ICYMI: In the wake of Gloria Steinem’s comments about young women not voting for Hillary Clinton because we’re more interested in who boys are voting for than radical activism, I just had to write in defence of millennials.

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December 24, 2015

On the (Rest of the) Net.

By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged abortion, boy band, Broadly, Calling Spots, Dame magazine, disability, Disability Horizons, Frida Kahlo, Fusion, gay rights, Harper's, Heathers, Hillary Clinton, intimate partner violence, Jezebel, manspreading, Medium, NFL, professional wrestling, race, Sady Doyle, Vocativ, WaPo ¶ Leave a comment

The disparities between TV and real life abortions. [WaPo]

Pushing back against manspreading. [Medium]

Did Frida Kahlo identify as a disabled artist? [Disability Horizons]

Portraying black gay men on TV. [Fusion]

Actually, bed rest isn’t good for you… so why are pregnant women still prescribed it? [Harper’s]

Hillary Clinton is the best candidate for the job of president:

“If you want to blame her for all of Bill Clinton’s bad decisions, which many Sanders partisans do, then you can’t do that without admitting that she did in fact play a major role in policy; if you want to trivialise her as ‘just a First Lady,’ then you can’t use any part of Bill’s administration against her. Pick your poison, but they’re mutually exclusive options. ” [Sady Doyle]

Deconstructing Heathers‘ fashion. [Fusion]

The NFL responds more harshly to dog fighting than it does to violence against women. [Broadly]

Can concussions cause rape? [Broadly]

So, wrestling for sex is a thing. [Vocativ]

The prats and pitfalls of the fanboy celebrity profile. [Jezebel]

Boy bands are one of the only safe spaces in which girls can explore their sexualities. [Dame Magazine]

ICYMI: I republished my Calling Spots story on race and gender in wrestling.

Images via Complex, Chat Cheri.

September 11, 2015

On the (Rest of the) Net.

By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged abortion, beauty, Bitch magazine, colonialism, Cosmopolitan, Daily Life, Down Under Feminists Carnival, Electric Literature, Erica Jong, feminism, Hazlitt, Jezebel, Junkee, Kesha, MariNaomi, masturbation, Matt McGorry, Miley Cyrus, MTV VMAs, Olivia Bension, Pitchfork, racism, rape, Roxane Gay, Spook magazine, The Bachelorette, The Guardian, The Verge, Transcendancing, true crime, Tyler the Creator, WaPo ¶ Leave a comment

Roxane Gay and Erica Jong discuss feminism, illustrating its generational, cultural and racial divides. [The Guardian]

Speaking of illustration, MariNaomi did just that for their talk! [Electric Literature]

Why aren’t we talking about Kesha’s rape case? [Bitch Magazine]

What it’s like to be harassed outside an abortion clinic. [Junkee]

Separating the man from the art: Tyler, the Creator edition. [Jezebel]

What Olivia Benson’s status as favourite female TV character tells us about viewers. [WaPo]

Miley Cyrus’ MTA VMAs hosting gig made her come off “as more of a cool mom than a youth culture avatar”. [The Verge]

“The 13 Best Pop Songs About Women Masturbating.” [Pitchfork]

Matt McGorry’s feminist journey. [Cosmopolitan]

We need to stop romanticising colonialism. [Daily Life]

Why is The Bachelorette so white? [The Guardian]

What women as consumers of true crime can tell us about being potential victims of it. [Hazlitt]

And can we forgive the men who victimise them after they’ve publicly apologised? [The Guardian]

Long hair and its ties to femininity. [Spook Magazine]

More links can be found in the latest installment of the Down Under Feminists Carnival. [Transcendancing]

Image via Electric Literature.

