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I gobbled up news all day and late into the night. And I was still just as confused—and just as sad—when I went to bed.

Stephen Hawking's first wife Jane may have seemed like a heartless ice queen. But let me tell you: Everything she went through was entirely plausible.

The vast majority of musicals produced during the Golden Age of Broadway are, well, pretty damn sexist.

Is the company that's famous for dressing women like bunnies starting to *gasp* see women as people, too?

music nerd. sports geek. blogger.

When the FSA dispatched a team of photojournalists to rural areas in the '30s and '40s, it sent several women into the fray.

From Aziz Ansari and Steven Yeun to Jason Segel and Joe Morton, we celebrate the sex appeal of intellectualism, feminism and humor.

Are Disney's new depictions of good-guy deaths finally catching up with the complicated child psyche?

Does this wildly popular show glorify sexual violence . . . or raise awareness of it?

One of the most venerable magazines in this country is not just proposing we ban a word, but an ideal.