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How is the Mary Tyler Moore Cast Still So Damn Popular?
Though most women of a certain age in Hollywood can’t catch a break, the women who starred on The Mary Tyler Moore Showhave proven exceptional even as they age. The news just came out that the ... Read more »
Do Girls of Color Survive Dystopia?
“I’m looking for a book for my 12-year-old daughter. She likes dystopic fiction,” I said not too long ago to the clerk in a children’s bookstore. As her eyes began to scan the wall of Teen Fiction, I added, “With people of color as the protagonists.”
“I feel you,” sympathized the... Read more »
New Film "Some Girl(s)" Focuses on the Self-Obsessed Nice Guy
Some Girl(s) is a movie about a “nice guy” who has trouble seeing beyond himself. Though the film revolves around the desires of the central guy, named Man (played by Adam Brody), the moments of... Read more »
Ms. Opinionated: Should I Come Out As Poly?
Welcome to the latest installment of Ms. Opinionated, 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 to do when they don’... Read more »
Can Atheists and Religious Folks Fight Inequality as Allies?
How does a queer atheist go from kicking in church signs to working side by side with Christians, Muslims, and other religious people? Ask Chris Stedman, a humanist chaplain at Harvard and interfaith activist known for calling out ... Read more »
Must-Read for Women’s History Month: The Writings of Two Early American Feminists
For two decades, award-winning American historian and documentary editor Ann D. Gordon has been on a quest to collect, preserve, and annotate the writings and speeches of two of America’s most important feminists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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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 »
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 »
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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