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more about #themanny more comments → inabook: Thank you for this: "but we degrade the word feminist if we only apply it to things we like, and withhold it from things we find boring." Yes. I feel... more » mommy_dearest: This marks the death of feminism in pop culture. Long live zombie feminism! more » JerseyGrrrl: I need some help with the concept of Candace Bushnell being anti-feminist. Yes, I'm serious. I get that she pushed materialism, over-the-top pink fem... more » katie.scarlett.o'hara: I thought the general consensus on The Reader was that Kate was really being rewarded for her body of work and not that particular role, which got ver... more » Dodgergirl: Is it just me or do people seem to think that feminists want nothing but perfect women in pop culture? 'Cause I just want some variety, you know? more » FashionShowAtLunch: "An unfunny line from Two and a Half Men " I thought all the lines on that show were unfunny. more » hollygirl: Last time I checked, the chromosomes create the plumbing, so there goes your artificial argument right there. more » PilgrimSoul: Haha, a bit of Canadiana for y'all. Lynn Crosbie wrote a book called Paul's Case. In which she adopted the voices of Paul Bernardo's victims. (I ref... more » YourScreenplaySucks: I thought Ally MacBeal killed feminism? That's what Time said. Wait, no that was the Spice Girls (NY Times). Oh no, it was Bridget Jones's Diary that ... more » rocknrollunicorn: Obsessed? Seriously? That movie sees Fatal Attraction's "crazy slutty lady" quotient and raises it a "crazy violent wife." Or so it would seem from th... more » pandorasmittens: Finally, my love of BG is validated! more » HuckleberryFriend: Is there some kind of requirement that a random journalist publish an article on the theme of OMG THE DEATH OF FEMINISM like, every month? Is it just ... more » SarahMC: Didn't pop culture put the "end" in feminism like eight years ago at least? more » vamusical: Anything that relies on "Two and a half men" wisdom of any kind involving gender relations has failed before it has even begun. more » ritualtheory: This is far from being Lynn Crosbie's first inane column, but...what? Our junk and other reproductive elements cause the gender divide? The hell with ... more » -
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Is Kate Winslet Killing Feminist Pop Culture? And Other Non Sequiturs
Broadsheet pointed us to Lynn Crosbie's bizarro piece in the Globe and Mail, which alleges that Kate Winslet and Holly Peterson's The Manny signal the death of feminism in pop culture. More »

