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Sean Avery and Jon Favreau: Comparing the NHL and the Obama Administration

Feminisms = Plural blog post by Lisa Factora-Borchers, December 8, 2008 - 9:42am; tagged caught on camera, Facebook strikes again, feminism, Off Your Duff, political mistakes, sexism, sports.

NHL player Sean Avery was recently suspended for six games for making disrespectful comments about his former girlfriends while Jon Favreau, the chief speechwriter for the President-elect, goes unscathed after he gropes the breast of a cutout of Hillary Rodham Clinton. What's the best response to public figures making controversial comments and embarrassing poses?

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Gender Blender: Male privilege

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, September 4, 2008 - 2:51pm; tagged anti-capitalism, class, male privilege, privilege, race, sexism.

Longtime Bitch contributor Jake Anderson-Minshall and Rebecca Nay are co-hosting a new radio show called Gender Blender, which aired this week on KBOO, our local community radio station here in Portland.

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More conference bitching

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 7, 2008 - 2:33pm; tagged conferences, democracy, documentary, events, film, hip-hop, masculinity, media justice, media reform, misogyny, movie, National Conference on Media Reform, radical politics, sexism, watch this!.

I was back in Minneapolis this weekend for the National Conference for Media Reform, an annual event organized by the folks at Free Press, a nonpartisan group focused on media reform and policy.

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