"I've gotta stop saying 'Women can't direct,'" tweeted Bret Easton Ellis after seeing Fish Tank. And yet here he is…
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PBS host Alison Stewart on Shales' assertion in his review that she "looked as though she would have been much more…
There is no feminist subtext to Teen Witch. No class critique. Instead, this poor woman's Sweet Sixteen spiked with…
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From the opening of Esquire's Hillary Clinton profile: "She is with a man, of course. She always is. There are so…
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As a follow-up to my first post highlighting the "bad and ugly" anti-feminist responses I received to my Craigslist…