Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Getty Images Against all public ire, better judgement, and general respect for women in general, Matt Damon can’t stop spouting nonsense about the pervasive rape culture that seems almost inextricably rooted in Hollywood. Yes, that’s right (deep breath): MATT DAMON SAID SOMETHING ELSE STUPID AND DAMAGING AND WILL MOST LIKELY CONTINUE TO SAY STUPID AND…
A teenage duchess who hid her cigarette from her parents. A dancer getting ready to go on stage. A mother entertaining her children in her home. Sisters dancing at a Halloween party. Two women near a stove. All of these women lived differently — from actual royalty to anonymous nobodies. But they all died the…
Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames trafficked in hideous stereotypes and body-shaming. December 15, 2017 at 4:42 PM Taibbi released a new book about Eric Garner this year. (Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage) There’s more than one way to harass women. A raft of men in recent weeks have paid for accusations of sexual harassment with their…
“Revolution will come in a form we cannot yet imagine,” the critical theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney wrote in their 2013 essay “The Undercommons,” about the need to radically upend hierarchical institutions. I thought of their prophecy in October, when a private document listing allegations of sexual harassment and abuse by dozens of men…
Image via Getty Over the course of making Frida, an important and beautiful film about one of the most talented, self-determined woman artists of the 20th century, Harvey Weinstein allegedly harassed, emotionally abused, and threatened to kill Salma Hayek, who portrayed the title character. In a devastating op-ed for the New York Times, Hayek details…
Image via Getty On Tuesday evening, 63 percent of white women voted for Roy Moore, a man accused of assaulting multiple teenage girls, and cruising for more—so aggressively that he was thought to have been banned from the Gadsen Mall. I’ll say it again: 63 percent of white women voted for the guy who was…
On Wednesday night, Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock shared a post on his Twitter account admitting to past sexual harassment and detailing an encounter after which he was accused of rape. The post, entitled “I Am Part of the Problem,” begins with something I’m sure plenty of men can relate to: As I sit…
Image via Meg. Glamour brings to our attention these Another One Bites the Dust shirts by Meg Kinney of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which capture the dates that powerful men have been publicly accused of sexual harassment and assault this year, starting with Bill O’Reilly in April and ending with Trump, TBA. The designs both capitalize on…
December 5, 2017 Hi, It’s Us, All the Fourteen-Year-Old Girls in America Hey, guys. We’re the fourteen-year-old girls of America. There are a lot of us, but we talk to each other. We’re on a group thread. We hear that the president — who, for the record, you elected; we are not old enough…
By the end of the thread, McCarthy made it clear that these trolls are part of the “alt-right.” “The problem I’m stating here is not that ‘there are trolls on the internet’ but that people who proclaim to be on our side are trying to tear down women in our in-group,” she wrote. Another self-described “conservative woman”…