and even if she has absolutely zero involvement behind the scenes of all her business ventures and endorsements (which doesn’t seem to be true of all of them), just promoting them is a job in itself. There
Others theorize that the backlash is due to misogyny, as people are turned off by how willing Del Rey is to sexualize herself. What remains true whether fans are flocking to her music or rebuffing her lack of authenticity is that people cannot stop talking about Del Rey, which is half the...
There are plenty of issues with Schwartz and Blumstein’s book, namely that its authors posited their small research sample as being representative of all lesbian couples. Something else to consider is that back then,lesbian sexwas harder to define. Internalised misogyny led to a lot of women...
Religions and sports and other service providers may decide they want to know about an individual’s sex and/or gender. That is fine, within the constraints of any local discrimination laws. But there is no reason for the government to be involved. Such organisations can take whatever (legal)...
This is both trans misogyny and misogyny…because it is making a joke out of femininity. My being a woman and expressing myself as such should not be automatically labelled “degrading” or “weak”. Men are not inherently better than women.The world needs to grow up and realize the harmfu...
My daughter’s small business, on the other hand, was completely obliterated by the pandemic. My son’s summer job is likely not going to happen. They’ll be fine; we can support them, but that is privilege not every family enjoys. So, how as a family do we navigate what’s ahead?
that the nation, while far from having transcended racial prejudice andmisogyny, had become vastly more open and tolerant over time. There turn out to be a huge number of people — white people, living mainly in rural areas — who don’t share at all our idea of what America is about....
So many women are navigating the harrowing transition from ~if you let a man within three feet of you, you will get pregnant and your life will be over~ to ~on the third full moon of the year on a breezeless night, you have a 2 percent chance of conceiv
“Who is Barbie?” is a question that becomes uniquely intertwined with another one by the end of the film: Who are we as women and as humans? Maybe it’s for the better that this particular question remains unanswered.
Saturday 2nd June: talking about music and misogyny in Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them, with the book’s co-editor Eli Davies and our contributors Frances Morgan and Anna Fielding. Details: http://stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/under-my-thumb...