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Lauren Mayberry has been confronting misogyny head-on since her band Chvrches first rose to prominence. In late 2013 she penned an op-ed for the Guardian about the sexist abuse she’d endured during her then-brief stint in the internet’s spotlight, and called for an end to this kind of behavior. By publicly taking a stand, Mayberry…
Do the dolts who think that women aren’t funny finally feel stupid? If they watched last night’s Season 3 premiere of Inside Amy Schumer, they sure should have. Every single sketch examined gender relations in ways that were playful, unexpected, and hilarious. Exposing the stupidity of men and the bullshit they get away with has…
Laura Benanti Actress. Daughter. Sister. Writer. Pizza Lover. Twitter: @laurabenanti Instagram: @laurabenanti Text by Victoria Myers Images by Michelle Tse “Thank God we’re interviewing Laura Benanti,” was a phrase we proclaimed a lot in the past two weeks. It’s only the middle of January, but so far 2015 hasn’t exactly been a banner year for…
In the ’12-’13 season TCG theaters reported that of all musicals they produced, 21% were created with the help of living female playwrights, composers or lyricists. Compare that to the 18% of dead and 60% of living males. View more View more View more View more View more View more View more View more View…
Photo Elisabeth Moss in the Broadway revival of “The Heidi Chronicles,” which is set to close on May 3. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Twenty-five years after “The Heidi Chronicles” closed on Broadway, believers in the work of Wendy Wasserstein seized an opening. In the era of “Lean In” and “Girls,” and a paucity…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 If you are anything like me — and you are — you watched Galaxy Quest at least four times this weekend. You already know that it is commonly referred to as “the greatest Star Trek film of all time,” that Takei loved it despite initial misgivings, that Tony Shaloub’s stoner subplot was imperfectly…
Galaxy Quest, the Star Trek parody that turned out better than some official Trek movies, is getting a TV reboot. The cult sci-fi satire followed a cast of washed-up actors who starred in the fictional Galaxy Quest series, affectionately poking fun at sci-fi fandom in such a shrewd way that Star Trek star George Takei jokingly called it “a powerful piece…
DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. are teaming up to launch “DC Super Hero Girls” in fall 2015, a new initiative that will create a new superhero universe designed specifically for girls. “DC Super Hero Girls” will follow female superheroes and supervillains of the DC Comics, “prior to discovering their full super power potential.” Wonder Woman,…
In Jon Ronson’s interview with “Mercedes,” a 4chan activist, for his controversial nonfiction book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, she offhandedly explains why controversial site operates the way it does: “On the Internet, we have power in situations where we would otherwise be powerless.” Ronson’s book and many similar inquiries into the social media hive mind are interested…
by Alex Zalben 4/21/2015There aren’t that many homosexual comic book characters. In fact, the dedicated Wikipedia page only lists 99 superheroes, from any publisher… That’s in comparison to Marvel Comics’ purported 5,000+ characters the publisher touted when they were bought by Disney back in 2009. And when you get to name brand, easily recognizable (read:…