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Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit: The Rebecca Traister View of Gender and the World

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Single status is now no longer a blight upon the land but a set of Very Useful Functions that keep the economy running smoothly.


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Known Knowns and Complete Unknowns: A Quick Update

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Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown: Or, When Critics Respond To A Woman Who Lives Like A Man

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Both Variety and the Times describe Weisz’s character as a “femme fatale,” even though there’s no hint that she enters her various lives by feminine wiles.



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“March as Feminists, Not As Women” Now Up On Verso’s Blog

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A women’s march is terrified of or angry at a monstrous man, a feminist one understands how to vanquish the system that birthed him. Tomorrow, march as a feminist, not as a woman.

2017 Women's March in D.C.

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Should You March Against Trump?

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To put it bluntly: Everything you are marching to prevent, dear marchers, has already come to pass.


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Lambda Literary Stops Being Literary

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Lambda, you have no damned right to call yourself “literary” by any measure.


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Killing You Softly with Her Dreams: Arianna Huffington’s War on Sleep

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“I cried to dream again.”

Caliban, The Tempest


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Happy Hols!

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Colder Than Mars: The Frigid Update

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Lefties, it turns out, can’t actually walk and chew gum at the same time: With a few rare exceptions, the only way they know how to critique, say, identity politics, is to first mock everyone who belongs to particular identity categories while blithely ignoring the fact that, actually, whiteness is an identity as well.  

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The New York Times Is The Daily Prophet

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Baquet talks about people, but he’s part of a deeply corrupt system, one that willingly kowtows to a set of political figures it hopes will grant it access for many years to come.  


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