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Katie Couric Just Opened Up About Working With Matt Lauer on the 'Today Show'


In November, Matt Lauer was fired from the Today show on NBC after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced. Multiple women have spoken out about their inappropriate experiences with the news anchor, though one voice in particular remained silent in the media. Katie Couric, who co-hosted the Today show with Lauer for 15 years, did not immediately make a statement after her former coworker was fired—she said in December that she would wait to comment until she felt ready to. Now, she’s opened up about her thoughts on the matter.

“The whole thing has been very painful for me,” the news anchor told People on Saturday. “The accounts I’ve read and heard have been disturbing, distressing and disorienting, and it’s completely unacceptable that any woman at the Today Show experienced this kind of treatment.”

She went on to explain that she never experienced any inappropriate behavior.

“I had no idea this was going on during my tenure or after I left,” Couric said. “I think I speak for many of my former colleagues when I say this was not the Matt we knew. Matt was a kind and generous colleague who treated me with respect. In fact, a joke I once made on late-night television was just that, because it was completely contrary to our brother-sister relationship. It’s still very upsetting. I really admire the way Savannah [Guthrie] and Hoda [Kotb] and the entire Today Show staff have handled a very difficult situation.”

The joke she referred to is one she made on Watch What Happens Live. She told Andy Cohen that Lauer’s most annoying habit was that “he pinches me on the ass a lot.”

Couric is currently working on a National Geographic documentary series called Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric. “One of my Nat Geo episodes explores the various obstacles that are holding women back in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond,” she said. “I just interviewed Elisabeth Moss about this. Harassment is just one part of the equation.”

“I think it was really moving to see so many women support each other and demand change, not only for themselves, but for mistreated and marginalized women in all kinds of industries,” she said about the Time’s Up movement, “Clearly we are witnessing a sea change and a long overdue course correction.”

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Emma Watson Opened Up About Sexual Harassment at the Golden Globes 2018


Emma Watson said she’s experienced the “full spectrum” of sexual harassment on the 2018 Golden Globes red carpet.

During the 2018 Golden Globes on January 7, Emma Watson opened up about sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. According to Variety, Emma said she’s experienced a range of harassment since she started in the spotlight.

“It’s amazing because I have experienced the full spectrum,” Emma said, after she was asked about whether she’s experienced sexual harassment. “But I think that for me, what is amazing is that my experiences are not unique, the experiences of my friends are not unique, the experiences of my colleagues are not unique. This issue is so systemic, structural. The statistics around, even just in the United Kingdom, women between ages 18 and 24, just huge, huge, huge numbers say that they have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.”

Emma is right. The Guardian reports a 2016 poll found 63% of women ages 16 to 24 reported experiencing sexual harassment in the workplace. In the United States, Broadly reports a 2016 poll found two-thirds of women ages 18-24 said they’d been sexually harassed at work.

As more and more people speak up about sexual harassment, Emma said collecting so many stories shows just how widespread the issue is.

“You realize if you speak to most women they have an experience, they have a story,” she said. “We’re just uncovering. We’re just scratching the surface of this.”

Emma attended the award show with Marai Larasi, MBE, the executive director of the UK-based Black-feminist network organization Imkaan. Marai has worked toward ending violence against women and girls for more than 20 years. The pair both wore black as part of the #TimesUp initiative, started as a response to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Harvey Weinstein, in an effort to change how women in Hollywood and across the globe are treated. Emma, along with acresses like Emma Stone and Shailene Woodley, brought activists and advocates as their guests to this year’s Golden Globes.

This year, in light of the sexual misconduct allegations in Hollywood and other industries Teen Vogue is highlighting the 2018 Golden Globes with an eye for change. Click here to read more about how we’re approaching this year’s award show. You can join the #TimesUp initiative that stands in solidarity with those affected by sexual misconduct here.

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Jay Z Opened Up in a Major Way About His and Beyoncé's Marriage in 'Family Feud'


Jay Z just dropped the visual album for his new “Family Feud” track on Friday, and you can bet there’s a whole lot of Beyoncé in it (as there damn well should be). Like Bey’s Lemonade, the video for the song, directed by the glorious Ava DuVernay, is beautifully done and spans more than 400 years (beginning in 2444 and working back to 2018, just in case you thought time behaved in a straight and linear progression). It also features a host of incredible women in cameos, including Mindy Kaling, Rashida Jones, Jessica Chastain, America Ferrera, Thandie Newton, and Rosario Dawson.

