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Sex Offender Week: Feminism for Young Dudes
by Matt Ealer This week, we'll be running an essay a day about the state of being men and women. Welcome to Sex Offender Week-it's just like Shark Week, but without sharks and with angry blog...
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Why Everyone Hates The New 'Sex and the City' Movie
by Alex Balk As a mostly disinterested observer I've found the overwhelming backlash against the new Sex and the City movie to be somewhat surprising. After all, it's not as if there's any radical...
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Straight Marriage To Be Just a Voluntary Contract in New York
by Choire Sicha New York State may at last join the rest of the country in no-fault divorce-a bill has passed the state Senate, and the Assembly is dealing with two bills on the matter. There's a very...
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Someone Got 'The Daily Show' in My Jezebel and Together They Taste A Little...
by Michelle Dean Perhaps you've heard that there's been some… disagreements between certain feminist blogs and The Daily Show recently. If not, let me recap! A couple of weeks ago, Jezebel's Irin...
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Why Do We Cheerlead the Scandals of Male Infidelity?
by Choire Sicha Really, you might want to tear yourself away from whatever you're reading about and read this essay on sexuality, privacy, IM relationships, "emotional affairs," the state of cheating...
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Ambitious, Difficult Women: They May Or May Not Be Pretty, Sleeping With...
by Jane Hu Last week, the New York Observer published a revelatory article about Gerry Marzorati's departure from the Times magazine. Staffers at the magazine indicated that Marzorati's recurrent...
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Gays are the New Women: Suffrage, Gay Marriage and the Brain
by Choire Sicha Here's a long look at some of the studies and expert testimony behind the Prop 8 ruling. (Unsurprisingly, the science suggests that gay marrieds have disagreements about tidiness and...
View ArticleThe Continuum of Feminism, Explained, via Long Analogy Involving Planes
by Choire Sicha "According to this theory, we can imagine each woman's life as a long plane ride. It is cramped, it is full of obnoxious strangers, and the snacks are always disappointing. Also, there...
View ArticleTeam Betty Draper Speaks Up
by Choire Sicha In defense of Betty Hofstadt Draper Francis: "We all said we wanted Betty to get in touch with her anger, but we expected that anger to look admirable and positive and feminist. We...
View ArticlePixar Fires Its First Woman Director
by Choire Sicha "First Woman to Direct a Pixar Film Is Instead First to Be Replaced." 2 CommentsThe post Pixar Fires Its First Woman Director appeared first on The Awl.
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The Fantasy of Girl World: Lady Nerds and Utopias
by Sady Doyle Here's a story for you. It's an old story, and it goes like this: There's a place where we're in charge. You've never seen it. You can't visit. It doesn't exist—it's in the future, or...
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The New Decemberists Album: It Contains 100% Less Raping
by L.V. Anderson The Decemberists' new album, The King Is Dead, takes the band in a new direction: tamer, more pastoral lyrics and a pared-down, bluegrass-tinged sensibility (with guest vocals from...
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Film Reviews as Advocacy: the 'Times' on 'Bad Teacher'
by Choire Sicha "The story spends the requisite time on Elizabeth’s man-baiting and chomping ways, but it’s her relations with these women that help make Bad Teacher into something more than the...
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In Praise of SlutWalk
by Choire Sicha Ladies, do we have a problem? We kind of… do. Rebecca Traister weighs in on SlutWalk. I wanted to love SlutWalks, the viral protest movement that began this spring after a Toronto...
View ArticlePlease Welcome Lauren Lauren
by Choire Sicha That thing we used to laugh about has finally come to pass, with the nuptials of Lauren Bush (the daughter of Neil Bush, who is brother to Jeb and George W.) and David Lauren (son of...
View Article"This fall, nobody’s more in touch with their inner Lisbeth Salander than the...
by Choire Sicha "This fall, nobody’s more in touch with their inner Lisbeth Salander than the women of Brooklyn, terrorized by more than 20 sex attacks in Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and Kensington...
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'Homeland' And 'Enlightened': Women On The Verge Of Nervous Breakthroughs
by Michelle Dean Mention Lindsay Lohan to me and you’ll be treated to an excoriation of the joy with which this culture greets your average female public breakdown. As such, I've surprised myself this...
View ArticleFeminism Complex
by Alex Balk I am going to have to reread Jenny Turner's "As Many Pairs of Shoes as She Likes" at least seven more times before I can even engage with it simply on the level of comprehension, but even...
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The Battle For Planet Flanagan
by Maria Bustillos and David Roth David: I need a haircut, Maria. I look like a duckling right now. Maria: And a stiff drink, if you listened to that radio interview with Caitlin Flanagan, like we...
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Is James Deen the Title IX of Porn?
by Choire Sicha Why at this late date are we still reinforcing the idea that women are modest and fragile and in need of gender-specific accommodations? Lowder seems to suggest that the arrival of...
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