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Ivanka Tweets Reaction To JCC Threats — Why Not Mention ‘Anti-Semitism’?
In the world’s tiniest glimmer of hope, Ivanka Trump has reacted to the Jewish community center bomb threats. It’s a vague response that doesn’t use “Jewish” or “anti-Semitism,” and that missed the part of anti-Semitism 101 where you learn that it’s not just about religious intolerance. It reeks of President Trump having delegated the women…
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Brilliant Fashion Essay Defends Anachronism (and Long Sleeves)
I would not have thought of myself as the target audience for an essay about prairie dresses. Having spent elementary and middle school in pleated-skirt uniforms, I switched to jeans with a sense of tremendous relief the moment those were a possibility. Despite periodically vowing to Dress Better, I inevitably wind up in dark or…
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Former Uber Engineer Tells of Harassment and Threats
Former Uber employee Susan Fowler has written a damning account of the sexual harassment and generally disastrous workplace environment she dealt with while working for that company. Fowler’s account reads like a play-by-play of any woman’s worst workplace fears: She’s propositioned by her boss, brings the digital record of what’s happened to HR, and… nothing….
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Fashion’s False Promise Of Resistance
I like clothes as much as the next person/woman. I make no claims of having transcended the desire for the material, and plead guilty to having ended an evening or ten browsing the “We Made Too Much” section of a certain athleisure company’s website. But I’m getting weary of the myth that people’s/women’s shopping habits…
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Ikea Israel, Seeking Ultra-Orthodox Customers, Produces Catalog Full Of Dudes
Ikea, the Swedish affordable-furniture giant (and noted relationship stressor) has managed to offend, this time in Israel. Michele Chabin reports that along with its regular Hebrew-language catalog, the store created a special men-and-boys-only version with an ultra-Orthodox audience in mind. As opposed as I generally am to rules against images of women and girls, part…
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‘Tremendous Enthusiasm’, Donald Trump’s Euphemism for Anti-Semitism?
Like everyone, I’m trying to make sense of President Trump’s rambling answer to an Israeli journalist’s succinct, to-the-point question about anti-Semitism at the press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the end of Trump’s remarks involve the usual — citing Ivanka and fam as evidence that the Trump administration couldn’t possibly be anti-Semitic…
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Oklahoma Legislator Accuses Women Of Thinking Our Bodies Are Our Bodies
Oklahoma legislator Justin Humphrey is making the news rounds after telling the Intercept that pregnant women aren’t people but rather “hosts.” How progressive of Humphrey not to use ‘hostess’, or maybe this was about referring to women as non-human objects, which, in the English language, aren’t gendered? The question up for discussion in the Oklahoma…
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Meet the Israeli Doctor Trying To Make Recurrent Miscarriage History
Shira Cohen-Goldberg of Boston still vividly remembers when she went for a 12-week ultrasound, eager to see the life she was creating, only to leave devastated. There was no heartbeat. “In that moment, losing a potential child, I was in the depths of despair,” Cohen-Goldberg recalls. “No one really understands what it’s like to lose…
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Today in Very Small Feminist Victories: The Shaming of Melania’s Slut-Shamer, Assessed
Yesterday Emily Ratajkowski, leading progressive voice in what might best be called stunningness-positive feminism, took to Twitter to defend First Lady Melania Trump from the words of an unnamed New York Times journalist who had (privately) called Melania “a hooker.” (See Heather Schwedel in Slate on the… ambiguities of Ratajkowski’s activist stance: “[W]hen she posts…
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Was It Take Your Ivanka To Work Day At The White House?
Well, it happened. The round-table meeting between Canadian and US businesswomen and our nations’ male leaders (and one First Daughter) took place on Monday, looking very much gender-balance-wise like humanities graduate seminars. The goals of the round-table itself — “a cross-border council to advance women into executive roles, and to encourage entrepreneurship” — seemed designed…
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The Sinister History (and Present) of Intermarriage Politics
Lauren Michele Jackson’s excellent Buzzfeed story, “Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve Racism,” makes the following case: “[C]ontrary to popular narratives, interracial heterosexual relationships and their result, multiracial children, are not the antithesis of white supremacy, but can be easily co-opted as the glittery mask behind which racism and antiblackness continue to…
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