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Pinterest has become one of the most popular new social media platforms on the internet, with some 23 million users.  About 60 percent of them are women—which is 10 more percent than half!—so naturally that has to mean something. What is means, says this post on Buzzfeed, is that feminism is dead.

But the site’s popularity highlights an uncomfortable reality: Pinterest’s user-generated content, which overwhelmingly emphasizes recipes, home decor, and fitness and fashion tips, feels like a reminder that women still seek out the retrograde, materialistic content that women’s magazines have been hawking for decades — and that the internet was supposed to help overcome.

Pinterest, the argument here goes, is full of women posting all sorts of womanly stuff, but, never mind, because at least it’s not as bad as the women’s magazines it’s replacing?

So maybe Pinterest is a natural evolution in online women’s media, a place where old print titles and younger outlets like Jezebel intersect. Pinterest might come with airbrushing, but at least it lets you decide just how much of it becomes part of your own user experience.

So is Pinterst killing feminism or not? Yes, but also no.

Also wishy-washy on the whole killing thing was President Obama, a new book The Finish reveals, who apparently was willing to let Osama bin Laden run free and probably move in next door to your kid’s day care center.

In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full rights of a criminal defendant, to show U.S. justice applies even to him. In the book, purchased by The Associated Press, Bowden says Obama said he expected the terror leader to go down fighting. Associated Press

Feminism, and bin Laden, may or may not be dead, but good old fashioned masculinity is still in ample supply, says a recent study via the Huffington Post.

Sticking to traditional gender roles could make you less comfortable and less safe in the bedroom. In a new study, young adults who assumed that men should take charge during sex were less likely to feel confident in sexual situations and less receptive to using female condoms.

The more men and women endorsed hierarchical power dynamics, the more likely they were to believe men should dominate during sex and the less likely they were to take the free female condoms and report confidence in sexual situations, the researchers said.

“Female condom? That sounds a little, you know…” said a bunch of dudes taking this survey.

“If men believe that men should dominate sexually, this may prevent them from feeling open or comfortable discussing sexual behavior and protection with their partners or asking questions about things they may not know,” which could lead to reduced sexual confidence, wrote the researchers.

Related HuffPo slideshow idea: Top 20 Female Condom Pinterest Boards.

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