What's Current: Edmonton database documents sexist restaurant practices

Double standards…

8-year-old girls dance burlesque on Dance Moms.

New Nike ad campaign attempts to inspire women by depicting them as shallow and insecure. (Also, I think this woman is having an orgasm at the end of the commercial.)

Restaurant bosses tell their waitresses to hike up their skirts and pull down their shirts to bring in the customers. These women are F.E.D. U.P.!

Blogger critiques the normalization of pornography in “Screaming into the void: Pornography.”

It’s official: women become invisible after 49. In our data-driven world,  this means serious exclusion from consideration in policy making.

China releases 5 women’s rights activists detained for weeks.

Dean of students at Brussels University (rape victim-blamer and unabashed super-creep) still hasn’t resigned.

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and erstwhile academic in Philosophy. Follow her @Blasfemmey. Got tips? Email us.

Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.