Vanessa Valenti, Editor
- Website: http://www.feministing.com
Vanessa is a 28-year old freelance writer and blogging consultant living in New York City. She has worked with the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Girls for Gender Equity, NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Vanessa is a graduate of the BA program in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and is a co-founder of The Real Hot 100, a grassroots media project that challenges unrealistic images of women in the media. She is also an editor of The Daou Report and blogs about international women’s issues at UN Dispatch.
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Vanessa's Articles:- The Contraception Failure, Alternet, June 16, 2008
- The Christian Right's Slick Campaign to Make Abstinence Seem Trendy, Alternet, August 28, 2008
TV Appearances:
- NY1, August 14, 2007
Recent Entries from Vanessa
Recents Comments from Vanessa
- Troll has been banned, this one seemed to have slipped past the radar. Thanks for your patience! (And a reminder - don't feed the trolls!)
(posted to Newsflash: Women don't exist to comfort men) - Yikes! Thanks Happy Feminist, I fixed that
(posted to WashPo Buys the Palin-as-Feminist Hype ) - Sorry folks, link has been fixed!
(posted to I called out my mom) - Troll banned. Sorry folks.
(posted to My male feminist friend bought into Men's Rights???) - I think there are a lot of extreme and racist generalizations going on here about Japanese culture and Japanese men that are not okay. At all. Considering the fact that one of the U.S.'s most popular video games allows its
(posted to Your very own virtual girlfriend to beat up )
Responses to Comments from Vanessa
- Agree with this. I +1'd it too but I wanted to officially cosign. (posted to Your very own virtual girlfriend to beat up )
- Look at most first (and third) person shooters, the realistic ones (like Gears of War and Call of Duty 4) don't allow you to play as female characters. In fact, in Call of Duty you won't find a woman (or (posted to Your very own virtual girlfriend to beat up )
- I think the American research groups in the states that use the same technology also call it a "paddle" but only because of it's shape and dimension. The cube is also not symbolic as the rendering engine needs it to (posted to Your very own virtual girlfriend to beat up )
- In Left 4 Dead, there is Zoey, a non-sexualized female lead and player character in the biggest FPS and PC game of the year. In Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1, and Half Life 2 Episode 2 is (posted to Your very own virtual girlfriend to beat up )
- How many animes did you see? 1? 2? While the vast majority of girls are over-feminized and sexualized, it doesn't mean they don't have spines- the primary anime archetype for female characters is someone who is outrageously strong beyond first (posted to Your very own virtual girlfriend to beat up )










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