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It’s Not Just Katie Roiphe: How ‘Girls’ is Also Giving BDSM a Bad Name

By Catherine Scott | Published: April 19, 2012

TweetIn a recent piece defending HBO’s Girls, Amanda Marcotte attacks “the strange belief that female characters on TV need to be paragons of virtue and excellent choice-making”. Why should it be problematic that the main characters on the show make bad decisions, lack self-awareness, and have disastrous encounters with the opposite sex? Maybe it shouldn’t. [...]

Also tagged Amanda Marcotte, bdsm, Girls, HBO, kink, Lena Dunham, S&M | 2 Comments

Katie Roiphe Is Just Wrong

By Soraya Chemaly | Published: November 14, 2011

TweetLadies, If You Can’t Take A Joke Get A New Job. WTF? What exactly is the point of Katie Roiphe’s “In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risque Remarks” anyway? That women should “lighten up?” That no “strong professional” women are cowed by off-color jokes? This kind of dismissal, trivialization and denial of the problem is [...]