No Comment: SNL’s Transphobic Ad

If Saturday Night Live’s fake ad for “Estro-maxx” last night had any purpose–or punchline–besides transphobia, we missed it. http://www.hulu.com/watch/211062/saturday-night-live-estro-maxx Shouldn’t fake advertising be an opportunity to satirize mainstream ads to, […]

We Heart: Sinead O’Connor

“This month, Pope Benedict XVI wrote a pastoral letter of apology—of sorts—to Ireland to atone for decades of sexual abuse of minors by priests whom those children were supposed to trust. … Astonishingly, he suggests that Ireland’s victims can find healing by getting closer to the church—the same church that has demanded oaths of silence from molested children.”

We Heart: The Newsweek Three

Three young women editors at Newsweek—Jessica Bennett, Jesse Ellison and Sarah Ball—have written a brave and candid piece calling out sexism at the magazine and in the publishing industry as a whole. They ask how much has changed since 1970, when a pioneering group of women Newsweek editors filed a landmark gender-discrimination suit for, among other things, being routinely called “dollies” by their male bosses.