We envision these short takes as part of a broader initiative we call (with perhaps a bit too much hubris!) the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project. Our plan is then to put these up on our revamped Signs website before they find their way into print. We will always invite the author to respond to the commentaries. These are not designed to be book reviews per se rather, we ask our commentators to ponder broader questions of reach and resonance: Why this? Why now? And what does this say about the state of the feminist zeitgeist? Cathy Cohen and Sarah Jackson on Black Lives MatterĪs part of an initiative to connect the journal to current debates in the feminist world beyond academia-and to help feminist commentators gain a greater foothold in the public sphere-we are launching a new section of the journal in which we select a book that has had wide-ranging impact and reach (for better or worse!) and solicit short commentaries from leading feminist public intellectuals and activists.Michael Kimmel and Lisa Wade on Toxic Masculinity.Dolores Huerta and Rachel Rosenbloom on Gender and Immigrant Rights.MacKinnon and Durba Mitra on Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo Cynthia Enloe, Agnieszka Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters on Gender and the Rise of the Global Right.Soraya Chemaly Discusses Feminist Rage with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra.Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and US Asylum Law with Aziza Ahmed.Byllye Avery Discusses the Past and Future of Reproductive Justice with Susan Reverby.Eesha Pandit and Paula Moya Discuss Activism and the Academy with Carla Kaplan and Suzanna Walters.Patricia Williams Discusses Rage and Humor as an Act of Disobedience with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra.Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls.Visibility and Visuality: Reframing Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and Their Diasporas.Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades.
Guy isn’t a legend and Girl isn’t slut, but I do think they have something in common: they’re both idiots. What did we learn here? Well: be you guy, girl, or whatever, DON’T DO THIS KIND OF SH*T IN PUBLIC. Her family are also said to be distraught. But it has since emerged that the girl is understood to be just 17 and, according to reports, she has been so distressed by the online images that she has had to be sedated in hospital. The pictures went viral after being posted on social networking sites, causing them to even trend around the world on Twitter. Those using #slanegirl hashtag to bully a young woman should be f*cking embarrassed.” Oh yeah, and now she’s in the hospital. She’s being called a no-good slut, while he’s “THE MAN,” which brings us to our next contestant.Ī typical tweet about the incident goes like, “Slane Girl getting sympathy in the papers…What for being a slut?” while “defenders,” so to speak, are replying with, “Nice bit of massive slut-shaming, Twitter. Looking for a good (read: actually terrible) time? Then search the hashtag “#slanegirl” on Twitter. That’s important to repeat.Īnyway, Girl’s only 17, the age of legal consent in Ireland, but not in the United States, where the photo has gone massively viral. ( You can find them here.) They attended an Eminem concert at Slane Castle in Ireland over the weekend, and while there, they engaged in “public fun.” Or as the Irish would say, she leafed his clover. I can’t show the bottom of it, but it’s still the more SFW photo of the two. This is one of two pictures of Guy and Girl (names intentionally removed) circulating on the Internet.
Today, I’m tweaking the formula for an entirely different story, one involving a blowjob at an Eminem concert. It’s pretty self-explanatory: I rank the show’s characters, from Walt to Skyler to This Guy, by how badass they are. Each Monday, I publish something called the Breaking Bad Power Rankings.