‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Gives Us Intersectional Feminism Without the Angst

The Netflix adaptation of Ann M. Martin’s beloved book series takes a revolutionary approach to feminism by presenting it as no big deal

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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6 min readJul 10, 2020

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Photo: Kailey Schwerman/Netflix

There’s a moment, late in the fourth episode of Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club where Mary Anne, the shyest of…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.