Clearly. And here’s another heartwarming example. Lilith at Evil Slutopia had her 9-year-old daughter write a guest post about Swiffer’s sexist commercials, entitled “Stupid Sexist Swiffer”:
I think your commercials are totally sexist. There is no good reason why in all your commercials there is a girl cleaning the house with Swiffer. Why are there only [...]

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Okay, okay, so this is technically Canada news, but I’m gonna post on it anyway since it sounds so fucking cool. Shameless Magazine, whose blog wrote about Girldrive back in the day, has a new journalism training program for teen girls in the works. They recruit 10 high-school-aged teens from the Toronto area and teach [...]

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In the process of giving GD a shoutout, Girldrive interviewee Thembi Ford of What Would Thembi Do? clued me into her appearance on BlogTalkRadio, with Stef Renee, where she dropped knowledge on the upcoming movie “Precious” and the new (and hotly contested) documentary Good Hair, which premiered today in Philly.
Most of the show is devoted [...]

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…for more wisdom from Sarah Haskins. “Kush supports: Feels good, looks…normal!”
Still peeing in my pants over here.

See also this video, which I failed to link to a couple weeks ago.

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I’m a little late on this one, but in case you didn’t catch this SH video, it’s high-larious (although it’s hard to tell whether Sarah’s making fun of commercials for teens or teens themselves. Hopefully the former).

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(cross-posted at Feministe)
I went and saw Jennifer’s Body this weekend, not because I thought it was going to be a feminist masterpiece, but because writer Diablo Cody had been seeping through countless pubs and blogs in the last month, daring us to weigh in on her answer to the typical blood-n-tits horror flick. And, well, [...]

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SPOILER ALERT!!!
You know, I was all set to write a nice juicy post about how subversive, unpredictable, and–dare I say?–feminist Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is. But Amanda at Pandagon has gone and done it already. So, yeah…I’ll let her school you on the feminist genius of Tarantino. (Don’t read it unless you’ve seen the movie, [...]

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If you are a reader of Girldrive, you are just gonna have to get used to seeing a “Target Women” segment starring Sarah Haskins every two weeks. And if you don’t know about Ms. Haskins and you’re a young feminist-y lady…well, you best be reading up on her. Stat.

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Hi guys,
We normally don’t do these types of things on our blog, but this one’s close to our heart. Bitch Magazine, which is run by one of our interviewees, Andi Zeisler in Portland, in in serious financial trouble. This is a kick-ass publication–filled with wit, humor, and important commentary on feminist issues. [...]

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