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She-Ra is the superhero needed to fight back against Marvel’s male dominion
Phoebe-Jane Boyd /
The Guardian
The motivation behind She-Ra and her rebellion always more far-reaching and serious than brother’s, anyway: they fought for freedom. Early in She-Ra’s original run, she explained her sword-waving with the line: “If we all work together, we can change things.” As she said about three times per episode, she was fighting for honour, not power.
Oi you! Catcallers and street harassers – your time is nearly up
Phoebe-Jane Boyd /
The Guardian
“Catcalling” is exasperating and humiliating, but something to be lived with if you’re female and you go outside a lot. Racism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia often get mixed into the cocktail of abusive comments, too, and as Noa Jansma’s @dearcatcallers project showed, they come from all ages and all classes. We recipients live with it, because of course we do. There is far worse than words for us to live through out there – #MeToo can show you a sample (only from women of certain economic backgrounds lucky enough to have an internet connection of course). Yet, strangely, a peaceful acceptance of street harassment as “only words” is something I’m yet to feel.