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Over the past year, I’ve noticed something growing online, and it’s amazing: Women are talking directly to women about everything that goes on in our lives. With the internet, young women can have a voice now without having to go through a traditionally male hierarchy (movie producers, magazine publishers, etc). They’re having a conversation with each other and owning it. It’s real and important and, at times, so so so funny. So, today — as Hillary Clinton sets out as the likely first female presidential nominee of a major party — we wanted to share some of the great things people are doing online…
A hilarious open letter to the female hat-wearing dog from Go, Dog, Go! (“I wanted to take a minute to tell you that what matters is that you like your own hat.”) I could not love this more.
Emily McDowell mug, illustrated with Jen Pastiloff’s girl power manifesto.
Women Having A Terrible Time At Parties In Western Art History and Women Rejecting Marriage Proposals In Western Art History. The captions made me laugh x a million.
Illustrations by Sally Nixon of what women do when no one’s watching.
Vive le Feminisme print.
Bad Housekeeping by cartoonist Roz Chast.
“As Emily Rapp put it a few years ago: ‘Here’s the truth: Friendships between women are often the deepest and most profound love stories, but they are often discussed as if they are ancillary, “bonus” relationships to the truly important ones. Women’s friendships outlast jobs, parents, husbands, boyfriends, lovers, and sometimes children.’ ” — Broad City and the Triumph of the Platonic Rom-Com, The Atlantic
Jessica Williams’s flawless response to a man who believed that female passersby enjoy it when he claps for them. (See the whole thing here.)
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, a powerful and witty memoir by Lindy West. (I dog-earred a dozen pages.)
Lola cotton tampons, made without chemicals or dyes, designed by two female friends.
“Can we just, like, get over the way women talk?” asks Ann Friedman.
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, a documentary film about the birth of the women’s liberation movement in the 1960s.
Feminism, of course, isn’t just for those who identify as female: “If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you’re feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work. You can’t be like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m a doctor that primarily does diseases of the skin.’ ‘Oh, so you’re a dermatologist?’ ‘Oh no, that’s way too aggressive of a word! No no not at all not at all.’ ” — Aziz Ansari
P.S. 15 career tips from smart women.
(Top photo by Sophie Johnson; the Future is Female tee from Otherwild. Thank you to Stella Blackmon for scouting help.)
