Gawker
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diplomacy
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! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SinisterRouge: A virtuous woman has a price far above rubies. Except Condi isn't virtuous. Just sorta Satanically evil. How is this allowed? 6 Responses | Other threads
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femiladyism
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, reports New York Mag. Their article on women and drinking is basically a public service announcement: What is happening to America's girls?
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By SheilaComment by hamburgerhotdog: Drinking as a "feminist" activity. Uh yeah...still doing it wrong. 29 Responses | Other threads
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sadults
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 Big left her at the altar. (When they got married for real she wore a tasteful suit at City Hall.) The actual Vivienne Westwood dress, which was fairly ridiculous in the first place—that was the point! that the much-vaunted big wedding was hubristic and silly!—does not come avec bird-on-head hairpiece.
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By SheilaComment by Lonely Goatherd: I don't get wedding gowns, or weddings for that matter. I've been told a lot of women feel that way... 17 Responses | Other threads
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femiladyism
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 coming out of their heads. It's too much work to get a little milk crate for Hillary and Janet and Susan? We know Obama's a master of stagecraft and political spectacle, so we can only imagine that this was totally 100% intentional, appointing all these short women who you can barely see. After all, Robert Reich didn't have to speak at the economic team press conference, did he? Click for our video compilation of mic-adjusting humiliation!
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By PareeneComment by bytememehard: Short is so over. Go tall or go home. 8 Responses | Other threads
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sarah palin
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 interminable interview that Clinton broke the glass ceiling for her Republican vice presidential run. Then she remembered that Hillary lost, so she amended her statement to say Clinton just bloodied her head against the glass ceiling, apparently so a social conservative whose looks earned her outsized press attention could complain about the media's "double standard." More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Violex: And one more thing: I've never read such relentless venomous, slimy and hateful attacks on a woman anyone here barely... 13 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
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, like pretty much all journalists under 40 who bother with the whole "crafting exquisite paragraphs" thing anymore, Hohn has cash flow issues. So Jess suggests — naively, I'm assuming — he get into the celebrity profile racket. Her friend Mark Kirby does it! He just wrote a profile of Megan Fox for 'GQ' that was really actually a rewarding effort! And I'm thinking, "Oh Jess, guys like Donovan Hohn are just not wired to hustle celebrity profile assignments. Not least because guys like Donovan Hohn probably didn't know who Megan Fox even was when he saw her at a comic book convention at which he was busy jotting down the philosophies of some enchanting small-time hucksterpreneur, and plus, everyone knows celebrity profiles are the lowest form of hackery." Well shit, was I so totally wrong. Jess had just tipped me off to the best celebrity profile in years. Seriously, you know how the celebrity profile is totally dead? This profile could do for the genre what…Megan Fox does for impotence or something!
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By MoeComment by Werrick: Seriously... who does give hand jobs? I've turned down more handjobs than I can shake a stick at. All I needed... 12 Responses | Other threads
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cable news
Dyke Icon Rachel Maddow After The Makeover
Well, duh to this: MSNBC wants to give their beloved new anchorlady and coiner of the term "post-rational" Rachel Maddow a makeover. (Click through to see Gawker's Steven Dressler imagine the results.) More »
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By MoeComment by dell123: Rachel is fine, just as she is. By the way, why is it okay to use 'dyke' and not 'fag'?... 3 Responses | Other threads
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femiladyism
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 young a college coed spending a semester in hot, steamy Brazil, dying for the rainforest tour no one would give her — until she met a native busboy at the local resort. And then... (cue steamy music) More »
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By Ryan TateComment by stequoianie: finally, 'tis i, stephanie gerson. i've been hanging out in stealth mode waiting for this story to blow over,... more » | Other threads
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i love this country
