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Literally just a list of sexist headlines from 2016
Only two more weeks to endure guys
Ah, what a year it’s been. What a year it’s been for women! We got more medals than ever before at the Olympics, we ended up with a surprise woman Prime Minister and, equally surprisingly, no female POTUS. We made huge medical advances towards addressing the gender imbalance in contraception (before men decided they weren’t that keen on it), and we finally discovered when the gender pay gap would disappear! 2152, buzzing gals.
It’s not all bad of course. Women also reclaimed their right to protest, whether it was to protect Planned Parenthood, to oppose Trump or to lead the charge against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Even when Hillary lost, women still made history. On the same night Kamala Harris became the second black woman elected to US Senate,Catherine Cortez Masto became the first Latina senator in US history, Kate Brown became the first openly LGBT governor. But looking at some of the headlines this year, you’d be forgiven for forgetting the good things which happened.
As Kylie warned us 2016 has been the year of realizing things, and unfortunately that means realizing that the media can still be an archaic, sexist institution where headlines like this go through handfuls of old white men who approve them without thinking they’re bad. Here’s to none of these in 2017 (we hope).