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You throw like a girl. 

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Watch: ’The Daily Show’ absolutely nailed what it’s like to be a woman on campus today 

James Madison University joined the ever-growing list of U.S. colleges that have grossly mishandled sexual assault and rape cases last week when a young woman claimed that the school punished the three men who assaulted her by expelling them — after graduation.

Jon Stewart echoed the perplexed outrage of many on The Daily Show last night when he asked, “Wait a minute, ‘expelled upon graduation?’ Isn’t that… graduation? … What the fuck? … Clearly, universities are not making their campuses safe for women.”

Watch the full clip

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People have offered many potential explanations for this discrepancy, but this ad highlights the importance of the social cues that push girls away from math and science in their earliest childhood years.

Watch the powerful Verizon advertisement to really understand what a little girl hears when you tell her she’s pretty.

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Cool Photoshop Project Looks at World’s Crazy Beauty Standards

When we talk about beauty standards, we usually have a particular set of assumptions in mind. In the United States, the mainstream beauty ideal usually (and unfortunately) leans toward the Barbie look: Blue eyes, blonde hair, full lips, and so forth. But what’s too often overlooked is how specific that idea of beauty is to our country. Freelance journalist Esther Honig created a fascinating project that explores what beauty standards are in each country. In the series, “Before & After,” Honig sent an un-retouched photograph of herself to 40 Photoshop experts around the world asking for them to transform her face to match their idea of beauty. Her simple request to each of them: “Make me beautiful.” It immediately occurred to me that in this pool of workers, each individual likely had an aesthetic preference particular to their own culture," Honig told Hello Giggles. "If you sent, say, five of them the same image they were bound to alter it in ...

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GENDERED MARKETING | The Checkout

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So you think women's magazines aren't that bad? Bullshit: Vagenda.com

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#MediaLiteracy is about more than just critically analyzing media, it's about knowing HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN.  And coding is basically the new literacy. 21 century empowerment demands an understanding of how programming and coding shapes our world.  Program or be programmed, as one smarty pants hero of mine puts it.  

But the new codebabes.com is shocking in its use of the female form to 'motivate' learning.  How do these ideas get funded when FOR REAL GOOD BUSINESS PLANS THAT LIFT WOMEN UP ARE DESPERATELY UNDERFUNDED? 

Anyway, if you want to learn to code, head to one of the many sites dedicated to empowering women, minorities, and youth:

blackgirlscode.com

girlswhocode.com

computerclubhouse.org

girldevelopit.com

codeacademy.com

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The internet just changed: Net Neutrality is dead.

The FCC sided with Comcast and decided to let ISPs censor the internet. The Internet needs to stop this from happening: http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tellfcc/

Last Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced a proposal for new rules that would allow for a “ fast lane” of Internet traffic for content providers who are willing (and able) to pay a fee. [1] The proposal reverses the FCC’s previous commitment to net neutrality and open internet and allows ISP’s like Comcast or Verizon to slow down and censor services that don’t pay the toll.

We have to be totally honest, this situation is seriously grim. But there is still hope. The FCC already knows that the Internet community wants net neutrality, but they think they can put their spin on these new rules and sneak them through. If we can prove them wrong right now with a massive public outcry, we can literally save the Internet once again.

We need to stop the FCC now. Big business groups are already ramping up lobbying efforts with the FCC in swarms since Wednesday’s announcement in support of censoring the open Internet and to ensure this dangerous proposal moves forward. [2]

This is a critical moment. In the last few weeks more than 65,000 people have taken action with us. Can you help us get to 80,000 by the end of the day today?

[1] Gautham Nagesh. “FCC to Propose New ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules”. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304518704579519963416350296

[2] Edward Wyatt. Edward Wyatt. “Lobbying Efforts Intensify After F.C.C. Tries 3rd Time on Net Neutrality” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/business/lobbying-efforts-intensify-after-fcc-tries-3rd-time-on-net-neutrality.html?hpw&rref=politics

  - Fight For The Future

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Here’s some extra (also important) information:

The chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, was previously a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry. This revolving door our government has with large corporations and their lobbyists is what leads to these kind of policy disasters which crush the competition of big businesses and devastate our individual freedoms. Net Neutrality is important. Very VERY important. But it’s just going to keep coming under fire again and again unless we address the underlying problem and that is the corrupting influence of money in our politics. 28th Amendment, anyone?

Having said that SIGN THE PETITION. We gotta do what we can at the moment.

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There was a lot of talk today about the media’s failed coverage [read: non-coverage] of the 234 Nigerian girls, thus came the #234WhiteGirls hashtag.

No, none of us wants any white girls to go missing. We just want these Nigerian girls to get the same amount of coverage that white girls get (or would get), because EVERY girl matters.

#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS

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Images of tenacious, strong female loggers, welders, firefighters, miners and more challenging the idea of what we consider “women’s work.”

Source: HowStuffWorks

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The Vagenda Magazine asked their Twitter followers to tweet them edited headlines

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This is my favourite thing at the moment

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Google Explains Exactly How It Reads All Your Email

By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails are automatically analyzed by software to create targeted ads. 

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These Rare Photos Show Us The REAL Women Behind Iconic Pin-Up Paintings Of The 50s

I guess image editing has been around way longer than Photoshop itself!

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Andrew Garfield in trouble with Emma Stone after femininity comment

"Watch the video Andrew Garfield in "trouble" with Emma Stone after femininity comment on Yahoo Lifestyle UK. Andrew Garfield made a comment about femininity during the kids’ Q&A with the cast of The Amazing Spider-Man 2."

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Andrew Garfield advocates androgyny. The headline spins it like sexism to peak your interest. : P

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Bechdel Test

"Think of the last movie you watched and answer this: Did women talk to other women about anything other than men? Jobs, friendships, politics, life … seriously, anything else other than men?

Let me be more specific: How can you tell whether a movie does a sucky job with its female characters? Well, pretty easily really: If it can’t answer the three questions asked in this video, then it fails the Bechdel Test.

Here’s what the test is, who created it, and why it’s important for lady representation in movies.” -VIA: Upworth

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A memo from 20 years ago, today.

Key quote: “The internet is a collection of computer networks that is connected around the world…A code of ‘netiquette’ exists among users and within user groups, but otherwise, you pay your money, find your niche and take your chances.”

via Johnny Kauffman at NPR