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 those women are they do not hold a aromatherapeutic incense stick to batshit barrister Roy Hollander. He is suing Columbia, where he attended business school, for having a women's studies department, and also waging multipronged legal wars with Ladies Nights, and his Chechen ex-stripper wife and because the God of Baffling Internet Misogyny is a generous god he granted an interview to Maureen O'Connor, a young female correspondent at Ivy Gate. Did he mention he prefers women in their teens and early twenties? Why yes he did! That's why he usually lies about his age. Here is their most charming interaction, which I would not be posting at this hour if it were not TOTALLY hilarious. [And also, if you are reading Nick, involving a shrewd future member of the Ivy League media mafia!] More »
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By MoeComment by ChicagoSaphique: "...she transferred the euphoria of the drugs to me." I don't really know what that means. But, I'd like someone to... more » | Other threads
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chris matthews
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 Chris Matthews fired from his job as host of Hardball on MSNBC, which is at the top of their self-described "to-do list," because Matthews, a longtime Democratic Congressional aide, is at the nexus of all types of awful problems for women, including wife beating: More » -
blogging for dollars
Premier women-in-blogging conference can't seem to make up its mind
Who's most poised to break "blogging's glass ceiling?" The New York Times pegs BlogHer, 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. More »
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femiladyism
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, or any other favor?" Personally? No; I put together my own shelving units and pay people to do my taxes, thanks. But we will not judge if you don't, especially since they'd also like to hear from those who have been offered sex in exchange for mildly frustrating menial labor. Click for the full query and see if you can help—the writer's deadline is July 24th! More »
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By SheilaComment by BalknChain: @scroll_lock: Listen up, Ho, we were trying to get you out of a ticket. Yes, I said we, your memory... more » | Other threads
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not afraid to be servicey
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 now?!") Well! Turns out this situation is not an urban myth. Tango, the magazine about relationships, investigates: "'It’s such a well-known thing for guys, and women are finally getting more comfortable asking for it,' said Anna, a self-described 'massage healer' who has worked at several upscale spas and performed happy endings on female customers." Huh. After the jump—the spas in question. More » -
superficial
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 publication is the least of our worries.) By now a couple of Playboy's nominees have confided that they're eager to lose the vote and get it over with. What, there weren't any serious "Women of the Internet" who would pose anyway? Dear Playboy: Skip the voting on the collection of contenders we've assembled. Photo-shoot them all. More »
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femiladyism
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 star, and stay-at-home mom. "Punk poet" and "godmother of punk" are the standard descriptors that have been in use since 1977. Deb Solomon mostly sidesteps that trap in this week's New York Times Magazine, asking instead: What's up with her hair? More » -
femiladyism
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 men dined below, the women shared the balcony with television cameras, hot lights, and coils of electrical wiring." They weren't allowed to join as full members until 1971, and that was only because they needed money, and capitalism trumps sexism. But women weren't the only ones dissed. Radio news broadcasters (the bloggers of their day) "were also treated as second-class citizens at first, being permitted to join the club only as non-voting members." [Oxford University Press blog] Celebrate the old days with a clip from "His Girl Friday," after the jump. More » -
the internets
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. Then, once "women on the web" was decided upon, they found there was a porn site with a similar name! All the other good names were taken. So they had to buy the porn site... oh, my goodness gracious. It really was quite the conundrum, kind of like the time the neighbor's dog—the Smiths, you remember, they lived next door—got into the vegetable patch and ate everything! (Video follows.) More »
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trends
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. More »
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By SheilaComment by persephone: @BowlingAlleyLawyer: @lovelyivy: These chicks are from Lakeland, FL. 'nuff said? more » | Other threads
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In Brief
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 passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business." Oh, how we laughed, but now who's laughing all the way to the bank? Gottlieb, since "Spider Man" actor Toby McGuire's production company optioned the book and movie rights to her article. Settle that! [Variety via NY Observer] -
