It’s been common knowledge since June, but today marks the start of Jill Abramson’s tenure at the Grey Lady, taking over from Bill the role of Executive Editor. Still, we can revel a bit can’t we? She’s the first woman to do so in the paper’s 160 year history. Abramson previously worked for the paper’s [...]

Charlotte Grey isn’t the best movie out there, and personally I always confuse it with Enigma, but it’s based on the true story of Nancy Wake. In Germany she was known as the “White Mouse” for her brilliant ability to evade capture. She was on the most wanted list of the Gestapo for a portion [...]

Wonder Woman debuted in All-Star Comics in 1941. Creator William Moulton Marston designed her to be a new breed of superhero. One who won battles with love rather than her fists, and he modeled her after his wife, Elizabeth Marston, and their live in lover, Olive Byrne (he was doing the whole polyamoric lifestyle sixty some [...]

From the mid to late 90s, as a woman with mousey hair, glasses, and a tendency towards both sarcasm and short-sightedness, it was only natural that I was refered to as Daria, and on occasion, ”that chick from that Cats and Dog movie - clearly, Uma Thurman –  always a welcome respite. But things changed! I grew up! [...]

This may have been the most difficult list yet formed. First rules had to be established. 1. Movie heroines only. No television heroines. Which means no Sarah Michelle Gellar or Oracle or Batgirl or Wonder Woman. Also that means no Storm fainting at the drop of a hat and Rogue, via Dolly Parton, touching other [...]

There’s a lot of anger in the Capitol today. Representative Senfronia Flores of Houston got up and called out the sexism running rampant in Texas’s House of Representatives. She called them OUT. Mandatory sonograms for women seeking abortions. Defunding Planned Parenthood, which despite what some people say, does NOT spend it’s time aborting babies. In [...]

A terrible pirate movie is coming out this weekend. We’re all going to go see it. Some of us may like it. In a few years we’ll all regret it. Kids will go see it and love it and then in twenty years they’ll watch it again and realize it was crap and judge our [...]

Remember towards the end of Roseanne when John Goodman had left and the show had turned kind of crummy and Barr had just had a very public divorce from Tom Arnold and everyone took it as an opportunity to just rip into her? It’s a shame, because then the show kind of stuttered along for [...]

Condoleezza Rice. She’s a pretty divisive lady, what with being a major international player for so many years. I mean it’s not every day your see a lady repeatedly listed as one of the most influential people on the planet AND called a war criminal. And her history, growing up in Birmingham during the early 1960s? Being [...]

Being a longtime fan of action movies and the son and brother of exclusively strong-willed, badass women, I’ve developed an appreciation for those qualities in women on the screen.  Particularly those who face nigh-insurmountable odds, and no matter the cost to their mental or physical health, push forward with a singular goal:  to kick all [...]