Compromise and political reform only take you so far; sometimes you need to shake the whole system.
Lili Loofbourow
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Lili Loofbourow, Rachel Monroe, Benjamin Weiser, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and Megan Greenwell.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Observe the Bumbler’s One Weakness
Bumbles sink. (Hopefully.) On men, sexual violence, and feigned ignorance.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Myth of the Male Bumbler
“Allow me to make a controversial proposition: Men are every bit as sneaky and calculating and venomous as women are widely suspected to be.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Subverting Female Archetypes with the Clones of ‘Orphan Black’
In its subject matter, “Orphan Black” broods on the nature-nurture debate in human biology, but in its execution, the show cleverly extends the same question to matters of genre. What does the exact same woman look like if you grow her in the petri dish of “Desperate Housewives” or on a horror-film set in Eastern […]