Allie Jones · 12/01/15 10:35AM
Imagine a world in which Emma Watson didn’t say “feminism” during her iconic U.N. speech. Damn. I can’t.
Imagine a world in which Emma Watson didn’t say “feminism” during her iconic U.N. speech. Damn. I can’t.
Unfortunately for Léa Seydoux, the French actress who’s starring in the upcoming Bond movie Spectre, Vogue UK hired restaurant critic Giles Coren to interview her for the magazine’s November cover story. The piece itself is as yet unreleased, but Coren gave the world a behind-the-scenes look at his writing process in a tweet this morning:
On Sunday, singer Ariana Grande posted a statement on Twitter discussing a range of feminist topics, from the objectification of women to the persistence of misogyny, closing her message with a quotation from women’s liberation leader Gloria Steinem.
Big Borp Show star Kaley Cuoco is not a feminist, according to Kaley Cuoco. The actress tells Redbook magazine that in addition to eschewing the shadowy cause that is feminism, she likes "serving" her "man," tennis player Ryan Sweeting.
Anita Sarkeesian, feminist video game critic and person Gamergaters insist Gamergate is definitely not about (even though they've repeatedly threatened her with death and rape), appeared on the Colbert Report last night.
On the road to promote her upcoming album Nostalgia, Annie Lennox has tried, it seems, to start something with Beyoncé. Sure, why not? Last month, she called Bey "feminist lite," and in an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep yesterday, she clarified, "twerking is not feminism."
Back when prissy lil' peanut Ariana Grande's life coach quit because Ariana was such a diva—allegedly—Ariana called Miley Cyrus for advice. According to Ariana, Miley told her, "It will blow over and tomorrow they'll be talking about something else." Huh, well.
Until recently, you might have lived a life blissfully unaware of the online #Gamergate movement. But last week, computing giant Intel pulled its ads from an independent game-development site thanks to the gaming lobby. Now that major companies are taking sides, it's time to figure it out. Let us be your guides.
You may have noticed that the game recently changed, with respect to feminism. But how? When? Who? Aha: "Emma Watson Delivers Game-Changing Speech on Feminism for the U.N.,"a VanityFair.com headline reports.
When we last left New York Post writer Stephanie Smith, she was toiling to meet her boyfriend's demand for tribute in the form of 300 sandwiches, with a promise of engagement at the end of her Herculean labors. But lo, the merciful and studly king has granted her an early release for good behavior, proposing to her after a mere 257 sandwiches.
What's the best way to challenge campus patriarchy and critique male fantasies of sorority initiations? By getting nekkid with the sisters and making out in the stacks, baby.
Beyoncé upped her feminist cred yesterday in an essay on the Shriver Report website, one in a multi-author series on gender equality. "We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality," she writes. "It isn't a reality yet."
If you take a good, hard look at a vulva, you realize it's just a bit of a body. There's nothing that is shocking or scary, you know, nothing that is gonna run out and eat you up.
On Friday, IFC will release to select theaters and via On-Demand, Sini Anderson's 80-minute documentary on the life and career of Kathleen Hanna, The Punk Singer. The film traces Hanna's early days at Olympia, Washington's Evergreen State College through her tenure leading iconic riot grrrl group Bikini Kill, her post as the lead singer of Le Tigre, and her current band the Julie Ruin. Feminist rock icons like Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, Joan Jett, and Kim Gordon are part of the film's venerating chorus, and Hanna's personal life (including father-based trauma, her marriage to Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, and her debilitating bout of Lyme disease) is explored in greater detail than ever. Throughout The Punk Singer, its subject remains as outspoken as we've come to expect.
Sinead O'Connor has written another open letter to Miley Cyrus today. This one begins with a simple and beautiful question: "Who the fuck is advising you?" O'Connor asks. "Because taking me on is even more fuckin’ stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism."
Femen, the infamous international topless feminist protest group much-beloved by bloggers for giving them an excuse to post pictures of topless women, in the name of feminism, has been rocked by the scandalous revelation that they've been secretly run by a guy.