Today, CNN published a photo to Facebook of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, leaving the hospital with their newborn baby boy. When it came up in my news feed, I was aghast–not at anything in the photo, but…
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Category: society
Tags: baby, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, CNN, fat-shaming, Kate, Kate Middleton, misogyny, post-partum, pregnancy, Prince William, Prince William Duke of Cambridge, women's bodies
“Do you think Bartoli’s dad told her when she was little, ‘you’re never going to be a looker, you’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight?’” These words were uttered by the BBC’s John Inverdale…
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Category: society
Tags: Bartoli, beauty ideal, body image, John Inverdale, lookism, Marion Bartoli, misogyny, sexism, strength, strong woman, Tennis, Twitter, Wimbledon
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is classic tale of environmental conscience, and it is a story that my three-year-old son enjoys. In fact, it was one of the first longer children’s books that managed to keep his attention for the entire…
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Category: books, movies
Tags: books, Danny DeVito, fat-shaming, femininity, Illumination Entertainment, joke, Lorax, misogyny, Movie, Seuss, trailer