Yet another actress has made headlines by denying that she’s a feminist. This time it is Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, an actress on The Big Bang Theory, who told Redbook that she “was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that’s because I’ve never really faced inequality.” Leaving aside the truth of that statement (she’s either …
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The other day, I was contacted by a Belgian journalist who wanted to interview me for a story he was writing. I agreed to help but quickly became uncomfortable when he kept referring to me as Mrs. throughout our entire email exchange. Rather than confront this head on (which I should have done), I tried …
Michelle Ashford, creator, executive producer and writer of HBO’s series Masters of Sex, is just rocking it with the kinds of stories the show is doing under her guidance. Season 1 gave us not only an introduction to the Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson partnership that revolutionized the way we view sex but also a …
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Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has gotten so many accolades for his stance against domestic violence that you’d think he started the battered women’s movement. The blogsphere is loaded with articles lauding the “man’s man mayor” for his “leadership” on the issue. But does Rawlings deserve it? That’s highly debatable. I am glad that Rawlings is …
In case you missed it (and really, who didn’t?), August 26th was Women’s Equality Day. It is a day proclaimed annually by the President of the United States to commemorate the granting of the vote to women throughout the country. After 72 years of struggle, women in the U.S. were granted the right to vote …
1848 was a year of revolution in the Western world. Numerous European countries revolted against royalism and class oppression. The Communist Manifesto was published. Irish immigration to America skyrocketed as The Potato Famine ravaged the beautiful island. And Thaddeus Stevens, the outspoken, uncompromising abolitionist, was elected to Congress. But nothing was a revolutionary as what …
Last year, an interviewer asked Elizabeth Moss, one of the stars of Mad Men, if her character, Peggy Olson, was a feminist. Her reply was a revelation: “She’s a different kind of feminist. She’s the one who works really hard, and concentrates on her job, and wants to move up in the world of her business. …
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I have been briefly following the controversy that erupted following Michelle Goldberg’s cover story for The Nation entitled “Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars.” The premise for the story was that a group of feminists formed a group to work toward getting funding for online feminism (something Kathleen and I definitely support!). However, after they issued their report on the …
How do we judge the success of feminist groups? This is a tough question because we all have our own standards of what we want them to be. For example, take The Women’s Media Center. This is a group founded in 2005 by such feminist stalwarts as Gloria Steinum and Robin Morgan along with Jane …
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Right after I breathed a sigh of relief at the defeat of the Romney/Ryan ticket, I feverishly searched for the election results from Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Missouri. I was utterly delighted to see that Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth and Claire McCaskill won their highly contested Senate races. Several other female candidates won their races as …