Gal Gadot got her start in the entertainment industry when Vin Diesel hired her to star in the fourth instalment of ‘Fast & Furious’. Diesel initially hired her to play the role of Gisele for the reason that she served in the Israeli army. Since then, Gadot’s most notable one, though was Wonder Woman in ‘Justice League’, as well as her own two movies, which co-starred Chris Pine. While making ‘Justice League, Gadot had to endure working for Joss Whedon, the now disgraced writing genius who apparently hates women and all other minority groups. Gadot will also star in the newest adaptation of ‘Snow White’, which will also star Rachel Zegler in the title role. The movie will be released next month. When the trailer for the movie was first posted on social media, users were very divided, and so were the two actresses. And no, I’m not speaking on being divided on whether the movie will be a success or not. I’m talking about the war that is happening and the Israel-Hamas conflict that’s happening right now. Gadot is, of course, supporting Israel, and is very vocal of her support for her country; for our country. She previously wrote on Instagram, ‘My heart breaks. My country is at war. I worry for my family, my friends. I worry for my people. This is a vicious cycle that has been going on far too long. Israel deserves to live as a free and safe nation. Our neighbours deserve the same. I pray for the victims and their families, I pray for this unimaginable hostility to end, I pray for our leaders to find the solution so that we could live side by side in peace. I pray for better days.’ Gadot was one of the 700 entertainment leaders who wrote an open letter in support of Israel. Rachel Zegler, her co-star in ‘Snow White’ on the other hand, added a #FreePalestine tag in her promotion of the trailer, which had 4.7 million views. Here, we speak of rhetorical two actresses’ differences in their political views in the Israel-Hamas conflict that is happening right now. We thoroughly explain the conflict, from the very beginning to now, and explore whether success or failures in work is inevitable when two coworkers have two conflicting views in politics. Let’s discuss…
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Lady Gaga: Why Her Failed 2016 Album ‘Joanne’ Was Actually Her Best Work – And Why Every Woman Should Fail At Least Once In Her Career
Lady Gaga is a singer and actress. She got her start in the music and entertainment industry in 2007. She’s known for hits like ‘Poker Face’, ‘Born This Way’, and ‘Bad Romance’. The public knew Gaga fiercely for her crazy outfits and her party vibe songs. She completely transformed herself with her fifth studio album, 2016’s ‘Joanne’, which was a tribute to her aunt, who passed away in 1974 due to lupus complications that occurred after a sexual assault. Of that era, Gaga said in her Five Foot Two Netflix documentary, ‘‘I never felt comfortable enough to sing and just be this way, now. To just sing, wear my hair back. I never felt pretty enough or smart enough or a good enough musician. That’s the good part. The good part is that I just didn’t feel good enough, and I do now. I know I deserve — of all the things I deserve, that is where I know I’m worth something so I have to stay there. I can see now. I don’t need to have a million wigs on and all that shit to make a statement.’ It marked a period in her career where we said goodbye to the Lady Gaga we used to know and were introduced to Stefani Germanotta, the woman behind the mask. The world wasn’t ready for it to happen, though, and the album failed. Some have said the album was difficult to place in a specific context, and that it didn’t have enough of a hook to be a party album or background music. There was one person in the entire world who took notice of her, and that was Bradley Cooper. He cast her as Ally in 2018’s ‘A Star Is Born’ after seeing her perform Édith Piaf’s ‘La Vie en Rose’ at a cancer benefit in 2016 and being blown away by her talent. Gaga made history by becoming the first person to have won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA and Golden Globe within a single year. Here, we break down Gaga’s previously failed studio album, ‘Joanne’, we challenge its failure and explain why it was actually her best album, and we explore reasons why it’s actually important for women to fail at least once in their careers – in Gaga’s own artistry. Let’s discuss…
Martha Stewart: How She Became The First Self Made Female Entrepreneur In A Male Dominated World – And How She’s Changing The Definition Of Womanhood
