Killing Themselves With Kindness, Then We Did Pilates
Still, to this day, RIGHT NOW, many many women do not feel comfortable having honest conversations with other women about abortion.
Category: Feminism
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn: The Sociosexual Kobayashi Maru
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is maybe the art-housiest of every art-house movie I’ve seen in at least the past ten years
Pepe Le Pew Is Not A Role Model
But at least Pepe Le Pew lays the issue of rape culture where it belongs, at the feet of men, rather than telling women it’s THEIR fault
Ramona Quimby Is Not A Role Model
I keep bumping up against the same theme. “Ramona Quimby is iconic because she’s so NAUGHTY!” these articles crow breathlessly.
Game of Thrones: Bad Romance
Game of Thrones has lots of coitus and very little of what leads into it, except when it’s rapey, in which case we see it in exacting detail
Game of Thrones Rewatch: She Schtups to Conquer
Let’s drop the “Daenerys Targaryen is SUCH a Mary Sue because too many men desired her.” That is misogyny wrapped up in an Internet meme.
A Brief Lesson on Etiquette From Negaoryx
A quick lecture on sexism and etiquette courtesy of Negaoryx.
Disney’s Enchanted: A Contrast Between Real Love and Fairytale Love
The contrast between real love and fairytale love is something we access through what we thought love was during our childhood
Help!! I Need Someone!
Women are not men, and because women are not men, a straightforward reversal of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope doesn’t work.
Wednesday Writs: Women’s Suffrage Turns 100
President Trump pardoned Susan B. Anthony, a federally convicted criminal. Her crime, officially, was violating The Enforcement Act of 1870.
Defenders of the Gold Bikini 3: In Which Leia Swoons and Dies
Women who grew up idolizing Leia in Star Wars wanted something MORE than just Leia swooning and dying from a malignant case of motherhood.
Gone With the Wind: The Great American Feminist Novel
You tell me you didn’t have a feminist icon until Wonder Woman, Millennials? I give you Scarlett O’Hara. Try her, you may like her.
Unforgiven: Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl”
Gone Girl, unlike many other wildly popular books that are terrible but got turned into movies anyway, is actually a good book.
Pleather and Mace: Harley Quinn and the Joker
Harley Quinn stayed with the Joker because she did the math and she decided she was better off with him than without him. That’s the reason why women stay with everyday bad guys who aren’t Jokers.
