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“What’s Not Hot?” This blatantly misogynistic headline is how Jack Shafer celebrates International Women’s Day with his review on the Tina Brown’s debut issue of the Newsweek redesign. “Newsweek suffers [an]… avoidance of newsiness and the week” he says while complaining about “the queen of cold, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton” on the cover, a list of “150 Women Who Shake the World” and the “women theme” throughout.

It’s not enough to stop the dismissiveness at …

Lara Logan, a CBS reporter arrested earlier this month in Egypt, has also suffered a horrendous sexual assault while covering the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square.  CBS reports:
On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.
In the crush of …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.  Please also see The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind quoted on this subject in a Daily Caller article Feminists cheer Olbermann’s demise.

In February 2008 I bid farewell to MSNBC and haven’t looked back.  Keith Olbermann would take every opportunity to have sexist tantrums on his show in regard to Hillary Clinton and I was at a point that I could barely control my rage toward him and the station that aired him.  How did …

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The OpEd Project website counts weekly bylines in major papers to record what percent of writers are men and what percent are women.
This week’s numbers were about on par. Female-founded Huffington Post featured 21% women to 79% men. Washington Post published 17% female writers, compared to 83% men, equal to the gender disparity in The Wall Street Journal. The highest ratio of women’s articles run was in the Daily Beast, where female writers …

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This week fans – and alumi – of higher ed are fixated on gendered education. A Monday New York Times article describes the academic and social implications of a gender shift on college campuses, painting college women as hapless creatures subject to social subjugation by their outnumbered male peers.  Candid quotes from UNC students make college women seem like victims of circumstance, helpless to resist the whims of the boys they want to date.
While it’s …

Thank you Mr. O’Reilly!
Finally someone addresses this! I’m shocked how few people have. For me, Senator Scott Brown posing in Cosmo was just not a big deal EXCEPT for the fact that it would have been treated very differently had it been a woman. A woman politician would have been raked over the coals for even appearing in a swimsuit competition (hmmm like Sarah Palin…) but Senator Brown gets a pass. I’m not even taking a side on whether he SHOULD get a pass, I’m just saying let’s be FAIR.  …

I would just like some clarification from all of the pundits on their use of the term hooker or ho?  It seems that when a woman is the negotiator of a financial deal in the Senate or the House that they find it convenient to label her as some type of prostitute.  I don’t hear that kind of language in regard to men?  I don’t care if you agree with the negotiation process or not; or if you agree with the politician accepting a financial deal in order to vote …

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And now, an entirely new argument for sexism:  She asked for it!   Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Sarah Palin complains that her Newsweek cover is sexist.   The magazine borrowed a photo from Palin’s Runner’s World interview last year, showing the fit governor in running shorts next to the question:  How do you solve a problem like Sarah? ***Journalist David Frum scorns Palin’s complaints, and did not correct Judy Woodruff’s summary of his …

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Here we go again… I don’t even know what to say about the video from MSNBC’s Morning Meeting with host Dylan Ratigan.  Will the war on Sarah Palin ever end?  I’m starting to wonder if they are just trying to wear us all down so we will just stop fighting sexism entirely?  Ok!  We get it, you hate Sarah Palin!  But the war on Palin isn’t really the only point is it?  It’s the …

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Diane Sawyer was born in December 1945 in Glasgow, Kentucky. Her father was a county judge, and her mother sought to give her the best education possible to inspire her creativity and individuality with “piano lessons, voice, ballet, tap, horseback riding, fencing, classical guitar and children’s theater.”
In 1967, she landed her first broadcasting job in Louisville, Kentucky with the local WLKY-TV for three years. She found the weather to be dull and …