5.29.2008

One take on implicit media misogyny

Though calling the double standard for women in the media misogyny so glibly might get me taken down a notch or two by some critics, this Salon article about the ways in which women writers and bloggers are represented, specifically one blogger who wrote about her sexual adventures and criticizes the Sex and the City phenomena, points to the consistent discrepancies in male and female representations in the media (such as the difference in the New Economist's Obama and Clinton covers).

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