Ladies, are you tired of being gaslighted at work? Sick of earning less money and recognition for your hard work than your male colleagues? Ever get interrupted so many times in a meeting, you want to start screaming just to get the office’s attention? Or bite into a coworker’s arm just to give them a mild case of…
The president’s lawyer would like to clarify something he said about Stormy Daniels. On Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani said: “If you’re going to sell your body for money, you just don’t have a reputation. I may be old fashioned, I dunno.” He also said: “The business you were in entitles you to no degree of giving your…
During a lavish press conference at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur, Cate Blanchett reportedly told the assembled group of press and other looky-loos that the point of Ocean’s 8 was “Encouraging children to crime.”
A new study looks at men’s nontraditional surname choices in heterosexual marriage and—in the words of ScienceDaily—asks, “What kind of guy would take his wife’s last name?” I don’t know, a guy who glances at the calendar on the wall and realizes that it’s 20FUCKING18 ALREADY AND WHY ARE WE STILL DOING THIS DUMB MRS.…
In Part 2 of the Vanderpump Rules Season 6 reunion on Tuesday night, Andy Cohen encouraged the women in the group to discuss our favorite topic, which is, of course, The Purge. Just kidding, it’s feminism. Brittany and Lala, what do you think?
“It is not my way to trumpet the fact that I am a woman up for the top job at CIA, but I would be remiss in not remarking on it,” nominee Gina Haspel said in her opening remarks during Wednesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. Haspel was following a line of defense that has been offered for her nomination to…
Erika Lust thinks porn is a lot like the restaurant industry. “McDonald’s is doing food and this restaurant is doing food”—she gestures around her—“but they’re completely different concepts.”
You might expect a feminist social critique of bulimia, fat-shaming, and emotional abuse from academia or, say, this here blog, but not so much mainstream porn—and yet, here we are. The porn studio Pure Taboo has released a new feature, The Weight of Infidelity, with a “controversial plotline about society’s struggles…
The women’s movement has experienced a thrilling resurgence in the time since Donald Trump was elected president, and along with it, the less thrilling phenomenon of commercial feminism. This is a messy state of affairs as it is, but when public officials are involved in packaging empowerment as a product to be…
Wonderful news for those who still feel the urge to be persuaded and slightly worse news for those who will never be persuaded but will have to pay attention to the news surrounding this adaptation: Meg Wolitzer’s feminist doorstopper, The Female Persuasion, will be made into a movie produced by and starring Nicole…
The New York Times has reignited the flames of an absolutely ridiculous “feud” by publishing a tidy bit of clickbait perfectly engineered to raise the hackles of a disparate group of individuals, including chefs, feminists, and men.
“Nine feminist bangers” is how Tracey Thorn has described the contents of her latest solo album, Record. But then, Thorn’s songs have been feminist all along: “This is pretty much me doing that thing I do,” she admitted on the phone with me on Thursday.
On the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Jezebel spoke to women attendees about their beliefs and self-perceptions.
Now that #MeToo has made the perilous journey from hashtag to movement, here’s the obvious next step: this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue will loosely gesture at the movement by allowing the models to be “participants” as well as “objects.”
Actress Catherine Deneuve was one of 100 French women who signed an open letter stating that the #MeToo movement has gone to far. The backlash to the letter was swift, and Deneuve actually has some clarifying comments about it.
As 2017 takes its leave, one thing is certain: the #RESISTANCE has arrived in full force—as a vague political concept, but also as a trend or a meme or a little bit of both. And, as with any trend or meme, the associated merchandise immediately followed, marketed aggressively with a savvy eye towards those who crave…
The cover of Thursday’s edition of Los Angeles Times magazine The Envelope delivered six white actresses with the tagline “A Shift in Focus: Actresses call for change in the way many stories are told.” Reeeeealllly?? Really.
Dictionary.com announced that 2017's Word of the Year was “complicit,” which felt like the cynical truth. Merriam-Webster is offering a much more positive alternative. According to them, the word of the year is “feminism.” Okay.
In the rich tradition of fearless girl and leaning in, Wall Street continues its hollow championing of female empowerment with an exchange-traded fund “for investors who want their money kept far away from sexual harassment in the workplace.” In other words, the ETF will help people invest in companies that satisfy…
Awards season kicks off in January with the Golden Globes—a fun dinner party for famous people in Spanx and tuxedos to eat, imbibe clear liquor, and accept awards while wedding reception-drunk. This year, Forbes writes, we need a “feminist” host—and that host is NOTED feminist hero Seth Meyers!!