femiladyism
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]
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By SheilaComment by BooWahBabe: @AndIAmTellingYou: interesting ... but we already knew she don't play nothing shaped like that. more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
Hippie Tits Save Animals, Patriarchy
Remember the Vegan strip club in Portland we wrote about Monday? Well, the Times went town on the story in Styles today, snagging a photo inside the for-sale club, finding an LA girl band called the Vegan Vixens who sing about the joys of pleather and pointing out that punky porno outfit the Suicide Girls helped PETA make an anti-fur ad campaign (pictured). "Sexuality is what society will turn its head for more than anything else," PETA's president told the Times. Predictably, not all hemp-wearers are thrilled to see women exploited for the faint hope of getting meat-eating oglers to stop eating steak and so forth: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MyCubeHas3Sides: @KiKiRiKi: Ha ha. Funny.Yes, I've seen the nose, and I do not mind!:-) more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
Classy Ladies: We're On to Your Drinking Problem
"They're smart, successful professionals who never miss a day's work - the very opposite of the image of the problem drinker," writes London's Telegraph in an article about functional alcoholics. The real question remains: are you one? Delightfully, the amount of alcohol their subjects consume each week — all successful lady professionals, have we mentioned that? — is broken down into an easy-to-read daily booze diary. See how you measure up! More » -
femiladyism
Sex After 80? Liz Smith Tells All
New menopausal celeb ladywebsite WowOWow will probably never cease to entertain. 85-year-old gossip columnist Liz Smith is one of its founders; in an interview, she reveals that sex does happen after 80. Sort of. More »
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By SheilaComment by slimceagirl: @pufflehuff: Wow! I realize, there's no safe way to answer that one... She's just not very nice to the little people,... more » | Other threads
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foto funnies
Hillary Bakes With the Devil In the Pale Moon Light
During Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential run, he was accused by Democratic rival Jerry Brown of funneling money through his wife's law firm. Hillary Rodham Clinton, responding to the charges by affirming that her business was one she took seriously, famously said, "You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life." That quote, replayed endlessly, debated in columns across the country, was one of the first Hillary Clinton missteps seized upon by Republicans as proof that Hillary was a terrifying, corrupt, ball-crushing feminazi bitch. All this is a pretend-think-y historical intro to two funny Hillary Clinton photos, btw. One of which, above, is on her campaign site right now, in an inexplicably SPLOID-esque (or lolcat-esque) sans-serif-text-on-odd-image thumbnail. The other is on top of Drudge, and it's below. More »
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By PareeneComment by famousauthor: That TV ad is supposed to show Hillary-mania, as opposed to Obama-mania? more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
Atoosa Goes to the OB-GYN
Former Seventeen editor/current self-styled Alpha Kitty Atoosa Rubenstein holds court from her gynecologist's office, sitting on the table while discussing celebrity baby pictures with her husband. The 'Toos is preggers! The video is total blogbait, but it's also a total tease—we don't even get to see them stick the speculum in! We bring you completely SFW screengrabs to peruse while asking, what the fuck was she thinking? More »
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By SheilaComment by lizzybennet: I have to say, her husband seems likeable. Sweet. Funny. WTF????? more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
Tyra and Friends Bravely Burn Bras While Wearing Other Bras
Loopy, possibly bewigged former model and current TV juggernaut Tyra Banks may has a confuse. Today's episode of her self-titled talk show is all about breasts and bras; finding the right bras, getting rid of the wrong ones, and all that empowering stuff. The centerpiece of the episode seems to be some sort of bra bonfire in which Tyra and her audience members gather, hobo-like, 'round a flaming trash can and toss their old bras in to burn burn burn. Did Tyra see a picture of Feminism once and mistakenly take it as instructions for bra disposal? I don't know. She is always confusing, but rarely more so than today. I guess I just don't know much about bras. Nor does Alex Pareene, who could only offer the insight that they are burning bras while wearing other ones. Also, I managed to spell Sheila's name wrong. Boys! Video after the jump. More »
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Comment by Malarcus: What did the bra say to the hat? "You go on a head; I'll give these two a lift." ba-dum. more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
Newsflash: Male Ego Large, Unwieldy for Such Small Brain
