Issues that pertain to women and girls are rarely approached in Hollywood. At least not in an authentic way. Take the issue of the sexual assault of underage teen girls by adult men. Hollywood gives us Lolita and a bevy of other seductress “teens” who, often enough, are played by older female actors.  In these films, the sexual exploitation of teen girls is misrepresented, romanticized and eroticized. Meanwhile, teen girls have little voice.
“Trust” is a different sort of film. The movie is about the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and …

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What’s this? Naomi Wolf, author of seminal feminist text The Beauty Myth, and more recently, boys’ club honorary member, seems to be exploring new ideas! We’ve long known that Naomi was a woman of strong passions, and so we heartily welcome her to our side.
She hasn’t always played on our team: after joyously championing the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama over his competitor Senator Hillary Clinton, proclaiming him “Christmas, and New Year’s, and …

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The U.S. higher education system has made tremendous strides toward achieving gender equality, but there are still several areas in which women exceed or fall short of their male counterpart. Historically, women have dominated majors like education, English and psychology, while men were more likely to study engineering, computer science or math. Although this may ring true at …

Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Photo credit: Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2011.Last evening, The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind was again a guest on the Michele Tafoya Show in Minneapolis, MN.  And again, Amy was defending Bachmann from more sexist attacks.
In a New York Magazine article, Running for Grown-up, Jon Huntsman is quoted as saying about Michele Bachmann:
She makes for good copy – and good photography.
He also had this to say to Kathleen Parker in a Newsweek article in June after Bachmann’s top notch performance on the …

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Amazon preparing for a battle (Queen Antiop or Armed Venus), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)Similar to China’s bound feet, American society has chosen the female breast as the core of feminine beauty. The rounder, fuller, and more pert the breast, the greater the appreciation, the lovelier the woman. The female body has taken on the requirements of society’s ideals, and women run to surgeons to be sliced open and …