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Someone Pointed Out That These Cookbooks Have Awkward Covers, And Now The Whole Internet Is Shook
Cookbooks can be a delight even just to look through - all of those amazing pictures of delicious possibilities that might end up in your mouth one day... However, not all of the recipe books are like that - some really need to reconsider their presentation. That is what Twitter user Mike Rugnetta noticed recently after seeing way too many book covers of instant pot cookbooks. By Agne.
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Furious Formula 1 'grid girls' who were fired from their jobs say they've 'lost important income because feminists think they know best'
Formula 1 grid girls have been told to leave motor sports, but they're making one last stand on social media. Just a few days after the Professional Darts Corporation banned its walk-on girls, Formula 1 followed the same path by banning the use of promo models, commonly called grid girls, commencing with the start of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season.
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Bullied For Feminism on State TV, A Russian 12-Year-Old Girl Fights Back
When presenters on a state-run channel ridiculed Anastasia for her feminist views live on the country’s most popular dating show, the masses might have been expected to rally to her side. After all, she was just 12 years old. Instead, Russian internet commenters not only took the presenter’s side, they mercilessly hurled insults at the girl.
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When Will 'Star Wars' Hire a Female Director?
Following the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Playboy takes a look at why a woman has yet to be hired to direct a film for the sci-fi franchise.
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The Book That Made Me a Feminist Was Written by an Abuser
‘The Mists of Avalon’ changed my life—how do I reconcile that with what I now know about its author? By Jessica Jernigan.
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Farewell to a Scoundrel
What Lorin Stein’s resignation from The Paris Review over sexual misconduct reveals about the true index of male power. By Wesley Yang.
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Whether Hollywood or the Vatican, patriarchy gives men license to abuse
If we think Hollywood is tough, try reckoning with Catholic and evangelical theologies that insist that God has ordered the universe so that men are always destined to be the leaders and authorities. By Jamie Manson.
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The Warlock Hunt
The #MeToo moment has now morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men. By Claire Berlinksi.
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Kick Against the Pricks
Laura Kipnis reviews “Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back” by Gretchen Carlson.
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Cruel Intentions
David Plante's unhagiographic portraits of three literary women. By Kate Bolick.
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Sex, Consent, and the Dangers of “Misplaced Scale”
In the current moment, we risk reverting to a more sexually restrictive era—one that denied agency to women. By Masha Gessen.
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Justice League's Amazon Costumes Show Way More Skin Than Those From Wonder Woman - and People Aren't Happy
Internet critics think Justice League’s costumes are sexier because they were designed by a man. By Kaitlyn Frey.
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How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women
To some, assessing an artist’s work in light of his biography is blasphemous. But it’s time to do away with the idea that they’re separate. By Amanda Hess.
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We Are All Implicated in the Post-Weinstein Reckoning
As stories about abuse, assault, and complicity come flooding out, how do we think about the culprits in our lives? Including, sometimes, ourselves. By Rebecca Traister.
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‘We’re having a menstrual liberation’: how periods got woke
Periods happen to half the population – so why are they still treated as something to hide? Meet the activists seeing red. By Abigail Radnor.
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I didn’t understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped
I’m a lefty academic versed in feminist theory. Still, I rebelled against the idea that rich and powerful men regularly rape or attempt to rape women. By David Graeber.
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On Gaslighting
I keep having the same conversation over and over. That thing where someone undermines your perception of reality, and says you’re crazy, or denies that something is happening that is in fact happening? By Nora Samaran. (June 28, 2016)
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Croydon restaurant insists on hiring only women for cleaning roles
A Mediterranean restaurant in Croydon has come under fire for advertising for a female dishwasher. Staff put a poster up on one of the window’s saying “part time staff required (female)” to notify locals that they were looking for someone to help in the kitchen. Ridvan Das, owner and manager, told the Croydon Advertiser that he specifically wanted to hire a woman because they “are obviously better at cleaning than men.”
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The Islamic Pirate Queen
When Christians turfed Muslims out of Spain, they gave rise to a badass Islamic queen. By Seth Ferranti.
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What I Don’t Tell My Students About ‘The Husband Stitch’
The first story in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ brings up big questions about who we believe and why. By Jane Dykema.
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