*Trigger warning: Eating disorders and body image For some reason I have not been able to escape the topic of body image and fat-shaming this week. Does the arrival of summer have us all on the collective edge? Does the change in seasons bring with it the baggage of eating disordered thinking and issues with…
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Originally published at Bitch Flicks. Superhero films often exhibit assertive, outspoken female characters. Yet they often simultaneously objectify women’s bodies, reduce them to ancillary love interests or perpetuate gender stereotypes. So when I heard that Pepper Potts would have a more active role in Iron Man 3, I was excited…
I could write a post about the stupid, misogyny that The Onion pretends is satire. I’ve been so over The Onion for so long, but they’ve had a real resurgence of straight-up misogyny in 2013. Remember this? But Fiending for Hope already did (thank you Rosie for pointing it out), so just read this: I’m…
Today is National Teacher Appreciation Day and in honor of that, I want to share a story about one of the best teachers I ever had: Mr. McKenna. When I was in sixth grade, at Tanaina Elementary School in Wasilla, Alaska, my teacher was Mr. McKenna. He had his hands full as our class was…
For those of you who did not attend and/or watch the marathon Nevada State Senate committee hearing on the comprehensive sex education bill (AB230) yesterday… I don’t even know where to begin. A lot of it was pretty much like the April 1 Assembly hearing, but the fierce factor was definitely dialed up a notch…
On this day in history six years ago I wrote the very first post on The Sin City Siren. Six years. Six Years! I’ve been staring at the computer screen for a good 10 minutes trying to figure out just how to elucidate what The Sin City Siren has meant to me. How much it…
For my readers who love it when I get truly pissed off, we’ve got a wild one tonight. Some of you have been waiting, rather impatiently, for me to weigh in on all the gun control back-and-forth. We can’t really call it a debate, because in all honesty nobody is listening to what anyone else…
Passing this along. You gonna be there? If it’s anything like the one I was at in 2006, I can’t miss it.
Even though I’m still recovering from a sinus infection that started the day after the NOH8 in Las Vegas hate crimes event (going on two weeks, bleh), I just hate to let another SCS anniversary drift by like some sad tumbleweed caught in a desert windstorm. Then I looked up the traditional anniversary gift for…
For some reason when I saw the Choice USA bro-choice campaign going viral across the interwebs last week I hung back and watched. On its face, there’s nothing wrong with doing a pro-choice campaign aimed at men. You’ve probably seen the Ryan Gosling meme with pro-choice messages, like this one circulated on Facebook by Choice…
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