for you.
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It Does Get Better, Exhibit A: Lesbians “Win the Pay Gap”
It’s hard out here for a lesbian in the job market but you know what? We make 6% more than straight women, because we’re badass.
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Gay Equality Will Require More Imagination, Less Talk of Buttsex
A new book explains how “politics of disgust” have drowned out the “politics of humanity” necessary to achieve equal rights [sidenote: similar imagination and empathy-based strategies apply to challenging racism as well]. Also, gay Asians face racism within the community, International Women’s Day, watching “The Little Mermaid” while trans, Corey Haim’s death, Jon Stewart & Steven Colbert FTW last night and gay TV-makers will lose their tax breaks.
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Footballers Scoring With Us For Supporting Gay Marriage & Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood has a response ad to Focus on the Family’s Anti-Choice SuperBowl ad and we think you’re gonna love it! The Advocate talks to a pro-gay-marriage Saints football player, top 10 banned super bowl ads, John McCain is cranky and hates gay people, girls who won’t date taller, Beyonce and Rihanna have blonde hair, GIRL SCOUT COOKIE MANIA and moms try to out-hot their daughters.