Talking Primeval Blood Rituals: Women Soldiers Matching Grit With Men
As the number of women participating in exercises like these increases, it will become more difficult to justify gender segregation in the military and other spheres.
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Should Pistorius-Steenkamp Killing be a Newswire Showcase for T-and-A?
Isn't this "point of view" one of the factors that get these women killed in the first place?
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How Much More is Wrong with the SI Swimsuit Issue
How much more is going on between the desert and the trees.
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Lynsey Addario: Simply Women Soldiers in Afghanistan
Coming upon this U.S. soldier in Afghanistan at the end of Lynsey Addario's NYT Lens slideshow/interview, I was surprised my reaction was so utilitarian.
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Camel Jockeys, Mexican Desperados, Male Bashing Show Girls: Coke's '13 Super Bowl Chase Ad
Obviously, these commercials are a complex mash of every seducing and agitating cultural hook they can metaphorically lay claim to.
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Pro-Life Demographics
At anti-abortion rallies, it seems there is always a woman out front. But then??
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Pro-Life: Sell it Like Civil Rights … or Pepsi
Seeing fewer fetuses, and self-righteous and rageful statements, made me wonder if there might actually be a more rational tone strategically settling in to the movement.
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Hillary Clinton Eyes Members of Congress (and a Presidential Future?) During Benghazi Hearings
Although Clinton takes politics, public policy, and diplomacy very seriously, these pictures suggest that when it comes to facing her critics, Hillary Clinton may, indeed, get the last laugh.
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Boys' Club Back? White House Gender Do-Over
Did criticism of Obama’s “boys’ club”—I mean, cabinet appointees—prompt the administration to choose this bland shot of a routine sit-down with advisors as yesterday’s White House “Photo of the Day”? It’s surely no coincidence that this image was highlighted the day after the New York Times published a similar...
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More on New Congress: Straight White Males, Media Too, Could Use Some Sensitivity Training
If the visual coverage of the new lesbian and bisexual members joining Congress is any indication, the establishment has some adjusting to do.
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The New Congress, Women and a Cultural Change That Profound
The wider representation ushered in by the 2012 election has effected that powerful a shift in our political religion.
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A Few Takes on the "Hillary Leaving the Hospital" Photo
Though hardly anyone talking about it, Dems (so many women, too) watch 2016 possibly pass before their eyes.
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Hotel Maid Nafissatou Diallo: Reuters Pool Photographer Seth Wenig’s Brilliant Portrait
What I see is brilliant -- a photo capturing the hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, looking quite alluring, actually, in this sea of headless male, male, male power suits.
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GOP Optics: Men on the Hunt
I just don't see how the Repubs campaign against Rice, especially as it comes with a Secretary of State nomination looming, is going to do any wonders for the white man party.
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Women Worth Looking At. (Just Ask the GOP!)
On first pass, I saw the Petraeus story as far afield from the Capitol Hill leadership dance. In the way DC plays the image management game, however, perhaps they're not all that far off.
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The Petraeus Women: AP Goes Tabloid
The way this story is going, I can imagine the next phase of the FBI investigation boring into why these women (or their relatives) don't have blinds on their windows.
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Wearing the Binders: Romney Can't Talk to Women
Tweeted by his body man, Garrett Jackson, just before Romney walked onstage, this photo impressed me as presaging tension between Crowley and Romney. I assumed that was because Romney defies rules and boundaries. As much, though, it’s because Romney can’t talk to women. click for full size This screenshot...
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