[in]Visible Magazine

  Image Source This past summer, some friends and I went to see How to Train Your Dragon 2. I hadn’t seen the first movie, but I had been assured it was good, so I was game. Some 102 minutes later, I walked out of the theater and announced, “All screenwriters should be fired.” Six […]

Though almost half of ESPN viewers are female, many of their commercials—especially during the Superbowl—stereotype women into sexist and negative ways. How is sports media pushing women out, and more importantly, how are the shaping our women athletes, fans, and their body image?

A newly proposed bill in France requires a label on airbrushed photos. Does this impede on artistic right, or is it a necessary law to protect people’s psychological health?

Hallelujah! We are finally starting to talk about it. Sex, that is. We’re admitting that it’s out there, that it happens, that we’re curious. Women are proudly declaring themselves sexual beings beyond the roles of wife or mother. While it is important to cel¬ebrate this discourse and recognize the progress made in past years, one […]

Women may have always been self-conscious about their bodies, but advertisements have only exacerbated the problem. Professor of Psychol­ogy Amy Marcus-Newhall notes that “advertising has a persistent message that subjugates women, whether they are aware of it or not, and all women are affected.”