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A Letter To Leslie Knope (NBC’s Parks & Recreation)

Posted by Alex Gilliland on 01/31/2012

Name It, Change It, a project dedicated to ending sexist and misogynistic coverage of female candidates by the media, is writing in response to your recent altercation with a Pawnee voter at a local bowling alley. We want to applaud the way in which you responded to the voter’s verbal attack. Read more »

Anna Holmes On the “Anger” of Public Women

Posted by Rachel Larris on 01/27/2012

Anna Holmes writes a smart column about how the anger of public women is perceived. (And we have a clip of Elizabeth Warren on The Daily Show!)  Read more »

When Naming It Really Changes It

Posted by Rachel Larris on 01/26/2012

A columnist at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette apologizes for the sexism in her column that Name It. Change It. pointed out. Read more »

Fox News: Once Again with the Hair Put-Downs

Posted by Rachel Larris on 01/24/2012

A co-host from Fox News's The Five once again calls Debbie Wasserman Schultz "Frizzilla." Surprisingly it's not a man who does it. Read more »

Don’t Tell Me What She’s Wearing, Tell Me What She’s Doing

Posted by Phoebe Bradford on 01/24/2012

A Worcester Telegram & Gazette columnist praises Elizabeth Warren's clothing choices.  Read more »

When Subtle Sexism Attacks: The San Francisco Gate on Elizabeth Warren

Posted by Kaitlin Froom on 01/20/2012

At first glance, last month’s San Francisco Gate article about U.S. Senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren seems fairly harmless. However, upon looking a little more closely at the language used to talk about Warren’s involvement with the Occupy movement, we can see that this article is pretty problematic. Read more »

On the Verge of Misogyny

Posted by Alex Gilliland on 01/20/2012

While GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich continues to vie for the nomination, some of his critics have resorted to sexist imagery to make an argument for his fading candidacy. An Op-Ed in the New York Daily News strikes a Really Damn Sexist tone when it calls Gingrich ‘a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.’ Read more »

Another Sexist Cable News Host: Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld

Posted by Madeleine Gyory on 01/13/2012

First Fox News host Greg Gutfeld calls Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz "Frizzilla." When Name It. Change It. tells him its sexist the fireworks start. Read more »

Why is Only Pelosi’s Clothing Remarkable to The Advocate?

Posted by Rachel Larris on 01/12/2012

Why is Nancy Pelosi's outfit remarkable but not Barney Frank's? Read more »

Is Childcare Holding Women Back From Running for Office?

Posted by Rachel Larris on 01/09/2012

Why do only women candidates for office have to worry about childcare? Read more »

Bachmann Out, Sexism…Still In

Posted by Madeleine Gyory on 01/06/2012

So now that Michele Bachmann has dropped out of the race for GOP presidential candidate, it's completely acceptable to objectify her through meaningless articles about her fashion sense, right? Read more »

While Decrying Sexism, Try Not to Add More

Posted by Rachel Larris on 01/06/2012

When defining sexism committed against Michele Bachmann, it'd be best not to call her ugly and mouthy.  Read more »

Don’t Let the Glass Ceiling Hit You on the Way Out

Posted by Megan Foster on 01/04/2012

After Congresswoman Michele Bachmann announced today that she would be suspending her presidential campaign, the Washington Post has written the first in what will surely be a long line of vaguely sexist articles about what the Congresswoman did wrong in Iowa. Read more »

The Year in Political Media Sexism

Posted by Rachel Larris on 12/27/2011

“Bit of a heifer,” “Dumb twat,” “Great masturbation material.” These were just some of terms hurled at women politicians in 2011. Read more »

Compare and Contrast

Posted by Madeleine Gyory on 12/22/2011

Based on these two photos for stories about Massachusetts’s senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren, can you tell which paper is rooting against her? Read more »

Washington Post on Nikki Haley: She Dresses Like a “Real Housewife”

Posted by Madeleine Gyory on 12/22/2011

The Washington Post describes a governor in terms of her appearance, questions her experience in ways often reserved for women, and congratulates her for refusal to acknowledge that sexist language is bad. What's wrong with this picture? Read more »

What Will It Take To Make A Woman President? How About Less Sexism?

Posted by Rachel Larris on 12/22/2011

Jane Fonda gives a shout out to the Name It. Change It. project. Read more »

An Exercise in Contradiction: Bachmann’s “Ladylike Toughness”

Posted by Megan Foster on 12/22/2011

Author Sarah Kaufman delivers a wide variety of sexist remarks in yesterday’s Washington Post profile of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Her main point? Bachmann’s views are unwavering and inflexible, which contradict her prim and proper outward appearance. Kaufman seems to say that if Bachmann dresses like a lady, she needs to act like one too—or risk driving away potential voters. Read more »

The Best of Intentions

Posted by Martha Fedorowicz on 12/22/2011

You know when somebody has good intentions but their message just comes out all wrong? That’s what happened recently in an article in the Canadian journal, The Globe and Mail, entitled “Confident Rookie MP one of a New Breed of Tory Women.” What’s so frustrating is that the article is meant to highlight and praise the outspokenness of several new women members of parliament like Michelle Rempel, yet only six short sentences in, the author uses sexist language to describe Rempel's appearance. Read more »

HuffPo Style Crosses the Line: Bachmann Isn’t “Barbie”

Posted by Madeleine Gyory on 12/07/2011

Huffington Post Style tells Michele Bachmann she's gain voters if she dropped her neckline.  Read more »

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