Sometimes I just want to break windows and shit.
Imagine what it would be like if every woman responded to the sexual harassment, oppression, rapes, and sexist comments and jokes that perpetrate this anti-woman culture with extreme violence. What if...
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Jenny Slate in Obvious Child In the wake of Bridesmaids’ box office success three years ago, I remember a host of think pieces whose titles all asked variations on the same question: “Does this mean...
View ArticleCandid Camera
Wanda, the first and only film by Barbara Loden, is—as Bérénice Reynaud put it in her essential essay “For Wanda”—a “small, forgotten masterpiece.” I wrote about it over at Movie Mezzanine. (You can...
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Our first fluffy kitty of 2013 is from Busby Berkeley’s The Gang’s All Here, which I wrote about yesterday. Aww, it looks like it’s waiting for a phone call! Aren’t cats just the cutest? And now,...
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This pretty white kitty comes courtesy of Lee Grant, playing the wealthy matriarch in Hal Ashby’s debut The Landlord. It’s a very underrated satire of class warfare and racial tension in the early...
View ArticleFeminist Film Smackdown: Zombieland
By Ashley [Note: this article is written under the assumption that those who read it have already seen it. Spoilers.] On a whim, Andreas and I decided to watch Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland; we love...
View ArticleWandering Uterus #1: Wee Feminst
By Ashley As promised before, I’m going to post the stories from my graphic memoir (which I just got my grade for today; 100%, whoo!). These first four pages are my least favorite; I want to completely...
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In light of Lady Gaga’s recent high-profile cover of it, along with the music video’s director David Fincher being Oscar-nominated, we figured it was time to revisit Madonna’s “Express Yourself,” which...
View ArticleSometimes my heart pounds like thunder and I don’t know why I don’t explode
Trigger Warning: for mentions of rape and extreme misogyny This. Just this. I can’t even. There are no fucking words. Last night I cried, I fucking sobbed because my body is not my own. My body is not...
View ArticleTalkin’ Feminism with Men Folk: Real Life Conversation
This is an excerpt from an actual IM conversation that I had with a male who I am friends with. The conversation was all normal and whatnot until it took a hard left turn into Feministville. I would...
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Welcome to a new year at Pussy Goes Grrr! We’re celebrating with a kitty from The Great Mouse Detective, one of the most underrated items in the Disney catalog. As you may have noticed, posting has...
View ArticleCan we as a culture move past the bullshit generalizations?
A stand-up comedian came to my campus today to perform during common break. He was pretty funny. Except when he was being sexist. An upsetting amount of his set was comprised of jokes about the...
View ArticleSometimes I just want to break windows and shit.
Imagine what it would be like if every woman responded to the sexual harassment, oppression, rapes, and sexist comments and jokes that perpetrate this anti-woman culture with extreme violence. What if...
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