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This article includes no major spoilers for Rogue One.The idea that Rogue One is groundbreakingly feminist has always been pretty bizarre. Jyn Erso’s protagonist status is equal to Rey’s in The Force Awakens, and besides: Every other main character is a man. While Rogue One was being promoted (and protested) as a female-led sci-fi blockbuster, its trailers remained…
D.C. police detained a gunman on Dec. 4, who had walked into Comet Ping Pong, a popular Northwest Washington restaurant and music venue. Police said no injuries were reported. (Faiz Siddiqui,Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) A feedback loop of half-baked rumors and willful misinformation whips a corner of the Internet into such a frenzy that someone…
Around the late 2000s a movement began, rooted in a renaissance of black pride and fostered by chat rooms, film, YouTube, and eventually social media. This movement encouraged women of color to transition from processed to natural hair. It was about embracing the texture and curl of what organically grew out of one’s scalp. It…
Mike Pence.Photo: Darron Cummings/AP Indiana governor and Donald Trump running mate Mike Pence — notable for getting incensed at the animated Disney movie Mulan for being liberal propaganda that promoted the idea of women in the military — was once just a man getting incensed at the idea of working mothers allegedly stunting their children’s…
Art by Megan Lara Cynicism is tempting. It hovers constantly at the edge of every hopeful moment, whispering “it will never happen.” It looks intelligent. It looks wry and elegant and worldly. And it has never managed to ensnare Luna Lovegood. Luna has spent years being told to give up. She has spent years being…
The first ‘Star Wars’ stand-alone movie, directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Felicity Jones, takes place before the events of the original 1977 ‘Star Wars.’ Rogue One definitely puts the war back into Star Wars. It may call itself rogue, but this first stand-alone feature in the series officially unconnected with any of the previous…
A police officer arrested a man after watching him grope four women near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, according to court documents.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland NEW YORK CITY — Police Officer Joseph Pecora watched as a 44-year-old man groped a woman near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on a recent evening — but despite…
Photographed by Matthew Frost I first met Michelle Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll in 2011, when I was 15. I was obviously nervous but was immediately put at ease when she gave me and my mom a big hug and we all instantly bonded over our height. “Oh, we like tall girls…
Dungeons & Dragons has historically used attractive monsters, and especially of the female persuasion, to appeal to potential players. Busty demons and lithe wood maidens populated its source material, namely its Monster Manual, throughout the last 40 years. With recent editions and supplements, D&D has phased out its bare-breasted female monsters and included more sexy…