Tag Archives: New York Times
Paper of Record Reports on Riot Grrrl Influence
De-undergrounded. Continue reading
Gaga and Beyonce Grapple with Important Political Questions
Ada, Check it out! Today’s most important female performance artists take on female-perpetrated violence. I hope the New York Times likes it.
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If Violence Against Women and Body Image Issues Are Boring, Why is the Times So Obsessed with Them?
Ada, you are so totally right: Fatal Attraction is not so much an artistic rendering of the real problems confronting American women as gender roles evolved in the 1980s as a male-written-and-directed revenge fantasy against women who dared to have … Continue reading
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Can Women Be Killers Too?
In my anthology essay I argued, much as we do often in this blog, that 90s feminism had a huge, and all but completely ignored, impact on the culture, and that of course ladies could be as violent as men, and historically have been, if in smaller numbers, but that the point of feminism is to demand basic human decency of both men and women, toward themselves and each other. Anyone who argues that one of the goals of feminism is for women to start oppressing men or other women (or to reach parity on death row) is kind of missing the point of the whole movement. Continue reading
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Stay-at-Home Fathers are Hot
Stay at Home Fathers are Hot. Continue reading
90swomen are Ahead of the New York Times
Ada, we’ve talked a lot on this blog about 90swomen making more money than their male partners. We have not talked about how the NYT‘s David Brooks is a total un-90s-ish reactionary. Here he is talking to Gail Collins about … Continue reading
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Not Enough Guys on Campus is a Feminist Issue. I’m Serious!
Wait, Ada, are you publicly shaming me? That is so 90s! Well, my main thought while watching these commercials was, “No wonder college guys can be jerks! They are getting the message that they only have a few years before … Continue reading
