Ban Bossy: What’s Wrong With Bossy?
Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleeza Rice, and the Girl Scouts have joined together in a campaign to ‘ban bossy,’ and they’ve been joined by a growing number of other high-powered women and women’s...
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Review: HBO’s “Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus”
What are these “Unstable Elements” and why are they lurking in Belarus? Are they housed in nuclear warheads misappropriated after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Is there a race against time to...
Fresh Romance: China’s New Dating Show “If You Are the One”
I have never been one for dating shows, but I do not seem to be able to stop watching China’s extremely popular If You Are the One. I am hardly alone in this amongst Australians, which is unusual...
Review: The Good Mother Myth
The persistent myth of the perfect mother is a narrative that shapes and limits women's lives even as family structures and women's choices expand and change in the new millennium. Developing ways to...
Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Towards the end of their arduous journey to the Lonely Mountain, Bilbo and the Dwarves happen across the burnt out husk of Dale a prosperous town once inhabited by men. Smaug the Magnificent, the...
A Powerful Leader, Not Just A “Powerful Woman”: Chile’s Michelle Bachelet Begins Her Second Term
On Sunday, Michelle Bachelet was voted in as President of Chile for her second term. Constitutional electoral requirements made it so that she had to leave her position following her initial...
The Two Worst Shows of 2013
As 2013 draws to a close and the media are filled with retrospectives on the best of, the worst of, and those between, I find myself reflecting on the television I gave up on in 2013 due to complete...
Review: Sleepy Hollow pilot
Fox debuted its Sleepy Hollow, a strange mashup of “Rip van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” an assortment of Biblical myths, and made up apocrypha, this week. The show appears to be...
Is Devious Maids harming the Latina community?
Lifetime's incredibly soapy and evidently immensely popular drama Devious Maids has just been picked up for a second season, which is either enough to destroy your faith in Hollywood or further...
Surprise, it’s an old white guy! The new Doctor Who
The world tuned in with bated breath this Sunday to find out who would be the next Doctor, after weeks of speculation and the bandying of names from Helen Mirren to Chiwetel Ejiofor. With Steven...