Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
Wow: Condoleezza Rice got $316,000 in bejeweled gifts from the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia last year, three times more than the president. She must be doing an amazing job!
Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
Everyone knows that girls can't metabolize their alcohol like boys! That's why they're always staggering out of Mansion at 4 a.m., vomiting, crying, and curling up on the sidewalk like baby deer. In the last ten years, the ones who didn't drink much are now drinking, and the ones who already drank are drinking more, …
Sad NYC Ladies Will Pay $15,000 For Carrie's Bad-Luck Wedding Gown
Ladies, there's no reason to copy Carrie Bradshaw, who is a fictional character, in everything she does. For example, Page Six reports that bridal designer Gabriella Risatti will knock off 30 copies of the wedding dress that she wore in the Sex and the City movie. Um, hello? That's the dress that she was wearing when…
Obama's Podium Hates Women
Sure, Barack Obama appointed a number of women to prominent positions in his national security team, but he is still a patent misogynistic. How else to explain the terrible set-up of the podium at his press conference this morning? All the women had to readjust the microphones, which still looked like they were…
Palin Says Hillary's Her Feminist Sister
As if life isn't depressing enough for Hillary Clinton right now, when everyone from the president elect on down seems to be giving her the cold shoulder, now the former Democratic presidential candidate has to contend with the warm, unfortunate embrace of Sarah Palin. Palin said in part two of Greta Van Susteren's…
Megan Fox: "Who Gives Hand Jobs? Who's Given A Hand Job Since Seventh Grade?"
Back story: I'm lurking around one of the low-rent haunts of the highbrow magazine elite Wednesday and come upon a friend of mine, Jess, who introduces me to Donavan Hohn, a brilliant writer whose recent piece on a Hong Kong toy fair had inspired me to write a handjobby post about how much I love 'Harper's.' Anyway,…
Dyke Icon Rachel Maddow After The Makeover
Well,
duh to this: their beloved new anchorlady and "post-rational" a makeover. (Click through to see Gawker's Steven Dressler imagine the results.) Who want to give Rachel Maddow a makeover? Rachel Maddow is Every Girl's Best Friend Said Girl Would Love Just .01% More If Said Friend Would Layer Her Hair And Buy A…
Sex-For-Favors Story Completed By CNN Freelancer
Hey, remember that CNN freelancer who was looking for people bartering sex to get their masters thesis edited or kitchen renovated or taxes done or whatever? It was kind of an uphill battle, since the freelancer ruled out using anonymous sources. But she still managed to find one sex trader! It all started with a…
Crazy Anti-Feminist Lawyer Suing Columbia Gives Craziest Interview Ever Granted
Many of us have in our days taken issue with feminism. (No no no not the
idea of it, silly, just like some of the "dogmas" and "pieties" and all those crazy ladies planning to vote take back abortion rights from their daughters as punishment for falling in love with that charismatic black man.) Anyhow as crazy as…
Does Chris Matthews Still Make You Beat Your Wife?
So apparently a hysterical new "non-partisan" group, started mostly by bitter supporters of Hillary Clinton, has been formed with a very important mission. The New Agenda will fight for paid maternity leave, affordable health care and fair pay for women. Or at least they will do those things once they are done getting…
Premier women-in-blogging conference can't seem to make up its mind
Who's most poised to break "
blogging's glass ceiling?" The pegs , the yearly convention and ad network, as the center of discussion on how women ought to get more attention online — and the cash that comes with it. The core issue is that there are at least two very divergent camps within BlogHer. This is exactly why…
Ever Traded Sex for Favors? CNN Wants to Know
A query from a freelancer working on a piece for CNN found its way to us today. They're looking for subjects that have traded sex for goods and services—you know, "used casual sex to get someone to assemble that Ikea shelving unit... help you move, do your taxes, edit your masters thesis, cut you a deal on the rent,…
Ladies, Ask for "Tron's" Happy Ending Massage at Cornelia Spa
Remember that episode of Sex and the City when two women tip Samantha off to a great new male masseuse, who does special things not typically included in your standard massage? (When she finally goes to him, he refuses to "perform" and she gets him in trouble, which enrages the other women—"Who's going to fuck me…
The 7 Internet women Playboy should have asked to get naked
Forget the glass ceiling for a second. This week anyway, the worst enemy of "women in tech" (like we're all one big happy girl army) is the Hot List. Playboy's "Hottest Blogger" contest is still rolling, still prompting faux-thinky "conversations" about objectification and what sets women back. (An aging softcore…
Patti Smith Forced to Explain Her Hair to NYT
Patti Smith; who doesn't love her? (Even though the last time I saw her show, she forgot half her lyrics onstage and appeared totally stoned. Rock and roll!) Thing is, however, is that the media has been tremendously unimaginative in the last twenty or so years when writing about a lady who is equal parts artist, rock…
National Press Club: Tolerating Women Since 1971
The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. is celebrating its centennial this month. It's only semi-recently since they've tolerated women in the club: "In 1956, the men offered a compromise by inviting women to attend the luncheons, so long as they sat in the balcony and left as soon as the lunch was over. While the…
How the WowOwoW Ladies Decided on the Worst Website Name Ever
Oh my God, it took gossip columnist Liz Smith, 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl, and the other momladies behind the new WowOwoW "women over 40" website about eight months to come up with something that stands for "Women on the Web." As they explain to Charlie Rose: first, they couldn't figure out what to call it.…
Brutal Cheerleader Girl Fights an Increasing Trend
YouTube is encouraging teen girls to brutally beat each other and tape it! But seriously, girls between the ages of 13-18 are vicious and should be locked up anyway. And God knows how they're hazing in sororities these days.
Making It
We brought Lori Gottlieb's Atlantic article, "Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough," to your attention already. It advised, among other things, to "Settle! That's right... Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go... Marriage isn't a…
Um, Can Condi Bench More Than You?
In the upcoming May issue of Fitness, it looks like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice totally can out-lift and out-run the rest of us — the lady does cardio six days a week! [Portfolio Mixed Media]
