Helen Mirren has been in the biz for more than 40 years; she’s won an Academy Award and is one of a very small handful of women over 60 to have a (semi-) permanent spot on the big screen. If anyone is qualified to comment on the state of women in Hollywood, it’s Helen. She’s ...
“Poor Ange,” you must be thinking, “She only makes 30 mill a movie.” While the problems of the rich and the famous often leave us feeling more bitterness than sympathy, the fact of the matter remains that Hollywood’s actresses earn far less than its actors. This week Forbes Magazine’s list of the top earning male ...
This week the Oscar nominations were announced and everyone seems to be discussing who will win, who was dissed and why The Academy is hating on the blacks. The assumption is that with enough money or fame, anyone can take Oscar home. So to repair his reputation we present the Quickie Awards! (And because the ...
I’ll just say it: the most misogynist film of the last 20 years has to be Wayne’s World. Way! If you leave out the movies that are purposefully trying to be demeaning to women, Wayne takes the cake. I’ll explain why and give you a few more of my picks after the jump.
The Other Man
Born into Brothels is an Oscar-winning documentary filmed by children of sex workers in Calcutta, India. Because of its success, one of these children, Avijit, now 20-years-old, has been given scholarships and is changing his life by studying film making at New York University. “When the film Born into Brothels was being made, we were not aware ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts. Nicole Kidman has accused ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
