Published: Salon (July 15, 2016)
It’s just a movie, people.
Published: Salon (July 2, 2016), The Good Men Project (June 28, 2016)
Back in March, I observed that Donald Trump had transformed the Republican Party in a similar way as Barry Goldwater. For those of you unfamiliar with the reference, Goldwater was a plucky arch-conservative Senator from Arizona who defied the GOP establishment by winning their party’s presidential nomination in 1964.... Read Original Article
Published: The Good Men Project (May 28, 2016)
When I first saw that the Ghostbusters reboot had acquired more downvotes than any other movie trailer in YouTube history, my heart sank. Sure, I’d written an article deconstructing the trailer and denouncing its flaws; then again, a year-and-a-half earlier, I’d written another piece praising the new movie for its boldness in assembling an all-female cast of comedians to lead a blockbuster franchise.... Read Original Article
Published: The Huffington Post (May 25, 2016), The Good Men Project (May 17, 2016)
I’m not here to write about the total corpus of Donald Trump’s sexism. Certainly it is misogynistic to insinuate that a persistent female reporter is menstruating or insult a female lawyer who needs to pump breast milk by calling her “disgusting,” but those remarks belong in a different category from the type of sexism I wish to discuss.... Read Original Article
Published: The Good Men Project (May 5, 2016)
If I’m lucky enough to be alive in thirty or forty years, I can’t wait to read what those historians write about the 2016 presidential election. My guess is that, more than anything else, it will be remembered as one the great epic struggles for women’s rights.... Read Original Article
Published: Salon (April 26, 2016)
There is an element of the Shakespearean to the Donald Trump campaign. Comedy and tragedy are often inextricably linked in melodrama, and as Trump rambles and bloviates his way through the American presidential election process (and perhaps, one fears, to the presidency itself), an intriguing narrative arc is taking shape.... Read Original Article