Martha Stewart is a force to be reckoned with. She’s a homemade cooking and business guru. She’s broken barriers and paved the way for women everywhere. R.J Cutler, the man behind Stewart’s new Netflix documentary, ‘Martha’, called her an ‘incredibly interesting human being who is complicated and visionary and brilliant.’ From the very beginning, she knew what she wanted and knew exactly what to do in order to get to where she wanted. Her love for homemade cooking came from her father, when he made her and her siblings garden in order to save up on their spendings. Of her siblings, she was the only one who actually enjoyed the process. Her brother Eric said of the experience, ‘He stood over you like a sergeant. To this day, I despise gardening.’ Stewart, unlike her siblings, took that experience with a grain of salt and learned from it. She also learned a lot by witnessing her father fail as a businessman. As she said of her father, ‘My father was the handsomest father. He loved me. And it was very obvious to everybody that I was his favorite. He thought I was more like him than the other children. He got the job done that he was set out to do. Not his work work. He was a failure in work. He could’ve done pretty much anything he wanted to do and he was stuck in a salesman job. He sometimes started the day off with a large glass of coffee and red wine. So is that an alcoholic? Maybe. But he never looked like a drunk. He never stumbled around and threw things and broke things. That wasn’t my father. But he was a dissatisfied, unhappy human being.’ The most telling quote of hers, though, was, ‘Andy was so nice. Not at all like my father.’ Andy was her husband, Andrew Stewart, to whom she was married for 29 years before he cheated on her with her assistant. Her father forbade her from marrying him after he found out that Andrew was Jewish. He even slapped her, but she didn’t care. She married him anyway. This was a true testament to the type of woman Martha Stewart is – she knows exactly what women need and she doesn’t take no for answer, particularly with men. It was clear night and day right from the beginning; even before she started her empire. The fact that she went against her own father in marrying her husband marked a vital pointer in her fighting society’s norms. This is exactly why she’s a pioneer in the business. Here, we break down Stewart’s entire career from the very beginning, explore the effects of men in career, and explain her secrets to making a name for herself at such a fast-paced changing world. Let’s discuss…
Drew Barrymore: How Parental Estrangement Affected Her Personal Life In A Negative (And Somewhat Positive) Way – And Why Her Friendship With Adam Sandler Is So Significant
Drew Barrymore is an actress, daytime talk show host, entrepreneur and…mom. She comes from a long line of family members in the film and entertainment industry, including her father, John Barrymore, who left her and her mother, Jaid, when she was just 6 months old. Drew’s relationship with her mother wasn’t exactly the ideal mother-and-daughter relationship either. Drew successfully was granted emancipation when she was just 14 years old after spending 18 long months in a psych ward that her mother sent her to. It was both a personal and a business decision for her, as her mother was responsible for her career too just as much as she was for her personal struggles, having taken her to clubs with her when she was 9 and encouraging her to do things like drinking, smoking weed, and dancing with men. In her 2015 autobiography, ‘Wildflower’, Drew wrote of her mother, ‘We parted ways when I was fourteen, and we have rarely spoken since. I am grateful to this woman for bringing me into this world, and it would crush me to know she was in need anywhere. It is not who I am to harbor any anger for the fact that our life together was so incredibly unorthodox.’ Her first major role was in Steven Spielberg’s ‘E.T’. Spielberg is Drew’s godfather and she’s called him the only parental figure in her life. In turn, he called the experience of working with her as his calling to become a father himself. Drew never found stability in her life; mostly due to the nonexistent stability she had at home. She’s said previously that her father’s absence didn’t affect her negatively and didn’t add on to her ‘daddy issues. Her relationship history, however, says otherwise. Here, we break down Drew’s childhood, with her mother in particular, explore her romantic relationships, how they were affected by neglect, and how they impact her life now as a mother to her own two kids, as well as explain the real significance of her friendship with Adam Sandler, her co-star in ‘The Wedding Singer’, ‘50 First Dates’, and ‘Blended’, and her friend of 30 years. Let’s discuss…
Cameron Diaz: What Her Return To Acting In ‘Back In Action’ Means To Women Of All Ages – And What It Has To Do With Toxic Femininity
Cameron Diaz just made her comeback on Netflix’s ‘Back In Action’, her first movie in 10 years, co-starring Jamie Foxx. After being in the entertainment industry for 20 years, having starred in movies such as ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’, There’s Something About Mary’, ‘Charlie’s Angels’, Shrek’, ‘The Holiday’, and more, and working absolutely non-stop, the actress decided to retire from acting in 2014 in order to prioritize her personal life. In that time, Diaz got married to Good Charlotte band member and Joel Madden’s twin brother, Benji Madden, had two children, and started her own wine company, Avalin, and published two health and wellness books. In her recent reunion with her ‘Charlie’s Angels’ co-stars, Diaz said, ‘All women, we are conditioned to be objectified. Period. Whether we are movie stars or not, it’s just every woman. Obviously it’s more extreme in our circumstances because we’re projected onto a screen and literally objectified. We’ve had dolls made out of us. It’s just so innate. It’s so ingrained in us. We bow down to that. We serve that objectification. We try to meet its request in so many ways. In watching you give this performance, you don’t have to ask anybody’s permission. It’s as if there was a constitution written in the film industry that laid out what the film industry was, and everybody has been abiding by it for the last however many decades. Y’all went in and just shredded it to pieces and said, I do not agree with this constitution. We are rewriting this. And not only that, but we’re going to in the most audacious, violent, crazy way that you could possibly do it.’ We’re here to discuss this exact quote. Here, we break down her (early) career, explore her decision to take a break after 20 years in the biz, and explain how it relates to toxic femininity. Let’s discuss…
