by David Linton | Jun 13, 2017 | Sex, Television
“I Love Dick,” the provocatively titled new Amazon video series that premiered recently to considerable fanfare, joins the still small canon of films and TV programs taking on the topic of how sexual and social relationships are shaped by the presence of...
by David Linton | Feb 9, 2017 | Film, Newspapers, Television
Caitlin Moran is a prize-winning columnist for The Times of London where she has been publishing witty, pithy, and sometimes acerbic pieces about film, pop culture, politics and whatever random subject strikes her interest for the last 24 years. Unlike most regular...
by Sophie Zivku | Oct 22, 2016 | Activism, Media, Research, Television
When theory lends to practice and practice lends to activism Menstrual-related theories and research have long played a role in shaping how women’s bodies are perceived and how their behavior is explained. More often than not, by attributing a causal link between the...
by David Linton | May 12, 2016 | Comedy, Communication, Media, Music, Television
It used to be that menstrual humor amounted to men making crass remarks about PMS and the world of stand up comedy was dominated by male performers. Well, not any more. In the last few years there seems to have been an explosion of young women comics doing stand-up...
by David Linton | Feb 16, 2016 | FemCare, magazines, Media, Newspapers, Television
It seems we’ve reached a tipping point, as Malcolm Gladwell would put it, or perhaps a paradigm shift, as Thomas Kuhn might say, in the level of acceptance of menstrual cycle references in mainstream media. As re:Cycling demonstrated recently in the time line of...
by David Linton | Dec 31, 2015 | Humor, Media, Menstruation, Television
Note: Inspiration for the following observation came from research and writing done by a former student of mine, Bob Newman, whose thorough analysis of the menstrual elements in adult TV cartoons is the source of the critique. It is likely, at least for women who grew...
