Tag: misogyny

Since the dawn of the internet, online platforms have allowed clients to take advantage of sex workers. Now, they’re fighting back.

Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.

Maybe Woody Allen’s romantic comedies weren’t terribly romantic after all.

Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.

Roxane Gay considers the lasting impact of protests against the Miss America Pageant that took place half a century ago.

Bumbles sink. (Hopefully.) On men, sexual violence, and feigned ignorance.

Imagine being the only woman living with 200 roughnecks — risking your personal safety every day — just to make a buck.

Laurie Penny wants a new conversation about women, men, consent, desire, and autonomy.

Growing up in the fundamentalist Christian “Quiverfull” movement, Hännah Ettinger saw her own story in Atwood’s vision.

Filmmaker Kyrre Lien was curious about what drives people who make hateful comments online, so he traveled the world to interview internet trolls in person.

At Backchannel, Andrew McMillen writes on how one young Wikipedia admin fights back at trolls by raising the profile of notable women in science, one new Wikipedia page at a time.

T Kira Madden tells the story of her rape, confusion, and redemption to show us what rape culture really looks like in this country.

Is it really that hard, being a First World woman? Is it really so tough to have the career and the spouse and the pets and the herb garden and the core strengthening and the oh-I-just-woke-up-like-this makeup and the face injections and the Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist? Is it so hard […]

It’s strange, in the years of Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer changing comedy, and Tina Fey making room in TV, and Hillary Clinton making her cicada-like, quadrennial return, to pan the camera across the rigid men’s club of the arts. From the Chelsea galleries to the spring and fall auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s (which […]