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Douchebag Decree: DC Comics
This week's Douchebag Decree goes to DC Comics.DC, you know I love your characters. I'm willing to put up with a lot in exchange for stories about the Batfamily and Wonder Woman. But you're getting...
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Overlooked by the Mainstream, Queer Characters Thrive in Webcomics
Image: The lead characters of queer-centric web comic The Less than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal.This week brought another reminder that despite lots of agitation and conversation and market data and...
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On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup
Good morning! Here's all the feminist news on our radar this fine Friday.• We all know that women are capable of writing about anything. Why is it, Roxane Gay wonders, that anything beyond personal...
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What Happens When Your Son Falls in Love with a "Girly" Book Series?
It doesn’t take a skilled gender detective to deduce the target audience of the Rainbow Magic books for early readers. These wildly popular books feature covers that literally sparkle, covered in lithe...
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Do We Still Need Women's Colleges? Yes and No.
Women’s colleges were born out of institutionalized sexism. So, do we still need them?In mid-December the Huffington Post published a guest editorial by Elizabeth Pfeiffer titled, “Don't Like the...
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Hostile Territory: Q&A with Gamer Jessica Price on How Gaming is (Slowly)...
Jessica Price works as a project manager at tabletop roleplaying game publisher Paizo Publishing—a progressive company with a female CEO. But Jessica’s career reaches across jobs and companies. In the...
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Put Yourself Out There!
If you make roleplaying games, you’re creating something for people to play. To engage with, experience, and share. But something I hear frequently from women in the gaming industry is their discomfort...
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Save vs. Sexism: Kickstarting Sexism with Kingdom Death—UPDATED!
Sometimes, board games have cool miniatures and artistically admirable player pieces. Other times, they have patently sexist, exploitative and offensive miniatures. Sadly, this week has supplied an...
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Save vs. Sexism: Beyond the Silo
Games come together through the combined development of designers, editors, publishers, layout, art, printers, graphic designers, public relations, project management, playtesters, art directors, and...
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Save vs. Sexism: Where Are Her Clothes?
Game art can enrich a roleplaying game. While browsing your friendly local game store, games will often draw you in with their cover. That said, too many times, covers look like this:In the comic-book...
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Save vs. Sexism: Cards Against Humanity
Cards Against Humanity is a game that is fiercely popular, constantly requested, and perpetually sold out. In tabletop gaming, it is a cultural phenomenon. It's also deeply problematic.Over and over at...
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Save vs Sexism: Ruining My Childhood
When I was a kid, my parents would buy me and my siblings new board games every year. But the girls in my neighborhood had all the ‘cool’ games. Pretty Pretty Princess. Electronic Dream Phone. I went...
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Backlot Bitch: You Can Win an Oscar, but You Can't Win Respect
"Haters gonna hate." That's how I interpret writer Bret Easton Ellis' misogynist tweets regarding Oscar-winning director Katheryn Bigelow. Her new movie, the Osama-capturing drama Zero Dark Thirty,...
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"Hipster Sexism": Just as Bad as Regular Old Sexism, or Worse?
As the saying goes, “If you hate hipsters, you probably are one.” This is because, while many of us are familiar with the term (especially if describes us), it is obnoxious and has been used to...
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Ms. Opinionated: All the Advice You Asked For, and Some You Didn't
Welcome to the third installment of "Ms. Opinionated," Bitch's new advice column, in which readers have questions about the pesky day-to-day choices we all face, and I give advice about how to make...
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Trick or Treat or STOP IT WITH THE OFFENSIVE COSTUMES ALREADY: What Not to Be...
Like a pap smear or tax season, it happens every year: People wear racist and sexist costumes on Halloween. Hell, maybe you’ve done it yourself! You didn't know what to be for that one party so you...
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Men Who Rock! Funny Because it's Sexist (and True).
Those of us who've been paying attention for, oh, EVER know that women in the music industry are given sexist special treatment by the media. "How did someone so pretty get so good at guitar?""Who...
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That's so MANteresting!
When I was in elementary school, we played a game in P.E. where we basically just threw foam balls at targets. My mean gym teacher Ms. Heinz would make the girls stand closer to the targets than the...
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Douchebag Decree: Richard Grenell, Romney Spokesperson and Sexist Tweeter
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's sexism is old news at this point, but hey, it's election season and he has to stay in the news, right? Romney doubled down on the misogyny last Thursday by...
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Open Thread: Cracked's "5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women"
Have you seen David Wong's article on Cracked, "5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women"? In it, he posits that men are encouraged to harbor a "frenzied, 'burn the witch!' hatred" toward women that...
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