Daily Archive: December 31, 2011

Dec 31 2011

Teaching girls that pretty isn’t pretty enough

Real woman on the left, retouched woman on the right

One of my pet peeves, for far longer than I have identified as a feminist, and probably longer than I’ve even known the word “feminist”, is the creeping and insidious way that women are portrayed as perfect Barbie dolls in the media. When I learned that photos were often retouched, airbrushing away those parts that …

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Dec 31 2011

CFI Canada creating “Good and Godless” campaign

CFI Canada sent around via email, as part of a fundraising effort, the news that they’re planning on starting up a campaign with which I couldn’t agree more. I quote: Hi Jason Did you hear that Atheists are as distrusted as rapists? That’s the result of a UBC study: 105 UBC students between the ages …

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