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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Posted by Phoebe Bradford on 01/24/2012
A Worcester Telegram & Gazette columnist praises Elizabeth Warren's clothing choices. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Posted by Rachel Larris on 01/12/2012
Why is Nancy Pelosi's outfit remarkable but not Barney Frank's? Read more »
Posted by Rachel Larris on 01/09/2012
Why do only women candidates for office have to worry about childcare? Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Posted by Rachel Larris on 12/22/2011
Jane Fonda gives a shout out to the Name It. Change It. project. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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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