There are women who delete their social media account if some guy they don’t even know comes in and disagrees with something they said in a really vicious way.”įord, on the other hand, fights back – naming and shaming men who verbally attack or threaten her, and often replying to them publicly.

Abuse seems to have acted as both a spur and a thorn, and in many ways is inseparable from her work.įord says: “The reason it is so prominent is because I experience a lot of it, but also because I see other women experience it and they do that silencing thing – they don’t want to write, they don’t want to speak out. Joyless harpy, jealous of the prettier girls. Yet the abuse that is hurled at her is littered all through the book, like rubbish thrown at a fast-moving car (“Feminazi boner killer. When I meet her at a cafe in Brunswick, in Melbourne’s inner north, Ford sighs about the first thing interviewers ask her: how do you cope with the abuse? Part memoir, part polemic, Fight Like a Girl details Ford’s growth from a girl with an eating disorder who wanted to be liked by the boys (“Being complicit in your own silence,” she writes), to a woman finding her voice, feminism and a sisterhood of “girl gangs”. “I don’t think it works.” So she’s led feminism back into the boxing ring.

Society needs to be shaken up to become more equitable, she argues, and this is just the start – and if her version of feminism has proved divisive, that’s because it has to be. Unleashing such conflict would be uncomfortable for many, but Ford, 35, is a flamethrower. If you’re looking at the right spots of the internet, you’ll hear as many passionate arguments from both men and women about why Ford is wrong as you will hear from others who are just as passionately convinced that she’s on to something true that in her columns, posts and TV spots she’s been able to articulate an injustice that exists in plain sight, but which deep conditioning has blinded us to. I’ll meet someone and think, ‘Are you that person who said those terrible things online? Are you one of those private school boys who is just viciously disgusting about women on my Facebook page?’” “Yet at the same time, over the last few years, I’ve developed a much bigger suspicion of men. “That’s something I am constantly pleasantly surprised by,” she tells me. That night he emailed her and said: “I saw you in my car today and yelled hello to you.” He had contacted her previously to tip her off about “some rumbling in the 4chan forums”, whose users had been attempting a denial of service (DoS) attack against her. At this point in her public life as a feminist commentator – a woman who has spent the past few years of her career fielding abuse from all corners of the internet and beyond – that initial distrust makes a sad kind of sense.īut it turned out instead that this guy was a fan. Watch Life in Pieces with a subscription on Hulu, or buy it on Vudu, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV.“My immediate thought was, ‘He’s taking the piss,’ ” Ford says.

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Starring: Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Zoe Lister Jones, Colin Hanks, Angelique Cabral.

Various perspectives are employed as each family member's story unfolds. Their eldest daughter, Heather (Betsy Brandt) and her husband consider having another child as they get closer to an empty nest middle child Matt (Thomas Sadoski) thinks he has found true love and the youngest of the three siblings, Greg (Colin Hanks) is overwhelmed after having his first child with his wife. Accomplished actors Dianne Wiest and James Brolin star as the heads of a large, happy family, in which each member is approaching different milestones.

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