Sublime

Men Explain Things to Me—and

today’s sexism is insidious, casual, politically correct, even friendly.

Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import.

Vagffirmative Action

Sisterhood Is Powerful,

Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import. It’s also a personal matter, because when we reclaim the stories that surround female celebrities, stories surrounding ordinary women are reclaimed, too.

our culture has configured women’s liberty as corrosion, and for a long time, there was no way for a woman to be both free and good.

but it seems worth questioning whether this is feminism, or just a new twist on the age-old concept of selling products and ideas with gender essentialism.