Michelle Buteau: What We Can Take Away From Her Calling Out Dave Chappelle’s Anti-Trans Jokes – And What It Has To Do With Toxic Masculinity And Segregation
Michelle Buteau is an actress, comedian, and the voice behind Netflix’s ‘The Circle’. Her hit series, ‘Survival Of The Thickest’, will soon be available for a second season. And she recently made history when she became the first ever woman in history to host a comedy special at Radio City Hall. This special is now available to stream, also on Netflix. During the special, Buteau spoke heavily of being a mother to her kids, twins Otis and Hazel, who were born via surrogacy. What stood out the most, though, during her special was her slamming Dave Chappelle for his previous anti-trans stance during his own two previous Netflix Specials, 2021’s ‘The Closer’ and 2023’s ‘The Dreamer’. Chapelle spent a significant amount of time in each routine railing against trans people for existing and comparing the plights of Black people and LGBTQ people — as though Black LGBTQ people didn’t exist. And in her own Netflix special, after telling a raunchy joke about her lesbian friend, whom she calls the oracle, she paused to reflect on what she’d just done. Buteau exclaimed, ‘For the most part, we laughed. What I’m saying is it can be done. It can be done. We can tell jokes and stories and not disparage a whole community. We can do that; we can make it funny. You just have to work at it, right? So, if you guys ever run into Dave Chappelle, can you let him know that sh*t? I can’t believe somebody would make millions and millions of dollars for making people feel unsafe.’ This sparked a conversation on numerous topics of discussion, such as representation, minority groups, segregation, and toxic masculinity – and everything that that they have to do with one another. Here, we down Buteau’s slamming Dave Chappelle’s anti-trans jokes, explore the meaning behind the joke for people who are part of minority groups, and explain what it has to do with toxic masculinity and segregation. Let’s discuss…
Janel Parrish: The Sexism That Comes With Women’s Health – And How It Could Be Described As Emotional Rape
Janel Parrish recently reprised her role as Margot, Lara Jean and Kitty Covey’s eldest sister Margot, on ‘XO, Kitty’, the spin-off series to the ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ movie trilogy, when she made a cameo appearance in season 2’s 8th episode. The actress also starred in ‘Pretty Little Liars’, its spin-off series, ‘Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists’, as well as 2007’s ‘Bratz’. The movie was originally panned by critics and viewers alike, and is only now being recognized as a classic by Gen-Z. Not much was ever known of Parrish’s personal life. She married Chris Long in 2018, and that was all there was to it – until recently. Parrish made headlines in recent months when she revealed that she was diagnosed with endometriosis and underwent surgery. She then appeared on Sasha Pieterse’s, her co-star on ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ ‘Women In Nude’ podcast, where they shared their struggles with endometriosis and PCOS respectively. They shared their differences in how they were diagnosed with the illnesses. Parrish was diagnosed fairly quickly after she and her husband started trying for a baby, whereas Pieterse saw 17(!) specialists to get answers for her drastic 70 pounds weight gain at age 17 before being diagnosed with PCOS. This opened doors so many questions, such as the drastic gender bias in healthcare and the difference in how men and women are treated in healthcare and how men are actually the ones to blame for it. Here, we break down Parish’s words on mental health, explore how health is gender-biased, and explain how it compares to emotional rape. We do so by comparing Parrish’s journey of being diagnosed vs. her co-star, as well as analyze Brooke Shields’ own struggles in a society that doesn’t take women’s health seriously. Let’s discuss…
XO, Kitty: All The Reasons Why Kitty Was Always More Intriguing Than Lara Jean Ever Was – And Why Kitty’s Relationship With Peter Is So Significant