August 22, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged abortion, Amy Schumer, animal cruelty, Ashley Madison, Camilla Peffer, Cosmopolitan, Daily Life, Down Under Feminists Carnival, Fusion, HBO, Jennifer Aniston, Jezebel, Judd Apatow, Junkee, Lena Dunham, Molly Crabapple, Rachel Hills, rape jokes, Sesame Street, sex work, The Cut, The Guardian, The Sex Myth, Trainwreck, Triple J Hack, WaPo, XOJane, Zero at the Bone ¶ Leave a comment

Judd Apatow makes the same sexist, conservative and boring movie over and over again. [The Guardian]

Is there ever a justification for killing an animal? [Jezebel]

Why I won’t work with Lena Dunham as long as she supports the criminalisation of sex work. [Molly Crabapple]

How do singletons feel smug now that longtime lonely girl Jennifer Aniston is hitched? [Daily Life]

My friend Camilla Peffer wrote about how her persistent acne wasn’t caused by a lack of self-love. As an acne-sufferer myself, I can totally relate to this. [xoJane]

Anti-choicers shouldn’t dare proselytise to women about abortion: we know about it all too well. [The Cut]

Sesame Street‘s move to HBO begs the question: what about kids and families without access to premium cable TV? [WaPo]

Telling a rape joke made me feel amazing. [Jezebel]

The double bind of wearing—or not wearing—makeup. [Triple J Hack]

Why you shouldn’t search for people you know amongst the Ashley Madison hacks. [Fusion]

The best of Aussie and Kiwi feminist writing from July. [Zero at the Bone]

ICYMI: The full transcript of my interview, originally published on Junkee, with Rachel Hills about her new book, The Sex Myth.

These are the books I’ve read over the past year.

Why Walmart and Rite-Aid in the U.S. shouldn’t ban Cosmopolitan.

Image via LA Times.

July 24, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged abortion, Ashley Madison, Atticus Finch, Caitlin Stasey, Clementine Ford, Cosmopolitan, cultural appropriation, Daily Life, Fusion, Go Set a Watchman, Good Weekend, Jezebel, Karlie Kloss, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kevin Allred, LA Review of Books, Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham, Magic Mike XXL, Medium, New Republic, Nicki Minaj, painful sex, Pitchfork, Planned Parenthood, porn, racism, reproductive rights, Serena Wiliams, sex, stripping, Taylor Swift, The Bachelorette, The Cut, the Fappening, The Guardian, The Nation, Vulture, WaPo, XOJane ¶ Leave a comment

The return of the teen girl movie. [Daily Life]

What Go Set a Watchman can teach us about contemporary racism. [WaPo]

But Atticus Finch’s racism isn’t a new thing. [New Republic]

The rise of porn gifs (NSFW). [Fusion]

Taylor Swift may have “Bad Blood” with some (most recently Nicki Minaj), but her “feminist selfies” with Karlie Kloss, Lena Dunham et al. shows what it’s like to be close to her. [LA Review of Books]

Speaking of Swift inserting herself into Minaj’s beef with the MTV VMAs for her groundbreaking videos being overlooked in this years’ nominations, it isn’t the first time Swift has both played the white, innocent victim and been at the centre of VMA controversy. [The Guardian, Kevin Allred]

The cultural appropriation of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and how we perpetuate it by watching it. [The Cut]

Is Lady Gaga normal now? [Vulture]

Let’s clear up that Planned Parenthood selling aborted foetuses nonsense. [xoJane]

The hacking of cheating website Ashley Madison isn’t morally any better than The Fappening. [Daily Life]

In the wake of Good Weekend cancelling an article on Caitlin Stasey because she wouldn’t pose nude for them, she’s taken to Jezebel to tell her side of the story in more than 140 characters.

We need to stop devaluing women’s sports. [New Republic]

Serena Williams is the seminal athlete. [The Nation]

When painful sex continues long after the first time. [Medium]

What it’s like to be an extra on Magic Mike XXL. [Cosmopolitan]

“Pony”, “Closer” and the significance of the strip club soundtrack. [Pitchfork]

How The Bachelorette is changing the way reality TV deals with sex. [Vulture]

Clementine Ford is writing a book! [Facebook]

June 20, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged abortion, Bitch Flicks, breastfeeding, Britney Spears. Iggy Azalea, BuzzFeed, feminism, In Touch, Jurassic World, Mad Max: Fury Road, Orange is the New Black, Pitchfork, teen movies, The Dissolve, Vulture, WaPo ¶ Leave a comment

Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea’s “Pretty Girls”‘ emphasis on looks dates the song. [Pitchfork]

The reemergence of talking about abortion. [WaPo]

Jurassic World didn’t have to be “overtly feminist”, just “overtly not sexist”. [Vulture]

The return of the teen movie. [The Dissolve]

Just when you thought Mad Max: Fury Road couldn’t be milked (pardon the pun) for any further feminist viewpoints, someone writes a breast milk article. [Bitch Flicks]

The rise and rise of In Touch magazine. [Buzzfeed]

ICYMI: “The Perception of Power in Orange is the New Black.“

April 17, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged abortion, Birdee, Bitch Flicks, Bullshit Blog, Crossroads, Daily Life, Drake, Flavorwire, Gradient Lair, Grey's Anatomy, Hillary Clinton, intimate partner violence, Janelle Monae, Mad Men, Madonna, Maxim, rape, reproductive rights, Role/Reboot, safe sex, selfies, sexual assault, Shakesville, Spook magazine, Think Progress, Vice, Vulture, White Ribbon ¶ Leave a comment

Five times Madonna sucked the life-force out of young ingenues. [Maxim]

And the sexual politics of that kiss. [Role Reboot]

I wrote about the connection between Crossroads and Grey’s Anatomy. [Bitch Flicks]

Mad Men‘s best literary references. [Vulture]

A bitch is an opinionated woman who’s not especially beautiful while doing it. [Daily Life]

Providing women with safety tips is a moot point because women are attacked everywhere under all circumstances. [Bullshit Blog]

How the way we speak about Hillary Clinton may influence her presidential bid. [Think Progress]

Here are some practical ways to address the epidemic of violence against women in Australia instead of perpetuating the “monster myth”. [Birdee, White Ribbon]

What the “Eat, Sleep, Rape, Repeat” tshirt can teach us about rape culture at music festivals. [Vice]

Janelle Monae is not for male consumption. [Gradient Lair]

Wishing rape on a rapist further perpetuates rape culture. [Daily Life]

“Men, Stop Being Dicks About Condoms.” [Spook Magazine]

“In Defence of the Selfie.” [Spook Magazine]

Have you ever noticed that ubiquitous rom com scene in which the female protagonist wonders out loud whether she “had sex” with the male love interest while drunk? Honey, if you have to ask, it’s rape. [Shakesville]

How celebrities sharing their abortion stories may change the way we think about and legislate reproductive rights. [Flavorwire]

Images via Watchcloud, Jezebel.

February 27, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged 50 Shades of Grey, ableism, abortion, Academy Awards, Bitch Flicks, BuzzFeed, Clementine Ford, Daily Life, Disability Intersections, feminism, Girls, Grantland, Jezebel, Justin Bieber, Kate McKinnon, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Newlyweds, sexism, slut-shaming, Spook magazine, The Atlantic, The Hills, The Little Mermaid, TheVine, Ursula, wrestling, Writers Bloc ¶ Leave a comment

The Little Mermaid‘s Ursula is the feminist fairy octomother you never knew you wanted. [Bitch Flicks]

I dissect why we insist on calling women “girls”. [TheVine]

Newlyweds, and later The Hills and Keeping Up with the Kardashians, was a pioneer of the “celebrity best friend” trope. [Grantland]

In the wake of my “Wrestling with Obsession” piece for Writers Bloc, they interviewed me for their newsletter. Sign up here.

How the capitalism of Fifty Shades of Grey reinforces the ties that bind women to abusive relationships. [Buzzfeed]

Clementine Ford thinks the word “slut” is too far gone to be worth reclaiming. [Daily Life]

“The Radical Queerness of Kate McKinnon’s Justin Bieber.” [The Atlantic]

So a character on Girls had an abortion and was super relaxed about it. [Jezebel]

Cripface Oscar bait reigned supreme at this years’ Academy Awards. [Disability Intersections]

And here‘s everything else that was wrong with the Oscars. [Bitch Flicks]

Lesbian representation in women’s magazines. [The Conversation]

Meet the Feminist Fucker: a guy who sees feminists as the ultimate conquest. [Spook Magazine]

ICYMI: When you realise all your passions are no longer cutting it.

