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Japanese Women Fight For the Right to Keep Their Last Names After Marriage
In Japan, married couples are legally obligated to have the same last name. While the law doesn’t say that it has to be wives that take their husbands names, centuries of patriarchy mean that – much...
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Exclusive: Kasey Rose-Hodge on Her Internet-Breaking Essay About the...
You may have seen an essay by Kasey Rose-Hodge floating around your internet-space lately. After watching everything that’s happening in North Carolina and other states, seeing the general anti-trans...
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Feminism Around the World: What Women In Other Countries Fear From a Trump...
image via Cienpies Design/Shutterstock Welcome to Feminism Around the World, a weekly feature here at TMS where we focus on women’s lives and feminist concerns … around the world. TMS is a US-based...
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Spider-Man: Homecoming Doesn’t Pass the Bechdel Test. It Doesn’t Come Close.
I’ve been thinking about the fun to be had at Spider-Man: Homecoming, but also about how audiences who see it this weekend won’t be seeing two female characters speak to one another. Allison Bechdel’s...
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Things We Saw Today: Please Don’t Watch the New Fifty Shades Freed Trailer
I promise I’m not trying to pull any kind of reverse psychology. You have better things to do with your precious time. Please do not watch the new trailer for the latest movie adapted from E.L. James’...
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For $2 an Hour, Female Inmates Are Fighting California Wildfires - What is...
The wildfires in Northern California have caused unimaginable devastation to the people in that area with at least 23 people and possibly hundreds more missing, according to reports from ABC News....
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Aerie’s New Lingerie Campaign Is a Beautiful Smorgasbord of Representation &...
Aerie, American Eagle’s brand of lingerie and sleepwear, has been promoting messages of inclusion and body positivity for a while now. Back in 2014, they launched their #AerieReal campaign, pledging...
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Author Lauren Groff Had the Best Possible Answer for the Inevitable “Can You...
No matter how antiquated the idea may seem, women are rarely invited to discuss their professional accomplishments without, at some point in the conversation, being asked to frame their professional...
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Donald Trump’s Tweet About Helping Women Gets Ratioed Into the Sun
What must it be like to walk through life with absolutely zero self awareness? I imagine it would be much like Donald Trump, noted misogynist and sexual predator, tweeting a self-congratulatory screed...
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Tokyo Olympics Chief Complains Women Talk Too Much and Other Sexist Nonsense
Yoshiro Mori of the Japanese Olympic Committee apologizes for sexist remarks. (image:Getty Images AsiaPac) Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, thinks women talk too much....
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Seth Rogen Shuts Down “Bullshit” Rumor Emma Watson Stormed off This Is the...
Seth Rogen, a known pottery maker and actor, isn’t having it when it comes to rumors that Emma Watson stormed off set of his 2013 movie This Is the End. It’s been a long-standing rumor ever since Emma...
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No, Women Aren’t Losing Out by Directing Franchises Like Marvel or DC
Women aren’t losing out or “stooping” to directing franchises instead of indie movies, and the assertion in The Guardian that they are is ignorant in itself when there are plenty of women out there...
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The Internet Answers What #WomenFantasizeAbout to Honest AF Results
Walking into the Twitter hashtag “Women Fantasize About,” I thought I knew what I was getting into. Surely there were some who were going for the sexiness of it all. Margot Robbie, Oscar Isaac,...
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15 Women-Identifying Artists You Should Check Out This Portfolio Day
Artists from all over the world are sharing their work thanks to the Portfolio Day Twitter account and the hashtag of the same name. And let me tell you, the kind of art that is out there is out of...
View ArticleNat’l Superhero Day: “No Man’s Land” Scene From Wonder Woman Still Gives Me...
Years later, and I still get the feels when I watch the “No Man’s Land” scene from Wonder Woman. Seriously, it’s like no time has passed and I’m in the movie theater watching Diana plead with Steve...
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The Women of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone Deserve All the Praise and Then Some
*Spoilers ahead for season one of Shadow and Bone* Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has done something that rarely happens in TV shows when it comes to women and their characters. They’ve made me fall in...
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New Book Says Facebook Employees Abused Access to Track and Stalk Women
As if I didn’t need any more reasons to not trust Facebook, they go and get exposed for having their employees reportedly engaging in some seriously disturbing behavior. According to Insider, the...
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Republicans Are Insisting They Know How To Define ‘Woman’ and It’s Not Going...
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had to put up with a lot of nonsense during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings last month, with Republicans barraging her with bad-faith logicless lines of questioning...
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The Best Part of ‘Barbie’ Happens Before the Film Even Begins
After much anticipation and brilliantly executed promotion, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is finally here. And readers, it’s a goddamn delight. Smart, moving, and unapologetically feminist, the film is a home...
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Color Us Shocked: Most Women Don’t Want to Date Joe Rogan Fans!
Since the dawn of time, men have been on an endless quest to figure out what women want. There was even a movie made with that exact title! Thanks to research, surveys, and the internet, we are...
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