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Reviews
The real reasons Get Out was the most profitable film of 2017: White absolution and toxic masculinity
‘Get Out’ makes white people feel good and plays into classic sexist tropes about masculinity.…
‘Kill All Normies’ skewers online identity politics
Jen Izaakson reviews Angela Nagle’s new book, “Kill All Normies.”…
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ offers a terrifying warning, but the hijacking of feminism is just as dangerous
While “The Handmaid’s Tale” warns of a feminist dystopia, “Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On” sh…
The new Zelda video game is improved, but can’t escape the industry’s princess problem
Nintendo has created a slightly less sexist video game this time, but Zelda: Breath of the Wild still suffers from a mal…
‘Female Erasure’ sheds light on contemporary misogyny and the value of women-only space
During a time when the popular focus on trans rights has led queer activists to question and ultimately condemn the conc…
‘Paterson’: Indie quirks can’t hide masculinist frameworks
Beneath its quiet indie surface, venerated U.S. filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s new film Paterson relies on so many clichés …
Why Jessa Crispin really isn’t a feminist
I just finished reading Jessa Crispin’s much-talked about new book and wonder if I’m the only one who did. With several …
Whether it’s prostitution or the Holocaust, deniers are all the same
Alison Bechdel, get thee to a cinema now! Here is a film that not only passes your revolutionary test with flying colour…
‘The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men’ forces liberals and the left towards accountability to women
Now far in the rear view mirror, the (Bill) Clinton years seem like a turning point for contemporary social movement str…
These violent delights have violent ends: Westworld brings porn culture to life
In contrast to the starry-eyed sci-fi of previous decades, wherein humans seek Artificial Intelligence in order to solve…
‘Sugar Sisters’ exemplifies the failures of third wave feminism
A CBC documentary called Sugar Sisters: Confessions of a Sugar Baby aired on Thursday. The film claims to “explore…
Lisa Ling endorses legalized prostitution on CNN’s ‘This Is Life’
Sunday night’s “This Is Life” episode boldly went where many of gone before: to the legal brothels of …
Andi Zeisler’s ‘We Were Feminists Once’ coopts the very movement it purports to mourn
In 1995, Andi Zeisler founded Bitch — a zine that became a magazine — as a means to “take pop culture …
‘The Sex Trade’ reveals Montreal as a hub for prostitution
Is Montreal Canada’s Las Vegas? A film by Ève Lamont called The Sex Trade (Le commerce du sexe) reveals that the s…