News & Politics
"Men's Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective
They’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws.
At the end of October, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, members of the men’s movement group RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting) gathered on the steps of Congress to lobby against what they say are the suppressed truths about domestic violence: that false allegations are rampant, that a feminist-run court system fraudulently separates innocent fathers from children, that battered women’s shelters are running a racket that funnels federal dollars to feminists, that domestic-violence laws give cover to cage
SNL: Equal Opportunity Objectifiers
Jon Hamm spent most of the Saturday Night Live episode he hosted last night shirtless.
Confessions of a Woman Comedy Writer
Allison Silverman accepts one from New York Women in Film & Television (and tells us why it's rare).
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We Need a Hero(ine)
By: Skelleydaemen | Tue, 08/04/2009 - 11:27
When my daughter was about this age she and all her friends loved The Powerpuff Girls, which is now being rerun on cable. The girls kicked butt, the animation was great, there's plenty of cartoony humor for the little ones, and the dialogue suitably multi-layered and ironic to appeal to adults. In one episode, every spoken word was a line from a Beatles song.
There's also two episode where the girls figure out ways to take apart their male counterparts.