THERE’S A NEW FORM OF SEXISM RUNNING RAMPANT IN THE LITERARY COMMUNITY. Named for Donna Tartt’s 2013 novel, The Goldfinch, the Goldfinching phenomenon occurs when a…
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TRIGGER WARNING: rape, sexual assault and harassment, verbal and psychological abuse. Also, light spoiler alerts. WHEN I SAT DOWN TO WATCH JESSICA JONES, I had…
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ACCORDING TO A SCIENTIFIC STUDY GONE VIRAL, ALL WOMEN ARE BISEXUALS OR LESBIANS. Yes, you read that correctly. Straight girls don’t exist, at least so…
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THIS PAST SUMMER, I WROTE ABOUT THE FREEZE RESPONSE – when someone becomes unresponsive instead of fighting or fleeing in an uncomfortable or threatening situation.…
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ON NOVEMBER 6, Elizabeth Koke filed a $3.5M lawsuit against The Feminist Press at the City University of New York (CUNY). The former Feminist Press staffer…
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I REALLY LIKE ROSE MCGOWAN. Her performance as heartless high-school queen bee Courtney in 1999’s Jawbreaker sparked my love for her, and her role as…
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THE PLAYBOY BUNNY IS AN INTERESTING — AND POLARIZING — CREATURE. With her skin-tight bodysuits, bunny ears, and fluffy pin-on cottontail, she’s an all-American sex…
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DESPITE POPULAR REPRESENTATION OF COMIC BOOKS as entertainment for boys 8-14 and men who live with their mothers, nearly half of all comic book readers are women.…
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LAST WEEK, we heard the news that Sandra Bullock is to star in an all-female remake of Ocean’s Eleven. And we already know that Melissa…
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FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY. So said bell hooks and so say I. But — and I hate to say it — there are people out…
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EARLIER THIS MONTH, a marketing campaign for the new film Suffragette showed the (all-white) cast — including Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan — wearing tee…
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Hint: DON’T LISTEN TO HER.
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