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- Actress Kirsten Dunst expressed some, er, traditional views on gender roles in relationships in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar: “I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued,” she says. “We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking – it’s a valuable thing my mum created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour. I’m sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That’s why relationships work…”
- If for some bizarre reason you are still unsure as to why we need campaigns like Everyday Sexism, check out this Q&A with founder Laura Bates. It’s too easy to just accept casual sexism as ‘the way things are’ or just let things slide but it doesn’t have to be that way.
- After counting the dollars and cents, one study shows that movies that pass the famous Bechdel test, do just as well as ones that don’t. So there’s literally no reason left for Hollywood to make movies that don’t pass.
- And finally, would you want to be buried in an all-lesbian cemetary? Yeah, we thought we’d end on a high note.
