As 2017 draws to a close and hope for a fresh start hums in the background of our pop-cultural consciousness, we regret to inform you that the #Meninists are at it again. Rolling Stone reports that one particularly well-adjusted man by the name of George St. George has sued comedian Iliza Shlesinger for denying him…
To be online is to engage in a never-ending death march to the bottom of irony, where sardonic memes turn into real-world problems and then jokes about those problems turn into sardonic memes. The loose assemblage of bickering, sarcastic racists known as the “alt-right” revels in this disarray, using its vagaries as a…
There has been much hand-wringing in recent weeks over the term “alt-right.” While it is a concise name for a self-identifying group, and therefore useful, it’s also a new term that many readers are unfamiliar with, and masks the group’s shockingly retrograde, racist, nationalist politics. Also, the modifier “alt”…
It looks like IFC’s Portlandia is taking its break-up with Portland’s In Other Words—a.k.a., the basis for the show’s frequently visited feminist bookstore Women & Women First—pretty well. A new preview for the show’s seventh season show’s the store’s exterior, hinting at the setup for a classic Toni and Candace…
Amid the box office records and critical praise heaped on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a few hyper-sensitive souls may have noticed a very small disturbance in the Force, as if dozens of voices cried out in terror, and were suddenly ignored. You see, while director J.J. Abrams has been praised for imagining a galaxy…
Mad Max: Fury Road has earned near-uniformly rave reviews for being the sort of action movie that leaves other action movies wanting, creating a savage beauty from its cyber-circus freaks and their desert smash-’em-ups, and generally being a hell of a good time. However, it can’t be that much fun, because there are…
