In this episode of In Your Face (IYF), Mark and Chris offer critical analysis of Representative Karen Thomas while she appears to cry PMS-laden tears of irrationality and tries to pass herself off as a serious candidate for U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, In Your Face commentator Jane Brestow subliminally urges viewers to visit www.NameItChangeIt.org to help hold misogynists like Mark and Chris accountable for their sexist behavior. The content of the "In Your Face" video and the views expressed in it are solely the creative property of Women's Campaign Forum and Women's Media Center, and in no way represents the views of our funders, partners, or affiliates.

In this episode of In Your Face (IYF), Mark and Chris offer critical analysis of Representative Karen Thomas while she appears to cry PMS-laden tears of irrationality and tries to pass herself off as a serious candidate for U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, In Your Face commentator Jane Brestow subliminally urges viewers to visit www.NameItChangeIt.org to help hold misogynists like Mark and Chris accountable for their sexist behavior.

As the sexist tone in the media reaches a fever pitch, the Women's Media Center created this video to illustrate the problem and send a message to the media: Sexism might sell, but we're not buying it!

Filmmaker Diana Whitten captures the raucous moment when Dr. Rebecca Gomperts literally cuts the rope on anti-abortion attempts to block her boat, Women on Waves, from Valencia, Spain, as choice activists cheer her on. The clip is from the work-in-progress, Vessel, documenting Gomperts' travels around the world to deliver abortion services to unlikely places. See www.vesselthefilm.com.

With the release of the updated Women in Science: Then and Now from The Feminist Press, Vivian Gornick describes gains and challenges for women in labs in the last 25 years, concluding "the revolution is hardly won." She speaks with On The Issues Magazine at the 2009 Book Expo in New York City.

Maame-Mensima Horne, who works with the SisterSong Collective in Atlanta, takes a moment away from the national conference to explain how her mother's influence and family roots made her a natural feminist.

Lillian June Davis of Marina, CA, knows feminism: her grandmother was one of the first black women to break through education barriers. Davis tells On The Issues Magazine how she has kept the faith, speaking to us at the SisterSong Conference in Washington D.C. on November 7, 2009.

http://www.mediaed.org Asking For It The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent The line between sexual consent and sexual coercion is not always as clear as it seems -- and according to Harry Brod, this is exactly why we should approach our sexual interactions with great care. Brod, a professor of philosophy and leader in the pro-feminist men's movement, offers a unique take on the problem of sexual assault, one that complicates the issue even as it clarifies the bottom-line principle that consent must always be explicitly granted, never simply assumed. In a nonthreatening, non-hectoring discussion that ranges from the meanings of "yes" and "no" to the indeterminacy of silence to the way alcohol affects our ethical responsibilities, Brod challenges young people to envision a model of sexual interaction that is most erotic precisely when it is most thoughtful and empathetic. Ideal for classes in gender studies, communication, and sociology, and especially useful for extracurricular programs and workshops. Harry Brod is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author of White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories, Theorizing Masculinities, Hegel's Philosophy of Politics: Idealism, Identity and Modernity, A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity, and The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies.

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Nayyar Javed, a Canadian therapist and social activist, attending UN events on the advancement of women, says that education today is indoctrinating people with distorted views of history, economics and gender imbalance. Originally from Pakistan, Javed spoke to On The Issues Magazine in March 2010 as thousands of women gathered for a 15-year review of the Beijing Conference on Women.

Created in a 1-day Animation Workshop attended by a group of American and Iraqi youth traveling with a program of the World Affairs Council.

Created in a 1-day Animation Workshop attended by a group of American and Iraqi youth traveling with a program of the World Affairs Council.

Created in a 1-day Animation Workshop attended by a group of American and Iraqi youth traveling with a program of the World Affairs Council.

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