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Always trying to stay one step ahead of the trendsetters – or at least keep apace with Kanye West, which might amount to the same thing – Complex is predicting the rise of the bald beauty after Kanye appeared at the Grammys with clean-shaven Amber Rose.
While we’re not totally convinced this is enough to spark [...]

As January 30th marked the 10th anniversary of Britney Spears’s “… Baby One More Time” reaching number 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, n+1’s Emily Gould has compiled a 10 track mixtape of recommended second-wave feminist listening for the disaster-prone superstar.
The listicle is nice and all, but isn’t it awfully heavy on the folk-rock for an [...]

Here at Listicles, we’re very much in favor of new beginnings, fresh starts, re-inventions and re-definitions (did you notice we re-vamped our logo about a month back, huh, isn’t it new, sexier and therefore better?). That said, we’re also very much not in favor of being given something packaged as “new” that is in fact [...]

The passionate ladies over at Feministing released a listicle today outing some feminist poseurs. Some of their entries are brave, others are obvious, some are missing. Like all sexual-political polemics, though, all the entries are conversation sparkers. So, behold, here are Feministing’s Top 5 Feminist Posers:

5. The Spice Girls: As much as their music was [...]

What am I supposed to be buying exactly?

Alex Leo, feminist and media-savvy blogger for 23/6 and The Huffington Post, offers this critical listicle (cristicle?) on her blog: 5 Sexist Trends the Advertising World Just Can’t Shake. We’ve all seen them (been persuaded by them?), now let’s think about them:
Bondage
Sex sells, violence sells, sexy violence is [...]