Slate’s new online magazine “written mostly by women, but not just for them,” Double X, is launched! Do check it out:
An article in the Business section of today’s NYTimes notes that “Although the editors describe the site as a savvy, intellectual, feminist antidote to glossy, celebrity-obsessed women’s magazines, it will not turn away male readers, which they say have made up 40 percent of the blog’s readership.”
Um, maybe that’s because men can be feminists too? For more on THAT topic, run, don’t walk, to go get your copy of our very own Shira Tarrant’s Men and Feminism
Happy reading, all around 🙂
Comments
Holly — May 18, 2009
I have been reading around Double X since its launch. While I have liked a lot of the articles on the site, some of the articles have struck me as a bit odd. Such as an article wondering how feminism could still be a live, because they had thought it had died since it isn't so important anymore. A few other articles have those same references and undertones that I found myself wondering what kind of readerbase they thought they rake in.
gwp_admin — May 18, 2009
Interesting, Holly! I'm eager to check it all out and catch up on last week's reading... It's so fascinating to me how "feminism's dead" seems to be a perpetually hot media hook, when it's already such a cliche one, you know? Not to mention, of course, NOT TRUE :)