Happy Birthday to Us! The 5 Top Blog Posts from the First 5 Years of the Ms. Blog

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Happy Birthday to Us! The 5 Top Blog Posts from the First 5 Years of the Ms. Blog

On International Women’s Day, 2010, we launched the Ms. Blog—so today we celebrate our fifth anniversary. What a great time we’ve had covering a global spectrum of women’s news and analysis, from politics to the arts, from justice to media, from work to sex. We’re thrilled that we can augment the quarterly, longer-form coverage in Ms. magazine with daily reports on topics of feminist interest.




Number 5: “10 Things That An American Woman Could Not Do Before the 1970s,” by Natasha Turner. Inspired by a piece on things that Irish women couldn’t do before the 1970s, we explored ridiculous restrictions on American women and came up with some doozies. Here is one of the 10 no-nos:
Refuse to have sex with her husband. The mid ’70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.

Number 4: “My Little Non-Homophobic, Non-Racist, Non-Smart-Shaming Pony: A Rebuttal,” by Lauren Faust. Little did we know that when we posted a (slightly tongue-in-cheek) criticism of the cartoon show My Little Pony that we would upset not only its legion of fans—most notably it’s male “bronies“—but even its very feminist creator, Lauren Faust. So we asked her to write this very popular answer piece. Key quote:

Cartoons for girls don’t have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren’t as easily frightened as everyone seems to think. Girls are complex human beings, and they can be brave, strong, kind and independent–but they can also be uncertain, awkward, silly, arrogant or stubborn. They shouldn’t have to succumb to pressure to be perfect.

Number 3: “At 11th Hour, Georgia Passes ‘Women As Livestock’ Bill,” by Lauren Barbato. You want outrage? We’ll give it to you! In passing a bill to criminalize abortion after 20 weeks, Georgia state Rep. Terry England compared pregnant women carrying stillborn fetuses to the cows and pigs on his farm. According to England, if farmers have to “deliver calves, dead or alive,” then a woman carrying a dead fetus, or one not expected to survive, should have to carry it to term. Key quote:

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