‘That Racist Serena Williams Cartoon Is Sadly Illustrative of Australian Cartoonists’ for Slate

This one’s an international controversy, but the Australian culture wars regularly play out in cartoon editorials—and the Australian culture wars, like the cartoons themselves, are very, very ugly. … More ‘That Racist Serena Williams Cartoon Is Sadly Illustrative of Australian Cartoonists’ for Slate

‘The Comedy Cellar’s Owner Has Clearly Been Waiting to Let Louis C.K. Back on Stage Since Day One’ for Slate

Men can be shamed into hiding, or shamed out of letting Louis C.K. on their stage for 10 months. But too many still refuse to accept that there was anything to be ashamed of at all. … More ‘The Comedy Cellar’s Owner Has Clearly Been Waiting to Let Louis C.K. Back on Stage Since Day One’ for Slate

‘Love Actually’s Workplace Harassment Feels Especially Egregious at the End of 2017’ for Slate

In 2017, the year of #MeToo, of silence breakers and silence broken, of bathrobes and potted plants and secret door-locking buttons, Love Actually’s workplace “romances” feel particularly unpalatable—in fact, they feel more like harassment, actually. … More ‘Love Actually’s Workplace Harassment Feels Especially Egregious at the End of 2017’ for Slate

‘Why the SNL Women’s Statement Is Not the Same as Lena Dunham’s’ for Slate

If there’s one thing this moment of sexual reckoning has taught us, it’s that we should listen to women. But does that extend to the women speaking up to defend the men other women have accused of sexual harassment? … More ‘Why the SNL Women’s Statement Is Not the Same as Lena Dunham’s’ for Slate