‘XO, Kitty’ is the new #1 hit series on Netflix. It’s a spin-off series to the ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ movie franchise, and follows Kitty Song Covey, the youngest of the Covey sisters, as she moves to Korea to attend the fictional school KISS, Korean Independent School of Seoul, to be close to a boy, as well as to feel closer to her mom, who died when she was 3 years old. Kitty is the polar opposite to Lara Jean. Lara Jean is considered a nice, quirky and shy girl and who enjoys scrapbooking, fashion, especially Korean and vintage clothing, and baking. Kitty is described as being sharp, blunt, and loving. It was, in fact, Kitty, who challenged Lara Jean to face her fears in opening up in her relationship with Peter when Lara Jean was terrified to face the consequences had he rejected her. When Kitty arrived at KISS, she’s still that brave and confident young woman that she’s always been. Over time, however, she starts questioning her entire being as her relationships with those she loves and cares about at the school start to crumble due to her actions and words. Here, we break down her characterization and what makes Kitty so lovable, we explore the reasons why she was, in actuality, more intriguing than Lara Jean, as well as explain the significance of her relationship with Peter throughout the entire ‘To All The Boys’ franchise and its spinoff series. In Peter’s own words to Kitty, ‘You’re not minding your business landing me the love of my life.Kitty, you have this killer instinct.It is literally your superpower.So you gotta stop second guessing yourself. You are Kitty Song Freakin’ Covey. Don’t you forget it.’ Let’s discuss…
Tara Maclay: How She Became The Most Vital Character On ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer – And How Bringing In Kennedy Following Her Death Made Perfect Sense
Tara Maclay was a fictional ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ character that was first introduced in season 4. She was played by Amber Benson, and unintentionally, became the groundbreaking and beloved character that paved the way for the LGBTQ community and the way they’re portrayed in media today. Willow and Tara were one of the first lesbian couples seen on TV. They were seen at a time where lesbianism was seen as something to be ashamed of and needed to be hidden. It was at a time where Ellen DeGeneres payed a huge price in coming out as a lesbian on TV. Initially, Tara wasn’t meant to be Willow’s long-term girlfriend. She was initially supposed to be written as Willow’s new friend; a replacement to Oz after he left her, so to speak. Seth Green, who played Oz, wanted to leave the show early to concentrate on other opportunities. Tara became much more than just a fling and just a casual college girlfriend after Joss Whedon saw the undeniable chemistry between Alyson Hannigan and Amber Benson, the actors behind Willow and Tara. Tara was included in AfterEllen.com’s Top 50 Lesbian and Bisexual Characters, ranking at No. 15. As she became one of the most beloved and groundbreaking characters in the entire series, as well as an alie for the LGBTQ community, Tara was killed off in season 6, and Willow’s new girlfriend, Kennedy, became the most hated person in the entire series as soon as she was introduced. Whedon received a lot of backlash for the decision to kill Tara off, but he continually said that killing her off was necessary for the development of Willow’s character arc…And he’s actually right! Here, we break down Tara’s characterization from beginning to end, explore her relationship with Willow and its impact on the LGBTQ community and beyond, and explain why her death and Kennedy’s introduction made perfect sense, and not just for Willow’s character development. Let’s discuss…
Ted Hughes: Understanding The Severity Of Mental Health Through Sylvia Plath And Assia Wevill’s Suicides – And Why He’s Not Actually To Blame For Their Deaths
Ted Hughes was a well-established writer and poet. To this day, he’s ranked as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945, and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984, a position he held until his death Though he was married to Carol Orchard for 28 years until his death, Ted Hughes’ personal life had endured many triumphs and tragedies. His first wife was Sylvia Plath, also a legendary writer that was ahead of her time. Her most notable work was her semi-autobiographical novel, ‘The Bell Jar’. The two separated after Hughes left Plath for another woman, Assia Wevill. Plath committed suicide in 1963 after suffering from a clinical depression for many years. Wevill ended up with the same fate 6 years later. She committed suicide in what is described as a ‘copycat suicide’ to that of Plath, as she chose the same exact manner of death as her. Not only did Wevill kill herself, but her daughter, Shura Hughes, as well. Though his daughter, Frieda, and his widow continually defended Hughes over the years, Hughes was seen as a murderer in the eyes of feminism. His daughter certainly had something to say to that. She labeled that as abuse in itself. She said in a 2015 interview with BBC, ‘I was appalled that something that happened in 1963 could be carried forward. What an easy way out for somebody to think, ’Yes, we’re right, we have got the real story, we know what really happened, and we are going to punish this complete stranger for something we weren’t around to witness, we know nothing about, but we’re the ones with the answer.’ For outsiders – because that’s what they are, outsiders – to make judgments that affect somebody in their life, for all of their life, is a sort of horrible form of theft. It’s an abuse.’ Here, we break down Ted Hughes’ 2 most defining relationships, explore how feminism almost destroyed him both in life and death, and thoroughly explain why he’s not to blame for their deaths. Let’s discuss…