Category Archives: Media

Unmanned Commonsense at NPR

Sally Pipes has an article on gender neutral language — which isn’t a bad idea but, like all things, gets absurd when taken to extremes — that begins with this hilarious anecdote from a recent National Public Radio broadcast,

Last month NASA ended the career of the Galileo space probe by smashing it into Jupiter. […]

Are Bikinis Just as Bad as Burkas?

In an op-ed for the Boston Globe historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg and women’s health advocate Jacquelyn Jackson argue that while women in Afghanistan are celebrating the demise of the Taliban by removing their burkas, women in the United States have yet to fully realize how oppressed they are by the wearing bikinis and other […]

Does a Genetic Disorder Cause Some Anorexia Cases?

A claim popularized by feminists is that anorexia (and other eating disorders) are caused by unhealthy media images of thin women. In the past decade this claim has been undermined by cross-cultural studies of societies with very different ideal female body images, but a recent Dutch survey is the first to provide any evidence […]

Protesting Panty Raider

For whatever reason, Simon & Schuster agreed to publish computer game developer Hypnotix’s latest game, Panty Raider: From Here to Immaturity (the first time I read an announcement of this game, it was so bizarre I was convinced it was an April Fools-style joke). Apparently in the game the player strips a model down […]