MetaFilter posts tagged with femininity

Pantone pink No. 241 corona

mippy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:52:13 -0800

As parents scramble to get one of the 25,000 items in the Disney Princess range, this article, What's Wrong with Cinderella?, gives perspective from a mother and feminist. (Yes, I realise this article isn't new, but I came across it when doing research for work, and found it interesting indeed. Especially learning that Tinker Bell was dropped from the princess canon...)

"Taking them off feels like an orgasm."

miss lynnster — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:19:59 -0800

Walking a mile in our heels. If you'd like to try it yourself, here are some handy pointers. Just be forewarned: after a few minutes your feet may feel like bloody stumps, but your calves will look irresistably fabulous.

The end of childhood

desjardins — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:05:23 -0800

Where has all the pubic hair gone? After sweating through the [eight-year-old girl's] eyebrow wax, Engle [...] was directed to give her pint-size client a … bikini wax. “But … there’s nothing there, right?” I ask Engle. “I mean, at eight? Am I forgetting something?” “Nope,” she says. “There’s not. Doesn’t matter. That’s when the mothers are starting them these days.”

Mistaken for a man.

desjardins — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:14:56 -0800

NYC woman files lawsuit after bouncer confuses her for a man and ejects her from women's bathroom. A woman is held in the men's jail after being mistaken for a man. Activists look for solutions.

Female Merit Badges

alms — Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:42:29 -0800

OK girls, what have you done to earn a merit badge? Learned about underarm hair or menstrual cramps? Made it through a preganancy test? And boys, what have you done to earn your merit badges?

aaron — Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:04:40 -0800

College Girls: Unpaid Whores. So you think you're a great troller. You think you know how to spin your words with absolute precision to force your opponents into a saliva-spewing frenzied rage. Well, guess what? You're a nobody, an amateur. It's time for you to bow down before the One True Master: Cornell University doctoral candidate Joseph J. Sabia. I defy a single MeFite, of any ideology or political persuasion, to not find at least one statement in this article that doesn't completely infuriate them.