Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.
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I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore.
An essay examining women’s long-standing conditioning away from owning and expressing anger, instead often sublimating their rage in sadness, which has historically been more acceptable.
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I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter
“Batali does not specify how tightly to roll the dough. I do so too tightly because fuck everything.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
How Are There Still Beauty Pageants When Feminists Have Been Protesting Them for 50 Years?
Roxane Gay considers the lasting impact of protests against the Miss America Pageant that took place half a century ago.
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Fifty Years Ago, Protesters Took on the Miss America Pageant and Electrified the Feminist Movement
In the wake of a sexist email scandal that has led to new management of the Miss America Pageant, Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay reports on 1968 protests by radical feminists against all that the pageant stands for.
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How Tough Is It to Change a Culture of Harassment? Ask Women at Ford.
A multi-media expose of the ongoing sexual harassment and misconduct toward women at Ford Motor Company. Despite numerous lawsuits filed and settled in the 1990s, a threatening culture has persisted and led to a new round of litigations. Reporters Susan Chira and Catrin Einhorn investigate whether that culture can survive the #MeToo revolution. What will […]
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The Consent of the (Un)Governed
“The search for a more human understanding of power and consent is not simply stage-dressing for a bigger fight. It is the big fight. It’s all about the grabby old men, and it always has been.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Observe the Bumbler’s One Weakness
Bumbles sink. (Hopefully.) On men, sexual violence, and feigned ignorance.
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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
The Female Fracker: A Rare Species in North Dakota
Imagine being the only woman living with 200 roughnecks — risking your personal safety every day — just to make a buck.