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December 5, 2017 Hi, It’s Us, All the Fourteen-Year-Old Girls in America Hey, guys. We’re the fourteen-year-old girls of America. There are a lot of us, but we talk to each other. We’re on a group thread. We hear that the president — who, for the record, you elected; we are not old enough…
By the end of the thread, McCarthy made it clear that these trolls are part of the “alt-right.” “The problem I’m stating here is not that ‘there are trolls on the internet’ but that people who proclaim to be on our side are trying to tear down women in our in-group,” she wrote. Another self-described “conservative woman”…
Young Jean Lee/Facebook A play called Straight White Men is about to make history, becoming the first play written by an Asian American woman to appear on Broadway. The show, written by experimental Korean-American playwright (and David Byrne and Kathleen Hanna collaborator) Young Jean Lee, revolves around three brothers (the aforementioned straight white men) visiting…
Getty Images She can’t interview worth a damn. She performs the common traits associated with morning television—levity, banter, dancing, and basic familiarity with the ways of human beings—with the level of grace as a dentist snatching your wisdom teeth out with pliers. And yet, not only does Megyn Kelly reportedly want to became the new…
close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Matt Lauer with Hillary Clinton at the NBC News “Commander-in-Chief Forum” in September 2016. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Matt Lauer, like Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin before him, is a journalist out of a job after his employer fired him for sexually harassing female…
This story reflects the views of this author, but not necessarily the editorial position of Fast Company. On November 9, 2016, Hillary Clinton, fresh from defeat by a pussy-grabbing misogynist, predicted better times ahead for women: “Now, I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but someday someone will–and hopefully sooner…
close story-meta Israel Horovitz at the Gloucester Stage Company in 2009. Nine women have come forward to accuse the playwright of sexual assault and misconduct. Credit Maisie Crow for The Boston Globe, via Getty Images In 1986, Maddie Corman was a 16-year-old actress performing Off Broadway as her mother lay dying in a hospital bed,…
As the co-host of NBC’s “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified. On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her…
Donald Trump has retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy leader of the far-right British political party Britain First. The videos originally posted by Jayda Fransen are captioned “Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!”, “VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!” and “VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up…
Lena Dunham angered followers over the weekend by defending her friend who was accused of sexual assault. The background: On Friday, The Hollywood Reporter wrote that “Girls” writer Murray Miller was accused of sexual assault by actress Aurora Perrineau. Dunham, who has cultivated a powerful brand as a millennial feminist, responded to the news by saying that…