“What It’s Really Like to Wear a Hijab.” [Daily Life]
While the mainstream media is not always the most tasteful industry, its coverage of Jill Meagher’s disappearance was invaluable in helping catch her killer. [MamaMia]
And here’s an amusing take on the sexist comments thrown women’s way after the Jill Meagher tragedy. I’ve been experiencing some of these “restrictions” myself since then, preached to me by well-intentioned but misguided friends, which I’ll be writing more about next week. [Feminaust]
Why fur is back in fashion. [Jezebel]
Instead of petitioning the fashion magazines, should we be making love instead of porn? [TheVine]
The perils of getting a hair cut as a black woman. [Jezebel]
Two of my favourite writers and unofficial mentors, I guess you could say, are in the midst of writing books. Rachel Hills and Sarah Ayoub-Christie detail their struggles with the process. Keep ya heads up, girls! [Musings of an Inappropriate Woman, Chasing Aphrodite]
“Reverse Photoshopping” a “too thin” Karlie Kloss isn’t any better than Photoshopping away cellulite or blemishes. [Daily Life]
Famous writers throughout history reimagine Cosmo’s sex tips. [McSweeney’s]
Why are all the feminists these days funny? Um, because we wised up to the fact that our ideals are better digested by the mainstream through less-threatening humour than shoving it down unwilling throats. Though we still do a lot of that!
“[Sexism’s] existence at the moment requires a tougher, wilier, more knowing, and sophisticated stance.” [Slate]
Clementine Ford’s full Wheeler Centre Lunchbox/Soapbox address on the equality myth.
Incorporating part of her speech, Ford elaborates on Alan Jones’ misogynistic comments about the Prime Minister and women in general. [Daily Life]
On the male-male-female threesome. [XOJane]
Why isn’t Mitt Romney being questioned about the way Mormonism treats women? [Daily Beast]
The Scarlett Woman 