The woman in the pink sweater, is she Mercedes from America’s Next Top Model?

After a catcaller responded to my assertive “leave me alone” statements by following and groping me on the street, I got “you should carry a gun” advice from a lot of people (I live in Texas). I would reply by asking, at exactly which point in the story should I have killed this man? When he said hello to me? When he…

I’m so looking forward to this film, and I really appreciate how this interview explains the approach to Tubman’s visions. 

In addition to the massive creepiness, it’s somehow perfect that a person who is an OBGYN can be so blinded by ideology that he forgets how bodies work, as if every menstruating person has a regular cycle, and knowing one detail about that cycle automatically reveals what medical procedures they’ve had.

I loved the part of her speech where she said that she hopes that the leaders of the world just don’t get it, because otherwise they’re just evil, and she doesn’t want to believe that. Call evil by its name! 

I’m all for abolishing the Oscars as a thing, but my thinking is that for certain demographics it increases the film’s viewership. I’m also very curious to see how the film handles the spiritual components, and the superhero parallels seem especially interesting at this particular moment in film history.

This is the kind of movie that could theoretically get Oscar attention, and while the Oscars are a whole big ideological mess, I would be delighted if she won.

I echo everyone’s comments about safety and security (consider the waste if they had to block off half a commercial flight so that Superstar doesn’t get stabbed by a stalker or similar). Further, this gets dangerously close to whataboutism and criticizing individuals for not being able to effect the vast structural…

When the Playboy mansion was for sale, my fantasy was to buy it and turn it into a feminist art collective and sex worker advocacy institute. I have similar dreams for this helicopter. 

The Tortoise and the Hare is a fable. Designing your life around raping girls and helping your rich friends to do the same, is not.

I wish they would hire more women of color as creatives on the show in order to address these dynamics better. While they do make a point of basing a lot of characters’ behaviors, particularly those that might seem illogical, on United Nations data on refugees and people who have experienced torture and political…

No matter what he does, he always looks more and more like a cartoon villain.

I definitely get your points about not wanting to further marginalize women through course categorization, but as someone who has been in academe for a while, my view on this has shifted somewhat. For one thing, I’ve noticed that in many cases, when courses are presented as “notable artworks...” they end up reverting…

I think what the article is getting at is that when people criticize Suspiria for having a male director, we should stop for a moment and think about all the other creative forces, and also think about how feminist critiques of the film industry might inadvertently replicate hierarchical norms that are a big part of…

I appreciate your points in this article about how limiting the concept of auteurism can be, particularly when it comes to questions of expression and authorship in film production. Of course, it’s important to have greater diversity at every level of the film industry (as in, to root out the sexism and racism that…

Her strategy has always been to wear things that are outrageous/strange/offensive when the administration needs media distraction from something else. Not only does this take attention away from Kavanaugh, but also the recent revelations about how 45's wealth comes from a long career of fraud (the NY Times has a big…

Wasn’t there literally a scene in season one of The Handmaid’s Tale at the brothel where they had women in sexy “handmaid” and “wife” costumes putting on some kind of sex show?

I love your point about how jokes like this are perpetuated by people laughing at men’s jokes even though they are not funny, a phenomenon bolstered by people refusing to laugh at legitimately funny women’s jokes, because power. 

Well, that pretty much confirms my worst suspicions. :(

My fave detail is how he describes the fetus as “she” - in his dream he totally imagined the kid as a daughter so he could have two women to control.