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Monthly Archives: May 2012

Want to see objectification in action? Look no further than celebrity culture

May 30, 2012by Caitlin 8 Comments

I was all ready to go on a rant after reading about Beyonce’s lettuce-and-treadmill diet – you know, your standard “OMG unrealistic beauty standards are the WORST!” rant – but […]

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Media and Celebrities

Sports Illustrated puts spotlight on transgender athletes

May 29, 2012by Caitlin 4 Comments

Last week, reader Ilyse sent me this Sports Illustrated article about transgender athletes that pretty much blew me away.  The article focused on Keelin Godsey, the first openly transgender athlete […]

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Gender and Sports

Women smiling with small pastel weights

May 25, 2012by Caitlin 38 Comments

(This is my blatant rip-off of the Hairpin’s brilliant “Women laughing alone with salad” and the follow-up, “Women struggling to drink water.”)

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Women and Muscles

I reject the notion that physical strength is a masculine ideal

May 23, 2012by Caitlin 30 Comments

Normally when someone criticizes my work on this blog, I take their words into careful consideration and I often find myself reconsidering my position on a given subject.   Sometimes I […]

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Heart and Mind, Women and Muscles

Fit is a feminist issue

May 21, 2012by Caitlin 16 Comments

On Sunday, I marked the one-year anniversary of this blog.  In that time, I have been continually awed and humbled by the response my little corner of the internet has […]

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Bikini Hockey League: because the world needs yet another bikini sport

May 18, 2012by Caitlin 9 Comments

Plans are in the works for yet another bikini sports league – this time, a hockey league. Yes, you read that correctly.  A bikini hockey league. Some enterprising man in […]

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Gender and Sports

Why I find hope in the story of Paige Sultzbach and the forfeited baseball championship

May 14, 2012by Caitlin 2 Comments

In 1972, an 11-year-old girl named Maria wanted to play Little League baseball in New Jersey.  She tried out for the team and was so good they made her pitcher. […]

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Gender and Sports

Oh bikini season, up yours!

May 8, 2012by Caitlin 18 Comments

It’s that time of year again – the time of year when it seems like every women’s magazine is screaming at us to GET YOUR BEST BIKINI BODY EVER in […]

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Sharp-Dressed Women

How do you become a parent while keeping hold of yourself?

May 2, 2012by Caitlin 32 Comments

There’s a famous passage in “The Bell Jar” that hits me in the gut every time I read it.  In it, Esther talks about imagining herself sitting in the crook […]

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Heart and Mind

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