Tag: misogyny
Change Your Gender, (Maybe) Change Your Life: Emilia Pérez
If some story aspects of Emilia Pérez seem familiar, it’s because writer-director Jacques Audiard was inspired by a particular chapter in Boris Razon’s 2018 novel, [Read More…]
Unlike Most Women in Music, Tony Bennett Didn’t Have to Constantly Change His Image In Order to Endure
“I was like the Madonna and the Michael Jackson of my day,” Tony Bennett once told Conan O’Brien during a 1993 interview. The notable distinction [Read More…]
Blow Up the Patriarchy, Or: The Barbenheimer Experience
Perhaps what they don’t warn you about with regard to “the Barbenheimer experience” is just how jarring it actually is. Certainly, that’s the entire “point” [Read More…]
Martha Stewart’s Sports Illustrated Cover Is A Landmark Moment…But Also Presents a Double Standard in Terms of Praising a “Correct” Way for Women to Be Embraced As “Sexy” at Any Age
There are “kinds” of women who get lauded for doing the same things that other women have already been doing for quite some time. Martha [Read More…]
The “Difficult” Woman
There is no shortage of examples of the “difficult” woman in history. Better known as “crazy.” For when a woman is deemed too difficult, the [Read More…]
On Lana Del Rey “Raising A Generation” (And Whether Or Not That Was Necessarily A Good Thing)
For whatever reason, when Lana Del Rey first arrived onto the scene, she appealed endlessly to the ten through twelve-year-old set. Like a “goth” version [Read More…]
X Marks the Gerontophobic Spot
It’s perhaps one of those ideas that no one immediately realizes is brilliant because it’s so simple: to make aging—and the fear of it—the key [Read More…]
A Woman Having a Good Time Is Always a “Threat to International Security”
With the headline cycle of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s “partying antics” winding down as people focus on new (yet old) subjects, like whether or [Read More…]
J. Lo Wielding “Adulting”: Another Harbinger of the Word’s Cringe Factor
There is, to be sure, a difference between staying in touch with your “inner child” and all the sense of youthful wonder that comes with [Read More…]
“Poppin’ Plan Bs ‘cause I ain’t planned to be stuck with ya”: Megan Thee Stallion Writes Poetry and a Free Promo for “Plan B”
For those who still want to believe that “peace” is the only way to achieve harmony, including among the sexes, Megan Thee Stallion is here [Read More…]
