The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

“The First Time I Every Saw Your Face” May Be the First Time You Hear About Ewan MacColl

California’s Gay Marriage Ban Overturned & 5 Ways To Take Action

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Nicole Hughes:

“Bottlemania” Book Takes Bottled Water Industry To Task

Arnold Tells Automakers To “Stop Whining” About Tougher California Emissions Standards

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Andy Kondrat:

Department of Energy Forecasts Large Increase In Wind Power Usage

Edward Norton & Gavin Newsom Speak To Congress About Environmental Building Practices

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Jon Popham:

Spencer Tunick Strips Hundreds Naked

Lichtenstein Sculptures At Fairchild Garden In Miami

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Giulia Rozzi:

Does Being Ethical Pay?

Is the Anti-Female Genial Mutilation Campaign Offensive?

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Gina Telaroli:

A Global Look At Media On Pangea Day

Everything Cinema: Brody Takes On the Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

Feministing commented on the new anti-female genital mutilation campaign by the Association of Women against Genital Mutilation (AMAM). The ad copy reads: “More than 140 million women in the world are condemned to feel nothing” and features the image here of a blow-up doll. Feministing had this to say about the ad:

I’m all for raising awareness about FGM, but this campaign really rubs the wrong way. It reduces women to their body parts and the issue to just a sexual one. Using a blowup doll to depict a woman who has undergone FGM is incredibly offensive - they’re literally being portrayed as no longer human, just a sex toy.

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I also was disgusted by the show Bulging Brides but it wasn’t until Feministing.com posted this piece that I realized I wasn’t alone in my discomfort. Bulging Brides is a classy program where women buy wedding dresses two sizes too small and then kill themselves to fit into those tiny frocks. Check out this clip:

The shows tag-line is “the perfect day is still pounds away.” First of all, there is no such thing as a perfect day or a perfect body. Secondly, shouldn’t happiness on your wedding day come from the actual marriage and not from the size of your wedding dress?

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. This week we celebrated some of our own favorite top 10 bloggers who work night and day to provide us up-to-date info on films, literature, and feminist news. Don’t miss these exciting and informative blogs, as well as some of our most popular stories of the week.

Katie:

“La Misma Luna Under the Same Moon,” Not the Same Old Movie

Top 5 Eco-Friendly Gadgets for Under $50

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Nicole:

Top 10 Literary and Book Blogs

NBC11 First Wind Powered TV Station

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Giulia:

Top 10 Feminist Blogs

Horton: The New Mascot for Pro-Life

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Gina:

Top 10 Film Blogs

Top 10 Films I Would See If I Was At SXSW

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Kerry:

Our Pharmaceutically Fouled Water Supply

Top 7 New Sins Against God’s Green Earth

Written by women for women, these top 10 blogs focus on issues, news, and gossip geared toward educating, entertaining and empowering girls. While I’m sure there are plenty of men who enjoy the writings of these well-spoken gals, these blogs are predominately speaking to their sisters.

1. Feministing believes that young women are rarely given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures.Feministing provides a platform for us to comment, analyze and influence.
2. Feministe is one of the oldest feminist blogs designed by and run by women from the ground up.
3. Our Bodies Our Blog is your your daily dose of women’s health news and analysis.
4. Jezebel is a blog for women that will attempt to take all the essentially

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Thanks Feministing.com for directing us to this awesome video by the fabulous comedic duo Mark & Ari. It gives love to everyone’s favorite video-game feminist, Ms. Pac-Man and gives a thumbs down to breast cancer. Enjoy!

For more on breast cancer awareness visit http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/

A judge Down Under is down right shameful.

According to the Guardian Unlimited “A judge in Australia was facing calls to step down today after she failed to jail a group of nine males who admitted gang-raping a 10-year-old girl in an Aboriginal community, saying the young victim “probably agreed” to have sex with them.

Instead of jailing the three adults, aged 17 to 26, one of whom was a repeat sex offender, and giving custodial sentences to the six juveniles aged 14 to 16, Queensland District Court judge Sarah Bradley handed out suspended sentences and probation orders.”

And in case you missed it, the judge is a she!

For ways that you can help rape victims and increase awareness visit http://www.raap.org/

And writers, check out the call for submissions for the book “Yes Means Yes” a collection of essays about female sexual empowerment at http://feministing.com/archives/008218.html#more