Dame Helen Mirren is an ardent feminist, and kudos to her. Yet her latest comment - slamming women who let men put their arms around them - has left even her fans head scratching.
It's a a wistful day for Sesame Street fans as Sonia Manzano - aka "Maria" - who wrote and starred in the classic children's show for 44 years announced her retirement.
In a case of all good things coming to an end, Manzano, who joined the show in 1971, won a total of 15 Emmys for the scripts she wrote for the show.
This week is all about armpits, or more specifically, armpit hair.
The media was awash in pictures of celebrities and hippie types from Miley to Girls' star Jemima Kirke raising their arms to show off their hairy and sometimes colourful pits. While over in China a social media contest urged women to share “characteristic and beautiful and confident” images of their underarm hair in the name of feminism and freedom.
You've got to hand it to Lena Dunham. The writer and star of the HBO series Girls truly doesn't give a rat's ass what people think of her. Even after being publicly "smeared" time and again, she just dusts off and does something new guaranteed to rub people the wrong way.
Whoever says cartoonists can't be subversive and hilarious at the same time clearly hasn't heard of Gemma Correll. The 30-year-old British cartoonist tackles feminism with a sharp stick and never fails to hit the funny bone where it hurts.
All recovered from Halloween yet? It was a cold, soggy one in these parts, and we're nursing a candy hangover here—my own, not my son's. As creative costumes go, I'm no maverick, but this dad is. This dad's got Halloween 'game' in spades.
Have you seen FCKH8's new vimeo in which little girls keep dropping F-bombs in the name of feminism? Yes, it's essentially girls swearing and dropping stats to promote equal rights. The shock campaign is nothing new for the for-profit company that sells gear with anti-hate messages and then shares some of its revenue with charities.
