My dear friend, who’s pregnant with her first child, shared this hilarious video about pregnant women being smug.
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Best Reads of June: Pop Feminist Edition
Internet trolls, “queerbaiting,” women antiheros — last month, these were just a few topics covered in a range of intriguing critiques on pop culture and gender.
Four examples of the right way to use comedy to talk about rape
A skilled comedian can find the funny side to just about anything, but what about jokes about rape? Do male comedians routinely use these jokes in ways that excuse or promote rape culture? What if the target of the joke is the perpetrator and not the victim; is this OK?
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Domestic violence and the “abusive monster”/“weak woman” labels
It was a graphic reminder that domestic abuse can occur in any family. Last week, several news outlets published photographs of Nigella Lawson looking distraught as her husband, Charles Saatchi, grabbed her neck. After the photos came out, it was widely reported that the celebrity food writer had moved out of the home she and Saatchi shared and he eventually accepted police caution over his abusive behavior.
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Dudes in distress and the badass women who rescue them
You may have noticed that in the make-believe world of film, there are specific gender-based rules surrounding who gets rescued and who does the rescuing.It usually looks like this:
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