Americans are often criticized for being self-interested, but you can’t blame the countryrecently for its preoccupation with the party primaries. Withpresidential candidates dominating the news, it seemed like no one even noticed that Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry had slipped out of the country to attend the World Economic Forum […]
Would someone please stop the World now? We’d like to get off, thanks. Seriously? We hold these truths to be self-evident: Trans women are women. Trans feminism is feminism. And #TransRightsAreHumanRights. — Ms. Magazine (@MsMagazine) July 26, 2017 Guess who Ms. Magazine ticked off the most with this tweet? Women. REAL women. Women's rights are […]
It’s great that he’s on board, but we still have a long way to go. View this image › Justine Zwiebel / Via BuzzFeed On Monday night, appearing on the Late Show With David Letterman, comedian Aziz Ansari came out as a feminist. His girlfriend is a “big feminist,” he said, which is what led […]
Katie Pavlich was discussing relationships and respect between spouses in regard to the Pence’s having guidelines for their marriage. Yeah, apparently it’s super sexist to respect one another enough not to be in questionable situations … who knew? Also true with non-religious spouses who deeply *respect* their wife or husband, avoiding bad appearances is crucial […]
Women don’t have it easy in this world. From the big things like menstruation and childbirth to cultural standards of beauty and expected behavior. One way for at least us men to make women’s lives easier might simply be to know more. Here are 27 entertaining, informative and occasionally tragic facts about women that I bet […]
Being a capital-G Girl is something that works for other people, and does not work for me. But it took me a while to get there. View this image › Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed I am 4 or 5, preschool age, running around alone on a playground that only appears in this memory and no […]
When she’s not behind the camera, Ava DuVernay steals the show. Here are 15 of the Selma director’s most stunning red-carpet looks. 1. There are endless reasons to admire writer-director Ava DuVernay: She became the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, and has been crafting powerful, diverse […]
We’ve used the term for nearly a century. But what does it tell us about the way we label women and their work? View this image › Matt Baron / BEImages / Getty Images / BuzzFeed News On the cover of the February issue of Vanity Fair, Rosamund Pike gives her best icy blue-eyed Grace […]
