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Why Are We So Furious with ‘Girls’?

A recent episode of the HBO television show Girls threw audience members into a frenzy. Specifically, it threw audience members affiliated with academia into a frenzy. The cause of the uproar? At the end of the sixth and final season, Hannah Horvath (the...

Why Your Hipster T-Shirt Doesn’t Make You a Feminist

Mark Ruffalo’s delightful response to the “I Am Not a Feminist” phenomenon, in which he castigates the current trend of women (and maybe also men?) to distance themselves from the feminist label (“You’re insulting every woman who was...

In Praise of Selfies: Work It, Girl

While I freely admit that the word “selfie” makes me cringe, this article made me cringe even more. According to Erin Gloria Ryan, “Selfies aren’t empowering; they’re a high tech reflection of the fucked up way society teaches women that their most...