You either believe that women are people, or you don't." Or, in the words of Feminist Gosling: "Hey girl. Of course you are." In How To Be a Person, West adds, "If you are not a feminist (or something blamelessly ignorant, like a baby or a ferret or a college freshman), then you are a bad person. In How To Be a Woman, Moran writes, "What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be. There's a lot of talk lately about what "wave" of feminism we're in, and how we should be talking about it, from books by Caitlin Moran to Jezebel's Lindy West (with Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, and Bethany Jean Clement), and any number of articles and blog posts in between. Popkey writes that Henderson told her, “Feminist Ryan Gosling for me is a good way to kind to bridge the gap between feminist rage and my general, you know, living with the bullshit of being a woman in America rage.” This isn't about Ryan Gosling so much as it is about changing the way we talk about feminism. Henderson told The Village Voice's Candace Wheeler, "I hope he wouldn't hate what I'm doing or feel like none of these are things he would actually agree with." We also hope that's true but it really doesn't matter: It's all supposed to be lighthearted and funny. Even if we don't know how he really feels about his role in Henderson's book, he seems, from what we do know about him (activism, Obama T-shirts, not shying from dating strong women who are sometimes older than he is), like he'd fall on the side of good and not evil. He's good-looking but it also has something to do with his ability to show up and save the day: Breaking up fights or preventing car accidents. Yeah, a few people exist who don't seem to understand his charms, but by and large, he's adored. Few celebrities are so universally loved as Ryan Gosling. While "women's lib crowd" seems a rather retro turn of phrase, it's hard to hate much about any of this. By November, she had a book deal." This is practically the essence of viral, so it's not too surprising that there's a piece by Anna David in the New York Post today about "Why the women’s lib crowd is going all gooey over the Hollywood heartthrob." Per the book description, "What started as a silly way for blogger Danielle Henderson and her classmates to keep track of the feminist theorists they were studying in class quickly turned into an overnight sensation." As Capital's Miranda Popkey wrote earlier this week, "Henderson put up five images on a Friday in October by Saturday afternoon the Tumblr was on Jezebel the next week it was picked up by The Huffington Post. This is a book that was created from a Tumblr, because that's often how things get done nowadays, and, also like things often get done nowadays, it appears to have arisen nearly spontaneously and fortuitously. įeminist Ryan Gosling, Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude, by Danielle Henderson, a book that pairs "feminist statements" with photos of Ryan Gosling, is out on Tuesday. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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