Did you know? Men usually over-state how smart they are, and women often dumb themselves down. Not like we needed a study to believe this, but at least it's now a scientific fact. In the Belfast Telegraph, What Makes Women Happy author Fay Weldon pontificates on this in what we can only call a jumblefuck. Or as Salon put its, "another bassackward, barely intelligible diatribe on one of [Weldon's] favorite topics: how women should adapt to men's sexism." More »
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By SheilaComment by lizzybennet: Studies actually prove that women are NOT given raises and/or promostions at the rate of men no matter HOW they... more » | Other threads
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working 'with' the press
Target To Bloggers: You Don't Matter In Life
Silly Target. It seems some bloggers are a tad vexed over the department store giant's new advertisement (also giant, and in Times Square) featuring a young woman in a spread-eagled position over the company's logo. One of them sent a letter to Target complaining about what she sees as the predominant depiction of women in marketing campaigns arranged in, well, vag-evoking poses. How did the fifth largest retailer in America respond? More » -
book report
"Contradictions Speckle The Landscape, Like Ingrown Hairs After A Bad Bikini Wax"
I had been meaning to read 'The Female Thing' ever since it got enthusiastic but skeptical lady-peer reviews. Recentlyish, it came out in paperback and I bought it and put it into my carry-on! I don't know about you, but I read books like this as a sort of booster shot, a quick medicinal jolt that reactivates my feminist—um—consciousness. So when they're not actually painful to wade through I find myself recommending them overenthusiastically, the way you would a good doctor with a short waiting-room line. Read it, it's good for you! More »
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By Emily GouldComment by ginger rant: @sunny_lematina: Oh, and I don't think Lematina is THAT difficult a last name. Thank you, and g'night! more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
Princeton is committed to helping its students stay unpregs! The university has responded to the skyrocketing cost of birth control pills by offering a subsidy program that allows students to pay just $6 a month, as opposed to up to $50. (The rising cost of birth control is part of an evil government scheme.) {Feminist Daily News]
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By Emily GouldComment by Go Like Hell Machine: @CodePink: That's funny, because putting that song on pretty much guarantees I'm not getting laid. more » | Other threads
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judd apatow
"I think the characters [in 'Knocked Up'] are sexist at times, but it's really about immature people who are afraid of women and relationships and learn to grow up. If people say that the characters are sexist, I say, yeah, that's what I was going for in the first part of the movie, and then they change," director Judd Apatow told New York mag's Vulture blog. Okay but that's kind of besides the point because 'Knocked Up,' is so fully sexist, not because its male characters say immature and demeaning things about women, but because all the women in it are portrayed as one-note, unfunny, vain, self-absorbed hormonal crazies. It's also a hilarious movie, so you know, whatever.
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By Emily GouldComment by Gwenishka: @grandmoffbastard: Whoa. You were so *fiery* yesterday. Also, 40-Year-Old Virgin was the funniest movie of that year. more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
I Feel Bad About Your Earlobes, Butt, Stomach, and Ill-Fitting Bra (This Week)
Since Monday, NYC women have been assaulted by a clusterfuck of articles pointing out our possible body inadequacies—more than usual, actually! In fact, it's utterly confusing for us gals to figure out which flaw to hate the most. Has femiladyism taken a step backward, or is this just what inevitably happens right before the December glut of top ten lists hits next week? More » -
femiladyism
Real Adult Women Still Want To Be Disney Princess Brides
In the great "these things go together" corporate tradition of LVMH, Disney has created a $4 billion "Princess" division "almost by accident" to combine the considerable assets of Belle, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, Jasmine, and Ariel. ("Pocahontas and Mulan are usually kicked off the throne. Disney says that's because their 'qualities' are different from the others..." Right.) The story would ho-hummly end there if this were just about little-girl economies of scale, but no, as Disney exec Jim Calhoun says, "We want women to have a little bit of Princess every day." Including her specialest day! More »
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By JonLiuComment by Maya Twocents: This Disney Princess shit seriously makes me puke. Programmed mothers that weren't spoiled and pampered enough as little girls are... more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
As a fifth anniversary "gift" to hubby Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar has officially changed her name to "Sarah Michelle Prinze." And Us Weekly readers approve! Seventy-four percent of those polled say women should change their names for their husbands. Maybe for their next anniversary Mrs. Prinze will ditch her career and make sure she has a hot meal on the table every night.
