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The Avengers assembled a record-breaking box office take ($200.3 million from U.S. audiences) on opening weekend, breaking the record set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows—Part 2. The Christian Science Monitor attributes the film’s opening-weekend success, in part, to women, who comprised 40 percent of the movie’s audience. CSM credits the movie’s performance to Disney’s “aggressive marketing” to women, which included “sending stars to The View.” (Attention Disney and CSM: You had us …

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The summer blockbuster season is upon us and Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign is officially in wide release. Unlike most Hollywood executives, however, Obama is targeting women. Last week, he launched a new slogan, debuted a campaign video, rallied supporters, and flooded the Twittersphere with appeals to women voters. Obama is attempting to demonstrate that his pro-woman sentiment is more than a bumper-sticker slogan . . . by offering to send women free bumper stickers …

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Last week we bid farewell to March Madness—and not just on the basketball court. In the past month, the war on American women produced a dizzying array of misogynistic attacks so anachronistic it seemed like the world had, indeed, gone mad. (On this point, some conservatives and liberals agree, pointing to the coarsening of the public dialogue as a contributing factor). Luckily, March Madness also provides a popular diversion from the stresses of the …

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Last week, a media firestorm was ignited by Rush Limbaugh’s characterization of Sandra Fluke as a “slut” and a “prostitute” after she testified before Congress on the question of whether or not religiously-affiliated institutions should be required by federal law to include contraception coverage in their health insurance plans. The policy issue at hand is a complex one about which people of good conscience may come to different conclusions, but none of those conclusions …

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By now you’ve probably heard about PETA’s latest attempt to convince people to go vegan. The animal-rights organization known for its racy ad campaigns recently launched a website called “Living with BWVAKTBOOM,” an acronym that stands for the phrase “Boyfriend Went Vegan and Knocked the Bottom Out of Me.” The website features a video that has gone viral, in which a young woman sporting a neck brace and a pained expression walks slowly to …

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In his recent Huffington Post piece, Mike Edison made his case for “How Sex Magazines Made the World a Better Place.” His conclusion? In addition to supposedly holding “pictures of naked ladies” in a “more sacred light” than does today’s internet porn, Edison asserted that magazines like Screw and Hustler were “ground zero for relentless freedom of speech in the form of tasteless comedy, brutal political satire, and, of course, naked ladies.” As an …

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Happy Women’s Equality Day! What’s that, you say? You’ve never heard of “Women’s Equality Day”? That’s understandable. It lacks the latent potential for commercialization that makes other manufactured holidays a hit with card companies, chocolate makers, and florists. I went to my local Hallmark and found no cards with the appropriate sentiment: “On the occasion of earning full citizenship rights . . . .” or “Baby, we have come a long way!”
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Cross-posted from BagNews with the express permission of its author, Karrin Anderson. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.

The blogosphere is abuzz with commentary about Newsweek’s bug-eyed Bachmann cover. Indeed, the shot could be used to illustrate the Urban Dictionary’s definition of “crazy eyes”: a state in which “the white part of the eye (the sclera) is clearly visible above and below the colored part of the eye (the iris).” That definition also notes that crazy eyes are “typically …

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Okay, I’ll admit it. I watch the SyFy Channel. For the uninitiated, “SyFy” is the cable channel formerly known as the “Sci-Fi Channel” where one used to be able to find reruns of shows like Star Trek and Night Gallery.
However, in an effort to branch out beyond its reliable demographic of 18-24 year old fanboys, it rebranded itself and began showing programming ostensibly designed to appeal to a broader audience. As a woman …