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Hey TV Networks! Hire Some Older Women Writers!
TV has an age problem: Older female writers can’t get work, no matter how great they are.
“After 40 nobody will talk to you,” former Mary Tyler Moore Show writer Susan Silver told me. “I did 14 movies of the week, 16 pilots, then nothing. It’s a bad problem.”... Read more »
Without Media Focus, Would Steubenville's Rapists Have Been Found Guilty?
Today we finally have something to applaud in Steubenville: A guilty verdict. Many people were holding their breath in the high-profile rape case, expecting that despite clear evidence of the two defendants’ guilt, our legal system would fail the victim. We thought we’d once again be... Read more »
Girls, Girls, Girls: Recap of Episode 10, “Together”
When it first started, Girls was automatically compared to Sex and the City, mainly because it was about four female friends in New York. And really that... Read more »
How Can Harvard Help End Rape in India?
Today, six men accused of gang rape in India head to court. If that sounds eerily familiar, it’s because just two months ago, ... Read more »
On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
We’re starting off the week with a big conversation about rape culture. Here’s all the feminist news on our radar today.
• The Steubenville rape trial finally... Read more »
SXSW Day 4: Bouffants and Grammy Predictions
Running on breakfast taco fumes and contraband waterbottles (seriously, it’s water, let me bring it into your bar), Bitch caught several more excellent female... Read more »
What All Those “Girls” on TV Teach Us about Aging
If you want to know why we see so few fully realized female characters over 50 on TV, look no further than the shows about women under 35.
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SXSW Day 3: Women With Guitars
Thursday was the hottest, busiest, and most rewarding day of SXSW Music festival yet for Bitch. We saw some great female-fronted bands, and had several more recommended to us. No amount of sore feet, sunburn, and waiting in line to only maybe get... Read more »
Bitchtapes: Mixtape Tennis Edition
One of the things I used to love about making an actual mix tape when I was just a pup was packaging it up and sending it off in the mail, waiting for a response.
This week, my sister Julia and I decided... Read more »
New Documentary "Nailgasm" Shows that Nail Art is for the Wearer
As long as I can remember, my mother had long nails. For that matter, my grandmothers and aunts did too. It was a sign of maturity, like big earrings and high heels. But it was practically a cultural practice, since most of my friends at school and their mothers kept their nails unpainted and... Read more »
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