But that’s not all: Jay Z also opens up in a really transparent verse about his infidelity and his marriage with Beyoncé–just like he did in “4:44,” (that’s also the title track for the record that “Family Feud” features on). We’ll break it down for you.

“Yeah, I’ll f— up a good thing if you let me
Let me alone, Becky”

“Becky with the good hair” was infamously mentioned in Beyoncé’s “Sorry” from Lemonade as a name for whomever it was that Jay Z was cheating on Bey with: “They sneaking out the back door/He only want me when I’m not there/He better call Becky with the good hair.” We still don’t have official confirmation about who, exactly, Becky is, but these two lines seem to be a direct reference to the same incident.

“A man that don’t take care his family can’t be rich
I’ll watch ‘Godfather,’ I miss that whole sh–
My consciousness was Michael’s common sense
I missed the karma that came as a consequence
N—as bustin’ off through the curtains ’cause she hurtin’
Kay losin’ the babies ’cause their future’s uncertain
Nobody wins when the family feuds
We all screwed ’cause we never had the tools.”

At first glance—and we’re sure more fan theories and analyses will come out—but it seems like Jay Z’s comparing himself to Michael Corleone from the Godfather trilogy. As Bustle points out, Michael put his lil’ Mafia biz before his family, which had destructive consequences on the unit as a whole. In Jay Z’s world, the connection could be made to his infidelities coming before his marriage and family, which brings us to…

…his last line: “We all screwed ’cause we never had the tools.” Strengthening the above theory is an interview Jay Z did with the New York Times in November, when he first went on record saying that he’d cheated. In it, he says that a difficult childhood led to him shutting down emotionally because he was in “survival mode”—maybe a parallel to his statement about how he didn’t have the tools to, apparently, deal with his issues with connection. “You have to survive. So you go into survival mode, and when you go into survival mode, what happens? You shut down all emotions,” Jay Z said, referring to “a difficult childhood that resulted in a tendency to isolate himself” (as Vogue put it). “So even with women, you gonna shut down emotionally, so you can’t connect . . . . In my case, like, it’s deep. And then all the things happen from there: infidelity.”

Listen to a preview clip below, or fire up Tidal to listen to the whole thing.

Related: Jay Z References ‘Stillborns’ and Cheating on Beyoncé on His New Album ‘4:44’





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Bella Thorne Opened Up About Being a Survivor of Molestation


Bella Thorne is now one of the more recent woman to step forward to open up about sexual violation. In a heartbreaking exchange on Twitter on Friday, she opened up about experiencing sexual molestation as a child. The conversation was prompted in a beyond inappropriate way, with a Twitter user callously joking about molestation and Thorne coming back to reply with her own experience. (That being said, it’s important to note that no one ever—ever—owes anyone else an explanation or disclosure about past traumas, nor should they ever feel pressured to do so.)

Thorne posted a photo of herself wearing a plum-colored suit jacket sans shirt, which she playfully enhanced with some neon and white starburst-type lines and what look like red antennas or devil horns. In a reply to the picture, one user commented, “What did Disney do to this girl?! I think she was molested.” It was a pretty cruel thing to say—and a reminder of just how often randoms on Twitter forget that the recipient of the comment might just be a real person.

Thorne replied with, “Yeah I was. So it wasn’t Disney” before adding another, seemingly related, tweet.

Fans and friends immediately took to the platform to share their support.

Thorne has had to deal with her fair share of trolls—from this heartbreaking example on Friday to the Hollywood backlash she received after coming out as bisexual to flamers who tell her to shave her legs. But this should be a huge reminder that the person behind the tweets—celebrity or normal!—is human, with a personal history, and absolutely zero obligation to explain their past traumas to anyone.

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Kate Hudson Opened Up About How Much Harassment Women in Hollywood Face


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As both a woman in Hollywood and an entrepreneur who runs her own athleisure line, Kate Hudson has seen firsthand how often women face harassment at work.

