Tag: feminism
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On Slave Leia
“It’s upsetting for men to see their [male] heroes treated that way.”
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Diane Freeleng, Feminist Horror Movie Icon
“The diminutive psychic is the final element of the film’s feminist trilogy – the cool mom, smart doctor and tough-as-nails medium seem to make up the life cycle of childhood.”
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Bjork on Women, Music, Auteurs, and Authorship
“Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.”
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Ignoring The Shy Nerdy Girls
“We were told repeatedly, we ugly, shy nerdy girls, that we were not even worthy of the category ‘woman.'”
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Shonda Rhimes on the Glass Ceiling
“I picked my spot in the glass and called it my target. And I ran.”
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Let’s Ruin Video Games
“Guns that shoot kisses!”
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How to Raise Independent-Minded Daughters
“My father valued my brain, and let me see that he valued it.”
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Frames, Feminism and Men's Rights Advocates
“The MRA view men’s and women’s rights as being in opposition to each other, while mainstream feminists see gender equality as a net good to everyone.”
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Lavaballs and Dealing With It
“[I]t’s when someone sits on public transit and, presumably for reasons resulting from an unbearable, scorching heat in their groin, must spread their legs wide. The vast majority of the time, this is a man. The vast majority of the time, they encroach on the personal space of a woman. When this happens to you, […]
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'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
“That’s the piece that most people forget: The flapper movement wasn’t simply a fashion trend… it was a full-blown, grassroots feminist revolution. After an 80-year campaign by suffragists, women were finally granted the right to vote in the United States in 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. When the U.S. entered World War I […]