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Daddy Issues: Where Are All The Single Dads of Color? (Not on TV...)
Sister, Sister is still one of very few shows to feature a single father of color.
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Backlot Bitch: Lena Dunham Doesn’t Care What You’ve Got to Say
Just because the omission of diversity that’s going on Girls isn’t anything new doesn’t mean it’s okay.
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Daddy Issues: Clueless Dads and Daughter-Wives
The first time we see Bill Sanford in Coyote Ugly, his daughter Violet is cooking him egg whites and urging him to stick to his diet. The first time we see Mel Horowitz in Clueless, his daughter Cher is telling him to drink his orange juice and reminding him about his doctor... Read more »
Everything You Need to Know About the Media
With its intrigue, espionage, thousands of inappropriate emails, and shirtless pics, the coverage of this sex scandal has everything. And by “... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Does everybody get stoned? And if they do, what does that mean?
Some animals with behavior issues really respond to SSRIs, and while that’s a whole other can of, uh, worms (worms with rudimentary pleasure centers!) – it turns out some animals really like to trip. West African elephants regularly eat the bark of the iboga tree, which has been used by... Read more »
Daddy Issues: Junior and the Myth of How Women are Never Satisified
A man gestating and giving birth to a baby! Can you even imagine? Well, yes. But 1994 was a different time. A time when men having babies was science fiction but Emma Thompson snogging Arnold Schwarzenegger was... Read more »
Tales From The Crip: Crip Couture
Chicago-based artist Sandie Yi is the virtuoso behind Crip Couture, an avant-garde wearable art project for disabled people seeking to redefine constricting standards of beauty, agency and “normalcy.”
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Douchebag Decree: Macy's Won't Dump the Trump
The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is only a week away, which means we can all look forward to the over-the-top spectacle that perfectly represents this American holiday where we give thanks via excessive gluttony and then, the following day,... Read more »
Ms. Opinionated: All the Advice You Asked For, and Some You Didn't
Welcome to the fifth installment of Ms. Opinionated, Bitch’s advice column in which readers have questions about the pesky day-to-day choices we all face, and I give advice about how to make ones that (hopefully) best reflect our shared commitment to feminist values—as well as advice on what... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Gendering Codependency in When a Man Loves a Woman
When a Man Loves a Woman opens with one of the oddest (and, frankly, creepiest) meet-cutes I have ever seen in a movie: Alice (Meg Ryan), sitting at a bar in broad daylight (it looks like she’s just finished lunch), already wincing at unwanted attention from the guy sitting to her... Read more »
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