“Ain’t no bitches gonna hunt no ghosts,” Kristen Wiig’s Erin Gilbert reads from a comment in an online forum in the new Ghostbusters, echoing the misogynistic sentiment of Men’s Rights Activists, Internet trolls and other sexist man-babies about the much-anticipated all-female reboot of Ivan Reitman’s 1984 film. Well, Paul Feig and company prove without a...
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How I Stopped Letting Sexual Approval Determine my Body’s Value
It was 2:10 p.m. on a sunny Wednesday. And although the sun was shining (blindingly so — thanks, Australia!) I felt like storm clouds followed me everywhere. I was 18 years old, had just broken up with my second serious boyfriend, just failed a uni exam and was in the midst of an anorexia relapse. Things...