Cohosting the launch of Bumble Bizz—a networking app brought to by the makers of the female-first dating app—on Thursday night, the actress spoke to Glamour about the myriad challenges women face in their professional lives. When she was growing up, Hudson watched as her mother, Goldie Hawn, fought to navigate the film industry but didn’t comprehend how many challenges Hawn faced until Hudson herself made the leap into acting.

“As a woman in Hollywood, you are a woman in a man’s world,” she said. “The people in powerful positions are predominantly men. It’s changing rapidly, which is amazing, but it’s definitely [mostly] men.”

She’s experienced a similarly male-dominated world in launching Fabletics and has seen a shift in her own behavior—one where she may feel less comfortable, or less confident—upon entering a meeting that has eight men for every woman seated at a table.

But beyond these boys’ club, Hudson spoke critically of the extensive harassment women in acting are subjected to almost as soon as they enter the public eye.

“Women are constantly harassed,” she said. “There are men with telephoto lenses trying to get up your skirt. That’s absolutely harassment. I walk out of my house, and I’m scared the wind will blow [my skirt] up because then [photos] would be everywhere, my children would see it, and I’d be embarrassed and humiliated. That to me is a form of harassment.

For Hudson, fear of these types of invasive photographs is a constant source of anxiety for her—one that consistently impacts her day to day life. She recalled filming a movie recently, one that required her to stick her head into a trash can—while wearing a skirt, of course—for one particular scene. She told the crew that she was concerned a photographer would snap a photo from underneath skirt. Sure enough, the next day a tabloid published a photo of Hudson filming the scene complete with a callout saying she “bares too much.”

As Hudson noted, there’s little protection for women in Hollywood when it comes to this kind of invasive treatment, but that needs to change, and women need to keep speaking out, openly and honestly, about their experiences.

“These are things that do need to be talked about. You do need to be really blunt about them,” Hudson said. “All women are tired of eyes being rolled as if we’re being sensitive. We’re not being sensitive. You just might not understand that this is what it is. It feels horrible. It’s degrading. It’s dismissive. So much needs to change.”

Lauren Chan contributed to this report.



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Gal Gadot Opened Up About Feminism, And It's So Powerful


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Despite James Cameron’s whining, Wonder Woman is the hit of the summer and the beating heart of the modern superhero landscape. And the woman who plays her, Gal Gadot, is making our hearts beat with the Amazon-worthy interview she gave to Rolling Stone about growing up in Israel, her path to becoming one of the biggest stars in the world, and how much feminism has helped her along the way.

“People always ask me, ‘Are you a feminist?’ And I find the question surprising, because I think, ‘Yes, of course. Every woman, every man, everyone should be a feminist. Because whoever is not a feminist is a sexist,'” (emphasis ours) she explains, at once making feminism seem like the most obvious thing in the world and slyly hinting that those who are squeamish about the label might, uh, have some issues to work on.

Growing up in a small city in Israel, Gal — whose last name is pronounced “‘gadott,’ not ‘gadoh'” — and her sister were taught “to believe that we’re capable, to value ourselves.” And unlike many American girls, she wasn’t raised on a steady diet of media images and television programs depicting women as, well, sometimes wondrous and sometimes not so much; she was told “take a ball and go play” and ended up “a tomboy.”

From there she became Miss Israel, deliberately sabotaged her chances at Miss Universe, completed her mandatory army service, and took a quick jaunt to law school before starring in the highest-grossing female-directed live-action film. But as we know, pretty much any road a woman takes is littered with sexist mines, especially in Hollywood.

“I’ve had my moments where I’ve felt like men were misbehaving – nothing sexual, but inappropriate in a sexist way. Dismissive. Life wasn’t always rosy and peachy for me as a woman in the world,” said Gal. And though she famously did Wonder Woman reshoots while five months pregnant with her second child, during the first few months, she didn’t talk about it on the Justice League set. “The default should be that women get the job done, but there’s a long way to go and a lot of reprogramming that needs to be done to both genders,” she says of ingrained sexist double standards. It’s perhaps worth noting that while Wonder Woman was helmed by a woman, Patty Jenkins, Justice League was shot under the direction of Zack Snyder and is being finished by Joss Whedon. But don’t worry, Jenkins is working on a deal that’ll bring her back for Wonder Woman 2.

The whole article is worth a read – it starts with Gal blessing the author’s unborn daughter – and would make Aunt Antiope proud.

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