Family

Media Applaud Target’s Removal of Gender 'Stigmas' on Toy Labels

matt.philbin — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:47:03 +0000

Media Applaud Target’s Removal of ‘Boy’ and ‘Girl’ Labels on Toys

Katie Yoder

The retail store is right on target to fight gender stereotypes – according to the media, that is.

On Friday, Target announced that it would “phase out gender-based signage” by not advertising differences between boys’ and girls’ items, including toys and bedding. From The Washington Post to Upworthy, writers praised the “exciting move” that bashes “harmful” “gender stereotyping” and connected the decision to “awareness of the transgender community.”

— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter.

Boy Scouts Allow Gay Leaders; Slate Cheers ‘Huge Step Forward’

mike.ciandella — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:17:17 +0000

Policy still allows religious sponsors of local troops to appoint leaders who align with principles.

Sarah Stites

On July 27, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) voted to change their policy regarding gay leaders. Slate’s Mike DeSocio called the change “a huge step forward.”

ABC Pushes Polyamory

mike.ciandella — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:39:15 +0000

Marriage ‘equality’ for same-sex couples? That’s so yesterday.

Claire Chretien

ABC’s Nightline hyped a polyamorous, “trailblazing triad” on Thursday evening, highlighting the threesome’s “unusual modern family.”

The segment began with a shot of the throuple in bed together with their two children, who share a father but were each born to one of his “wives.”

“This triad wants to make it clear that they are not polygamists,” ABC’s Abbie Boudreau eagerly explained, and that they are all sexual partners with each other. This arrangement began when Melinda Phoenix decided she wanted to add a man to her “marriage” to Dani, a woman.

Marcotte: Credit Rise in Teen Abstinence to Anything but Abstinence

mike.ciandella — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:15:38 +0000

Because science!

Tory McClintock

You know the climate change-obsessed liberals who claim every weather phenomenon proves them right? Hurricanes, blizzards, cold-snaps – no matter how counterfactual, they all prop up the global warming narrative.

HuffPost: LGBTQ Sex-Ed “Vital to Healthy Behavior by Youth”

mike.ciandella — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:39:41 +0000

Just not enough gay propaganda in schools.

MRC Culture Staff

In a Huffington Post article, Janson Wu, executive director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), wrote, “One of the fundamental reasons why people are prejudiced against gay people is because they are uncomfortable with the idea of two people of the same sex having sex.” (Ya think?) How do we reform this? By normalizing gay sex and sharing it with children, of course.

In NY Times, Law Prof on Polygamy: ‘Is There Any Magic Power in the Number Two?'

matt.philbin — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:19:54 +0000

‘The real force of the polygamy question is a lesson in humility.’

Sarah Stites

William Baude, an assistant law professor at the University of Chicago, has a rare quality these days. He’s logical.

In an opinion piece written for the New York Times, Baude suggested that, following the Obergefell ruling discovering a right to gay ‘marriage,’ “there is a very good argument” that “polyamorous relationships should be next.”

MTV Bullies Kids, Makes Them Cry To Raise Awareness For ‘White Privilege’

matt.philbin — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:26:30 +0000

MTV Bullies Kids, Makes Them Cry To Raise Awareness For ‘White Privilege’

Kristine Marsh

MTV wants white kids to feel bad about being white – and the media love it.

The network launched a campaign called “Look Different” which teaches kids to look at the way their “white privilege” and “cisgender” (hetero) privilege gives them advantages in life and blinds them to their own biases.

— Kristine Marsh is Staff Writer for MRC Culture at the Media Research Center. Follow Kristine Marsh on Twitter.

Abortionist: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Nucatola Like ‘Jesus Before Crucifixion’

matt.philbin — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:57:43 +0000

Abortionist: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Nucatola Like ‘Jesus Before Crucifixion’

Katie Yoder

One abortionist has a special connection to God, according to Dr. Willie Parker.

— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter.

NY Mag Writer Liberates Wife from ‘Patriarchal Oppression’ of Monogamy

matt.philbin — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:44:44 +0000

Open marriage is a ‘mature, responsible way to address our needs.’

Sarah Stites

“After much soul-searching” and “an ocean of red wine,” Michael Sonmore became a eunuch, er, feminist.

The defining moment? When Sonmore realized that his wife’s desire for an open marriage was not a rejection of him, but the “embracing” of herself. That’s right, #HeForShe!

5 Fruitcake Feminist Phenomena the Press Promulgates

mike.ciandella — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:02:36 +0000

Woe unto clean-shaven slut shamers!

Kristine Marsh

Feminism is constantly evolving. It started with land ownership, then the right to vote and somehow made it to free-for-all abortion rights and dying your armpit hair. Wait, what? Here are five absurd demands feminists have made to make their cause a laughing stock.

1. #Freethepits!

Do you remember how modern feminists complained about the “stereotypes” of feminists of yore not shaving their body hair? Well that supposed myth is certainly making a comeback now.

— Kristine Marsh is Staff Writer for MRC Culture at the Media Research Center. Follow Kristine Marsh on Twitter.

New Digital Media Cater to Pot Heads, Social Justice Warriors

mike.ciandella — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:33:50 +0000

News audience wants an ‘America that isn’t dominated by old white men’

Sarah Stites

According to a recent article in The Washington Post, Fusion, Ozy.com, Mic, Vocativ and Upworthy are not your parents’ news sources.

SHOCK VIDEO: Taxpayer-Funded Planned Parenthood Sells Baby Parts

matt.philbin — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:23:10 +0000

SHOCK VIDEO: Taxpayer-Funded Planned Parenthood Sells Baby Parts

Katie Yoder

Planned Parenthood thinks it can put a price on a baby: $30 to $100 per part.

An undercover investigative video released July 14 showed a Planned Parenthood executive confess that her taxpayer-funded organization sells the body parts of aborted babies by using the partial-birth abortion procedure to ensure the baby parts stay intact. Pro-life leaders challenged the abortion giant after the Center for Medical Progress, a citizen journalist group focused on medical ethics, caught the scene on camera.

— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter.

County Clerks Resign Nationwide After Gay Marriage Ruling

matt.philbin — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:18:12 +0000

County Clerks Resign Nationwide After Gay Marriage Ruling

Kristine Marsh

County clerks across the country are resigning after the June 29 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage.

— Kristine Marsh is Staff Writer for MRC Culture at the Media Research Center. Follow Kristine Marsh on Twitter.

A Pleasant Surprise! ABC Shocks with Fair Pro-Life Coverage

dan.gainor — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:24:52 +0000

College activist: ‘We are not your Grandpa’s pro-life movement’

Sarah Stites

Get this: pro-choice and pro-life activists agree on something. The tactics and messaging of the pro-life movement are better than they were. And the battle is on.

Here’s another shocker. ABC Nightline devoted a 10-minute segment of fairly objective journalism to “what the pro-life movement looks like at its strongest in the United States today.”

HuffPo Underreports Abortion Related Deaths by 16 Million

dan.gainor — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:14:27 +0000

Successful procedures always take life, but liberals dehumanize victims.

MRC Culture Staff

Liberals like to pretend abortion is somehow victimless. The latest example of this comes from The Huffington Post, which just published an article with the tag line: “Abortion-related deaths continue to be extremely rare.”