Watching the Oscars last night meant sitting through a series of crudely sexist antics led by a scrubby, self-pleased Seth MacFarlane. That would be tedious enough. But the evening’s misogyny involved a specific hostility to women in the workplace, which raises broader questions than whether the Academy can possibly get Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to host next year. It was unattractive, and sour, and started with a number called, “We Saw Your Boobs.”

Continue reading Amy Davidson on the 2013 Academy Awards: http://nyr.kr/V1roxn

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After his performance last week, supporters of President Obama, watching Gillard cut through the disingenuousness and feigned moral outrage of her opponent to call him out for his own personal prejudice, hypocrisy, and aversion to facts, might be wishing their man would take a lesson from Australia.

Amelia Lester on Autsralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech, and what President Obama could learn from it: http://nyr.kr/SQ8VNb