If you’re hearing strong notes of misogyny with BDSM undertones, you’re spot on. Anya Bernsteinsuggeststhat the women’s bodies were read by Russians as objects upon which the sovereignty of the Russian state was enacted. Young women protesting the Church and President in a symbolically charge...
Obviously, they have had to come up with new words for new inventions, like the computer, which is called a 'tolva' and actually translates into 'Numbers Witch.' Iceland's Featured Locations As we would expect, Iceland's spectacular landscape is a popular shooting location for major TV and ...
And that, my friends, is misogyny. Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment December 18, 2015 Last Day of Xmas Giveaways! My family has always been a little … off. So, our Christmas traditions were off as well. For us, Christmas Eve was the big day. In the evening, we would go to the...
(There’s a lot of very casual, very brutal racism in this book, which is not surprising, given the time period Conrad’s writing about. There’s also a lot of misogyny for a book in which just one woman, Jim’s romantic interest, gets more than a mention. Jim calls her by a pet...
The English writer and comedian Ben Elton, whose credits include The Young Ones, Blackadder and Upstart Crow, was once regarded as alternative comedy’s motormouth, flinging around funny barbs and rants on sexism, racism, misogyny and other serious...
Though I am fortunate not to experience worse cases of misogyny, my experience was more ‘death by a thousand cuts’ and it was much too draining for me. It has taken a while to unlearn and deprogram the ‘Cool Girl’ mentality and I am still working on it. All of this is to ...
The king of the Hugos of the 1950s and 1960s, four-time winner Robert Heinlein, is good at writing a lively and gripping tale, but his books are loaded with so much misogyny that I found them hard to stomach. His Starship Troopers felt like a military recruitment tool to me, and ...
Now, there isn’t a ton of science on the subject (cultural misogyny runs deep), but many experts believe masturbating can improve your well-being in various ways. Plus, you’ve really got nothing to lose: It’s generally safe, easy, and free—plus, no need to worry about sexually ...
content with the first ‘No’ that crosses his path.” She doesn’t know the truth, in other words, and whatever she does know she certainly won’t say, and so the doctor just has to work harder to get her to disclose it, even—especially—if she doesn’t want to, for her own ...
FWIW: Despite pundits’ best efforts to coax this year’s categories into wire-to-wire finishes (as they are prone to do), I suspect this is one of those Years of Foregone Conclusions as far as handicapping Oscars is concerned. In other words, chalk is your wisest investment. The past ...