Libby Copeland

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Articles on gender issues.

What’s Up With Penthouse Magazine’s New Female, Feminist CEO? (Q&A)

Libby Copeland March 27, 2017

“I did a visually great piece where a woman was in a cage, and she came out and drank milk out of a bowl like a cat. I thought it was hot, so if it turns me on, I’m all about that. Is that an abrogation of feminist thinking if a woman is turned on by putting herself in a submissive situation?”

Categories: Articles, Esquire.com, Gender, Pop Culture Tags: feminism, Kelly Holland, Penthouse magazine

Michael Kimmel is out to show why feminism is good for men

Libby Copeland March 10, 2015

“Yemen offers paid parental leave!” male feminist Michael Kimmel exclaims. “Come on! What’s wrong with us?!”

Categories: Gender, Washington Post Tags: feminism, Gloria Steinem, men's studies, Michael Kimmel

Sony Pictures Hack Reveals Stark Gender Pay Gap

Libby Copeland December 5, 2014

At Sony’s Columbia Pictures division, a man and a woman have the same job and—oh dear, this is awkward—he’s making close to a million dollars more.

Categories: Gender, Pop Culture, Slate Tags: deloitte, pay gap, sony

Baby, You Can’t Drive My Car: Why does the auto industry get women so wrong?

Libby Copeland March 19, 2014

It was the soft gruntings of subjects’ reptilian brains, Rapaille says, that clued him in to the fact that women are obsessed with cup holders. Cup holders signify coffee, he says, and coffee signifies safety, and safety is what women want most in cars.

Categories: Gender, Marketing, Pop Culture, Slate Tags: auto, cars, clotaire rapaille, the female brain, women, women drivers

Oxytots: Instead of learning from the unfounded hysteria of the crack baby era, we’re repeating it (Slate)

Libby Copeland December 7, 2013

As we now know, the mass hysteria over “crack babies” and their deviant mothers was unfounded. Crack cocaine doesn’t do the kind of damage we thought it did to developing babies. Unfortunately, instead of learning from this heady mix of bad science, a sensationalist press, over-reaching prosecutors, and the narrative of the selfish mother content to damage her baby, we’re repeating it.

Categories: Gender, Pop Culture, Slate Tags: anti-abortion, civil rights, NAPW, pregnancy

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