Tag: by Sarah Seltzer
Sarah Seltzer: Is The Voice A Progressive Alternative to American Idol?
June 2011 |
The success singing competition The Voice achieved by positing itself as the anti-Idol suggests America is ready to privilege talent over appearance. |
Sarah Seltzer: Lessons to Secular Community from The Book of Mormon Musical: Take on Dogma With Humor
June 2011 |
How is it possible that a play can convey a crippling blow to religious dogma and authority without alienating anyone except the most puritan and devout? |
Sarah Seltzer: Budget Cuts Most Likely to Affect Women: So Why Aren’t There Any Women on the Budget-Slashing Committee?
May 2011 |
Women’s groups worry that the budget will be balanced on the backs of the most vulnerable. |
Sarah Seltzer: Sluts Don’t Cause Rape, Rapists Do: Why “Slutwalks” Are Sweeping the World
May 2011 |
The idea behind the Slutwalks is simple, yet so often fails to get through: rape is rape, no matter what the victim wears, says or does. |
Sarah Seltzer: Three Videos that Show Why Birtherism is Racist
April 2011 |
Commentary from Rachel Maddow, Baratunde, and Ed Schultz on Obama’s newly released birth certificate, and the continuing birther controversy. |
Sarah Seltzer: Recent Yale Male Behavior So Sexist the Federal Government Has to Intervene
April 2011 |
The investigation of Yale shows the government may actually be taking sexual assault on campus seriously. |
Sarah Seltzer: Facebook Will Share Users’ Phone Number, Email, and Address with Third Parties
March 2011 |
But bit by bit, Facebook privacy has been vanishing—even as more people put more their lives and information on the site. |
