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Is Judd Apatow Really A Sexist Filmmaker?
Judd Apatow is probably best known as the current King of Hollywood Comedy. He wrote, directed and produced The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Knocked Up and has been somehow involved in almost every major...
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Sex and the City … and You!
With the recent release of the second Sex and the City film, I thought it would be interesting to consider these fictionalized women … and, like it or not, their place as role models. They all...
View ArticleTwilight: Desiring Desire and its Impact on Adolescents
Without question, both the striking international popularity as well as content — and it’s implications — of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight are worthy of feminist inquiry. Mikhail Lyubanksy, in a piece...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger Beefing up Commission for the Status of Women with Geena Davis...
Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis, who has a history of playing roles with a feminist beat to them (Thelma and Louise and A League of Their Own, to name a few), is moving on to a new role—working as an...
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Why is Eat, Pray, Love a Joke?
I had no desire to read Eat, Pray, Love when it was a book, and I have even less desire to see it now that it has been made into a film. I was content to argue that my lack of interest was because, for...
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Tangled May Be the Last of the Disney Princess Movies
This weekend, though most families are probably seeing Harry Potter for the first or second or eighth time, guaranteeing it another couple hundred million in sales, I’m considering how I’m going to...
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Catherine Hardwicke Cries ‘Sexism’; Only the Twihards Weep
As Director David O. Russell reveals in his Best Director Oscar nomination for The Fighter, Twilight director, Catherine Hardwicke contends sexism precluded her from consideration for the same role....
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Pan Am Wants You to Know It is Neither Mad Men Nor Sexist
ABC is on the defensive while marketing and promoting its new show, Pan Am, to audiences and critics concerned that the show is just seeking to ride off the coattails of AMC’s critically-acclaimed Mad...
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Is Bemoaning the Lack of Fictional Female Mentors Taking Feminism Too Far?
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes, though, it’s … well, not. In fact, much of the time life sort of goes along in a way that could almost be considered typical. Stereotypical, even,...
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Why I Hate You, ‘Magic Mike’
I know everyone is excited about “Magic Mike” but I’m not. Firstly, girls get to be hookers with the heart of gold, okay? Not boys. Boys don’t get to take that role from us, we originated that role...
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