Archive - August 12th, 2016

On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault

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“Underlying all these actions exists the apparently unshakable tenet that any expression of male sexuality is somehow normal and every man’s right, whether or not a woman on the receiving end is repulsed or upset by it. All of us—male and female—envision all manner of erotic encounters without acting them out. But many of my […]

Why Does Hollywood Have A Problem With Unfeminine Girls?

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“Stranger Things presumes that the ultra-feminine is girlhood’s default, a natural and obvious preference. To be masculine-presenting, pop culture tells us, is to be weird, abnormal, ugly, bad (in another word: queer). Prescribed femininity is therefore a cure-all: If a girl can be pretty, she can be available to men. And in 2016, as in […]

My Crazy Year with Trump: On Covering—and Being Insulted By—the Most Unlikely Candidate in GOP History

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“It’s unlikely, however, that any of Trump’s future attacks will be as scary as what happened in Mount Pleasant, where the crowd, feeding off Trump, seemed to turn on me like a large animal, angry and unchained. “It wasn’t until hours later, when Secret Service took the extraordinary step of walking me to my car, […]

As They Head to the Olympics, Women’s Soccer is Fighting to Win Equal Pay | Bitch Media

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“In the National Women’s Soccer League, the minimum salary for a player is $7,000. The minimum for a men’s player is $60,000.” They’re the number one women’s soccer team in the world. But their most formiddable opponent is the wage gap. via Facebook http://ift.tt/2bmj7R6 through IFTTT