Jude Ellison Sady Doyle is an In These Times contributing writer. They are the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why (Melville House, 2016) and was the founder of the blog Tiger Beatdown. You can follow them on Twitter at @sadydoyle.
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Orange is the New Black, Season 2, Episodes 6 and 7: A Prison Underground in Crisis
Is Litchfield's infrastructural decline a metaphor for what's to come?
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The Nanny University
Is the academy trigger-warning happy?
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Orange Is the New Black, Season 2, Episode 5: A Song of Vice and Ire
The relationships among races on OITNB are as complex as the politics on Game of Thrones.
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Orange is the New Black, Season 2, Episode 4: Everyone’s Acting Like a Predator
Should we still empathize with the characters of OITNB after this week's disturbing revelations?
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Orange Is the New Black, Season 2, Episode 3: Here There Be Dragons
Suzanne, as we learn in her first flashback episode, has always been stranded alone in the world.
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Orange Is the New Black, Season 2, Episode 2: Taystee’s Own Worst Enemy
Taystee is torn, in some fundamental way, between ambition and self-sabotage.
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Smith’s Pronoun Problem
Students protest the school's admissions policies regarding trans women.
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Memo to ‘Game of Thrones’: Abusers Aren’t Heroes
In its season finale, the show once again asks us to sympathize with a male perpetrator of violence rather than his female victim.
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Orange is The New Black, Season 2, Episode 1: It’s All About Piper
If you are not a fan of cockroaches or Piper, you are out of luck.
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Orange Is the New Black Makes Other TV Look Quaint
The show is the first to take women this seriously.
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Yes, It’s Okay To Have a Metaphorical Rape in a Disney Movie
The problem with Maleficent isn't the dark themes.
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Elliot Rodger Wasn’t Just a Murderer
The California gunman's actions weren't an aberration; they were the product of a misogynistic and racist society.
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Mad Men, Season 7 Episode 7: Goodbye, Bert Cooper, You Otherworldly Elf
Man lands on the moon, Peggy lands a big pitch, and Sterling Cooper moves definitively from past to future.
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Mad Men: Season 7, Episode 6: Peggy and Don, Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
This was the kind of episode Mad Men fans live for.
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Mad Men: Season 7, Episode 5: The Tragedy of the Nipple in a Box
As Ginsberg suffers a breakdown, Betty finally has a breakthrough.
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Tori Amos Returns, Unrepentant
Without Tori Amos, pop music wouldn't be what it is today. Will she finally get the recognition she deserves?
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Relevant to Our Interests?
Longtime essayist Ellen Willis' work is important, whether or not it encapsulates our current state of affairs.
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Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 4: A Grave New World
The men of SC&P freak out over the arrival of a newfangled computer, but miss the real transformation underway.
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Mansplaining, Explained
How Rebecca Solnit articulated a millennia-old phenomenon.
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Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 3: Betty Who?
Whether it's Crocker or Friedan, Betty can't seem to fit the roles society has constructed for her.
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Joss Whedon Proves He Can Create Weak Female Characters
'In Your Eyes' will disappoint Whedon's feminist fans. Along with, most likely, everyone else.
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Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 2: Nasty Bitter Career Gals
Peggy Olsen has been through a lot—but when she bullies the show's most marginalized characters, she deserves to lose our sympathy.
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Is Harmon’s ‘Community’ Really Back in Harmony?
The season that followed creator Dan Harmon's return was more about him than about anything else.
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Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 1: A Pitch in Time
The season premiere explores the grim inevitability of change, and also features Pete Campbell as a Ken Doll.
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Under the Skin’s Weird Feminism
Surprisingly, Scarlett Johansson's alien succubus has a lot to tell us about what it's like to be a woman.
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‘Game of Thrones’ Could Have Been Much Worse
HBO's hit series is making the best of its heavy-handed source material.
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How I Met, Impregnated and Promptly Disregarded Your Mother
The popular CBS sitcom isn't the warmhearted delight viewers make it out to be.
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By Making Fun of Gwyneth, Are We Really Dismantling Privilege?
The reactions to Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow show that no matter what, women can't win.
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Veronica Mars and the Case of the Disappearing Feminism
The movie version of Veronica Mars keeps the wit, but not the politics that once made the TV series great.
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In the Social Media Wars, Young Women Aren’t Left Unarmed
Teenage girls on the Internet aren't nearly as fragile as we think they are.
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‘Budapest Hotel’ Is Too ‘Grand’ To Function
Wes Anderson’s latest film takes his signature style to a truly obnoxious level.
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Hannibal’s Feminist Take on Horror
The NBC drama proves that you can stamp out sexism and still produce scares.
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The Perils of Reading While Female
Alienated by sexism in 'Great Books' (cough, Kerouac), some women create a secret canon.
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What Would Lynne Tillman Do? Wouldn’t You Like To Know
Tillman's essay collection displays her profound distrust for the way society's stories betray our lived truths.
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The Real Winners at the Oscars
From Ellen DeGeneres to Lupita Nyong'o, we acknowledge those who excelled at the ceremony itself.
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 8: Dear Abbey, What’s to Become Of Us?
One writer's advice for Downton's plot-twist-beset heroes and heroines.
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 7: A Farewell to Charms
Downton ties up this season's loose ends, and the results are pretty offensive.
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What the Media Need To Know About Trans People
After the suicide of 'Dr. V.' trans activists and journalists discuss how to prevent future tragedies.
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 6: Pig Poop, Right in the Kisser
'Edgy' plotlines about abortion and interracial romance are upstaged by pig feces.
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Stockholm Syndrome: A Love Story
'Labor Day' is not the feel-good romance it clearly sets out to be.
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 5: A Black Man Enters Downton, Panic Ensues
Race, like rape, is something Downton's writers don't seem equipped to handle.
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 4: Stuck in Bates’ Feelings-Swamp
In the game of Downton Abbey, nobody wins as long as Bates is around.
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The ‘Feminized Society’ Myth
How the gender perception gap makes a female minority feel like a majority.
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 3: A Series of Unfortunate Aftermaths
Downton's writers can't stop exploring sexual assault--but do they even know they're doing it?
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 2: Downton’s Rape Fail
The lightweight show takes on a heavy issue, and not well.
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 1.5: The 10 Most Boring Characters
Let's drop the pretense. Does anyone really care about Rose?
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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 1, Part 1: A (Silver) Spoon Full of Sugar
Downton Abbey's back, and it's schmaltzier than ever.
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‘Her’ Is Really More About ‘Him’
Spike Jonze's new romantic drama is undoubtedly sexist—but critics haven't seemed to notice.
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