Vanity and the Selfie Wars
2013 seemed to mark the year of the selfie wars. Everyone had something to say about selfies, images people take of ...
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On the Abuse of Women in Academia
I have the privilege of associating with a lot of really incredibly smart, powerful, and talented women who have chosen to ...
Please Stop Telling Me What Women Politicians are Wearing
I’m interested in fashion, primarily as an abstract thing. Most of the clothes I really like aren’t designed for ...
Sexism at Pinewood, Hollywood, and More
Film and television are almost universally acknowledged, among progressive circles, as having a serious sexism problem. ...
Overheard, A Conversation
Allow me to set the scene, if you will: a used clothing store somewhere in Berkeley, with crowded racks of all sorts of ...
For Every Prejudiced Joke, A Validated Viewer
When people protest the use of prejudicial humour, they’re often told to lighten up. This is, after all, just a joke. ...
A Hostile Climate: Women and the Environmental Movement
While the domination of social justice movements by old white men is nothing new, one place where it doesn’t get a lot ...
Can We Criticise Books Without Bashing Their Readers?
Literary criticism is as old as books themselves; the first thing many people want to do when they finish a book is to start ...
Talk Back to Sexism
I was probably around eight or nine at the time, and my father had some people over for dinner; our house was often filled ...
Hysterical, Oversensitive Harpies
To be a woman in our society is to be caught in a constant double bind; for every action you take, there will be someone ...