Culture
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Don’t Worry Darling and The Sexual Politics of Sci-Fi
In Ira Levin’s novel The Stepford Wives, and its many adaptations, Joanna Eberhart, a housewife living in Connecticut discovers a dark secret about the other wives in the neighborhood: the women are being replaced by robots built by their husbands. The novel has been described as a “feminist horror” exploring themes of submission and dominance,…
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Does this Op-Ed Pass the Bechdel Test?
Long before it became trendy to splice movie clips together on TikTok based on whether or not they “pass the Bechdel Test”, Virginia Woolf described the following on how women are portrayed in fiction: “All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. … And I…
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“Dogs Out” The PPE Extravaganza
At that moment I began to write. The weekend grew upon its moments like a tidal wave. I did quite understand it at its inception per se. Nor appreciate the beautiful manner in which it unfolded, until the moment. The moment the band started to play. For that was the unifying catalyst, a Saturday…