Image via Disney.com.

January 30, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged #askhermore, 50 Shades of Grey, abortion, Bitch Flicks, Cosmopolitan, Daily Dot, Daily Life, Gawker, homelessness, Jezebel, Lindy West, MamaMia, menstruation, misogyny, racism, red carpet, Scandal, sex, sexism, The Advocate, This American Life, trolling, vaginismus, Vice, vulvodynia ¶ Leave a comment

An interesting perspective on #askhermore and the capitalism of the red carpet. [MamaMia]

50 Shades of Grey‘s tampon scene could have been an opportunity to demystify period sex but instead it was cut from the film. At least it’s not going to be an exact recreation of the book’s version, which has major boundary issues. That goes for the whole book, really. [Daily Dot]

How should you feel about your abortion? [Gawker]

Both Jezebel and Cosmo are talking vaginismus and vulvodynia, or painful sex.

Why do famous women pose in swimsuits on the cover of magazines? [Daily Life]

Race in the political world of Scandal. [Bitch Flicks]

When gay men engage in sexism and misogyny. [The Advocate]

How homeless women deal with having their periods when they can’t afford sanitary products. [Vice]

Lindy West confronts the troll who apologised to her for impersonating her dead dad. [This American Life]

Image via Seattle PI.

January 16, 2015

On the (Rest of the) Net.

By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged abortion, Academy Awards, Addiction-Treatment, alcohol, Amy Poehler, Beyond Clueless, Bill Cosby, Bitch Flicks, Bitch magazine, BuzzFeed, Caitlin Stasey, Charlie Lyne, class, Cosmopolitan, Daily Life, Daniel Armstrong, drugs, feminism, Feministe, Filmme Fatales, From Parts Unknown: Fight Like a Girl, Gilmore Girls, Girls, Golden Globes, Hannah Horvath, Herself, Instagram, Janet Mock, Junkee, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lena Dunham, Nicki Minaj, Outback Championship Wrestling, rap, rape jokes, reproductive rights, Role Reboot, Rooftop Cinema, sex workers, Sia, Talking Points Memo, Taylor Swift, The Atlantic, The Baffler, The Hairpin, The Village Voice, Tina Fey, Total Divas, Vice, wrestling ¶ Leave a comment

I interviewed From Parts Unknown: Fight Like a Girl‘s director/producer Daniel Armstrong ahead of the movie’s seven-years-in-the-making premiere last weekend. [Outback Championship Wrestling]

I also did a little write up on OCW’s newest tag team, the Loose Bastards!

And just to top off my week of wrestling writing, I’m talking about choice on Total Divas. [Bitch Flicks]

Do home invasion movies help women work through our fears of real-life in-home violence? [Bitch]

Further to that, what about Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and sexual assault survivors? [The Hairpin]

When is the right time to carry a pregnancy to term? And when is the right time to abort? [Talking Points Memo]

Bill Cosby’s infuriating arrogance allows him to get away with everything. [Role Reboot]

Is it time for Girls to separate Hannah Horvath from Lena Dunham? [Junkee]

Rappers rule Instagram (and they also post the most drug- and alcohol-related content). [Addiction-Treatment]

Feminism won the Golden Globes. [Cosmopolitan]

But diversity lost in the Oscars nominations. [Daily Life]

Further to that, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Cosby–rape joke got it right because it skewered the (alleged) rapist and rape culture, not the victim. [Feministe]

The class politics of Gilmore Girls. [The Baffler]

Sex workers don’t need to be rescued. [Vice]

Taylor Swift’s Girlfriend Collection. [Buzzfeed]

An interview with Caitlin Stasey about her new body-positive website, Herself. com. [Daily Life]

Filmme Fatales interviewed Beyond Clueless director Charlie Lyne before they present the doco at the Rooftop Cinema on 27th January.

Janet Mock on self-care. [The Hairpin]

Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift and Sia’s latest chart-topping albums are trading in sadness. [The Village Voice]

The story of V: abbreviating “very”. [The Atlantic]

Image via Strongman Pictures.

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