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Welcome to this month’s Feminist Friday, where I round up some of the best thought-provoking links, and we can discuss what’s going on in the zeitgeist. Our motto here: Feminism is for everyone.
Feminist Focus
Have you seen the new Gillette ad that targets toxic masculinity and challenges men to rise up (repurposing its longstanding tagline into a hint: “The Best A Man Can Get”)?
In case you missed it:
The ad has garnered swift praise and backlash, the latter from the exact people who probably need to hear this message the most.
I cringe in general when a large corporation tries to jump on socially conscious bandwagons, but I really can’t find fault in Gillette’s ad. It’s both poignant and marketing genius.
Maybe next up Gillette can desist with its overpriced Venus line of products (and the pink tax that comes with it).
I would love to see Gillette reimagine its shaving products as the unisex tools they actually are.
Feminist Links
All the links that are worth clicking on this month. Some are serious, some not so much. All are food for thought.
- Everything you need to know about the Women’s March this weekend.
- The ghost statistic that haunts women’s empowerment.
- Nine black women who weren’t in your history books.
- ‘I’ll Vote for a Woman, Just Not That Woman’
- The Witch Continues to Enchant as a Feminist Symbol
- Everything about this gymnast’s routine is magic.
- No more shrinking violets: Feminine care marketers tell it like it is.
- Why Men Find the New Congresswomen So Frightening
- Claire McCardell took on the fashion industry — and revolutionized what women wear
- The first female product manager at Google built a nonprofit to combat the sexism in tech
- Why Do We Have Such a Problem With the Way Women Speak?
- How to be likable
- No More “We Can’t Find Any Black Female Writers”: Here Are 62 Scribes in One Photo
- Yes, even your pockets are sexist. These startups are fighting back
- Sisterhood of spies: Women now hold the top positions at the CIA
- Female Directors Dropped to Just 8 Percent of the Top 250 Films in 2018, Study Finds
- ‘Ladies Should Be Dressed As Ladies’: NYC Restaurants Were Banning Women Who Wore Pants In The 1960s
- Love these self-portraits by Cecelia Paredes.
- Female illustrators to follow: Becky Glendining and Sophie Melissa and Ashley Seil Smith
Feminist Books
Books by women that I’ve added to my To Be Read list:
- Everything’s Trash, But It’s OK
- The F Word
- The Mother of All Jobs
- New Erotica for Feminists
- I Might Regret This
- Minority Leader
- Women, Race & Class
- How to Not Always Be Working
- Severance
Feminist Art You Might Like
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