Sarah Seltzer
By Sarah Seltzer
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News A 2013 Media Wish List
As a fan of pop culture but also a critic of its frequent reinforcement of misogynist stereotypes, I am eager to see treatment of gender improve everywhere in 2013. In a media landscape dominated by male perspectives, and rife with misinformation about the reality of gender inequality, the following feminist media goals can and should…
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Life 2012: The Year in Gender
An election, a superstorm, and high-profile battles over women’s health marked 2012 — not to mention a whole lot of Lena Dunham. In January and February, the birth control wars raged. The year began with a major kerfuffle: Planned Parenthood got dropped as a funding partner by the Susan G. Komen Foundation — an intra-nonprofit…
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Life December Angst and Hanukkah Manicures
December is a complicated time to be a Jew in America. I annually find that once the holiday season hits full swing, all the Christmas gushing, tree-trimming, “what do you want this year?” asking and red and green everything makes me a little… bah humbug. I start getting more sympathetic to Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge than…
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Life Ladyblogs Are Here to Stay
The Slant has a revelatory interview with Ms. Magazine founder (and Forward contributor) Letty Cottin Pogrebin on the fortieth anniversary of the magazine. One of the biggest questions asked of Pogrebin was about Ms.’s role in shaping the coverage of other women’s magazines, inspiring the glossies’ inclusion of issue-oriented, reported features that stand out amongst…
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Life Domestic Workers, an Invisible, Exploited Workforce
Domestic workers are a visible fixture where I live in Manhattan, caring for the elderly, cleaning apartments, shepherding kids to playdates and playgrounds while mom and dad are at work. But in many ways, they have long been an invisible and exploited workforce. They are considered “help” and not “labor” by truly misguided social convention….
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Life The Gaza Twitter War
With the advent of the conflict in Gaza, known by the hashtags #gazaunderattack or #pillarofdefense, it’s a surreal moment to be a citizen of this earth. For perhaps the first time on this scale, a war is being waged both in real life and on Twitter simultaneously. As rockets and bombs fall, as children lie…
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Life The General’s First Fling
A media narrative is beginning to emerge around the extramarital affair that has ended the career of former CIA director and General David Petraeus, and may indeed tar the reputation of other top military officials including General John Allen. There are three men and three women in the love-and-betrayal triangle — err, quadrangle, err, hexagon…
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Life Election 2012’s ‘Revenge of the Ladyparts’
Around the 1992 election, like the political junkie-in-training I was, I walked around my grade-school wearing campaign buttons featuring the dynamic duo of Jewish female California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, plus new First Lady Hillary Clinton. It was the Year of the Woman, a historic moment for women in politics — and a…
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