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By JenComment by HellToupee: For all intents and purposes, her career is over, anyway. It sounds like a last-ditch, ego appeasement for the... more » | Other threads
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call off your old tired ethics
'New York' Mag Is A Foul Pimp Of Sex Slaves, Claim Ladies
The amazingly old-school feminists at the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women will be protesting New York magazine on Thursday at noon! Why? "With ads for sex tours that advertise 'have your own harem' and ads for massage parlors that promise 'accommodating Asian women' New York Magazine is the marketing arm of the organized crime world of prostitution and trafficking.... It makes $10,000 a week facilitating the commercial sex industry." Oh my God, 10,000 whole dollars a week? Our femiladyist friends do have at least one good point: Some of the advertising brothels of New York probably are full of Peter Landesman-style sex slaves! Eww! But after going Andrea Dworkin-wrong by painting all prostitution ads with the brush of duress and international conspiracy, they then go further afield: "New York Magazine represents the life and times of New Yorkers," they claim. Well, we've got bigger problems than sex trafficking if that's true. Update: OMG, sex ads and protest canceled!
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By MaggieComment by Mediahohoho: @The One: Thanking you for making my point. You ask why Fitzgerald continued his investigation after he knew Armitage leaked... more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
New 'Slate' "Political" Ladyblog Is All About Cleaning And Babies
So Slate's Meghan O'Rourke, Emily Bazelon, Dahlia Lithwick and some other vagina-havers now occupy a little cordoned-off area called "The XX Factor," where they are expected to crank out what the site touts as "Slate's no-boys-allowed political blog!" (Were they jealous of Salon's Catbox ladyblog?) But man, is the personal ever "political" up in that beyotch. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by casperthefrenzy: To think all of this appears just a fragment of an inch away from the teaser about adult women still... more » | Other threads
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femiladyism
Doris Lessing Won The Nobel Prize And We Were Like "Meh"
So the womyn of Jezebel and our new cougar pal Erica Jong were very thrilled that feminist author Doris Lessing got the Nobel Prize for literature, but we were sort of less than thrilled and felt like the choice reeked of affirmative action girl style now. (We think Doris felt much the same!) Seriously, ladies (and mens!): have you read 'The Golden Notebook'? Really? While awake?
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boys will be boys
'Times' Shocked By Fratty I-Banker's Take On Skirts!
Despite having written about it a couple of weeks ago, we continue to receive emails about that self-described "articulate and classy" young woman who put her neck out there on Craigslist, flung caution and etiquette to the wind and flat-out asked if anyone could help her nab a guy with a salary of at least a half-million a year. Okay, so Jane Austen might have been just slightly more subtle, but this (alleged!) lady's tactics have captured the interest of many, including the New York Times, which today ran a piece about the idiot i-banker whose pissy response to our little gold digger included his JPMorgan Chase signature. More »
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By MaggieComment by CopyofBlueboy: First I read Rosie's "poetry." Then I read about Twatwaffle Palace. .............Can someone help me move these bodies? more » | Other threads
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gender norms and the city
Going Dutch Is Never Okay, Except When It Is
Boy, y'all sure had some feelings about whether or not it's ever acceptable for a man and a lady on a date to split the tab! As you recall, my position was "Yes, of course, what century are we living in?" Your positions ranged from "I thinks the man should pay, but only if he is getting some" to "Men should pamper me like the princess I am!" to "I am gay and happier about it because of this post" to "Is this Jezebel?" We recruited Intern Mary to help us discern the misogynist forest from the self-hating trees. More »
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