feminism
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Netflix’s Trans Employees Plan Walk Out To Protest New Dave Chappelle Special
Rejecting comments made by Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos in defence of Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special, The Closer, a number of the streaming platforms transgender employees are planning a company-wide walkout on October 20th.
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Bond Girls Deserve Better
Actress Gemma Arterton reflects on her role of Strawberry Fields and the many problems she sees with the idea of “Bond Girls” as a whole.
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Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre Was Some Next Level Whimsical Madness
There comes a moment in every fairytale lover’s life when you realise that many of the stories you grew up learning in children’s books—and perhaps a little later in children’s movies—were infused with a fair amount of garden variety sexism and small-mindedness packaged as fantastical parables. Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre took those stories and troubled…
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Report: Apple Won’t Let Siri Say Feminism
The Guardian is reporting that internal documentation governing Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, was rewritten to specifically avoid the word feminism. The company told the Guardian “[o]ur approach is to be factual with inclusive responses rather than offer opinions.”