Reductress

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About

Reductress is an American feminist satire media company, primarily known for their comedic news articles that parody women's media. Similar to The Onion, Reductress lampoons news media through articles and podcasts.

History

In 2013, comedians Beth Newell and Sarah Pappalardo launched Reductress "to take on the outdated perspectives and condescending tone of popular women’s media."^[1] On March 14th, 2013, one of the earliest posts entitled "Stay-at-Home Mom Has Not Left Her House in 16 Years."

Stay-at-Home Mom Has Not Left Her House in 16 Years SHARE: f Issue 1.1-News-Mar 14, 2013 By: Lauren Ashley Smith

On October 25th, 2016, Reductress released its first book, How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All And Then Some!.^[3]

On June 13th, 2018, it was reported that Comedy Central ordered a late-night television show pilot produced by Reductress.^[4]

Features

The site mainly focuses on articles, lists and galleries centered around women's issues. It's also designed to match the aesthetics of women's magazines, such as Cosmopolitan.

Additionally, the site has sections for merchandise, podcasts, a calendar of events and workshops for writing comedy and satire that are taken in person.

ctress PODCASTS BOOK SHOP EVENTS WORKSHOPS STYLE POPULAR How to Handle the Unbelievable Beauty and Integrity of Your BFF Woman Quits Job to Hydrate Full-Time 5 Sundresses That Say 1m Planning On Being At The Beach For One Hour, Two Hours Tops' You don't have time to spend all day dicking around at the beach 8 Guys on Tinder That Have Been to Machu Picchu But Never to Therapy Woman Quits Job to Hydrate Full-Time 5 Sundresses That Say T'm Planning On Being At The Beach For One Hour, Two Hours Tops NEWS NEWS LIVING Woops This Black Woman Mentioned Edge Control and Now Her White Friends Think She's Into Freaky Sex What Our Nation Needs Is Love and Understanding' Says How to Handle the Woops! This Black Woman Ugh, My Stomach is Mentioned Edge Control Growling Again,' Says and Now Her White Friends Woman Clearly Holding in aIntegrity of Your BFF Think She's Into Freaky Sex Fart Woman Not Registered to Vote You're the luckiest bitch in the world, but try to keep it together! Listen to the best of Reductress every week "l guess they just adopt cool aspects of blackness without This is truly an impossible situation."

Highlights

Rape Culture Frontpage

In August 2016, the site dediated its entire front page to jokes about rape and sexual assault, particularly satarizing rape culture within the comedy community. In a comment to Jezebel,^[2] Newell wrote:

"Our female comedian friends were feeling pretty frustrated with a lot of the dialogue surrounding these events, specifically some of the comments coming from men. We put out a call to writers for pitches on the topics of sexual assault and related issues and we received an overwhelming response.

"So we came up with the idea to use as many of those ideas as possible and do a full homepage takeover."

8 Sex Positions That Will Blow His Mind And Destroy His Penis

8 Sex Positions That Will Blow His Mind And Destroy His Penis is a satirical listicle depicting various painful sex acts, which spawned a series of image macros featuring humorous images of various fictional characters placed above the parody headline.