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Megan Mercier says the world is built on competition. Women are told that they can essentially be and do whatever their heart desires regardless of their gender, but the hard-hitting reality of competition and that not being totally true sets in.

The creator of the performance along with director Stephanie Shaw join Shantell & Luis in studio to talk about the performance which “smashes the traditional American beauty pageant form with real stories of fully-grown girls stumbling into womanhood.”

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SexFest 2013 kicks off in April and is the debut sex ed festival put on by polyamorous couple Amanda and David Torrey of Rogers Park. They have organized a collection of events across the city about sex and gender to bring the work of academic researchers and thinkers to wider audiences. In-studio, Amanda and David give us a preview of what they’ve pulled together and discuss why we get so giggly and squeamish having frank conversation about sexuality.

“It’s a celebration of sexuality. There’s not a heavy emphasis on the negative aspects of sexuality. So, while we’ll have things on safer sex and STI’s, that’s not our focus. Sexual abuse is not our focus. It’s something we have included in the festival, but we’re really trying to be sex positive about everything we’re presenting.” —David Torrey

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The latest research on gender in media, released this week at the third Symposium on Gender in Media of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, found that women in prime-time television roles are less likely to be gainfully employed than men (44.3% to 54.5%, respectively), but are more likely to be seen in sexy attire. The Gender Roles & Occupations: A Look at Character Attributes and Job-Related Aspirations in Film and Television study is a collaboration between USC Annenberg and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. The Healthy Media Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls, co-chaired by actor Geena Davis, released recommendations this week to help promote more realistic portrayals of women and girls in all media.

This news summary appeared in Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media SmartBrief on 11/15/2012 Click here to view the full issue.

The Overdrive discussed the study on their show this past #femweds.   To summarize the converesation:  Shantell doesn’t think all the blame should be put on the content creators, while Luis sees no one else to place blame. Listen to their conversation and let us know what you think?.

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