“Feminism’s star has ascended,” the feminist writer Jessica Valenti wrote in The Guardian in 2014. came the same day as the Depp-Heard verdict) began her “Lean In” revolution by enlisting distaff A-listers (and some celebrated feminists) to post their “Lean In” moments.Īt the time, it felt like a breakthrough. Sheryl Sandberg (whose resignation as Meta C.O.O. Corporations plastered “The future is female” banners on their websites and annual reports. Dior sold $700 shirts trumpeting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “We should all be feminists” slogan (and donated part of the proceeds to Rihanna’s nonprofit organization). “By 2015, you couldn’t swing a tampon without hitting someone or something that boasted its feminist import, in places you definitely wouldn’t expect: nail polish, underwear, energy drinks, Swiffers,” Andi Zeisler, a Bitch Media co-founder, noted in her book “ We Were Feminists Once.” Spanx marketed Power Panties under the tag line “Powerful women wear powerful panties”- with the help of Tina Fey and Adele, who sang the shapewear’s praises. And, of course, Beyoncé performed before that giant “Feminist” screen at the MTV Video Music Awards.Ĭorporate America joined in.
Women good-will ambassador, inviting boys and men “to be seen to speak up” for gender equality - setting off a cult of global ambassadorships for female empowerment. Emma Watson started her HeForShe initiative as U.N.
Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne led Chanel runway models brandishing “Free freedom” picket signs at a “feminist rally” during Paris Fashion Week. Miley Cyrus: “I feel like I’m one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.” Katy Perry ( repudiating her previous repudiation of “feminism”): “I used to not really understand what that word meant, and now that I do, it just means that I love myself as a female and I also love men.” Celebrities would “represent” feminism, and their feminist fans would “like” and retweet their star’s declarations into a viral solidarity that, it was hoped, would hasten change.Ĭelebrity America signed on. That wave harnessed social media to achieve unthinkable heights of entertainment and commercial popularity. “These examples may seem disparate, but there’s an important through line,” a USA Today reporter wrote, citing academics who linked the Alito draft opinion, the Depphead mobbing and, for good measure, the “public consumption” of cleavage at the Met Gala (held the same night the Supreme Court draft leaked): “This is backlash.” Wade are part of the same toxic cultural movement,” a Vox article asserted. “Johnny Depp’s legal victory and the death of Roe v. Heard have been cast as cosmic convergence, evidence of a larger forced retreat on women’s progress. The ruination of Roe and the humiliation of Ms. Heard said she was “disappointed with what this verdict means for women.” “It sets back the clock,” she said, “to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.”
Vintage linden clock.One month almost to the day after Americans learned of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would eviscerate the constitutional right of women to control their bodies and so their lives, millions sat glued to their screens to witness the verdict in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, in which the jury awarded more than $10 million to Mr.
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