Marina (her working name), is a 20-year-old undergrad at the University of Melbourne. For the past two years she has also been doing sex work. This is her story. Growing up, my only understanding of sex work came from movies. While I always thought “I could do that if I really had to,” I never […]
Why is vulgarity traditionally masculine, and why should feminism have to capitulate to this historically masculine trope to gain equality and respect? I’m tired of raunch culture representing equality for women. With a recent surge in women directors, writers, and actors embracing raunchy, vulgar and “unladylike” behavior for film, critics and essayists are quick to […]
Old Hollywood may be uncomfortable with appearing impolite or indelicate when one of its own is exposed publicly, but fewer young women are. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s unapologetic takedown of Bill Cosby at the Golden Globes exposed a raw nerve among the entertainment elite. Fey and Poehler’s halfhearted attempt to impersonate Cosby’s syntax and […]
