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Feminist-ish : The Straw Feminist Trope
Welcome to Feminist-ish: a video series deconstructing the feminist-adjacent tropes that we love to hate.
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A Love Scorned: What “You” Season 3 Says about Fans’ Obsession with Male Killers
Despite viewers’ desire to “fix” the fictional male serial killer, Love Quinn’s murderous heel turn didn’t get the same reaction from fans after Season 2.
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Wynonna Earp Reimagines the Old, Male West
Instead of celebrating hypermasculine cowboys who terrorize Indigenous peo-ple and abuse women, Emily Andras’s dramedy made a complicated woman the unlikely hero tasked with saving her town.
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Messy Reality: “Maid” Puts an Unflinching Lens on Women in Poverty
A lack of support for single mothers in poverty keeps the main character trapped in a cycle.
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Bad Sport: “Squid Game” Exposes the False Rhetoric of “Choice” and “Resilience”
Resilience is admirable; challenging the system is intolerable.
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One-Inch Barrier: How Americans Watch Netflix’s “Squid Game” Matters
Americans really, really don’t like subtitles.
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Cop Out: “Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s” Finale Fails to Reckon with Its Pro-cop Legacy
Brooklyn Nine-Nine was, at heart, copaganda—a show that, in the midst of a growing real-life reckoning, made viewers feel good—or, if not good, better—about American policing.
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Better With Time: “Hacks” and “Girls5eva” Celebrate Women Aging in Public
What if women become more themselves as they age?
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Remembering “Glee,” a Show That Fervently Celebrated LGBTQ Teens
Glee changed the representation game for queer kids on TV, which, in turn, changed the real-life game for queer kids off TV.
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Whole Person: Lindy West Reflects on the Fat Positive Legacy of “Shrill”
“It was important to me to tell especially young fat women that romantic love will not save you.”
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