When Beauty Is a Troll
The peppy mixed messaging of I Feel Pretty is only the latest reminder: American culture doesn’t fully know what it’s talking about when it talks about attractiveness.
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Frederick M. Brown / Getty Tony Robbins, #MeToo, and the Limits of Self-Help
The secular guru has preached a gospel of individual solutions to individual problems. But when it comes to sexual abuse, as to so much else: It’s not enough.
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Tim Phillips Photos / Getty / Stephen Marques ... The Lie Detector in the Age of Alternative Facts
Russell Simmons, Stormy Daniels, he said, she said: Americans are desperately seeking truth in machines that are unable to provide it.
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Elise Amendola / AP Jagged Little (Blue) Pill
Released to the public 20 years ago, Viagra changed the way Americans have sex—and the way they talk about it.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters The Powerful Silence of the March for Our Lives
Three of the young women who spoke on Saturday made silence awkward. And shameful. And, in all that, striking.
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Adam Rose / ABC Roseanne vs. the 'Nasty Woman'
The original sitcom reveled in complexity. In the premiere of its highly anticipated reboot, though, it has simplified politics down to easy partisanship.
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Matt Sayles / AP Mike Isabella, Top Chef, and the Capitalism of Bad Behavior
For years, the restaurateur played a jerk with a heart of gold. Now, he’s the latest celebrity chef to be accused of sexual harassment.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Power-Structure Oscars
Diversity. Intersectionality. Representation. The 2018 Academy Awards knew the words to say; whether Hollywood can follow them up with action is a different matter.
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Embassy Pictures The Graduate 50 Years After Its Oscar Win
Revisiting a film embraced by the 1968 generation
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Forgiving Jimmy Kimmel
It’s a thoroughly modern irony: The host who will set the tone for the #MeToo Oscars got his start on a show that gleefully ogled women.
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National Rifle Association / YouTube Dana Loesch and the NRA’s Maternity Theater
The spokesperson for the National Rifle Association has long used the logic of motherhood in her defense of guns. This week, though, she faced an unexpectedly powerful foe: kids.
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Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty The Selective Empathy of #MeToo Backlash
From Donald Trump to recent op-eds, the male perspective remains—stubbornly, perniciously—the default point of view.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Michael Wolff and the Smearing of Nikki Haley
It’s an age-old story, and a uniquely tiresome one: a woman’s reputation, sold out to sell stuff.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Hillary Clinton, Burns Strider, and the Fault Lines of #MeToo
During her 2008 presidential campaign, The New York Times reports, Clinton shielded an adviser who had been accused of sexual harassment.
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Ron Batzdorff / NBC This Is Us: When Death Becomes a Tease
A central character’s demise in the NBC drama initially came as a shock. Until it turned into the opposite.
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Kevork Djansezian / BAFTA LA / Getty / ... Aziz Ansari and the Paradox of ‘No’
A viral story highlights the lingering difference between the language—and the practice—of consent.
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Yaorusheng / Getty Images Moira Donegan Tells Her Own Story
Out of the Harper’s Media Men list saga comes an essay that asks urgent questions about the politics of authorship.
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Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images The Harper’s Controversy: The Whisper Network Meets the Megaphone
With the story it is rumored to be publishing, the magazine has offered yet another reminder of the fragility of the current iteration of #MeToo.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters 2018: The Golden Globes’ Year of (Literal) Fashion Statements
The hottest accessories on Sunday’s red carpet? Words.
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Mike Blake / Reuters What Will Happen When the Red Carpet Is Forced to Get Serious?
With a wear-black protest in the works, Sunday’s Golden Globes could represent a shift for Hollywood’s most vapid tradition.
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Sarawoot / Shutterstock Is This the Next Step for the #MeToo Movement?
A just-announced collective of more than 300 women in Hollywood is attempting to fight sexual harassment in their own industry—and, crucially, far beyond.
