"Sunday night was Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s last Golden Globes, or so they’ve claimed, and they seemed intent on skating right up to the edge with this last co-hosting gig. The feminist edge, that is.

We got jokes comparing George Clooney’s receipt of a lifetime achievement award in comparison to his wife Amal Almuddin’s achievements (spoiler: she wins at life); the two hours Steve Carrell has to spend in the makeup chair compared to the three it took Tina Fey “to prepare for my role as a human woman”; and a joke about Boyhood’s bravery – by Hollywood standards – in featuring a woman over 40 in such a pivotal role, noting that such things are possible “as long as you get hired when you’re under 40” (it took 12 years to make). …

Poehler and Fey’s opener had already set the tone: whether you choose to like it or listen to it, women will continue to speak. And speak boldly, as Amy Poehler did when she joked that in Into the Woods, “Cinderella ran away from her prince, Rapunzel was thrown from a tower…and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.” Fey then put on a quick Cosby impersonation: “I put the pills in the people! The people did not want the pills in them!” Poehler raised the ante with her slightly better likeness: “I put the pills in the hoagie!” …

The proof of a slow revolution continued to pile up all night: Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda jeering at the absurdity of the Best Actor in a Comedy award (“We can put to rest that negative stereotype that men just aren’t funny,” added Tomlin); to Maggie Gyllenhall noting in her acceptance speech for her performance in the miniseries The Honorable Woman that women are finally being able to play complicated, multi-faceted characters – flawed and striving and achieving and failing – instead of just “strong” ones; to Patricia Arquette and Julianne Moore’s proving via their wins that turning forty doesn’t have to signal the end of a woman’s career. The women of this year’s Golden Globes insisted on being seen and heard. …

To all those who fear that feminism – and identifying as a feminist – is rooted in some kind of vicious, brutal hatred that aims to seek and destroy men, Soloway’s speech was a perfect antidote, representative of last night’s broadcast message about women in Hollywood as a whole. All voices matter. And when all voices can be heard, there can be more love, more work, more truth. And yes, even more money and more profit for the studios so afraid that letting these voices be heard will ruin their bottom line.

The revolution may not happen overnight, but if these women have anything to say about it, it will most certainly continue to be televised."