The company behind a “sexy” handmaid costume pulled the item and issued an apology on Thursday. The news comes after a public outcry, with many calling the revealing costume inappropriate, given that the novel and Hulu series it’s inspired by, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is about the oppression of women’s bodies by the authoritarian government.
The online retailer Yandy, which created and sold the costume, apologized on Twitter.
“Over the last few hours, it has become obvious that [the costume] is being seen as a symbol of women’s oppression, rather than an expression of women’s empowerment,” the company said in the statement. “Our initial inspiration to create the piece was through witnessing its use in recent months as a powerful protest image.”
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— Yandy.com (@Yandy) September 21, 2018
Before being removed from the site, the costume’s description read: “An upsetting dystopian future has...
The online retailer Yandy, which created and sold the costume, apologized on Twitter.
“Over the last few hours, it has become obvious that [the costume] is being seen as a symbol of women’s oppression, rather than an expression of women’s empowerment,” the company said in the statement. “Our initial inspiration to create the piece was through witnessing its use in recent months as a powerful protest image.”
pic.twitter.com/0w5NQS438g
— Yandy.com (@Yandy) September 21, 2018
Before being removed from the site, the costume’s description read: “An upsetting dystopian future has...
- 9/21/2018
- by Rachel Yang
- Variety Film + TV
Now in its 11th year, the CineKink film festival is a celebration of all things sexual and kinky. From arthouse dramas to porn, the films explore sex and sexuality on screen. Zoe Margolis speaks to some of this year's directors and the CineKink co-founder and director about America's appetite for sex in film Continue reading...
- 3/4/2014
- by Zoe Margolis and Lauren Gambino
- The Guardian - Film News
Have you been watching Dance Moms on Lifetime? Have you? If you have, I'm sure you understand my disbelief -- not that you're watching it, but that the show and the people on it are actually real.
Sometimes Dance Moms -- which follows demanding dance coach Abby Lee Miller, her tiny, flexible proteges and their preening, paranoid Midwestern mothers as they travel the country, putting on group and individual competitive dance numbers, each somehow more ridiculous than the last -- feels like Christopher Guest and Tim & Eric got collectively inspired by screaming and spandex and decided to make a show about it. But no. Dance Moms is not a mockumentary, nor is it a nightmare. It's real. And a real treat I'm going to miss after the season finale airs this Wednesday. But at least we know it's coming back.
Anyone who watches Dance Moms knows that Abby Lee is a busy woman,...
Sometimes Dance Moms -- which follows demanding dance coach Abby Lee Miller, her tiny, flexible proteges and their preening, paranoid Midwestern mothers as they travel the country, putting on group and individual competitive dance numbers, each somehow more ridiculous than the last -- feels like Christopher Guest and Tim & Eric got collectively inspired by screaming and spandex and decided to make a show about it. But no. Dance Moms is not a mockumentary, nor is it a nightmare. It's real. And a real treat I'm going to miss after the season finale airs this Wednesday. But at least we know it's coming back.
Anyone who watches Dance Moms knows that Abby Lee is a busy woman,...
- 10/3/2011
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
Start practicing your death drops because Lifetime has officially renewed Dance Moms. The show, which debuted earlier this summer, has grown throughout its run and will return for 13 more episodes in a second season. While there's no word on when a second season would air, the first season finale will be airing Wednesday, October 5th at 10:00.
Dance Moms follows seven children (Maddie, Chloe, Brooke, Paige, Nia, Mackenzie, and Vivi-Anne) ranging in age from 6 1/2 to 13 with an interest in dance as they train under the famed Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh. Along with various competitions and stylish routines, the show focuses on the mothers of the children and the conflict that arises between them over costumes, favoritism from Miss Abby, and choreography. Tonight's episode, titled "There's Only One Shining Star", will find the girls being cast in a Hollywood music video.
Lifetime recently renewed Drop Dead Diva for a...
Dance Moms follows seven children (Maddie, Chloe, Brooke, Paige, Nia, Mackenzie, and Vivi-Anne) ranging in age from 6 1/2 to 13 with an interest in dance as they train under the famed Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh. Along with various competitions and stylish routines, the show focuses on the mothers of the children and the conflict that arises between them over costumes, favoritism from Miss Abby, and choreography. Tonight's episode, titled "There's Only One Shining Star", will find the girls being cast in a Hollywood music video.
Lifetime recently renewed Drop Dead Diva for a...
- 9/27/2011
- by Shilo Adams
- TVovermind.com
Dance Moms (Wednesdays, 10/9c, Lifetime) has enough bickering to put Real Housewives to shame and enough questionable parenting to make Toddlers & Tiaras seem like Sesame Street in comparison. At its center: Abby Lee Miller, who runs the Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh. Miller's "tough love" method of teaching features plenty of barking, scant praise (at least as far as what we're privy to, per the show's editing) and a pyramid, which she uses to rank her favorite students on a weekly basis. Viewers are, unsurprisingly, harrowed and riveted.
We spoke to Miller about the theatrics of her vocation and show, and to hear her tell it, the pyramid is made-for-tv invention. Peppering her speech with reminders about her and her studio's accomplishments, Miller told us about her background, the impetus for her toughness and why she wishes she could teach orphans...
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We spoke to Miller about the theatrics of her vocation and show, and to hear her tell it, the pyramid is made-for-tv invention. Peppering her speech with reminders about her and her studio's accomplishments, Miller told us about her background, the impetus for her toughness and why she wishes she could teach orphans...
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- 7/21/2011
- by Rich Juzwiak
- TVGuide - Breaking News
The quest for a Viagra for women is all part of a commodification of sex that is at odds with an intimate human freedom
Charletta adjusts the dial on the remote device that controls the electrodes surgically inserted into her spinal column. Her left leg begins to twitch alarmingly. Her inability to climax during sexual intercourse, to remedy which is why she is taking part in the clinical trial of the Orgasmatron, remains unmoved. "But it's useful if I want to kick someone in the ass," she observes.
Welcome to Orgasm Inc, which has its British premiere next week as part of the Bird's Eye View festival. It is a wry and unsqueamish piece of film-making by the American documentary-maker Liz Canner, who has spent the best part of the last decade charting charted the race to market the first medical cure for female sexual dysfunction (Fsd), and attempted to...
Charletta adjusts the dial on the remote device that controls the electrodes surgically inserted into her spinal column. Her left leg begins to twitch alarmingly. Her inability to climax during sexual intercourse, to remedy which is why she is taking part in the clinical trial of the Orgasmatron, remains unmoved. "But it's useful if I want to kick someone in the ass," she observes.
Welcome to Orgasm Inc, which has its British premiere next week as part of the Bird's Eye View festival. It is a wry and unsqueamish piece of film-making by the American documentary-maker Liz Canner, who has spent the best part of the last decade charting charted the race to market the first medical cure for female sexual dysfunction (Fsd), and attempted to...
- 3/4/2011
- by Libby Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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