Is Joss Whedon a feminist?
(CNN)It's almost cliché to call Joss Whedon a polarizing figure, because you don't get to be an auteur of billion-dollar blockbuster epics without breaking eggs, and occasionally hearts. He's one of...
View ArticleOur Sexist-in-Chief: Telltale Signs of A Misogynist In the Era Of Trump
Click here for reuse options! In a campaign season that has been full of it. Though Donald Trump, first and foremost, ran on a promise white supremacy -- just ask the 53 percent of white women who...
View ArticleThe Financial Press and its Keepers
US officialdom and their media megaphones have systematically concocted narratives having less to do with political reality and more with their hallucinogenic world view. Pre-election and post-election...
View ArticleIs Olympic Nudity a Feminist Victory?
With women making up 45% of all competitors and a record high of 47.5% of events open to female athletes, this year's Olympic Games in Rio is closer to achieving gender equality than ever before, ....
View ArticleWhy Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?
The bitches, as Shannon saw it, came in three varieties. She categorized them on her personal blog, in a post titled “Beware the Female BigLaw Partner.” First was the “aggressive bitch”—a certain kind...
View ArticleCrazy Ex-Girlfriend’ is a surprisingly complex feminist musical that deserves...
If you aren’t watching The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, that’s probably because it’s on The CW and it’s called Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. But those who dismiss this series based on the title are seriously...
View ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #2-15: Bigly Yuge Private Investigations Edition
Top 10 Conservative Idiots #2-15: Bigly Yuge Private Investigations Edition Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Now available in single packs! So we got to talk about this Arian Foster...
View Article12 Moments of Right-Wing Horror and Absurdity in 2016
Knowing how this story ends doesn't make any of this any easier. President-elect Donald Trump had the most perfect New Year’s tweet. And by "perfect" we mean perfectly awful. Say what you will, the man...
View ArticleYoung, male and feminist – if only there were more of them
Schools and universities have their share of students engaging in sexist and misogynistic behaviour. But there are also those who are standing up against it – and their numbers are growing...
View ArticleThe Toxic, Bullying Troll Culture Has Made Much of the Internet Dangerous;...
Click here for reuse options! A dark cultural shift is underway, being shaped by anonymous trolls across the country. “Don’t feed the trolls,” the saying goes, as if it were really that easy. As a...
View Article"Amoral masculinity": a theory for understanding Trump from feminist...
"Trump is a reminder of what masculinity can be like outside of conventions." Gender is a cardinal issue in this year’s election. On one side is the first woman to have won the presidential nomination...
View ArticleA Feminist's Guide to Critiquing Hillary Clinton
Fair warning: This blog is not going to be angry. It will not be written in all caps. There will be no vulgarity. And it probably won't go viral. I don't care. What I do care about is the fact I've...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of #FreeStacy?
In an age of lies, the truth is dangerous. When Twitter announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council” last month, every intelligent observer understood that censorship would be the result. The...
View ArticleEveryday Sexism in a 'Post-Feminist' World
For the past two decades, “girl power” has become a popular way of describing the success of girls in American culture. Widespread reports of “alpha girls”—girls who can do it all, find popularity,...
View ArticleProspects for an Alt-Left
The day of Donald Trump’s election to the office of US President should be remembered as “the day that the liberal elite of the American coasts learned of a world outside its Facebook feed”, according...
View ArticleMake America Great Again: how progressives can reach rural America — and how...
The left must not compromise on its ideals, but it needs to get better at witnessing to the unconverted. When I go home to South Dakota to visit my family, I speak two languages. One is the language of...
View ArticleThe Left’s Abandonment of Females
Politics revolves around what is seen and what can be said about it, around who has the ability to see and the talent to speak, around the properties of spaces and the possibilities of time. – Jacques...
View ArticleThe Google Memo: The Economist On Nothing
Most of the debate about James Damore’s memo has focused on its claims about gender, diversity, and affirmative action. Those themes were indeed central to the purpose of the memo. But also important...
View ArticleWhat men's rights activists and other "anti-feminist" men have in common with...
Sarah Wasko / Media Matters “Anti-feminist” forces, including men’s rights activists, have “embraced misogyny as ideology” The men’s rights movement is the brainchild of a former prominent feminist. As...
View ArticleGeena Davis: ‘After Thelma & Louise, people said things would improve for...
Having built a career playing strong women, the Hollywood star is taking on sexism in the film industry, with a gender equality project that will launch at this year’s London film festival...
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